Re: [Talk-ca] Mapping buildings in Canada by 2020

[Julia C]

Hello everyone!

I am Julia Conzon, username Noznoc. I am currently *interning* at Mapbox
until the end of November.

My involvement in BC2020 came from my past work at Statistics Canada on the
Crowdsourcing project and my interest in VGI. *I am not a representative
for Mapbox (Mapbox is only supporting me)*.

Organizing these mapathons have been a great experience because I have
witnessed academics and students across Canada interested in being educated
on OSM and contributing to the OSM project through BC2020. Several
universities intend on continuing mapathons.

I have just finished developing a visualization
 that
showcases the results from the mapathon (data collected between Nov.
10-20). To learn more about the visualization, I recommend reading the
README.md file in the GitHub repo
.

>From what Pierre's email states, I guess the validation work flow panned
out from OSMGeoWeek does not follow the normal script that has been done in
the past, *but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist*. The universities are
aware of validation, and have the intentions to work on it; however, since
involvement is volunteered-based, people have other priorities, so
validation will not occur immediately. My visualization is developed in a
way to support validation efforts, and I have started documenting
validation methods here

 (*feel free to add to the wiki*).

>From my time at Mapbox I have learned methods for validating data, and
developing front-end apps to easily see and fix errors. I would love to
collaborate with any other individuals interested in developing these tools
for BC2020. This would be on my own time, this is not a part of my job, it
is part of my hobby.

Regards,
Julia


On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 5:19 PM, john whelan  wrote:

> >BC2020 *is not a StatCan project*.
>
> That comment came from Bjenk's old boss.
>
> I note that Pierre has identified some data quality issues from maperthons
> that appear to be associated with this.
>
> Is anyone organising this or is it just a dream in the air?
>
> In Ottawa we got some high quality mapping out of the initial Stats Canada
> project which is good.
>
> The issue on the low quality mapping by mappers who will map once then
> disappear is what if anything should be done about the less than ideal
> mapping left behind?
>
> Traditionally its been suggested that is it best corrected but it takes
> longer to correct than to delete and remap.
>
> It doesn't seem to be easy to handle at a local level.  There is too much
> just dropped on one spot at once.
>
> One mapper made a comment to me on this type of mapping in Africa just
> delete this junk.  I have some sympathy with this point of view.
>
> Thoughts if any
>
> Thanks John
>
>
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Re: [Talk-ca] Severed Dick

[Julia C]

I grew up in this municipality, but not near that area and I am not a
mountain biker. I am not surprised by those names though... ugh they are
horrible.

Julia

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Denis Carriere 
wrote:

> Unfortunately does names seem legit for that type of mountain bike trails,
> these are not the first mountain bike trails names I've seen with those
> types of names.
>
> Seems like source of these edits come from a reputable editor.
>
> *User: *BC Trail Guides
> 
> http://osmlab.github.io/osm-deep-history/#/way/402020482
> http://osmlab.github.io/osm-deep-history/#/way/402020492
>
> This doesn't look like this is a form form of vandalism, that's just BC
> Canada for you ;)
>
> *~~*
> *@DenisCarriere*
> *GIS Software & Systems Specialist*
>
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Frederik Ramm 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>noticed a few funny trail names in this region near Vancouver:
>>
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/49.3365/-122.9791
>>
>> Quote possible they really *are* called "Severed Dick", "Shorn Scrotum",
>> and "Cunt Buster", in which case they're of course totally legit to have
>> on the map, however I've come across some made-up names like that in the
>> past too. Maybe someone can check.
>>
>> Bye
>> Frederik
>>
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Re: [Talk-ca] Building Canada 2020 OSMGeoWeek Mapathons

[Julia C]

Hi everyone,

Firstly, thank you all for your feedback.

I understand the concerns about repeating what occurred at Carleton, but
our goal is to try our best to avoid this situation. So far the professors
I have connected with are well aquatinted with OSM and will be targeting
GIS students to participate. Some professors will even be grading their
students on their contributions, so hopefully this will incentivize
students to accurately contribute. Also, we are determining methods for
validating the data afterwards.

John, I agree with your opinion on prioritizing importing the building
footprint datasets and then having participants add tags, but our focus for
the OSMGeoWeek mapathons would be to map areas that do not have existing
building footprint datasets to import.

Matthew, I agree with you as well, having experts present at mapathons to
educate participants on the correct methods of mapping is valuable. With
this in mind, I will encourage universities to invite local OSM experts. If
anyone is interested in participating in a university mapathon as an expert
OSM contributor, please let me know and I can connect you to the university
that is located within your region.

I hope you all understand that we want these mapathons to be as
constructive as possible, to educate students about OSM as well as to
contribute to the Building Canada 2020 project.

Regards,
Julia

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Julia C <juliacon...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am currently working at Mapbox on the Data Team and previously worked at
> StatCan on the Crowdsourcing project. Mapbox is collaborating with
> StatCan to engage Canadian universities to participate in the Building
> Canada 2020 project
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Building_Canada_2020> 
> by
> hosting mapathons during OSMGeoWeek <http://osmgeoweek.org/> (November
> 12-18, 2017).
>
> We want to make sure we are accomplishing this in a way that encourages
> new Canadian mappers, while also ensuring participants are being educated
> properly about OSM and the community.
>
> The plan is to help educate Canadian universities about organizing
> mapathons through documentations like teachOSM <http://teachosm.org/en/> as
> well as to set up clear tasks for students to complete during the
> mapathons. We have started outlining the information on this wiki page
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Building_Canada_2020/OSMGeoWeek2017>
> .
>
> On the Canada OSM Tasking Manager <http://tasks.osmcanada.ca/> there are
> already some tasks related to the Building Canada 2020 project. My plan is
> to add additional tasks for students to complete. The tasks will clearly
> outline what the students should map and where they should map.
>
> I would like to know if you have any suggestions on
> cities/towns/communities in Canada to focus on, particularly rural regions
> that are not mapped and have high resolution imagery.
>
> Regards,
> Julia
>
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[Talk-ca] Building Canada 2020 OSMGeoWeek Mapathons

[Julia C]

Hi everyone,

I am currently working at Mapbox on the Data Team and previously worked at
StatCan on the Crowdsourcing project. Mapbox is collaborating with StatCan
to engage Canadian universities to participate in the Building Canada 2020
project

by
hosting mapathons during OSMGeoWeek  (November
12-18, 2017).

We want to make sure we are accomplishing this in a way that encourages new
Canadian mappers, while also ensuring participants are being educated
properly about OSM and the community.

The plan is to help educate Canadian universities about organizing
mapathons through documentations like teachOSM  as
well as to set up clear tasks for students to complete during the
mapathons. We have started outlining the information on this wiki page

.

On the Canada OSM Tasking Manager  there are
already some tasks related to the Building Canada 2020 project. My plan is
to add additional tasks for students to complete. The tasks will clearly
outline what the students should map and where they should map.

I would like to know if you have any suggestions on
cities/towns/communities in Canada to focus on, particularly rural regions
that are not mapped and have high resolution imagery.

Regards,
Julia
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