Re: [Talk-ca] Building Canada 2020 OSMGeoWeek Mapathons

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

We learned quite a bit with the carleton assignment, I hope it does not
affect my career as a professor., so far the students have been good
sports. I wll be getting 150 2 page refections from them about this process
which means we may all learn something from them to.

I learned quite a bit as well and will hopefully debrief with Denis
Carriere and the TA about our experience ans will happilily share that back
with Julia and the rest of you.

But one thing is for sure if we want to do university to community
collaboration, and we want to experiment, teach and learn, flexibility is
required and maybe sandbox practice spaces or testing space. Wikiedu does
that see
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/Carleton_University/COMS4407_Critical_Data_Studies_(Fall_2017)


Was it a mistake? Our intentions were good! Did this process require a lot
mediation and moderation? Yes! Would I conduct this assignment again? Well,
not in the same way.  Can we move forward together? I hope so!

Stay tuned and I look forward to meeting some of yo face to face and
appreciate all the feedback and thoughts so far.

I think I will reframe the COMS2200 OSM exercise as the Carleton learning
moment for us all, and look forward to moving forward with you.

CHeerio
T



On Thursday, October 19, 2017, Julia C  wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Firstly, thank you all for your feedback.
>
> I understand the concerns about repeating what occurred at Carleton, but
> our goal is to try our best to avoid this situation. So far the professors
> I have connected with are well aquatinted with OSM and will be targeting
> GIS students to participate. Some professors will even be grading their
> students on their contributions, so hopefully this will incentivize
> students to accurately contribute. Also, we are determining methods for
> validating the data afterwards.
>
> John, I agree with your opinion on prioritizing importing the building
> footprint datasets and then having participants add tags, but our focus for
> the OSMGeoWeek mapathons would be to map areas that do not have existing
> building footprint datasets to import.
>
> Matthew, I agree with you as well, having experts present at mapathons to
> educate participants on the correct methods of mapping is valuable. With
> this in mind, I will encourage universities to invite local OSM experts. If
> anyone is interested in participating in a university mapathon as an expert
> OSM contributor, please let me know and I can connect you to the university
> that is located within your region.
>
> I hope you all understand that we want these mapathons to be as
> constructive as possible, to educate students about OSM as well as to
> contribute to the Building Canada 2020 project.
>
> Regards,
> Julia
>
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Julia C  > wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I am currently working at Mapbox on the Data Team and previously worked
>> at StatCan on the Crowdsourcing project. Mapbox is collaborating with
>> StatCan to engage Canadian universities to participate in the Building
>> Canada 2020 project
>> 
>>  by
>> hosting mapathons during OSMGeoWeek  (November
>> 12-18, 2017).
>>
>> We want to make sure we are accomplishing this in a way that encourages
>> new Canadian mappers, while also ensuring participants are being educated
>> properly about OSM and the community.
>>
>> The plan is to help educate Canadian universities about organizing
>> mapathons through documentations like teachOSM  as
>> well as to set up clear tasks for students to complete during the
>> mapathons. We have started outlining the information on this wiki page
>> 
>> .
>>
>> On the Canada OSM Tasking Manager  there are
>> already some tasks related to the Building Canada 2020 project. My plan is
>> to add additional tasks for students to complete. The tasks will clearly
>> outline what the students should map and where they should map.
>>
>> I would like to know if you have any suggestions on
>> cities/towns/communities in Canada to focus on, particularly rural regions
>> that are not mapped and have high resolution imagery.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Julia
>>
>
>

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Re: [Talk-ca] Building Canada 2020 OSMGeoWeek Mapathons

[Julia C]

Hi everyone,

Firstly, thank you all for your feedback.

I understand the concerns about repeating what occurred at Carleton, but
our goal is to try our best to avoid this situation. So far the professors
I have connected with are well aquatinted with OSM and will be targeting
GIS students to participate. Some professors will even be grading their
students on their contributions, so hopefully this will incentivize
students to accurately contribute. Also, we are determining methods for
validating the data afterwards.

