[Talk-ca] BC2020 and School Mappers

[Jonathan Brown]

Alessandro had some engineering profs from the University of Rome working with a local high school for testing the mobile app used for BC2020. 

Here’s a Comenius program for Life Long Learning of the European Union EU. The official title of the project is: "To boost local and international tourism with OpenStreetMap". The project's acronym is: "BoostOSM" https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Life_Long_Learning_Mapping_Project 

Jonathan

From: John Whelan
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2018 7:08 PM
To: Jonathan Brown
Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap
Subject: Re: BC2020 and School Mappers

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 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
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2018 5:46 PM
To: Jonathan Brown
Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap
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 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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