[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap in schools

[Matthias Meißer]

Hi Sam,

this is something great :) A teacher near my city invited me to his 
school, too. They will do some OSM mapping in a week for school projects 
and he likes if somebody from 'the real world' would give a session to 
the pupils ;)

But there are are lot of people that do stuff like that
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Education

bye
Matthias

Am 18.11.2011 10:59, schrieb Sam Larsen:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently made a visit to a school as part of the Royal Geographic Society (UK)
> Geography Ambassadors scheme where i spoke to kids (15/16 yr olds) about
> geography in the real world.  We then had an OSM editing session which was surprisingly
> successful.  The kids were really interested in the concept of
> 'participation in real-world geography'.  I'm not trying to indoctrinate
> youths into OSM, just showing them how easy it now is to participate in making
> maps compared to when i was at school.  On the whole it was a very
> positive experience with many valid edits made.
>
> You can check out the session editing highlights and some lessons for newbie
> editing in Potlatch2 here:
> http://geoxchange.esriuk.com/journal/2011/11/17/the-next-geographers.html
>
> Sam Larsen
>
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