Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 and School Mappers

2018-11-24 Thread Jonathan Brown
Great overview of OSM and tools for working with the data. How could this open 
data that includes school latitude and longitude be used for a building mapping 
project in OSM? 

School Information and Student Demographics . 
https://www.ontario.ca/data/school-information-and-student-demographics 

Jonathan


From: Pierre Béland
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2018 10:28 AM
To: Jonathan Brown; John Whelan
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http://jakobmiksch.eu/post/openstreetmap_overview/




 
Pierre 


Le samedi 24 novembre 2018 10 h 24 min 06 s HNE, John Whelan 
 a écrit : 


http://teachosm.org/en/

Might be of some use.

Cheerio John

Jonathan Brown wrote on 2018-11-22 7:45 PM:

Alessandro had some engineering profs from the University of Rome working with 
a local high school for testing the mobile app used for BC2020. 
 
Here’s a Comenius program for Life Long Learning of the European Union EU. The 
official title of the project is: "To boost local and international tourism 
with OpenStreetMap". The project's acronym is: "BoostOSM" 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Life_Long_Learning_Mapping_Project 
 
Jonathan
 
From: John Whelan
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2018 7:08 PM
To: Jonathan Brown
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Subject: Re: BC2020 and School Mappers
 
I hadn't thought about the programming side but C# certainly can be useful.

https://www.jatws.org/openstreetmap/openstreetmap.html

It needs visual studio 2017 but it has a sample program from which other 
programs looking for other things could be written.

I think that would be high school level though.

There has been some work in creating activities for schools in OSM but they 
would need chasing down.

Cheerio John

Jonathan Brown wrote on 2018-11-22 6:33 PM:
Climate change planning would be good. That topic could be linked to the UN 
sustainable development goals. Also, in Ontario there is a big need to 
incorporate math skills into learning by doing (e.g., 
http://www.barbareeduke.com/ccmath/mathactivities.htm (adapted for OSM), or for 
postsecondary GIS and programming for computer science courses.
At CivicTech Toronto Meetup last Tuesday someone pointed out David MacKay’s 
book Sustainable Energy: Without Hot Air https://withouthotair.com/ 
Jonathan 
 
 
From: john whelan
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2018 5:46 PM
To: Jonathan Brown
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Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 and School Mappers
 
So what do we need?
 
A hook of some type to build on?
 
An inventory of buildings for climate change planning?  I understand in many 
cities some 80% of apartment buildings are forty years old now and identifying 
them and upgrading them would help with climate change emissions.  
Unfortunately they tend to be privately owned and coaxing landlords to invest 
money is not easy.
 
An introduction to basic stats?
 
I'm not a teacher but I'm sure we can sort something out.
 
We do have a tasking manager that covers Canada so tiles can be set up for a 
local area.
 
I suggest an import first then something after that.
 
Thoughts
 
Thanks John
 
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Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 and School Mappers

2018-11-24 Thread Pierre Béland
http://jakobmiksch.eu/post/openstreetmap_overview/



 
Pierre 
 

Le samedi 24 novembre 2018 10 h 24 min 06 s HNE, John Whelan 
 a écrit :  
 
 http://teachosm.org/en/

Might be of some use.

Cheerio John

Jonathan Brown wrote on 2018-11-22 7:45 PM:



Alessandro had some engineering profs from the University of Rome working with 
a local high school for testing the mobile app used for BC2020. 

  

Here’s a Comenius program for Life Long Learning of the European Union EU. The 
official title of the project is: "To boost local and international tourism 
with OpenStreetMap". The project's acronym is: "BoostOSM" 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Life_Long_Learning_Mapping_Project 

  

Jonathan

  

From: John Whelan
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2018 7:08 PM
To: Jonathan Brown
Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap
Subject: Re: BC2020 and School Mappers

  

I hadn't thought about the programming side but C# certainly can be useful.

https://www.jatws.org/openstreetmap/openstreetmap.html

It needs visual studio 2017 but it has a sample program from which other 
programs looking for other things could be written.

I think that would be high school level though.

There has been some work in creating activities for schools in OSM but they 
would need chasing down.

