Model:
http://www.buildzero.org/).
Jonathan
From: john whelan
Sent: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 12:13 PM
To: Jonathan Brown
Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org; kelseysaunder...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Importing building and routing info
regionally/locally(Jonathan)
I was under the impression
Ditto Kevin’s post. Erik, I live in Cobourg and have an interest in working
with local mappers to map Northumberland County. At the moment we only have one
novice (myself) and Kelsey Saunders, a GIS grad.
Jonathan
We are a local/regional courier and trucking company in southern Ontario
>
staff could also use
coop students to do some of the local mapping to support other local
organizations working on projects like food security or “open-source”
micro-urban development projects, similar to the Laneway Project I mentioned:
http://www.thelanewayproject.ca/torontolanewaymap
Jonathan
, and/or a physical
location. The challenge is how to cultivate and maintain local mapper groups
based on volunteer work.
Jonathan Brown
From: John Whelan
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2019 10:01 AM
To: Jonathan Brown
Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Local groups as part of import plan
Could we get Stats Can to support a few local groups who want to use a common
framework for a collaborative research project that addresses a sustainable
development goal outcome (e.g., the OSM fresh security challenge
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Food_security and
are also providing training on
ArcGIS Online. The idea is to encourage crowdsourcing with OSM because it is
open source and teaches students the value of ground truthing.
Jonathan Brown
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From: Pierre Béland
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2018 10:28 AM
To: Jonathan Brown; John Whelan
Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 and School Mappers
http://jakobmiksch.eu/post/openstreetmap_overview/
Pierre
Le samedi 24 novembre 2018 10 h 24 min 06 s HNE
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
“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
1. Re: Enablers and Barriers for Voluntary Participation in
Crowdsourcing Platforms (Jonathan Brown)
2. Re: Enablers and Barriers for Voluntary Participation in
Crowdsourcing Platforms (John Whelan)
3. Re: Enablers and Barriers for Voluntary Participation in
Crowdsourcing Plat
This is cool. Could we not develop a BC2020i challenge similar to the ECCE
annual challenge? (See McMaster University Team’s winning ECCE 2018 entry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRb_g1llT00=youtu.be=PLdgq5G0ox73VEQFJd4No6peb4NP-GFbdU
Jonathan
Open data released by Statistics Netherlands – rated second in the world behind
Denmark in open data inventory – saw a surge to 3.2 million open data
retrievals in the second quarter of 2018 alone
https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/corporate/2018/31/explosive-growth-in-use-of-cbs-open-data,
especially
classes in Manitoba
using the BC2020i framework.
Jonathan
From: john whelan
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2018 6:56 PM
To: Jonathan Brown
Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i and Wikidata
I think it depends on what you are trying to do. There are two parts to
BC2020i
Has anyone thought of using Wikidata to enhance the BC2020i project work with
secondary and postsecondary students?
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page
How could structured, linked open data help municipalities and regions engage
students in collaborative research projects? We
FYI-This open data standards document promotes HOT Lunches for encouraging OSM
mapping. But what I like is the connection with open data standards and citizen
science for education:
https://www.gitbook.com/book/azavea/open-data-standards/details
Jonathan
Lessons learned from Finland and Poland in using OSM and Open Data:
https://blog.core.okfn.org/2018/03/28/open-data-day-2018-getting-the-local-communities-in-porto-and-helsinki-to-talk-about-open-mapping/
Also, the research by Professor Peter Johnson at Waterloo on models of direct
editing of
Combination of bringing their own and facilitators from Durham Region using
their work laptops. To simplify things, we could set up a few facilitators with
JAVA-installed machines.
From: john whelan
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2018 11:54 AM
To: James
Cc: Jonathan Brown; Talk-CA OpenStreetMap
It would be good to have a screen shot demonstrating these kinds of errors. We
could use these screen shots of good and bad examples to demonstrate good
practices. James, will the TM2 issue affect our March 29 mapathon?
Jonathan
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Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Emergency Request for Tasking Manager Trainer
Seems Durham already had a project created for it:
http://tasks.osmcanada.ca/project/85
I'll a
is to “add meaning
to the geographic objects” (https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/about) the
students will be mapping on March 29 based on their local knowledge.
Jonathan
From: James
Sent: Friday, March 9, 2018 11:02 AM
To: Jonathan Brown
Cc: john whelan; Matthew Darwin; Talk-CA OpenStreetMap; Rob
Excellent. The OSM community’s support is much appreciated.
