Experimental project with OSM AND WD

would like to introduce OSM and Wikidata for the High School students ( Grade 7-10 ) (Ages 12 - 18) in UAE.

Let me know your valuable suggestions / ideas / opinion to improve this activity.

My plan is as follows. Students will be asked to open the following link. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiShootMe

Find out the places near their home / landmarks / any other things which is not included in OSM / Wikidata. Create item in Wikidata.

Next day, upload images of such WD items So, i think there will be contributions from students side in both OSM & WD .

This plan has few limitations now which i observed. Which are following.
How to identify the places which are not included in OSM / WD ?



My learning objectives are as follows..

Students will be able to find out the Latitudes & longitude of their location.

2- Able to calculate the distance from their locations to Tropic of Cancers/ tropic of Capricorn

3- Able to mark & label landmarks of their near living places.

4- Able to find out landmark ( near their Home), which are not included in wikidata & osm And create items for them.

Duration of the time : 2 days

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5/1/20
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> Akbarali Charankav

> My learning objectives are as follows.. Students will be able to find out the Latitudes & longitude of their location. 2- Able

Maybe then SPARQL is to much if you have to start at teaching the concept of spherical coordinate systems. Maybe finding missing addresses with StreetComplete and add photos of heritage listed buildings to Wikimedia Commons and (linking to those from Wikidata and linking Wikidata from OpenStreetMap?) might be two things from which students could understand OpenStreetMap and start valuing and appriciating those open geo data it provides. I think most import besides being able to do those things is to understand why it matters and to whom and how they may benefit from it.
Maybe at the end add a review of how different OSM based tools start to display/route/function differently due to your students influences. As a student I would appreciate that part.
Either way: Hope you will be successful with your course and goals. The work a teacher puts into those is always – in my experience – underappreciated.