[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap in schools

[Mike Dupont]

That is great, we have also been working with young people in kosovo
and have found some very talented editors,
We have dont presentations in schools etc.

you can see for examples some great work done by altin recently
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.64825&lon=21.14383&zoom=17&layers=M

mike

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Sam Larsen <samlarsen1 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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