[HOT] Geobucket

[Kate Chapman]

Hi Reinier,

I'm not quite sure what the workflow would be with the Tasking
Manager. Can you explain a little bit more?

How will people know what the dots are through the WMS? Is this going
to be simple symbols?

Thanks,

-Kate

On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Reinier Battenberg
<reinier.battenberg at mountbatten.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are very close to release a first beta version of our Geobucket Android app
> into the wild.
>
> The app allows anyone with an Android phone to just collect dots and have them
> uplloaded to the Geobucket site.
>
> We think there are a lot of people who do not mind to contribute their dots,
> but do not have the time to do the actual mapping.
>
> We hope people all over the world, especially in regions where satelite
> imagery is not that good yet, will start collecting dots.
>
> Individuals or small groups can use our WMS server & Josm to do the tracing,
> but for bigger groups and bigger regions, we the task manager would be a real
> handy tool.
>
> Would it be ok for us to send people to HOT to request tasks to be set up,
> based on Geobucket data. Even if that would mean regions where there is no
> immenent Humanitarian issues?
>
> (I do realize the taskmanager software is open and we could set up our own. I
> would not mind doing that eventually, for the time being its not within our
> limited resources.)
>
>
> --
> rgds,
>
> Reinier Battenberg
> Director
> Mountbatten Ltd.
> www.mountbatten.net
> tel: +256 758 801749
> twitter: @batje
>
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