Cheerio John

Jonathan Brown wrote on 2018-11-22 6:33 PM:




Climate change planning would be good. That topic could be linked to the UN 
sustainable development goals. Also, in Ontario there is a big need to 
incorporate math skills into learning by doing (e.g., 
http://www.barbareeduke.com/ccmath/mathactivities.htm (adapted for OSM), or for 
postsecondary GIS and programming for computer science courses.

At CivicTech Toronto Meetup last Tuesday someone pointed out David MacKay’s 
book Sustainable Energy: Without Hot Air https://withouthotair.com/ 

Jonathan 

 

 

From: john whelan
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2018 5:46 PM
To: Jonathan Brown
Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 and School Mappers

 

So what do we need?

 

A hook of some type to build on?

 

An inventory of buildings for climate change planning?  I understand in many 
cities some 80% of apartment buildings are forty years old now and identifying 
them and upgrading them would help with climate change emissions.  
Unfortunately they tend to be privately owned and coaxing landlords to invest 
money is not easy.

 

An introduction to basic stats?

 

I'm not a teacher but I'm sure we can sort something out.

 

We do have a tasking manager that covers Canada so tiles can be set up for a 
local area.

 



I suggest an import first then something after that.

 

Thoughts

 

Thanks John

 

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Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 and School Mappers

2018-11-22 Thread John Whelan

I hadn't thought about the programming side but C# certainly can be useful.

https://www.jatws.org/openstreetmap/openstreetmap.html

It needs visual studio 2017 but it has a sample program from which other 
programs looking for other things could be written.


I think that would be high school level though.

There has been some work in creating activities for schools in OSM but 
they would need chasing down.


Cheerio John

Jonathan Brown wrote on 2018-11-22 6:33 PM:


Climate change planning would be good. That topic could be linked to 
the UN sustainable development goals. Also, in Ontario there is a big 
need to incorporate math skills into learning by doing (e.g., 
http://www.barbareeduke.com/ccmath/mathactivities.htm (adapted for 
OSM), or for postsecondary GIS and programming 
<https://www.gislounge.com/learning-programming-for-gis/> for computer 
science courses.


At CivicTech Toronto Meetup last Tuesday someone pointed out David 
MacKay’s book Sustainable Energy: Without Hot Air 
https://withouthotair.com/


Jonathan

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So what do we need?

A hook of some type to build on?

An inventory of buildings for climate change planning?  I understand 
in many cities some 80% of apartment buildings are forty years old now 
and identifying them and upgrading them would help with climate change 
emissions.  Unfortunately they tend to be privately owned and coaxing 
landlords to invest money is not easy.


An introduction to basic stats?

I'm not a teacher but I'm sure we can sort something out.

We do have a tasking manager that covers Canada so tiles can be set up 
for a local area.



I suggest an import first then something after that.

Thoughts

Thanks John

On Thu, 22 Nov 2018, 5:22 pm Jonathan Brown <mailto:jonab...@gmail.com> wrote:


“Should we try to tailor the information on Building 2020 towards
inexperienced mappers to make it easier for schools etc to get
involved?”

Good idea, John. We need a process similar to HOT for local
beginners and maybe a way of connecting the mapping to a
sustainable development challenge in the community.

Jonathan

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Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 and School Mappers

2018-11-22 Thread Jonathan Brown
Climate change planning would be good. That topic could be linked to the UN 
sustainable development goals. Also, in Ontario there is a big need to 
incorporate math skills into learning by doing (e.g., 
http://www.barbareeduke.com/ccmath/mathactivities.htm (adapted for OSM), or for 
postsecondary GIS and programming for computer science courses.
At CivicTech Toronto Meetup last Tuesday someone pointed out David MacKay’s 
book Sustainable Energy: Without Hot Air https://withouthotair.com/ 
Jonathan 


From: john whelan
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2018 5:46 PM
To: Jonathan Brown
Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 and School Mappers

So what do we need?

A hook of some type to build on?

An inventory of buildings for climate change planning?  I understand in many 
cities some 80% of apartment buildings are forty years old now and identifying 
them and upgrading them would help with climate change emissions.  
Unfortunately they tend to be privately owned and coaxing landlords to invest 
money is not easy.

