I made my advanced GIS students use JOSM to update a familiar area. Some just added a few POIs, while others mapped all the trails in a local park. It's a good way to expose them to other data constructs than the ESRI separate point-line-polygon concept.
John > > Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 21:35:54 -0700 > From: Paul Johnson <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] How to get college students involved? > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:00:48 -0400, Stefan Brandle wrote: > >> I teach computer science at a university about half way between >> Indianapolis and Ft. Wayne. I would love to have someone show us how to >> get involved mapping precise data locally and submitting it to various >> online data sets, or working on software that is helpful to OSM and >> others. We have students who need senior projects, and also run the >> occasional special topics class. > > On my campus, I lead by example. Folks spotted me mapping the campus, > and it spread to the rest of the city from there. > http://osm.org/go/CICAoLV@ > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
