Bjenk — Perhaps a micro-tasking tool such as MapRoulette (which I created) would be useful to help guide your thinking. I am actively looking for MapRoulette pilot projects involving government collaboration. MapRoulette has proven to be a very effective tool for solving specific problems or adding specific data types to OSM. Let me know if you would like to know more. Martijn
> On Apr 21, 2016, at 10:41 AM, Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) > <bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca> wrote: > > Paul, > > All this is open for discussion at this point. We are looking at all the > options. > By defining a project its more like stating what information we wish to focus > on. > We hope to work with the OSM community and we are looking at different ways > of doing that. > We also have different data sources that we will be evaluating to potentially > link to these buildings. > > Thanks for your feedback! > > Bjenk > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Ramsey [mailto:pram...@cleverelephant.ca] > Sent: April-21-16 12:26 PM > To: Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) <bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca> > Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] New project update > > Hey Bjenk, > When you say "define a project" are you talking about > > (a) describing a scope of work that StatsCan intends to resource and complete? > (b) describing a scope of work that StatsCan hopes the OSM community > will complete on your behalf? > > You've used the passive voice in describing the actual collection in > your description below, so it's not completely clear who you think > will be collecting the information. > > ATB, > > P > > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) > <bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca> wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> Basically, what we would like to do is define a project for OSM to collect >> information about non-residential buildings. >> We would like to popose a list of what would be collected. We were thinking >> of identifying specific areas to start with. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Bjenk Ellefsen, PhD >> >> Center for Special Business Projects | Centre des Projets Spéciaux sur les >> entreprises >> Statistics Canada | Statistiques Canada >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ca mailing list >> Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >> > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca