Hello everyone! I am Julia Conzon, username Noznoc. I am currently *interning* at Mapbox until the end of November.
My involvement in BC2020 came from my past work at Statistics Canada on the Crowdsourcing project and my interest in VGI. *I am not a representative for Mapbox (Mapbox is only supporting me)*. Organizing these mapathons have been a great experience because I have witnessed academics and students across Canada interested in being educated on OSM and contributing to the OSM project through BC2020. Several universities intend on continuing mapathons. I have just finished developing a visualization <https://noznoc.github.io/bc2020-osmgeoweek2017/#4/54.32/-99.93> that showcases the results from the mapathon (data collected between Nov. 10-20). To learn more about the visualization, I recommend reading the README.md file in the GitHub repo <https://github.com/Noznoc/bc2020-osmgeoweek2017>. >From what Pierre's email states, I guess the validation work flow panned out from OSMGeoWeek does not follow the normal script that has been done in the past, *but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist*. The universities are aware of validation, and have the intentions to work on it; however, since involvement is volunteered-based, people have other priorities, so validation will not occur immediately. My visualization is developed in a way to support validation efforts, and I have started documenting validation methods here <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Building_Canada_2020/OSMGeoWeek2017#Validation> (*feel free to add to the wiki*). >From my time at Mapbox I have learned methods for validating data, and developing front-end apps to easily see and fix errors. I would love to collaborate with any other individuals interested in developing these tools for BC2020. This would be on my own time, this is not a part of my job, it is part of my hobby. Regards, Julia On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 5:19 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > >BC2020 *is not a StatCan project*. > > That comment came from Bjenk's old boss. > > I note that Pierre has identified some data quality issues from maperthons > that appear to be associated with this. > > Is anyone organising this or is it just a dream in the air? > > In Ottawa we got some high quality mapping out of the initial Stats Canada > project which is good. > > The issue on the low quality mapping by mappers who will map once then > disappear is what if anything should be done about the less than ideal > mapping left behind? > > Traditionally its been suggested that is it best corrected but it takes > longer to correct than to delete and remap. > > It doesn't seem to be easy to handle at a local level. There is too much > just dropped on one spot at once. > > One mapper made a comment to me on this type of mapping in Africa just > delete this junk. I have some sympathy with this point of view. > > Thoughts if any > > Thanks John > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > >
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