Wow, this is really amazing and so useful! My one regret is that I had to give
up my Android phone for an iPhone just last month -- long story, not relevant.
Is there any other way to access data like this? The examples you've shared
here are helpful to me, any way I can get one for the North Shore/Merrimack
Valley area?
Elizabeth Thomsen
Pursuits: http://www.ethomsen.com/
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ethomsen/
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From: John Phelan <[email protected]>
To: Teresa Cordova <[email protected]>; Gabriel Fishman
<[email protected]>
Cc: David Sindel <[email protected]>; Boston Wikimedians
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 2, 2014 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-boston] school service project
If you're interested in photographing places, I wrote an Android app that finds
places that need photographs and plans a trip to visit them. You can enter any
location in the world, and even search Wikipedia's in other languages. I think
you mentioned Spanish.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Unvisited_app
free on the play store...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mim1999.unvisited&hl=en
Here's some quick results around Boston, Lexington and Norwood...
On a 20 mile drive, it came up with 10 places near Lexington...
Link to a trip starting at Beacon High School (Watertown, Massachusetts) - 10
places - 18.7 miles
https://maps.google.com/maps? saddr=42.3937,-71.1911&daddr=
42.3815,-71.1915+to:42.3846,- 71.2139+to:42.37,-71.2+to:42.
3651,-71.2091+to:42.3621,-71. 2435+to:42.3669,-71.2561+to:
42.3665,-71.2586+to:42.3675,- 71.2776+to:42.4031,-71.2234+
to:42.3937,-71.1911&view=map& dirflg=w
Arlington School - middle school
Beacon High School (Watertown, Massachusetts) - middle school
Waltham Land Trust - land trust
Bemis (Watertown, Massachusetts) - neighborhood
John A. Ryan Arena - indoor arena
Boathouse Group - advertising agency
The Castle (Waltham, Massachusetts) - historic castle
Brandeis University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences - graduate school
Gifford School - school
North Waltham, Massachusetts - neighborhood
On a 20 mile drive, it came up with 8 places near Norwood...
Link to a trip starting at Ursuline Academy (Dedham, Massachusetts) - 8 places
- 17.0 miles
https://maps.google.com/maps? saddr=42.26,-71.2087&daddr=42.
2169,-71.2169+to:42.1838,-71. 2141+to:42.189,-71.2017+to:42.
1944,-71.2006+to:42.2147,-71. 1967+to:42.245,-71.1842+to:42.
2539,-71.1913+to:42.26,-71. 2087&view=map&dirflg=w
Norfolk County Correctional Center - prison
Westwood High School (Massachusetts) - high school
Oak View, Norwood, Massachusetts - house
Norwood Hospital - hospital
St. Peter Parish, Norwood - roman catholic parish
Xaverian Brothers High School - boys' school
Ursuline Academy (Dedham, Massachusetts) - girls' school
Endicott House - house
On a 6 mile walk, it came up with 13 places around Boston...
Link to a trip starting at Globe Theatre, Boston (1871) - 13 places - 5.7 miles
https://maps.google.com/maps? saddr=42.3515,-71.0628&daddr=
42.3529,-71.0626+to:42.3495,- 71.0619+to:42.3518,-71.0575+
to:42.3534,-71.058+to:42.3566, -71.057+to:42.359,-71.0565+to:
42.3652,-71.0631+to:42.3672,- 71.0662+to:42.3689,-71.0719+
to:42.3678,-71.0742+to:42. 3625,-71.0792+to:42.3561,-71.
0741+to:42.3515,-71.0628&view= map&dirflg=w
Combat Zone, Boston - neighborhood
Globe Theatre, Boston (1871) - burned theatre
Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy -
educational institution
Green Restaurant Certification - restaurant
New South Church (Boston, Massachusetts) - disestablished chapel
One Federal Street - skyscraper
60 State Street - skyscraper
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Federal Building - government building
Nashua Street
Jail - prison
North Point Park (Cambridge, Massachusetts) - visitor attraction
Luna (tugboat) - historic tugboat
Broad Canal - canal
Fisher College - university
On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 11:14 AM, Teresa Cordova
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Gabriel,
I haven't heard back from the Social Studies teachers at school, and I'm
wondering if you'd like me to put your list on the Lexington, MA parents'
listserve.
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Gabriel Fishman <[email protected]>
wrote:
I have a short list of Boston articles that need photos - primarily mid-late
20th Century history.
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GabrielF/NeededPhotos
>
>
>
>One idea might be to take kids to the Boston City Archives or the BPL to scan
>and upload photos. The Boston City Archives has agreed to put their photos in
>the public domain so they can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.
>
>
>
>On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:22 AM, David Sindel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>In short: all of them. Bits and pieces here and there are up to par, but
>really there's just not enough editors (particularly those with experience
>referencing, formatting, obtaining free-use images, etc) thus far to make
>everything high quality. A lot of the articles are patchwork with varying
>styles and quality.
>>
>>
>>I've been working on MBTA and related articles for about the past 2 years.
>>I've made progress on a number of articles, and I'm currently preparing to
>>blitz the high-priority articles (those about each line, downtown transfer
>>stations, etc) fairly soon. If there's a couple who have any interest in
>>working with railroad / transit history, I'd be glad to help them.
>>
>>
>>
>>On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Teresa Cordova <[email protected]>
>>wrote:
>>
>>Hi there,
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks, sounds great. How do we find out which neighborhoods or which
>>>periods of local history are in particular need of more research?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Kevin Rutherford <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>Hey all,
>>>>
>>>>I would love to help out with this, as I know people in the Boston area who
could help with rail articles, and I can help out with general history,
although
I specialize more in modern military history around the city.
>>>>
>>>>Kevin
>>>>From: Pharos
>>>>Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 1:32 AM
>>>>To: Teresa Cordova
>>>>Cc: Boston Wikimedians
>>>>Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-boston] school service
project
>>>> It could be fun to have students working on articles covering Boston
neighborhoods and local
history.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Richard
>>>>(User:Pharos)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Teresa Cordova
>>>><[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>We're doing service projects at school, and I would love to include
>>>>>Wikimedia in it. Any ideas?
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