https://github.com/rrwen/geothink-ottawild

Webmap prototype for Geothink Summer Institute 2015
https://github.com/rrwen/geothink-ottawild

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Webmap prototype for Geothink Summer Institute 2015

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rrwen/geothink-ottawild
• Owner: rrwen
• License: mit
• Created: 2015-06-18T01:17:25.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: gh-pages
• Last Pushed: 2017-04-04T05:12:51.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-08T21:11:19.466Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: city, crowd, data, experience, geo, geothink, institute, map, million, natural, open, ottawa, proposal, prototype, site, source, summer, web, wild
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: http://rrwen.github.io/geothink-ottawild/
• Size: 3.48 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# One Million Ottawild Experiences

A prototype crowdsourcing website submitted to the [City of Ottawa](http://ottawa.ca/en) that won first place in the 2015 [Geothink Summer Institute](http://summerinstitute.geothink.ca/) competition (June 15-17).

* **[Geothink blog post](http://geothink.ca/city-of-ottawa-selects-winner-out-of-seven-student-designed-crowdsourcing-applications-geothink-summer-institute-day-3/)**

* **[Prototype Website](http://rrwen.github.io/geothink-ottawild/)**

* **[Proposal Presentation](https://drive.google.com/a/ryerson.ca/file/d/0B0Y-aJ_lG1qMU1FUcVdOaVFpZnc/view)**

  

# Purpose 



The purpose of Ottawild is to increase awareness of the City’s natural areas among residents and visitors to make nature a part of Ottawa’s identity and positive reputation.

- City of Ottawa



One Million Ottawild Experiences seeks to fulfill this purpose by:

* Creating conversation about Ottawa's natural areas 

* Providing easy to find information about natural areas 

* Increasing knowledge about natural areas through crowdsourced discovery and sharing. 

 

_Parks data provided by [OpenData Ottawa](http://data.ottawa.ca/en)_ 

 

# Team:

* **Website/Developer:** Richard Wen ([email protected])

* **Wireframing:** Samantha Bigs, Paulina Marczak 

* **Presentation:** Mark Gill 

* **Legal:** Cheryl Power