John, I agree with your opinion on prioritizing importing the building
footprint datasets and then having participants add tags, but our focus for
the OSMGeoWeek mapathons would be to map areas that do not have existing
building footprint datasets to import.

Matthew, I agree with you as well, having experts present at mapathons to
educate participants on the correct methods of mapping is valuable. With
this in mind, I will encourage universities to invite local OSM experts. If
anyone is interested in participating in a university mapathon as an expert
OSM contributor, please let me know and I can connect you to the university
that is located within your region.

I hope you all understand that we want these mapathons to be as
constructive as possible, to educate students about OSM as well as to
contribute to the Building Canada 2020 project.

Regards,
Julia

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Julia C  wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am currently working at Mapbox on the Data Team and previously worked at
> StatCan on the Crowdsourcing project. Mapbox is collaborating with
> StatCan to engage Canadian universities to participate in the Building
> Canada 2020 project
>  
> by
> hosting mapathons during OSMGeoWeek  (November
> 12-18, 2017).
>
> We want to make sure we are accomplishing this in a way that encourages
> new Canadian mappers, while also ensuring participants are being educated
> properly about OSM and the community.
>
> The plan is to help educate Canadian universities about organizing
> mapathons through documentations like teachOSM  as
> well as to set up clear tasks for students to complete during the
> mapathons. We have started outlining the information on this wiki page
> 
> .
>
> On the Canada OSM Tasking Manager  there are
> already some tasks related to the Building Canada 2020 project. My plan is
> to add additional tasks for students to complete. The tasks will clearly
> outline what the students should map and where they should map.
>
> I would like to know if you have any suggestions on
> cities/towns/communities in Canada to focus on, particularly rural regions
> that are not mapped and have high resolution imagery.
>
> Regards,
> Julia
>
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Re: [Talk-ca] Building Canada 2020 OSMGeoWeek Mapathons

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  James, Julia,        I am responsible for delivering the NB high resolution imagery to Esri Canada. The imagery only includes about 10% ‎of the province and it is mostly in the urban areas but it does include many of our smaller urban communities. I can provide a shape file of the covered areas. Bernie. Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network.From: JamesSent: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 4:37 PMTo: Julia CCc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMapSubject: Re: [Talk-ca] Building Canada 2020 OSMGeoWeek MapathonsAnything in New Brunswick will most likely have high resolution imagery as the goverment donated their imagery to ESRI world imagery. The praries (Northern alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba) have vary little mappers compared to the rest of the country, it would be fun for people to give them a helping hand like we did for Fort Mac during the wild fires.On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Julia C  wrote:Hi everyone,I am currently working at Mapbox on the Data Team and previously worked at StatCan on the Crowdsourcing project. Mapbox is collaborating with StatCan to engage Canadian universities to participate in the Building Canada 2020 project by hosting mapathons during OSMGeoWeek (November 12-18, 2017).We want to make sure we are accomplishing this in a way that encourages new Canadian mappers, while also ensuring participants are being educated properly about OSM and the community.The plan is to help educate Canadian universities about organizing mapathons through documentations like teachOSM as well as to set up clear tasks for students to complete during the mapathons. We have started outlining the information on this wiki page.On the Canada OSM Tasking Manager there are already some tasks related to the Building Canada 2020 project. My plan is to add additional tasks for students to complete. The tasks will clearly outline what the students should map and where they should map. I would like to know if you have any suggestions on cities/towns/communities in Canada to focus on, particularly rural regions that are not mapped and have high resolution imagery.Regards,Julia
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Re: [Talk-ca] Building Canada 2020 OSMGeoWeek Mapathons

[Pierre Béland]

Malheureusement John, il y a eu pire comme problèmes de qualité pour l'ouragan 
Matthews. 
Pouratant, on prétendait supporter une urgence, puis une fois les medias 
ailleurs, on arrête les mapathons et on laisse les problèmes.  De là mon 
article sur HOT qui disait que c'était une cause oubliée.
 
