[Talk-ca] BC2020 and School Mappers

[John Whelan]

I hadn't thought about the programming side but C# certainly can be useful.

https://www.jatws.org/openstreetmap/openstreetmap.html

It needs visual studio 2017 but it has a sample program from which other 
programs looking for other things could be written.

I think that would be high school level though.

There has been some work in creating activities for schools in OSM but 
they would need chasing down.

Cheerio John

Jonathan Brown wrote on 2018-11-22 6:33 PM:
>
> Climate change planning would be good. That topic could be linked to 
> the UN sustainable development goals. Also, in Ontario there is a big 
> need to incorporate math skills into learning by doing (e.g., 
> http://www.barbareeduke.com/ccmath/mathactivities.htm (adapted for 
> OSM), or for postsecondary GIS and programming 
> <https://www.gislounge.com/learning-programming-for-gis/> for computer 
> science courses.
>
> At CivicTech Toronto Meetup last Tuesday someone pointed out David 
> MacKay’s book Sustainable Energy: Without Hot Air 
> https://withouthotair.com/
>
> Jonathan
>
> *From: *john whelan <mailto:jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Thursday, November 22, 2018 5:46 PM
> *To: *Jonathan Brown <mailto:jonabrow at gmail.com>
> *Cc: *Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <mailto:talk-ca at openstreetmap.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 and School Mappers
>
> So what do we need?
>
> A hook of some type to build on?
>
> An inventory of buildings for climate change planning?  I understand 
> in many cities some 80% of apartment buildings are forty years old now 
> and identifying them and upgrading them would help with climate change 
> emissions.  Unfortunately they tend to be privately owned and coaxing 
> landlords to invest money is not easy.
>
> An introduction to basic stats?
>
> I'm not a teacher but I'm sure we can sort something out.
>
> We do have a tasking manager that covers Canada so tiles can be set up 
> for a local area.
>
>
> I suggest an import first then something after that.
>
> Thoughts
>
> Thanks John
>
> On Thu, 22 Nov 2018, 5:22 pm Jonathan Brown <jonabrow at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jonabrow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     “Should we try to tailor the information on Building 2020 towards
>     inexperienced mappers to make it easier for schools etc to get
>     involved?”
>
>     Good idea, John. We need a process similar to HOT for local
>     beginners and maybe a way of connecting the mapping to a
>     sustainable development challenge in the community.
>
>     Jonathan
>
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