Hi everyone,
I brought up a few issues surrounding Indigenous engagement at the
meeting in July.
There still remains no engagement with Indigenous communities
whatsoever. It is pertinent that if you want to involve the
Indigenous demographic that an Indigenous Working Group be
established to develop, plan, and engage with communities in the
spirit of truth and reconciliqtion, especially in light of the
recent TRC.
The 2018 Indigenous Mapping Workshop will be hosted in Montreal. It
might provide a good venue to truly get the conversation/movement
going forward.
Our tech partners, Google, Esri Canada, and Mapbox, are working with
us to develop geospatial capacity building within communities;
therefore, it could be a good opportunity to bridge efforts with the
100+ communities that will attend the event.
Feel free to reach out to me if there is interest in any partnership
with our programming in Montreal, QC.
Thanks!
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018, 14:04 Jonathan Brown, <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I’m a newbie to the wiki and OSM mapathon process. I’m
interested in connecting the open data to the OSM and wiki
process that can be used by K-12 and postsecondary students to
support municipal and regional planning and implementation of
sustainable development goals. Alessandro pointed to the Philly
Fresh Food Mapper as a good example of using OSM to address the
challenge of food security at the local level:
https://www.geovista.psu.edu/phillyfood/
The question is how to sustain these projects once the students
have graduated. I have cced Steve Quinn who provided the GIS/OSM
expertise for that crowdsourcing/citizen science project. He is
still active in organizing mapathon events on Twitter:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:SterlingGIS
I have been asked for simple guides that can be used be teachers
that they can incorporate into their lesson plans and that align
with the strategic goals of the K-12 education system they work
within. It would be very helpful if the education wiki included
posters that could be shared with principals, teachers and
community NGO agencies partnering on an event that uses the
BC2020i framework.
Here is an example of how a working team at Brock University put
together resources for a high school data management
prerequisite course:
https://brocku.ca/cmt/mdm4u/asprojects/index.html. I noticed
that the working group did a call out to Joel Yan, Statistics
Canada, for the work he did on making Canadian data available;
and to Stephen Brown, Professor of Statistics at Waterloo, for
his suggestions on restructuring each activity. Professor Andrew
Skelton has taken it one step further by including spatial
analysis with his MDM4U Open Data project in collaboration with
his GIS colleagues: https://mathstat.uoguelph.ca/outreach/opendata
It would be good to see how Josée-Anne Langlois work in the
north with open source mapping tools like GGIS and OSM (see
below) could be combined with open data from the provincial and
federal open data catalogues to create a community profile that
is accessible and engaging for community partners.
Jonathan
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*Subject: *Re: Building Canada 2020 (BC2020i) - update Dec 20, 2017
Would love to discuss what's next soon. Anyone want to take the
lead on setting up a time to sync up?
On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 11:45 PM, Matthew Darwin
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone have updates other than the great update from
Alessandro? In addition to using the CA-Talk mailing list,
I would suggest adding updates to the wiki page.
Matthew Darwin
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
http://www.mdarwin.ca
On 2017-12-21 01:51 PM, Mikel Maron wrote:
Thank you Alessandro for the full update and congrats to
all for the great start. Excited to see what's coming in
2018.
My suggestion for communication and coordination is to
use OSM forums as much as feasible.
* Post this update as an OpenStreetMap Diary
http://www.openstreetmap.org/diary
* Share a link to the update, and everyone subscribe and
undertake discussion on the talk-ca mailing list
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
* If there are topics which can't be discussed
completely openly, let's also have another mailing list
with the group on this email.
Yes, it's a little rough on the lists some times, but
the volume is low, and the transparency and
accessibility will be a big boost to the project.
-Mikel
On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 12:39 PM, Alasia, Alessandro
(STATCAN) <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Dear all,
It is just over three months since the *Building
Canada 2020* workshop took place and the initiative
was launched, as such, I thought I would provide an
update on what has occurred on our end. My first
comment is that I am impressed by the amount of work
that has been done and the ideas that have been
generated and shared (and we are only at “month
3”!). About 50,000 buildings polygons were added to
the OSM map of Canada since we met.
Two more general comments (before providing more
details on specific project/activities):
1.*Communication:*A lot of work has been done on the
*project’s wiki page* (and I think a lot more is
upcoming!). Have a look and feel free to edit/add or
suggest content. For the purpose of communications,
it is important and useful to keep a record of all
developments, resources, and initiatives on this
page. Now would be a good opportunity to update the
contact list (at least with reference to your
institution). *Have a look at the amazing work that
is done in Canada and internationally with building
data on OSM and other open data!! - *Wiki page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Building_Canada_2020
2.*Governance and coordination*: Hopefully, much of
the projects/activities are self-governing but some
coordination and communication mechanism is needed.