Jonathan
From: john whelan
Sent: Thursday, March 8, 2018 2:16 PM
To: Jonathan Brown
Cc: Matthew Darwin; Talk-CA OpenStreetMap; Rob Halko; Brock Baker
<brock_ba...@kprdsb.ca>; Alasia, Alessandro (STATCAN)
Subject: RE: [T
Rob Halko will know if they have geojson for Durham Region area. I’ll need to
find out for Niagara and Northumberland.
Jonathan
From: James
Sent: Thursday, March 8, 2018 2:18 PM
To: Jonathan Brown
Cc: john whelan; Rob Halko; Brock Baker <brock_ba...@kprdsb.ca>; Alasia,
Alessandro (S
do you have a geojson extent of the area you want to cover?
-
Rob Halko can answer that question for Durham Region, the priority area for
March 29. I’ll need to ask the other regions.
Jonathan
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Thanks, Matthew. We are finalizing the mapping task on a conference call this
afternoon at 3 pm if you have time to join in. At the Toronto OSM Meetup they
recommended using one of the HOT Tasking Manager tasks. I looked at this one
and found the “P
Darwin
Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 11:19 PM
To: Jonathan Brown; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Emergency Request for Tasking Manager Trainer
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Hi Jonathan,
I'm probably missing something, but you don't link training videos from
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. We are also
hoping for support from the Toronto OSM folks.
Jonathan
From: Clifford Snow
Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2018 11:52 AM
To: Jonathan Brown
Cc: James; Rob Halko; Brock Baker <brock_ba...@kprdsb.ca>;
sarah.r...@durham.ca; Talk-CA OpenStreetMap
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i Mapathon
is that the colleges
had a lengthy strike in the fall and have no time to participate in
extra-curricular activities this year.
Jonathan
From: James
Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2018 5:36 AM
To: Jonathan Brown
Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap; Rob Halko; Sterling Quinn
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i Mapathon Event
Rob Halkon, GIS Supervisor at the Durham Region, has approval to host an
all-day mapathon event on March 29. The region has kindly offered to provide
the venue with food. I attended the Toronto OSM Meetup last week and they
suggested someone by the name of Richard might be able to help with the
Hi, Keith. I’m in the same predicament. The OSM community tell me that it may
be possible, but not in the short run. We are using the BC2020i framework for
our March 29 event that Durham Region’s Open Data folks are hosting. One idea
is to have the students add trees to OSM. For accessibility,
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
I don’t mind trying to contact the school, Fredrick. I have a few contacts with
the two Ottawa school boards.
Jonathan Brown
From: talk-ca-requ...@openstreetmap.org
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To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
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I concur. Take it one step further. Show different examples of good, bad and
ugly building models based on explicit criteria. This will help us “educate”
those who are keen on participating. Another consideration is accessibility
strategies for those disabilities.
Jonathan
From:
8 PM
To: Jonathan Brown; talk-ca
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i OSM Distributed Model and Education
On Jan 30, 2018, at 7:49 AM, Jonathan Brown <jonab...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don’t mind reviewing the OSM education wiki for lessons learned and
> “promising practices” and seeing how it might i
I don’t mind reviewing the OSM education wiki for lessons learned and
“promising practices” and seeing how it might inform the design of a mapathon
event aligned to the K-12 curricula and postsecondary capstone project model.
It will be messy, but that’s the nature of the beast. To use the
n make that dataset available
to OSM. Eg add all the buildings into CanVec. CanVec is already
approved. :-)
Matthew Darwin
matt...@mdarwin.ca
http://www.mdarwin.ca
On 2018-01-28 02:42 PM, Jonathan Brown wrote:
>
> Okay, I know the Open Data folks and Open Government folks in
> Ontario
, is there anything you think we
need to add to support the mapathon event in the Niagara Region?
Jonathan
From: john whelan
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2018 3:17 PM
To: Jonathan Brown
Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 OD_tables wiki and project status
The Ottawa building
into the Ottawa Open Data Portal?
Jonathan
From: john whelan
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2018 2:29 PM
To: Jonathan Brown
Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 OD_tables wiki and project status
If you map from Bing imagery there is no issue. If you do map from Bing please
use
If we have a description of the scope of the work involved in updating the
BC2020 OD tables, I don’t mind trying to find some senior students who could be
trained to take on this task for locations in Ontario. It would be a very small
start, of course. Also, can someone explain to me the
erson managing the list at
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I concur on the point of needing to tie the mapathon activity into a local
problem-solving task if it is going to address the expectations of provincial
and territorial curricula. Keith, I like the idea of accessibility. I think
Clifford would agree that the accessibility challenge has a direct
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