I think Matthew or James are the people to talk to. I suspect it might take them an hour or so which means there is an excellent chance of it being made available before March 29th.
Cheerio John On 8 Mar 2018 2:04 pm, "Jonathan Brown" <jonab...@gmail.com> wrote: > If we could clone the http://tasks.osmcanada.ca/project/91 so that it > could be used to tag information for existing buildings in the regions of > Durham, Northumberland and Niagara Falls, then that would be great. Can > that be done in time for March 29? > > Jonathan > > > > On 8 March 2018 at 10:40, Jonathan Brown <jonab...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 “Project Specific Notes” helpful: > https://tasks.hotosm.org/project/4234#bottom > > > > Could we not set up a similar project using the BC2020i framework so that > municipalities and regions could use OSM to track local use of buildings > for food security and other types of sustainable development projects? > > > > Splitting up the work for completion in a short period of time is exactly > what high school teachers and non-profit agencies in rural communities > need. The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs is > working on this kind of capacity building with rural communities and youth. > > > > Could the OSM Tasking Manager not be used to support those municipalities > that have limited GIS open data capacity to sustain this type of activity? > We want to have an OSM training session like the one you describe below in > the morning (2-5 to 3 hours) and then give teams a task to map where they > would be adding points of interest based on prior knowledge gathering > before the event. The prior knowledge would be related to information about > their school building that ties into information about municipal buildings > in the surrounding neighbourhoods. > > > > The combined information would allow them to visualize some aspect of > local land use. Rob will be able to demonstrate how Durham Region uses > spatial analysis for local planning purposes. In the follow-up event in the > fall we could bring these schools back for an event that demonstrates how > crowdsourcing and citizen science works at the local level. > > > > Jonathan > > > > *From: *Matthew Darwin <matt...@mdarwin.ca> > *Sent: *Wednesday, March 7, 2018 11:19 PM > *To: *Jonathan Brown <jonab...@gmail.com>; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > *Subject: *Re: [Talk-ca] Emergency Request for Tasking Manager Trainer > > > > [prune CC list so this gets posted to the list] > > Hi Jonathan, > > I'm probably missing something, but you don't link training videos from > the tasking manager. The tasking manager is about splitting up some > pre-defined mapping jobs (eg trace outline of building from bing satellite > image), into small chunks that people can finish in a short amount of > time. So people don't work on things other people are already working on. > > If people are adding what they already know, then you don't need a tasking > manager. People just go ahead and add it, if it is not already there > (checking if it is already there is important so we don't get duplicate > things). Presumably beginners are only going to add one thing at a time in > ID editor, and they're all in the same room, so scope for conflict is small > (easily solved with everyone announcing what they are doing before starting > it). > > For your session later this month, it sounds to me like you want someone > to > > - introduce the topic of mapping in OSM > - introduce the ID editor > - go through some samples of things to be added > - then everybody get on their laptop and start trying to edit things, > with the leader checking what is going on > > (this is how my introductory session went last April when I joined a > meetup group in Ottawa) > > The task manager is not needed in this scenario. > > But please correct me if I totally missed your point. > > On 2018-03-07 08:55 AM, Jonathan Brown wrote: > > We want to run the mapathon by setting up a task in the Tasking Manager > with links to the OSMLearning video tutorials and use cases for the > instruction section. We want to make the task as simple as possible (e.g., > adding points of interest based on participants’ local knowledge augmented > with information from social services and NGOs who will be participating). > > > > The goal is to have the participants apply OSM morning training to a > problem solving task in the afternoon, similar to what Sterling Quinn did > for the Philly Fresh Food Mapathon: http://2017.phillytechweek. > com/events/philly_mapathon > > > > We would need to add tasks to the OSM Tasking Manager that encompass the > school boards and schools within the geography to be mapped - Durham > Region, Niagara Region, Northumberland County, and Greater Peterborough > area. For March 29 the priority is for Durham Region and Northumberland > County. > > > > We are looking for a train-the-trainer model for 8-10 facilitators > (teachers, senior secondary and postsecondary students) that can be > repurposed for other mapathon events this spring and fall. > > > > There will be a follow-up event in the early fall. We are exploring ways > to build this type of mapathon event into the workflows of the educational > and local planning structures and processes at the municipal and regional > level. Alessandro and his colleagues at the TB Open Data branch are well > aware of what we are trying to do. > > > > Jonathan > > > > *From: *Matthew Darwin <matt...@mdarwin.ca> > *Sent: *Tuesday, March 6, 2018 9:06 PM > *To: *Jonathan Brown <jonab...@gmail.com>; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > *Cc: *Brock Baker <brock_ba...@kprdsb.ca> <brock_ba...@kprdsb.ca> > *Subject: *Re: [Talk-ca] Emergency Request for Tasking Manager Trainer > > > > Hi Jonathan, > > Are you trying to set up the tasking manager, or you just want to add a > project to the existing tasking manager http://tasks.osmcanada.ca/? If > you describe the details of what you're trying to accomplish (look at > existing tasks), then someone can probably add a task for you. > > Or do you want to know how to run a mapathon using the task manager? > > Or? > > A bit more details of what you're trying to do would be helpful... > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > > > >
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