[HOT] Mapathons at Public Libraries

[Russell Deffner]

Oh, hey – I’ll take this off-list with Mike as I ‘put on my local organizer hat’ (for the HOT audience, sorry OSM-Colorado not Colombia :) and realize you’re asking about remote mapping, but think especially as we reach out more ‘publicly’ and get kids/families involved we need to look at more than just the remote humanitarian mapping.

=Russ

 

From: Russell Deffner [mailto:Russell.Deffner at hotosm.org] 
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 11:26 AM
To: 'Mike Thompson'; 'HOT'
Subject: RE: [HOT] Mapathons at Public Libraries

 

Hi Mike, great! We should definitely cross-promote on OSM-CO, hopefully I can make it. 

 

1) Yes, please invite families – some of our best mapathons (especially field mapping) have been so much better with kids involved – because they’re curious and aren’t afraid to ask the ‘simple’ questions :)

Note: The library might want to have a ‘permission slip’ for unaccompanied minors – and we should maybe suggest ‘high school’ age.

 

2) Yes, we (OSM-CO) have done a ‘mapping party’ in Evergreen where ‘the kids’ were using Pushpin and Field Papers and at the event at Castle Rock library we did a bit of training on GoMap!

 

Note: I’ve used OSMAND and Vespucci a bit, but mostly use iPhone myself; I’m sure we can find someone through OSM-CO who could provide training on Android apps.

 

=Russ

 

From: Mike Thompson [mailto:miketho16 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 11:17 AM
To: HOT
Subject: [HOT] Mapathons at Public Libraries

 

I am working on putting together a Humanitarian Mapathon at our local public library (Loveland, Colorado, US).  This will be an event sponsored by the library (we will not simply be using one of their meeting rooms) and as such they will be publicizing the event on their website and through their newsletters.  They do have a couple of questions:

 

1) Should they promote the event to "families" (e.g. young people accompanied by parents). What should be the minimum age a) for young people mapping independent of a parent, b) for young people mapping with a parent?

 

2) Can mapping be done on a tablet (e.g. iPad).  I know there are apps for this, but will the iD Editor work on tablets, and how difficult is it to do remote mapping on such a device? 

 

Mike

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