Hi OSM List, Last Friday I worked with one of my colleagues and a high school teacher to map out some things on openstreetmap with high school students!
To do this we talked about what would work with the high school curriculum, and with an OSM component. We agreed to look at something with built environments and some of the limitations people may have accessing them. This class has some GIS teaching behind them. Last Wednesday Rob brought in a person from the City of Brandon to talk about what the city is doing about accessibility. Then he gave the students an assignment to capture if a building was accessible over the next few days. Once they came back on the Friday I did a talk on openstreetmap, some of the benefits of open data they could use for school work, and how osm is helping out across the world (HOT mapping, ect). As most of the buildings were already there we didn't need to add a lot to the map. The students used the same login (issue with students having their accounts and privacy) and used iD editor to add if buildings they looked at were wheelchair accessible or not. In some cases they building wasn't there, so I added the basic how to add a building, square it, satellite alignment and other editing tasks they might use. In the future we'll probably use field papers to do a larger project (the field papers server was down that day!) and be a little more ambitious. I looked over the data later to see if everything made sense and the jokes were corrected (one student edited the Robs house to be a fish food restaurant). Although small, it was pretty successful way of getting secondary students into mapping with a guided approach. A secondary added bonus was city of Brandon provided data, however need to sort out licensing stuff before adding anything to the map. Cheers, Keith
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