[HOT] Mapathons at Public Libraries

[Steven Johnson]

Mike,

Happy to see more mappers making use of public libraries and good on your
library for sponsoring the event. Mapathons are a great compliment to the
library makerspaces, have good mapathon infrastructure, and good staff
support.

I'm a strong advocate of bringing your kids. It teaches them at a young age
the lifelong skill of how to read the landscape. Bring your parents, too.

There is no minimum age, per se. IIRC Courtney Clark/Peace Corps (cc'ed
here) has some metrics around mapping productivity of differing age groups.
While grade school children may not be as digitally adept as older kids,
but they're still old enough to use a FieldPaper to do a bit of field work
& sketch a map. Have fun.

Leaving it for others to weigh in on tablets, pro/con.

-- SEJ
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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