I can provide periodic email updates, but I think it
would be more ideal for all if a more effective
communication mechanism is found (simple, open,
inclusive). My questions on this matter:
a.Any suggestion? (Google discussion group? Or
something else very simple and open?)
b.*Anybody who wants to take the lead on this?*A
grad student from some of the universities could do
a fantastic work on this, I am sure J
Below are more details on specific projects and
activities that took place, are starting, or are
upcoming. Having a mechanism that enhances our
communication and coordination on these activities
would be fantastic.
A final note from me: A special *thanks to Tim
Elrick*, who in a nice presentation (see link below)
on this initiative suggested the tag “*BC2020i*”,
with an “i” for “initiative” (instead of “BC2020”).
I took the liberty to adopt it in this email (and
for the future J!). This is a small but significant
improvement as the tag BC2020 is associated with
other entities.
*New projects and initiatives*
·*OSMGeoWeek Mapathons*: Much content was added to
OSM during GeoWeek thanks to the remarkable work
done by nearly 200 mappers/researchers/academics in
several universities/colleges across Canada, and to
the coordination and support provided by Julia
Conzon (see links to the resources/results,
including validation tool, on the project’s Wiki
page). Hopefully this effort will continue. There
are other mapathons currently under discussion, thus
continuing some coordination on this would be fantastic.
·*NRCan is working on a methodology to extract
building footprints, including topographic elevation
and height attributes, from LiDAR:*The objective of
this work is to have a production system implemented
by March 2018 and to provide this new Product on
Open Maps Canada (i.e., importing to OSM should be
possible!). The areas covered are those for which
Open Data LiDAR coverage is currently available
(see: http://open.canada.ca/en/open-maps). The
contact person for this project is Pierre Gravel
(NRCan/RNCan): [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
·*NRCan has initiated a project on collaborative
mapping of buildings in the North:*This project will
be implemented with open source mapping tools
developed during the StatCan crowdsourcing pilot
project. The contact person for this project is
Josée-Anne Langlois ([email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>)
·*A group in the Niagara Region is now active in
bringing BC2020i to high schools*: Summary of the
initiative - “*Open Data in Education: What Problem
Do You Want to Solve?”* The primary goal is to
leverage *open source resources and digital tools*
to create opportunities for students to solve
real-world problems. A secondary goal is to
stimulate students to think critically about the
potential impact of digital infrastructure on
remote, rural and urban communities. Through
experiential learning outside the classroom,
students will use mobile devises to map and analyze
real-time data combined with open data from
government catalogues to address a municipal and/or
regional policy challenge (e.g., climate change,
poverty reduction (affordable housing/mental
health/education) and adapting to automation in the
new economy). The contact person is Johnathan Brown:
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
·*DEIL at StatCan*: We are discussing internally a
*Crowdsourcing Phase II project*, which we hope to
start in the coming fiscal. We are looking at
options to improving monitoring tools (and
discussing with HOT developers of OSM Analytics
about how to improve and increase geometries for
standard geographies of Canada on that tool). We are
*exploring* *QGIS tools (and other open source
tools)* and would be very interested in doing
collaborative work with anybody interested
developing**open source data processing or
analytical tools for OSM data on buildings. Finally,
we are discussing use of *OSM tools/data with
colleagues at the OECD *(Secretariat and delegates
from different countries), for international
comparative housing statistics analysis on global
open data platforms. The contacts for DEIL are Jean
Le Moullec and myself: [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>,
[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
*Presentations *(Please share your presentation on
BC2020i …. the initiative and all the material on
the wiki page is yours to present!)
·Jean Le Moullec, presented at McGill for OSMGeoWeek
(ppt available from Jean)
·Tim Elrick, Geographic Information Centre (GIC),
McGill (presentation available at:
https://www.slideshare.net/Geomatique2009/tim-elrick-mcgill-gic-creating-open-data-the-building-canada-2020-initiative)
·Jonathan Brown presented BC2020i at Niagara Region
workshop (and is presenting at several other
regional meetings).
·Upcoming: Alessandro Alasia will present BC2020i
(via teleconference) at FOSS4G-IT 2018, as the
Italian OSM community seems to follow BC2020i with
interest.
*Conclusions:*This is amazing work! And who knows,
there might be some major breakthrough that will get
all buildings across Canada mapped on OSM by 2019 J!
Innovation happens when setting “unrealistic” goals!
Again, I would like to encourage everyone to take
some time to think on ways to improve communication
and coordination, so that the flow of information
for ongoing and upcoming initiatives is not delayed
in any way. If you have a solution, please bring it
forward and implement it.
Have a Great Holiday Season,
Alessandro and DEIL Team
PS. I hope I did not miss anybody from the
distribution list. Please share with your network
and interested people. Thanks.
Alessandro Alasia
Chief | Chef
Data Exploration and Integration Lab (DEIL) | Lab
pour l’exploration et l’intégration de données (LEID)
Center for Special Business Projects | Centre des
Projets Spéciaux sur les entreprises
Statistics Canada | Statistique Canada
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