Pierre 
 

Le mercredi 18 octobre 2017 18:31:19 HAE, john whelan 
 a écrit :  
 
 I completely agree with Pierre on this one.  Especially if its going to 
involve more than one University.
In Ottawa we imported the building outlines first through opendata.  Then new 
mappers can just add tags.  Just as a reminder here are some buildings mapped 
in Africa probably in a maperthon and its not untypical.

http://www.jatws.org/johnw/building3.jpg
I don't think we have the resources to clean up the map afterwards.  This is a 
project that Stats is interested in to sell the data.  There have been some 
conversations about the use of paid mappers this might be an appropriate use 
for them.  I'm not even sure we have enough resources to have an experienced iD 
OSM mapper at each location where they will be mapping and ideally it should be 
two.
Cheerio John

On 18 October 2017 at 16:21, Matthew Darwin  wrote:

  
Hi all,
 
my 2c: 
 
 
If we want to have a bunch of new to OSM people map things, I would suggest 
that these is a physical location with experts present.   As we see with the 
Carleton University example (not uOttawa), it's hard to get new folks on 
board... i would guess  that although there was training provided to Carleton 
Students, it was done as a lecture rather than a lab.
 
I was introduced to OSM mapping by joining a meetup, getting an intro and then 
everyone sitting around one big table (experts and new folks) with their 
laptops and start working through whatever the project was. It lasted 2-3 
hours. I thought it worked well, and could start working through things on my 
own after, but still asking questions of experts.  I still made mistakes, but 
having experts sitting in the same room to ask questions was invaluable for me.
 
  On 2017-10-18 04:04 PM, Pierre Béland wrote:
  
  Il y a d'autres priorités que les immeubles et je ne suis pas convaincu que 
l'objectif Immeubles 2020 proposé par des partenaires doit être endossé par la 
communauté OSM-Canada.
 
   Encore plus que le monde rural, il y a tout le nord à cartographier. Puis 
les divers projets de Mapathon on montré que de grandes vagues de nouveaux 
contributeurs arrivent rapidement, cartographient souvent sans la précision et 
la qualité nécessaire et quittent après souvent une seule soirée de 
participation. 
  L'objectif de tels mapathons doit être repensé. Il doit viser à initer et 
former des nouveaux contributeurs. L'exemple de l'université d'Ottawa nous 
montre comment ces groupes ont besoin de support. Il ne s'agit pas de faire de 
la publicité et les convaincre de démarrer des projets. Nous aurons ensuite à 
réparer les pots cassés.
  
  En  Haiti, lors de l'ouragan Matthews en octobre 2016 des vagues déferlantes 
de contributeurs ont laissé pendant deux semaines des vagues déferlantes de 
mauvaises données. Personne ensuite pour réparer. 
  Vite, vite, repensons cette approche.   
 Pierre 
   
  
 Le mercredi 18 octobre 2017 15:38:19 HAE, Stewart C. Russell 
 a écrit :  
  
   Hi Julia
 
 > I would like to know if you have any suggestions on
 > cities/towns/communities in Canada to focus on, particularly rural
 > regions that are not mapped and have high resolution imagery.
 
 I'd be pleasantly surprised if there was much intersection between
 "rural" and "high-resolution imagery" in Canada. Our rural population
 density is very low.
 
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[john whelan]

I completely agree with Pierre on this one.  Especially if its going to
involve more than one University.

In Ottawa we imported the building outlines first through opendata.  Then
new mappers can just add tags.  Just as a reminder here are some buildings
mapped in Africa probably in a maperthon and its not untypical.

http://www.jatws.org/johnw/building3.jpg

I don't think we have the resources to clean up the map afterwards.  This
is a project that Stats is interested in to sell the data.  There have been
some conversations about the use of paid mappers this might be an
appropriate use for them.  I'm not even sure we have enough resources to
have an experienced iD OSM mapper at each location where they will be
mapping and ideally it should be two.

