This would be a great internship for a CS / Geography student with an interest in OSM and community. If you know someone who might be interested, please forward this announcement to them!
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Haklay, Muki <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 7:41 AM Subject: [GEOTHINK] 6-month secondment/internship on Volunteered Geographic Information: impact of imports on OpenStreetMap To: [email protected] 6-month secondment/internship on Volunteered Geographic Information Please distribute this announcement – or to a person that might be interested Many thanks Muki Haklay Location: Shared between the University College of London (UK) and Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada) Start date: September 2014. Funding will cover travel costs to Canada and a scholarship (amount will depend on candidate’s education and experience). The study intends to better understand the impact of mass imports on OSM contributors' motivation in different cultural contexts. Through an analysis of the OpenStreetMap (OSM) database, the candidate will explore the characteristics and impacts of mass data imports into OSM for different geographic locations in Europe and North America. The successful candidate will possess a background in Geography, Computer Sciences or equivalent, with the ability to program, manipulate databases (e.g. PostGIS), and be ideally familiar with OpenStreetMap. The candidate will spend four months at Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada) and two months at the University College London (UK) in collaboration with an ongoing European COST ENERGIC network (see www.vgibox.eu). Interested candidates should email a resume, a copy of their transcripts and a short cover letter outlining their interests in the project to Dr Rodolphe Devillers ([email protected]) by Aug 4th. -- Martijn van Exel http://oegeo.wordpress.com/ http://openstreetmap.us/ _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
