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 you're mapping in Canada be aware people > will not welcome inaccurate mapping and can be quite vocal about it. Don't > assume because you are a teacher you know enough about the subject. > Locally a University professor asked their students to add detail to the > map but restrict it to on Campus. They didn't restrict themselves and I > believe both added and modified existing data incorrectly which took > considerable clean up effort from a number of local mappers. > > The more flexibility you give the students the steeper the learning > curve. It takes about an hour before a new adult mapper feels comfortable > adding building outlines. > > When working with Bjenk on the Canadian building project it was apparent > that the building outline was only part of what they were after. > Alessandro was the first person I've seen to accurately map a building > outline in iD so it can be done. The other information they were after was > the number of floors. How many does a split level have by the way? The > use, commercial, residential etc. Ask Alessandro nicely and he might even > give you a list of what they are after. StreetComplete runs on an Android > smartphone and can be used to add this type of data. > > On the visually impaired side we have special tactile pads in the side > walk at junctions but I haven't worked out how to map and tag them yet and > I'm fairly experienced. > > If you go a HOT project then in theory they have validators on their > projects. Bug me nicely and I might even point you to one that is actively > validated. > > The following maybe of interest. > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Education > > The links contained give access to people who have done it before. > > Cheerio John > > > > > > On 23 January 2018 at 23:30, keith hartley <keith.a.hart...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> 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 subject >> curriculum needs. One suggestion was rather then adding new data and >> supervising edits, we can augment the map to be more detailed. (better >> trails, active transport, or building accessibility for disabled people) >> >> One example would be addressing mobility and accessibility around the >> school. If we could get a few high schools within an area to participate, >> we could could add buildings that are accessible via ramps ect, or maybe >> signaled crosswalks. That information could show the students issues that >> vision impaired, or mobility restricted people face, while at the same time >> improving the map. (similar to wheel map https://wheelmap.org) >> >> We're still at the discussion stage, but just a thought! >> >> Thanks, >> Keith >> >> >>
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