Re: [talk-au] A possible way to promote OSM

I'm starting as a maths teacher next year and will certainly be mentioning it to the geography teachers in passing ;). The hard bit will be relating it to the syllabus so it's not a waste of time. Obviously it would be an excellent exercise for geography students to do, but unless the syllabus

Re: [talk-au] A possible way to promote OSM

--- On Thu, 9/7/09, b.schulz...@scu.edu.au b.schulz...@scu.edu.au wrote: I'm starting as a maths teacher next year and will certainly be mentioning it to the geography teachers in passing ;). The hard bit will be relating it to the syllabus so it's not a waste of time. Obviously it would

Re: [talk-au] A possible way to promote OSM

On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote: I was thinking about refining rivers and marking out local area stuff that normally doesn't appear on most maps, there virtually would be a lot of stuff that could be done in this area. Then you come to your suggestion, technical drawing, and I was

Re: [talk-au] A possible way to promote OSM

b.schulz...@scu.edu.au b.schulz...@scu.edu.au wrote: If anybody's got ideas on how to incorporate it into a maths lesson I'm all ears too. My high school maths touched on surveying, which is all geometry and trigonometry. Map your school, the nearby playing field or shops or whatever and

Re: [talk-au] A possible way to promote OSM

Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: Your problem John, is that you are confusing educating people with providing them with a School Certificate or whatever I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain -- Sam Couter | mailto:s...@couter.id.au OpenPGP

Re: [talk-au] OSM data

Has the OSM data really been growing fast enough that the zipped files have increased by more than 10% in 9 days? Or is there another reason for the increase in file size? Brent - Original Message - From: John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009 9:33 pm Subject:

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

--- On Thu, 9/7/09, Jack Stringer jack.ix...@googlemail.com wrote: Though I know we might not be able to use information from 11yr old kids it still does not mean we can not help provide education This would fall into the category of PR more than anything I assume, does anything like this

Re: [talk-au] OSM data

--- On Thu, 9/7/09, b.schulz...@scu.edu.au b.schulz...@scu.edu.au wrote: Has the OSM data really been growing fast enough that the zipped files have increased by more than 10% in 9 days? Or is there another reason for the increase in file size? Most of the gains seem to be in NZ. Take the