<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Geobucket sounds like it has a great approach to usability — and I especially like the idea of only doing the upload once you are on Kampala, so to speak.</div><div><br></div><div>But, how accurate is the trace?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers, </div><div>c</div><div><br></div>
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<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Reinier Battenberg wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sorry for the delay, we wanted to fix a last minute bug. But here is more news </div><div>from Uganda.</div><div><br></div><div>Here we go:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.geobucket.org">http://www.geobucket.org</a>/</div><div><br></div><div>twitter: @geobucket</div><div><br></div><div>github: <a href="https://github.com/davidebukali/geobucket">https://github.com/davidebukali/geobucket</a></div><div><br></div><div>And the Android app: </div><div><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.geo.bucket&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5nZW8uYnVja2V0Il0">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.geo.bucket&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5nZW8uYnVja2V0Il0</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>The idea of geobucket is very simple: people with GeoBucket installed, just </div><div>collect traces by pressing the Start button in the display. </div><div>When they are home, they press the Stop button.</div><div>Then, to upload the data, they press the Upload button.</div><div><br></div><div>That is all our target audience needs to do.</div><div><br></div><div>On the server, we put all these lines & dots on the map.</div><div><br></div><div>Once an area has a workable coverage, we need to find some people that feel </div><div>like tracing the lines into roads on OSM.</div><div><br></div><div>Hopefully, people who run GeoBucket, and people who like tracing, team up all </div><div>around the unmapped world and get things going using our tool.</div><div><br></div><div>For example, here in Uganda, the northeast has very limited coverage. This is </div><div>a very poor area, that can be dangerous sometimes. So there is not a lot of </div><div>mapping on the ground going to happen.</div><div>However, there are a lot of iNGO's in very big cars driving around the area. </div><div>The people in these cars are, on average, no geeks that love to use their very </div><div>limited bandwidth on their secured compounds for evenings of mapping.</div><div>We hope, they dont mind to run GeoBucket though, and when they are in Kampala, </div><div>press the upload button.</div><div><br></div><div>We'll take it from there.</div><div><br></div><div>And what we actually do, is store all uploads in a big PostGIS table, and then </div><div>render lines & dots from that table, using a Geoserver instance.</div><div><br></div><div>When you load our WMS layer in JOSM, you see all the uploads, and can use them </div><div>for tracing roads.</div><div><br></div><div>Being able to use the taskmanager, would be really helpful, later on.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope that explains a bit more of our intentions with GeoBucket. If you have </div><div>more questions, feel free to ask.</div><div>If you would like to lend a hand to David, who wrote the Android app, feel </div><div>free to fork.</div><div>And if you want some pointers of how we configured Drupal to do this, without </div><div>writing a single line of php, let me know too.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>rgds,</div><div><br></div><div>On behalf of the whole GeoBucket team,</div><div>Reinier</div><div><br></div><div>PS The idea is very similar to the work that Mikel did in Swaziland </div><div><a href="http://groundtruthinitiative.org/2011/10/03/what-to-do-with-10-million-gps-">http://groundtruthinitiative.org/2011/10/03/what-to-do-with-10-million-gps-</a></div><div>points/</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Monday 13 August 2012 15:02:02 Kate Chapman wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Hi Reinier,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not quite sure what the workflow would be with the Tasking</div><div>Manager. Can you explain a little bit more?</div><div><br></div><div>How will people know what the dots are through the WMS? Is this going</div><div>to be simple symbols?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>-Kate</div><div><br></div><div>On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Reinier Battenberg</div><div><br></div><div><<a href="mailto:reinier.battenberg@mountbatten.net">reinier.battenberg@mountbatten.net</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>We are very close to release a first beta version of our Geobucket Android</div><div>app into the wild.</div><div><br></div><div>The app allows anyone with an Android phone to just collect dots and have</div><div>them uplloaded to the Geobucket site.</div><div><br></div><div>We think there are a lot of people who do not mind to contribute their</div><div>dots, but do not have the time to do the actual mapping.</div><div><br></div><div>We hope people all over the world, especially in regions where satelite</div><div>imagery is not that good yet, will start collecting dots.</div><div><br></div><div>Individuals or small groups can use our WMS server & Josm to do the</div><div>tracing, but for bigger groups and bigger regions, we the task manager</div><div>would be a real handy tool.</div><div><br></div><div>Would it be ok for us to send people to HOT to request tasks to be set up,</div><div>based on Geobucket data. Even if that would mean regions where there is no</div><div>immenent Humanitarian issues?</div><div><br></div><div>(I do realize the taskmanager software is open and we could set up our</div><div>own. I would not mind doing that eventually, for the time being its not</div><div>within our limited resources.)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>rgds,</div><div><br></div><div>Reinier Battenberg</div><div>Director</div><div>Mountbatten Ltd.</div><div><a href="http://www.mountbatten.net">www.mountbatten.net</a></div><div>tel: +256 758 801749</div><div>twitter: @batje</div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>HOT mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org">HOT@openstreetmap.org</a></div><div><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot</a></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div>-- </div><div>rgds,</div><div><br></div><div>Reinier Battenberg</div><div>Director </div><div>Mountbatten Ltd.</div><div><a href="http://www.mountbatten.net">www.mountbatten.net</a></div><div>tel: +256 758 801749</div><div>twitter: @batje</div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>HOT mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:HOT@openstreetmap.org">HOT@openstreetmap.org</a></div><div><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot</a></div></div></div></span>
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