Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 and School Mappers

2018-11-22 Thread John Whelan
I hadn't thought about the programming side but C# certainly can be useful. https://www.jatws.org/openstreetmap/openstreetmap.html It needs visual studio 2017 but it has a sample program from which other programs looking for other things could be written. I think that would be high school

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 and School Mappers

2018-11-22 Thread Jonathan Brown
Climate change planning would be good. That topic could be linked to the UN sustainable development goals. Also, in Ontario there is a big need to incorporate math skills into learning by doing (e.g., http://www.barbareeduke.com/ccmath/mathactivities.htm (adapted for OSM), or for postsecondary

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 and School Mappers

2018-11-22 Thread Pierre Béland
Peut-être commencer par proposer aux écoles, universités etc. des informations leur permettant de s'initier à la cartographie numérique actuelle. Éditer, cela est très pointu comme initiation et la très grande majorité quittent après quelques heures laissant des données de mauvaise qualité De

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 and School Mappers

2018-11-22 Thread john whelan
So what do we need? A hook of some type to build on? An inventory of buildings for climate change planning? I understand in many cities some 80% of apartment buildings are forty years old now and identifying them and upgrading them would help with climate change emissions. Unfortunately they

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 and School Mappers

2018-11-22 Thread Jonathan Brown
“Should we try to tailor the information on Building 2020 towards inexperienced mappers to make it easier for schools etc to get involved?” Good idea, John. We need a process similar to HOT for local beginners and maybe a way of connecting the mapping to a sustainable development challenge in

Re: [Talk-ca] Citizen to Government data partnerships

2018-11-22 Thread john whelan
Based on my own experience Government Open Data and OpenStreetMap have very different cultures and work in different time frames. Licensing has been an issue, it only took five years to get the license for the GTFS local bus stops changed so we could import them but I think we are moving forward.

[Talk-ca] Citizen to Government data partnerships

2018-11-22 Thread Javier Carranza
I hereby share with you guys , expecting also for comments, the publication that Eurostat published us on Citizen to Government data partnerships with especial enfasis on gesopatial communities that are working out data complementation with governments

[Talk-ca] Building Canada 2020

2018-11-22 Thread john whelan
The wiki page currently has a very wide range of information which might be too much for a casual mapper to digest. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Building_Canada_2020 There are two parts mapping the building outlines and enriching the data. Since the project has started