At Sur we tried that http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2008-May/000061.html Notice you cannot upload google maps results to the wiki, for they are not copyleft.
can the XO can access Google maps? If someone wants to follow further, here's a map with the present locations of OLPC-Uruguay schools http://ceibal.edu.uy/portal/proyecto/tabla_datos_departamentos.htm Beware: there's people who are afraid of Big Brother and might mind their villages being in the public's eye. (Apparently the Germans have some law about that) Yama Urko Fernandez wrote: > I have this idea while reading an article about OLPC published on > businessweek* > They talked, among other things, about a boy who seemed to think > Internet was inside the XO-1, and I thought it could be a good idea to > have this boy's village or town in google maps so he could learn in a > simple glance where in the world he is, the size and proportions of his > hometown, his country and the world itself. > > This would help children assimilate better those concepts, as they have > as a starting point something they know very well, and they could see > what they are being taught. This would make also their imagination go > wild. As google is a member of the OLPC foundation, they could at least > integrate aerial photos easily if they're available. Governments could > use helicopters or airplanes to take those pics. > > There's no OpenGL yet in sugar, and the application (google earth) > relays heavily in internet traffic, but internet prices would eventually > be cheap and this could be useful to teach some concepts. It's just an > idea, I wanted to share it before I forget it, it happens to me > everytime. > > *http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_24/b4088048125608.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
