(Note: This post is more of a confession than a scientific article. Any factual, useful, researched information that you take away from it is purely accidental and should be viewed with a healthy skepticism.) I recently completed my tenth year as an instructor in front of a college classroom. I’ve taught at community colleges and…
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Teaching with OpenStreetMap – Bringing crowd-sourced mapping into the classroom
I doubt that anyone who wanders into this page is unaware of OpenStreetMap, the crowd-source mapping platform detailing the world’s locations since 2005. I’ve been using, studying, and most importantly, contributing to OpenStreetMap since 2010. As a platform, it hosts a tremendous amount of vector-based data about the world that has largely been created by…