[Talk-ca] BC2020 and School Mappers

[John Whelan]

http://teachosm.org/en/

Might be of some use.

Cheerio John

Jonathan Brown wrote on 2018-11-22 7:45 PM:
>
> 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 aComenius 
> <http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/llp/structure/comenius_en.html>program 
> for Life Long Learning 
> <http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-programme/doc78_en.htm>of 
> the European Union <http://europa.eu/index_en.htm>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 <mailto:jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Thursday, November 22, 2018 7:08 PM
> *To: *Jonathan Brown <mailto:jonabrow at gmail.com>
> *Cc: *Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <mailto:talk-ca at openstreetmap.org>
> *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
>     <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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