[Talk-us] Edits near Lexington, KY?

[stevea]

Professor Manduchi at University of California (this time of year, 
actually) asks students to enter data into OSM around Santa Cruz. 
His class is Computer Engineering 80A, "Universal Access: Disability, 
Technology, and Society."  His students make many important mobility, 
disabled access and public transport contributions (crossing types 
and locations, tactile_paving, bus_stops, et cetera).  This is 
mentioned in Santa Cruz County's wiki entry.

While over the past few years there have been edits which were messy 
(I and others have cleaned them up, as have, often times, both the 
original student authors and the professor himself) the professor 
emailed me that he is including a new quality assurance component to 
data entry this year.  I agree with Serge that high value / high 
quality data is the goal to be achieved with OSM in education.  The 
community component is important too, but Quality is Job 1.

Off-list I will contact the professor (we have a years-long 
collaborative relationship with OSM) and mention this thread and some 
of the more academic flavored pointers he might study to incorporate 
known and helpful tips in his student's workflow.  The more of these 
we do, the better will become student contributions to OSM.

SteveA
California