Cheerio John

On 18 October 2017 at 16:21, Matthew Darwin  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> my 2c:
>
> If we want to have a bunch of new to OSM people map things, I would
> suggest that these is a *physical location* with *experts presen**t*.
> As we see with the Carleton University example (not uOttawa), it's hard to
> get new folks on board... i would guess  that although there was training
> provided to Carleton Students, it was done as a lecture rather than a lab.
>
> I was introduced to OSM mapping by joining a meetup, getting an intro and
> then everyone sitting around one big table (experts and new folks) with
> their laptops and start working through whatever the project was. It lasted
> 2-3 hours. I thought it worked well, and could start working through things
> on my own after, but still asking questions of experts.  I still made
> mistakes, but having experts sitting in the same room to ask questions was
> invaluable for me.
>
> On 2017-10-18 04:04 PM, Pierre Béland wrote:
>
> Il y a d'autres priorités que les immeubles et je ne suis pas convaincu
> que l'objectif Immeubles 2020 proposé par des partenaires doit être endossé
> par la communauté OSM-Canada.
>
> Encore plus que le monde rural, il y a tout le nord à cartographier. Puis
> les divers projets de Mapathon on montré que de grandes vagues de nouveaux
> contributeurs arrivent rapidement, cartographient souvent sans la précision
> et la qualité nécessaire et quittent après souvent une seule soirée de
> participation.
>
> L'objectif de tels mapathons doit être repensé. Il doit viser à initer et
> former des nouveaux contributeurs. L'exemple de l'université d'Ottawa nous
> montre comment ces groupes ont besoin de support. Il ne s'agit pas de faire
> de la publicité et les convaincre de démarrer des projets. Nous aurons
> ensuite à réparer les pots cassés.
>
> En  Haiti, lors de l'ouragan Matthews en octobre 2016 des vagues
> déferlantes de contributeurs ont laissé pendant deux semaines des vagues
> déferlantes de mauvaises données. Personne ensuite pour réparer.
>
> Vite, vite, repensons cette approche.
>
> Pierre
>
>
> Le mercredi 18 octobre 2017 15:38:19 HAE, Stewart C. Russell
>   a écrit :
>
>
> Hi Julia
>
> > I would like to know if you have any suggestions on
> > cities/towns/communities in Canada to focus on, particularly rural
> > regions that are not mapped and have high resolution imagery.
>
> I'd be pleasantly surprised if there was much intersection between
> "rural" and "high-resolution imagery" in Canada. Our rural population
> density is very low.
>
> Stewart
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Re: [Talk-ca] Building Canada 2020 OSMGeoWeek Mapathons

[Pierre Béland]

Le projet Building Canada 2020 et la page wiki créée pour le projet ne sont pas 
à l'initiative de la communauté OSM du Canada.  À mon avis, les initiateurs de 
ce projet doivent indiquer clairement qui est responsable de ce projet et qu'il 
n'est pas endossé par la communauté OSM du Canada. 
Nous avons plutôt un rôle de sous-traitants,  simplement informés et invités à 
y participer. Je ne sais pas si des partenaires externes oseraient démarrer 
ainsi un projet en France ou en Allemagne.
Ce n'est pas à mon avis de cette façon que nous allons développer des 
communautés OSM.
 
Pierre 
 

Le mercredi 18 octobre 2017 15:15:45 HAE, Julia C  a 
écrit :  
 
 Hi everyone,
I am currently working at Mapbox on the Data Team and previously worked at 
StatCan on the Crowdsourcing project. Mapbox is collaborating with StatCan to 
engage Canadian universities to participate in the Building Canada 2020 project 
by hosting mapathons during OSMGeoWeek (November 12-18, 2017).
We want to make sure we are accomplishing this in a way that encourages new 
Canadian mappers, while also ensuring participants are being educated properly 
about OSM and the community.
The plan is to help educate Canadian universities about organizing mapathons 
through documentations like teachOSM as well as to set up clear tasks for 
students to complete during the mapathons. We have started outlining the 
information on this wiki page.
On the Canada OSM Tasking Manager there are already some tasks related to the 
Building Canada 2020 project. My plan is to add additional tasks for students 
to complete. The tasks will clearly outline what the students should map and 
where they should map. 
I would like to know if you have any suggestions on cities/towns/communities in 
Canada to focus on, particularly rural regions that are not mapped and have 
high resolution imagery.
Regards,Julia
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Re: [Talk-ca] Building Canada 2020 OSMGeoWeek Mapathons

