Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i OSM Distributed Model and Education

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Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i OSM Distributed Model and Education

On 2018-02-02 06:06 PM, john whelan wrote: > > It would be useful if someone could produce a sample in R that takes a > .osm file and counts the buildings. R might be rather overkill: grep "k='building'" file.osm | wc -l One might have to do some clever trickery around buildings that are

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i OSM Distributed Model and Education

. That was probably the most interesting thing to come > out of the project. I also had a few discussions with people working with > the city to make a similar database, but they had some of the usual > concerns about using OSM as their main repository (e.g., liability, > perceived lack

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i OSM Distributed Model and Education

I repeat myself: less buzzword-compliance, please. More embracing of tried-and-true OSM tenets and culture, like front-loaded planning, ongoing, wide-area project management on something with nationwide scope as this, wiki writing/updating both intent and ongoing status, making available

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i OSM Distributed Model and Education

8 PM To: Jonathan Brown; talk-ca Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i OSM Distributed Model and Education On Jan 30, 2018, at 7:49 AM, Jonathan Brown <jonab...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don’t mind reviewing the OSM education wiki for lessons learned and > “promising practices” and seeing how it might i

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i OSM Distributed Model and Education

I think we need to identify the possible problem areas and those things that would be useful to the students. Not all students will have the same needs. The first is we really want to avoid students tracing building outlines in iD. Experience has shown they aren't very good at it. JOSM and the

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i OSM Distributed Model and Education

On Jan 30, 2018, at 7:49 AM, Jonathan Brown wrote: > I don’t mind reviewing the OSM education wiki for lessons learned and > “promising practices” and seeing how it might inform the design of a mapathon > event aligned to the K-12 curricula and postsecondary capstone project

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i OSM Distributed Model and Education

I don’t mind reviewing the OSM education wiki for lessons learned and “promising practices” and seeing how it might inform the design of a mapathon event aligned to the K-12 curricula and postsecondary capstone project model. It will be messy, but that’s the nature of the beast. To use the