Abstract:

The gradual insertion of information extraction on users, successive treatment of Big Data, the incorporation of citizen sciences and the collaborative system in teaching, in parallel with the development of IOT technologies, is setting the new frontier of the next stages of development, in particular in the sphere called smart cities.

Local development and participatory cartography are an experience with a high impact on protection of cultural heritage and the environment, creating participation modalities that can make sustainability and educational actions coexist with services of interest for the tourist and for sustainable development of cultural and landscape heritage.
The re-appropriation of open local data to promote local development thus becomes a polyhedral strategy of interest in the field of research.

This paper is dealing with traceability of participatory mapping within the Up2U ecosystem.
We prepared a program of "flipped classroom", project-based learning and gave to each group of students the proposal of making a geo-referencing activity aimed at producing the cartography for a new walking path. The goal was to establish an automatic metrics for assessing knowledge and competence acquisition about mapping, cartography, georeferencing of resources, roads, walking tracks and pedestrial paths.

Then we collected activity tracks for each group in their open-air activity and processed data from the analytics dashboard in Up2U searching relations between the free activity executed by groups of students matching it against the assessment of a comprehension test that was given to the students after the submission of the digital cartography artefact.

That was made possible by the "soft" integration of a platform of Open Mapping software (based on OSM) and the Up2U ecosystem, especially allowing interactions between Learning Locker, CommonSpaces, OSM and Moodle.

Results showed interesting correlation between the level of open-air activity and the level of assessment reached by each group member.
We drawed conclusions usefull not only for the given domain of knowledge, cartography and geography, sustainable developments but also for other subjects that encompass open-air activities like in this case.

Keywords:

Citizen sciences, IOT technologies, e-learning, cartography, landscape heritage, cultural heritage, sustainable development.