[HOT] Mapping South Kivu - micro tasking and the TM

[Pete Masters]

Just wanted to say, huge thanks for the feedback on the pybossa microtask.
Much appreciated!!

Pete

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Pete Masters <pedrito1414 at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the heads up, Pierre. I'll incorporate the previous activation
> tasks into the tasking for this project.
>
> Pete
>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
>> Hi Pete,
>>
>> For the coverage of South Kivu, if you compare with the work already done
>> for the Kivu Activation Dec 2012, and later to fight cholera, you will see
>> some duplications.  All the eastern part along the lakes was covered. For
>> example, TM http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1078
>> http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/793 were largely covered if not all. The
>> same around Uvira and Kalemie.
>>
>> Pierre
>>
>>   ------------------------------
>>  *De :* Pete Masters <pedrito1414 at googlemail.com>
>> *À :* "hot at openstreetmap.org" <hot at openstreetmap.org>
>> *Envoyé le :* Mercredi 10 juin 2015 5h19
>> *Objet :* [HOT] Mapping South Kivu - micro tasking and the TM
>>
>> Hi all, I have some stuff to share and a request for some feedback.
>>
>> Missing Maps has taken on the mapping of the province of South Kivu in
>> DRCongo. This will be our first attempt at such a large AOI.
>>
>> As part of many things we need to do to achieve this, we have been
>> working on some intelligent tasking processes, which are being documented
>> on the wiki [1
>> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_South_Kivu_tasking>].
>>
>> Leading on all this are the DisasterMappers from Heidelberg University
>> and they have developed the microtasking process we used to analyse
>> satellite coverage of the area and have made a similar crowdsourcing task
>> for identifying where roads and settlements are (to save mappers spending
>> hours scrolling through jungle).
>>
>> The imagery analysis was very successful, but the second task is trickier
>> and it is important we get it as effective as possible before promoting it
>> widely. I wondered whether some of you would have time to test the tool and
>> feed back, so we can optimise it.
>>
>> It's all linked from the wiki page anyway, but the tool is here [2
>> <http://crowdmap.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/app/missing_maps_follow_up/>]
>> and the feedback document is here [3
>> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rDCCm-kYksWclg8A9jhVlIn2xcTV6Yz5rndrpYjo0dg/edit?usp=sharing>
>> ].
>>
>> If you have any questions or comments about any of this, including the
>> wider Map South Kivu project, I'd love to hear them.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Pete
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_South_Kivu_tasking
>> [2] http://crowdmap.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/app/missing_maps_follow_up/
>> [3]
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rDCCm-kYksWclg8A9jhVlIn2xcTV6Yz5rndrpYjo0dg/edit?usp=sharing
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>> *Pete Masters*
>> Missing Maps Project Coordinator
>> +44 7921 781 518
>>
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*Pete Masters*
Missing Maps Project Coordinator
+44 7921 781 518

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