[Matthew Darwin]

Hi all,

my 2c:

If we want to have a bunch of new to OSM people map things, I would 
suggest that these is a *physical location* with *experts presen**t*. 
  As we see with the Carleton University example (not uOttawa), it's 
hard to get new folks on board... i would guess  that although there 
was training provided to Carleton Students, it was done as a lecture 
rather than a lab.


I was introduced to OSM mapping by joining a meetup, getting an intro 
and then everyone sitting around one big table (experts and new folks) 
with their laptops and start working through whatever the project was. 
It lasted 2-3 hours. I thought it worked well, and could start working 
through things on my own after, but still asking questions of 
experts.  I still made mistakes, but having experts sitting in the 
same room to ask questions was invaluable for me.


On 2017-10-18 04:04 PM, Pierre Béland wrote:
Il y a d'autres priorités que les immeubles et je ne suis pas 
convaincu que l'objectif Immeubles 2020 proposé par des partenaires 
doit être endossé par la communauté OSM-Canada.


Encore plus que le monde rural, il y a tout le nord à cartographier. 
Puis les divers projets de Mapathon on montré que de grandes vagues 
de nouveaux contributeurs arrivent rapidement, cartographient 
souvent sans la précision et la qualité nécessaire et quittent après 
souvent une seule soirée de participation.


L'objectif de tels mapathons doit être repensé. Il doit viser à 
initer et former des nouveaux contributeurs. L'exemple de 
l'université d'Ottawa nous montre comment ces groupes ont besoin de 
support. Il ne s'agit pas de faire de la publicité et les convaincre 
de démarrer des projets. Nous aurons ensuite à réparer les pots cassés.


En  Haiti, lors de l'ouragan Matthews en octobre 2016 des vagues 
déferlantes de contributeurs ont laissé pendant deux semaines des 
vagues déferlantes de mauvaises données. Personne ensuite pour réparer.


Vite, vite, repensons cette approche.

Pierre


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Hi Julia

> I would like to know if you have any suggestions on
> cities/towns/communities in Canada to focus on, particularly rural
> regions that are not mapped and have high resolution imagery.

I'd be pleasantly surprised if there was much intersection between
"rural" and "high-resolution imagery" in Canada. Our rural population
density is very low.

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[Alan Richards]

The ESRI layer in BC is now pretty good as well, and has the latest
orthophotography from all the cities with open data (and a few that don't).
Much easier than manually collecting from each municipality. Generally this
is still the urban cities and town, and not rural areas of course though.
Unless the regional districts every collect orthophotos I'm not sure we're
likely to get any high-resolution outside of the bigger cities.

Alan

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wrote:

> Hi Julia
>
> > I would like to know if you have any suggestions on
> > cities/towns/communities in Canada to focus on, particularly rural
> > regions that are not mapped and have high resolution imagery.
>
> I'd be pleasantly surprised if there was much intersection between
> "rural" and "high-resolution imagery" in Canada. Our rural population
> density is very low.
>
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Il y a d'autres priorités que les immeubles et je ne suis pas convaincu que 
l'objectif Immeubles 2020 proposé par des partenaires doit être endossé par la 
communauté OSM-Canada.

