Wow, this is really amazing and so useful! My one regret is that I had to give up my
Android phone for an iPhone just last month -- long story, not relevant. Is there any
other way to access data like this? The examples you've shared here are helpful to
me, any way I can get one for the North Shore/Merrimack Valley area?
Elizabeth Thomsen
Pursuits:
http://www.ethomsen.com/
Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ethomsen/
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From: John Phelan <faolin42(a)ymail.com>
To: Teresa Cordova <teresa.cordova72(a)gmail.com>om>; Gabriel Fishman
<gabriel.fishman(a)gmail.com>
Cc: David Sindel <dsindel(a)bu.edu>du>; Boston Wikimedians
<wikimedia-boston(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 2, 2014 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-boston] school service project
If you're interested in photographing places, I wrote an Android app that finds places
that need photographs and plans a trip to visit them. You can enter any location in the
world, and even search Wikipedia's in other languages. I think you mentioned
Spanish.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Unvisited_app
free on the play store...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mim1999.unvisited&hl=…
Here's some quick results around Boston, Lexington and Norwood...
On a 20 mile drive, it came up with 10 places near Lexington...
Link to a trip starting at Beacon High School (Watertown, Massachusetts) - 10 places -
18.7 miles
https://maps.google.com/maps? saddr=42.3937,-71.1911&daddr=
42.3815,-71.1915+to:42.3846,- 71.2139+to:42.37,-71.2+to:42. 3651,-71.2091+to:42.3621,-71.
2435+to:42.3669,-71.2561+to: 42.3665,-71.2586+to:42.3675,- 71.2776+to:42.4031,-71.2234+
to:42.3937,-71.1911&view=map& dirflg=w
Arlington School - middle school
Beacon High School (Watertown, Massachusetts) - middle school
Waltham Land Trust - land trust
Bemis (Watertown, Massachusetts) - neighborhood
John A. Ryan Arena - indoor arena
Boathouse Group - advertising agency
The Castle (Waltham, Massachusetts) - historic castle
Brandeis University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences - graduate school
Gifford School - school
North Waltham, Massachusetts - neighborhood
On a 20 mile drive, it came up with 8 places near Norwood...
Link to a trip starting at Ursuline Academy (Dedham, Massachusetts) - 8 places - 17.0
miles
https://maps.google.com/maps? saddr=42.26,-71.2087&daddr=42.
2169,-71.2169+to:42.1838,-71. 2141+to:42.189,-71.2017+to:42. 1944,-71.2006+to:42.2147,-71.
1967+to:42.245,-71.1842+to:42. 2539,-71.1913+to:42.26,-71. 2087&view=map&dirflg=w
Norfolk County Correctional Center - prison
Westwood High School (Massachusetts) - high school
Oak View, Norwood, Massachusetts - house
Norwood Hospital - hospital
St. Peter Parish, Norwood - roman catholic parish
Xaverian Brothers High School - boys' school
Ursuline Academy (Dedham, Massachusetts) - girls' school
Endicott House - house
On a 6 mile walk, it came up with 13 places around Boston...
Link to a trip starting at Globe Theatre, Boston (1871) - 13 places - 5.7 miles
https://maps.google.com/maps? saddr=42.3515,-71.0628&daddr=
42.3529,-71.0626+to:42.3495,- 71.0619+to:42.3518,-71.0575+ to:42.3534,-71.058+to:42.3566,
-71.057+to:42.359,-71.0565+to: 42.3652,-71.0631+to:42.3672,- 71.0662+to:42.3689,-71.0719+
to:42.3678,-71.0742+to:42. 3625,-71.0792+to:42.3561,-71.
0741+to:42.3515,-71.0628&view= map&dirflg=w
Combat Zone, Boston - neighborhood
Globe Theatre, Boston (1871) - burned theatre
Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy - educational
institution
Green Restaurant Certification - restaurant
New South Church (Boston, Massachusetts) - disestablished chapel
One Federal Street - skyscraper
60 State Street - skyscraper
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Federal Building - government building
Nashua Street
Jail - prison
North Point Park (Cambridge, Massachusetts) - visitor attraction
Luna (tugboat) - historic tugboat
Broad Canal - canal
Fisher College - university
On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 11:14 AM, Teresa Cordova <teresa.cordova72(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Gabriel,
I haven't heard back from the Social Studies teachers at school, and I'm wondering
if you'd like me to put your list on the Lexington, MA parents' listserve.
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Gabriel Fishman <gabriel.fishman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have a short list of Boston articles that need photos - primarily mid-late 20th Century
history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GabrielF/NeededPhotos
One idea might be to take kids to the Boston City Archives or the BPL to scan and upload
photos. The Boston City Archives has agreed to put their photos in the public domain so
they can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:22 AM, David Sindel <dsindel(a)bu.edu> wrote:
In short: all of them. Bits and pieces here and there are up to par, but really
there's just not enough editors (particularly those with experience referencing,
formatting, obtaining free-use images, etc) thus far to make everything high quality. A
lot of the articles are patchwork with varying styles and quality.
>
>
>I've been working on MBTA and related articles for about the past 2 years.
I've made progress on a number of articles, and I'm currently preparing to blitz
the high-priority articles (those about each line, downtown transfer stations, etc) fairly
soon. If there's a couple who have any interest in working with railroad / transit
history, I'd be glad to help them.
>
>
>
>On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Teresa Cordova <teresa.cordova72(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>Hi there,
>>
>>
>>Thanks, sounds great. How do we find out which neighborhoods or which periods of
local history are in particular need of more research?
>>
>>
>>
>>On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Kevin Rutherford <Ktr101(a)hotmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>>Hey all,
>>>
>>>I would love to help out with this, as I know people in the Boston area who
could help with rail articles, and I can help out with general history, although
I specialize more in modern military history around the city.
>>>
>>>Kevin
>>>From: Pharos
>>>Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 1:32 AM
>>>To: Teresa Cordova
>>>Cc: Boston Wikimedians
>>>Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-boston] school service
project
>>> It could be fun to have students working
on articles covering Boston
neighborhoods and local
history.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Richard
>>>(User:Pharos)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Teresa Cordova
<teresa.cordova72(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>We're doing service projects at school, and I would love to include
Wikimedia in it. Any ideas?
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