On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Braddock Gaskill <bradd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The city search should still work, unless the cities have moved :) > > Joel Steres did most of the geographic search work in IIAB (CC'ed). > > I doubt adding continents and countries would be a big deal. Joel > originally was aiming to allow searches of everything right down to > national parks. > Great: the International Union for Conservation of Nature has a list of something like 1000 national parks across almost 100 countries. We can enlist kids across almost every content to do this right, if the IUCN does not have lat-long bounding boxes ready. Priority #1: Joel, can you help us add 5 oceans, 7 major seas and 8+ continents? (N America, S America, Oceania, Antarctica, Europe, Asia, Eurasia, Africa; whereas "America" is likely too ambiguous, given some cultures refer to the combined N America + S America as "continent America", and our disambiguation GUI might not be ready for such never-ending squabbles?) Priority #2: There are currently 206 UN-recognized sovereign states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states Similar entities lacking UN recognition if you have a good lawyer: EU = European Union, Scotland, Tibet, Navajo Nation, Kurdistan, Islamic State, Republic of Texas, Red Sox Nation, etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_limited_recognition Priority #3: Largest deserts, Minor seas, Major lakes and Longest rivers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_by_length). Even an arbitrary choice of the ~100 most known such "National Geographic-style" natural features would be a Tremendous Addition! Including those underwater like the Great Barrier Reef if possible, Priority #4: National parks, states, provinces, cantons, departments. Time to get our kid army moving...as there must be THOUSANDS, and I don't think we can handle this alone :} PS Nick Doiron can provide lat-long coordinates for almost 1000 OLPC communities and hackspaces from olpcMAP.net later if nec ;) > -braddock > > > > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > >> Anish has made incredible OpenStreetMap progress building fresh new >> tiles, with Braddock's help (and hardware) over recent weeks, taking >> advantage of the 2 years of improvement the world has added to >> http://openstreetmap.org >> >> We have not made the jump to Jerome's new offline map architecture yet ( >> http://jeromegagnonvoyer.wordpress.com) but perhaps that can happen in >> 2016. >> >> Meantime, without pre-empting Anish announcing this in due course, a >> couple questions on how this might be used in different educational >> settings: >> >> - Will city searching require generating a new index? >> - Or can we use the original (quite fast and quite sufficient!) IIAB >> city search in the interim, alongside the new tiles, starting almost >> immediately? >> - PS if/when we are forced to re-generate the geographic search >> index, can 200+ stock countries/continents be included alongside cities >> this time? >> >> PS those who want to assist the rapidly advancing work please hop on >> http://webchat.freenode.net and select channel #schoolserver >> >> -- >> Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org ! >> >
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