[Talk-ca] BC2020i and Mapathons with High Schools

[Clifford Snow]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 8:30 PM, keith hartley <keith.a.hartley at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I work with a GIS users group in Manitoba (MGUG.ca) and we were talking
> about how to use OSM as a learning tool for high school students as well.
> From our education sub-committee we discussed that building footprints or
> adding roads doesn't add to what the provincial high school geo subject
> curriculum needs. One suggestion was rather then adding new data and
> supervising edits, we can augment the map to be more detailed. (better
> trails, active transport, or building accessibility for disabled people)
>
> One example  would be addressing mobility and accessibility around the
> school. If we could get a few high schools within an area to participate,
> we could could add buildings that are accessible via ramps ect, or maybe
> signaled crosswalks. That information could show the students issues that
> vision impaired, or mobility restricted people face, while at the same time
> improving the map. (similar to wheel map https://wheelmap.org)
>
> Keith,
I've been working with a team at the University of Washington on access
mapping for people with limited mobility. They have a website,
opensidewalks.com, that explains their goals and how they plan to
accomplish the work. Your suggestion of starting with the school and areas
around it are how we started. The City of Seattle has sidewalk data but not
for the university's campus. We manually mapped the campus, which has a
surprisingly high number of stairs. The same process should work just as
well at high schools.

Let me know if I can provide any information not already included in the
opensidewalks website.

Clifford


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