On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Stefan Brandle <sbran...@cse.taylor.edu>wrote:
> Hi. The following may be outside your time and interest scope, but I am > interested in hearing from anybody who is willing to nibble on my > requests. I have never actually done any mapping work, but joined this > list and lurked with the hope of starting to learn about the tools and > issues. > It is great to get your students involved with mapping, and give them something practical to work with such as OSM. Though, I suggest first you try some mapping yourself and get more familiar with how things work. You could start out with Potlatch (edit tab), but given your more technical background,I think you would do well with JOSM. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Guide Feel free to ask us questions here. There also are IRC channels on irc.oftc.net (#osm and #osm-us) for asking questions. It certainly would help if an OSM mapper in your area would be able to help you, but I'm not sure if/who. (I might be out that way sometime in the fall, but not sure exactly when) I teach computer science at a university about half way between > Indianapolis and Ft. Wayne. I would love to have someone show us how to > get involved mapping precise data locally and submitting it to various > online data sets, or working on software that is helpful to OSM and > others. We have students who need senior projects, and also run the > occasional special topics class. > An example of what can be done, as a computer science student project, is the University of Maryland's TerpNav map. Here they have mapped all the footways, details like steps, curb cutouts and hills, and added pedestrian routing capabilities to the map. http://map.umd.edu/map/ http://weait.com/content/pedestrian-map-routing Cheers, Katie If anybody is interested, I would like to start a dialog, or at least > get some pointers to the right direction. > > -- sb > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Stefan Brandle, Taylor University Computer Science and Engineering > sbran...@cse.taylor.edu, Telephone: 765-998-4685 FAX: 765-998-4940 > http://www.cse.taylor.edu/~sbrandle<http://www.cse.taylor.edu/%7Esbrandle>, > http://www.facebook.com/TaylorCSE > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- Katie Filbert filbe...@gmail.com @filbertkm
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