[HOT] Geobucket

[Chris Blow]

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.

But, how accurate is the trace?

Cheers,  
c




On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Reinier Battenberg wrote:

> Hi,
>  
>  
> Sorry for the delay, we wanted to fix a last minute bug. But here is more news  
> from Uganda.
>  
> Here we go:
>  
> http://www.geobucket.org/
>  
> twitter: @geobucket
>  
> github: https://github.com/davidebukali/geobucket
>  
> And the Android app:  
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.geo.bucket&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5nZW8uYnVja2V0Il0.
>  
> The idea of geobucket is very simple: people with GeoBucket installed, just  
> collect traces by pressing the Start button in the display.  
> When they are home, they press the Stop button.
> Then, to upload the data, they press the Upload button.
>  
> That is all our target audience needs to do.
>  
> On the server, we put all these lines & dots on the map.
>  
> Once an area has a workable coverage, we need to find some people that feel  
> like tracing the lines into roads on OSM.
>  
> Hopefully, people who run GeoBucket, and people who like tracing, team up all  
> around the unmapped world and get things going using our tool.
>  
> For example, here in Uganda, the northeast has very limited coverage. This is  
> a very poor area, that can be dangerous sometimes. So there is not a lot of  
> mapping on the ground going to happen.
> However, there are a lot of iNGO's in very big cars driving around the area.  
> The people in these cars are, on average, no geeks that love to use their very  
> limited bandwidth on their secured compounds for evenings of mapping.
> We hope, they dont mind to run GeoBucket though, and when they are in Kampala,  
> press the upload button.
>  
> We'll take it from there.
>  
> And what we actually do, is store all uploads in a big PostGIS table, and then  
> render lines & dots from that table, using a Geoserver instance.
>  
> When you load our WMS layer in JOSM, you see all the uploads, and can use them  
> for tracing roads.
>  
> Being able to use the taskmanager, would be really helpful, later on.
>  
> I hope that explains a bit more of our intentions with GeoBucket. If you have  
> more questions, feel free to ask.
> If you would like to lend a hand to David, who wrote the Android app, feel  
> free to fork.
> And if you want some pointers of how we configured Drupal to do this, without  
> writing a single line of php, let me know too.
>  
>  
> rgds,
>  
> On behalf of the whole GeoBucket team,
> Reinier
>  
> PS The idea is very similar to the work that Mikel did in Swaziland  
> http://groundtruthinitiative.org/2011/10/03/what-to-do-with-10-million-gps-
> points/
>  
>  
> On Monday 13 August 2012 15:02:02 Kate Chapman wrote:
> > 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 (mailto: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 (http://www.mountbatten.net)
> > > tel: +256 758 801749
> > > twitter: @batje
> > >  
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> rgds,
>  
> Reinier Battenberg
> Director  
> Mountbatten Ltd.
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