This talk provides a brief overview of introducing cartography students at Frostburg State University to OpenStreetMap since 2019. Attention is paid to rationale, initial lesson plans, student impressions, and future directions. A warm reception by students has the potential to mitigate Western Maryland’s OSM deficiencies as well as provide students that struggle with more technical lab exercises an inroad to mapping that resonates with them.
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Critigen’s OSM team developed the Map Quality Measurement (MQM) process to rate and rank the quality of OSM data in cities throughout the USA. In 2019 we analyzed roads data for 51...