Encore plus que le monde rural, il y a tout le nord à cartographier. Puis les 
divers projets de Mapathon on montré que de grandes vagues de nouveaux 
contributeurs arrivent rapidement, cartographient souvent sans la précision et 
la qualité nécessaire et quittent après souvent une seule soirée de 
participation.
L'objectif de tels mapathons doit être repensé. Il doit viser à initer et 
former des nouveaux contributeurs. L'exemple de l'université d'Ottawa nous 
montre comment ces groupes ont besoin de support. Il ne s'agit pas de faire de 
la publicité et les convaincre de démarrer des projets. Nous aurons ensuite à 
réparer les pots cassés.

En  Haiti, lors de l'ouragan Matthews en octobre 2016 des vagues déferlantes de 
contributeurs ont laissé pendant deux semaines des vagues déferlantes de 
mauvaises données. Personne ensuite pour réparer.
Vite, vite, repensons cette approche. 
Pierre 
 

Le mercredi 18 octobre 2017 15:38:19 HAE, Stewart C. Russell 
 a écrit :  
 
 Hi Julia

> I would like to know if you have any suggestions on
> cities/towns/communities in Canada to focus on, particularly rural
> regions that are not mapped and have high resolution imagery.

I'd be pleasantly surprised if there was much intersection between
"rural" and "high-resolution imagery" in Canada. Our rural population
density is very low.

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Hi Julia

> I would like to know if you have any suggestions on
> cities/towns/communities in Canada to focus on, particularly rural
> regions that are not mapped and have high resolution imagery.

I'd be pleasantly surprised if there was much intersection between
"rural" and "high-resolution imagery" in Canada. Our rural population
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Re: [Talk-ca] Building Canada 2020 OSMGeoWeek Mapathons

[James]

Anything in New Brunswick will most likely have high resolution imagery as
the goverment donated their imagery to ESRI world imagery. The praries
(Northern alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba) have vary little mappers
compared to the rest of the country, it would be fun for people to give
them a helping hand like we did for Fort Mac during the wild fires.

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Julia C  wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am currently working at Mapbox on the Data Team and previously worked at
> StatCan on the Crowdsourcing project. Mapbox is collaborating with
> StatCan to engage Canadian universities to participate in the Building
> Canada 2020 project
>  
> by
> hosting mapathons during OSMGeoWeek  (November
> 12-18, 2017).
>
> We want to make sure we are accomplishing this in a way that encourages
> new Canadian mappers, while also ensuring participants are being educated
> properly about OSM and the community.
>
> The plan is to help educate Canadian universities about organizing
> mapathons through documentations like teachOSM  as
> well as to set up clear tasks for students to complete during the
> mapathons. We have started outlining the information on this wiki page
> 
> .
>
> On the Canada OSM Tasking Manager  there are
> already some tasks related to the Building Canada 2020 project. My plan is
> to add additional tasks for students to complete. The tasks will clearly
> outline what the students should map and where they should map.
>
> I would like to know if you have any suggestions on
> cities/towns/communities in Canada to focus on, particularly rural regions
> that are not mapped and have high resolution imagery.
>
> Regards,
> Julia
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[Talk-ca] Building Canada 2020 OSMGeoWeek Mapathons

[Julia C]

Hi everyone,

I am currently working at Mapbox on the Data Team and previously worked at
StatCan on the Crowdsourcing project. Mapbox is collaborating with StatCan
to engage Canadian universities to participate in the Building Canada 2020
project

by
hosting mapathons during OSMGeoWeek  (November
12-18, 2017).

We want to make sure we are accomplishing this in a way that encourages new
Canadian mappers, while also ensuring participants are being educated
properly about OSM and the community.

The plan is to help educate Canadian universities about organizing
mapathons through documentations like teachOSM  as
well as to set up clear tasks for students to complete during the
mapathons. We have started outlining the information on this wiki page

.

On the Canada OSM Tasking Manager  there are
already some tasks related to the Building Canada 2020 project. My plan is
to add additional tasks for students to complete. The tasks will clearly
outline what the students should map and where they should map.

I would like to know if you have any suggestions on
cities/towns/communities in Canada to focus on, particularly rural regions
that are not mapped and have high resolution imagery.

Regards,
Julia
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