Hi,
Thank you everyone for your replies (both on and off list) - I really
appreciate the time you've taken to write them. There is a lot to think
about in there, which I will spend some time doing.
I've not made any decisions yet (the university have kept me quite busy
since December) but I will
/me looks forward to the thesis on adding a tagged node to OSM ;-)
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From: David Woolley [mailto:for...@david-woolley.me.uk]
Sent: 27 November 2014 23:06
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] OSM University of Liverpool exercise (or 200 free(ish
As an ex Liverpool Uni student (late 1970s)...
These are 1st years so beginners - not doing theses yet.
However, something that makes them think as well as do can be useful.
The Vaughan Geddes paper here: http://www.radstats.org.uk/no099/index.htm
gives something to look at in terms of impacts
Hi,
I hope this is the correct place to post this - if not, please be kind to
me (as a newbie) and point me in the right direction!
I'm teaching a 1st year Undergraduate module on GIS with approx. 200
Planning and/or Geography students on it next year (Oct 2015 - Mar 2016).
This is an
On 27 November 2014 at 13:50, Nick Bearman n.bear...@liverpool.ac.uk wrote:
I'm looking for someone who has completed something similar in the past and
has any recommendation on how to do this most effectively, and what areas in
Liverpool would benefit most from the students contribution.
I agree with Matthijs that this is a nice initiative, and I'm very pleased
that you have started this discussion.
I am not a Merseysider myself, but I lots of family in the area. Although I
visit fairly frequently I rarely get the opportunity to map, but can form a
general impression about the
On 27 November 2014 at 16:35, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote:
I have metrics from my own surveys of this type, but would expect a shopping
street 200 metres long would occupy a student for perhaps a couple of hours
(certainly my first shopping street, Floral Street in London, took quite a
long
All my metrics are based on survey followed by data entry. I am sure direct
entry using OsmAND or Vespucci has a significant advantage of avoiding the
some of the work involved in the data entry phase. Unfortunately, using the
GPS on my phone limits the time for data collection to an hour or less.
On 27 November 2014 at 21:09, SK53 sk53@gmail.com wrote:
One other point about metrics such as POI collection: it will greatly depend
on POI density (city centre vs. suburbs) and the current number of POIs
already mapped. It's fundamentally easier to map somewhere de novo rather
than
On 27/11/2014 13:50, Nick Bearman wrote:
and what areas in Liverpool would benefit most from the students
contribution. Currently, giving the time available to the students, I
would be thinking of a desk-based digitisation exercise, but this can
be flexible.
Based on a fleeting visit to
On 27/11/14 14:09, Matthijs Melissen wrote:
Nice initiative! I think adding building outlines is quite useful, and
has relatively low risk that the students break things (an important
The disadvantage, here, is that it is a vocational type exercise, not an
academic one. An academic one
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