Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i and Mapathons with High Schools

I'd love to see in OSM (with a nod by STATCAN?) a Canadian "model building" (one will do), linked in the wiki. Richly-tagged and well done, to provide a standard to shoot for. To close a small, tight QA loop, as it were. "Here is what we'd like to see more of." Start small, document it.

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i and Mapathons with High Schools

I would still make the comment that it is a live map and even University > students can get creative. > > I would recommend having someone go over the edits carefully. Ideally an > experienced validator. Both from the point of view of accuracy and also to > give feedback to the students. If

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i and Mapathons with High Schools

Hi Jonathan, I work with a GIS users group in Manitoba (MGUG.ca) and we were talking about how to use OSM as a learning tool for high school students as well. >From our education sub-committee we discussed that building footprints or adding roads doesn't add to what the provincial high school geo

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i and Mapathons with High Schools

On Jan 23, 2018, at 5:53 PM, john whelan wrote: > It should have been 60 per hour. Apols. I can probably map at one per five > seconds but new mappers did and will take much longer. The iD figures of > four to twenty buildings per mapathon session are real numbers. OK,

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i and Mapathons with High Schools

I agree that absolute novices unfamiliar with OSM are not what we might call "an ideal candidate," for BC2020i but it certainly has been and can be done. That said, "coming with Java preloaded" is a certain kind of "trigger warning" that "you have to be this tall to ride the ride." That's