Keith, I have had several conversations within this forum and offline about importing municipal building footprints into OSM for a mapathon event with students on March 29 in Durham Region. Based on advice from this and other OSM community member, we are holding off on importing building footprints for now.
As for good ideas on how to engage students in adding to the OSM map, we are considering having students add trees to school building. The Toronto District School Board has a Green School Program and a database with over 40,000 trees on 5000 acres across approximately 600 schools. [Note: This was based on research from 2009 by an intern graduate student from the U of Toronto Forestry Department. It would be interesting to see if they would open this data to their students to use as an educational resource. Have you connected with Shawn Goulet and Steven Johnson at OSM Learn. They may have some good ideas as well. We may use their services to train our facilitators for the March 29 event. Jonathan
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