An introduction to basic stats?

I'm not a teacher but I'm sure we can sort something out.

We do have a tasking manager that covers Canada so tiles can be set up for a 
local area.

I suggest an import first then something after that.

Thoughts

Thanks John

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Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 and School Mappers

2018-11-22 Thread Pierre Béland
Peut-être commencer par proposer aux écoles, universités etc. des informations 
leur permettant de s'initier à la cartographie numérique actuelle. Éditer, cela 
est très pointu comme initiation et la très grande majorité quittent après 
quelques heures laissant des données de mauvaise qualité
De fait, ne s'intéressent-ils pas d'abord à ce fameux Web 2.0, OpenSource, 
OpenData avec internet, ordinateurs, téléphones et tabletes, et les nouveaux 
modes sociaux de collaboration?  Il y a aussi les outils d'analyse tel QGIS, 
les outils de requête, toutes les thématiques préssentes sur OSM. Ce domaine 
évolue rapidement et les contributeurs OSM et développeurs collaborent avec 
gouvernements, organismes internationaux etc.
Il est aussi possible d'initier avec des journées thématiques où on visite un 
quartier ou village pour mieux le documenter. De telles journées sont aussi 
l'occasion d'initier par des discussions au monde de la cartographie numérique. 
 

Les projets cartographiques devraient venir ensuite et être mieux planifiés, en 
proposant du matériel et démarche pour un minimum de formation avant de 
cartographier.  Beaucoup de contributeurs OSM sont réticents aux opérations 
marketing de HOT où on invite tous et chacun à venir tracer sur la carte.  De 
grands chiffres de conribution. Mais quelle qualité ?
Les organisateurs de mapathons ne devraient pas avoir des connaissances 
limitées d'OSM. Ils devraient aussi avoir un plan de formation. Le risque comme 
on l'a vu trop souvent est que de nouveaux contributeurs s'initient à OSM en 
démarrant immédiatement la cartographie sans aucune connaissance et quittent 
après quelques heures, laissant souvent un nombre élevé d'erreurs. Avez-vous vu 
l'Analyse Qualité de la géométrie que j'ai produite à partir de 25 projets 
cartographiques HOT  ? 
Habituellement dans une municipalité, on ne retrouve qu'un faible pourcentage, 
nettement moins de 10% d'immeubles avec formes irrégulières (angles autres que 
90°). Beaucoup de projets avaient des taux supérieurs à 10%.
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2018-September/081392.html 


Pierre 



 

Le jeudi 22 novembre 2018 17 h 21 min 27 s HNE, Jonathan Brown 
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“Should we try to tailor the information on Building 2020 towards inexperienced 
mappers to make it easier for schools etc to get involved?”

  

Good idea, John. We need a process similar to HOT for local beginners and maybe 
a way of connecting the mapping to a sustainable development challenge in the 
community.

  

Jonathan 

  
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Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 and School Mappers

2018-11-22 Thread john whelan
So what do we need?

A hook of some type to build on?

An inventory of buildings for climate change planning?  I understand in
many cities some 80% of apartment buildings are forty years old now and
identifying them and upgrading them would help with climate change
emissions.  Unfortunately they tend to be privately owned and coaxing
landlords to invest money is not easy.

An introduction to basic stats?

I'm not a teacher but I'm sure we can sort something out.

We do have a tasking manager that covers Canada so tiles can be set up for
a local area.

I suggest an import first then something after that.

Thoughts

Thanks John

On Thu, 22 Nov 2018, 5:22 pm Jonathan Brown  “Should we try to tailor the information on Building 2020 towards
> inexperienced mappers to make it easier for schools etc to get involved?”
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>
>
> Good idea, John. We need a process similar to HOT for local beginners and
> maybe a way of connecting the mapping to a sustainable development
> challenge in the community.
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Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 and School Mappers

2018-11-22 Thread Jonathan Brown
“Should we try to tailor the information on Building 2020 towards inexperienced 
mappers to make it easier for schools etc to get involved?”

Good idea, John. We need a process similar to HOT for local beginners and maybe 
a way of connecting the mapping to a sustainable development challenge in the 
community.

Jonathan 

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