[HOT] We need your aid crowdsourcing GIS data in Puerto Rico

[Pat Tressel]

Yosem --

What type of GIS data do they need to collect?  Will this be points, with
additional information, such as observations of needs by citizen
reporters?  Or datasets (i.e. tables) containing fields with location
information, e.g. provided by local organizations?  Do you just need a way
for people to upload the information, or do you also want a display?

If this is for citizen reports of observations, with single point
locations, consider Ushahidi (Crowdmap).  Note although they emphasize
their paid service to set up sites, this is open-source, and in the past,
most sites were put up by the end users.

https://www.ushahidi.com/

Also for citizen reporting:  If you don't need a map display, and it's ok
for information to just go into a file, then there are a large number of
survey / form tools, and some support entering the user's current location,
or selecting a location on a map.  Most of these are paid services -- most
have a free option that's limited, and more for trying out the service than
for practical use.  A brief search turned up this example (not open-source)
-- I have not used this, so I'm just using it to show this is probably
common:

https://widgets.jotform.com/widget/geolocation

If you need a site that allows people to upload datasets, you might look at
CKAN.  This is open-source.

https://ckan.org/

I should also mention one more open-source option, Sahana EDEN.  This is
mainly used for emergency management, especially logistics, but is very
general, and allows creating elaborate forms with tabs for entering
multiple records related to a main record (e.g. an organization with
branches, and personnel at the branches).  One can have more complex
location data than points.  However, this will be more complicated to set
up, precisely because it's more flexible.  (There's a very indirect
connection:  A friend of mine, who is a graduate of Hunter College, used to
volunteer on this project.  Full disclosure:  I used to work on it as well.)

https://sahanafoundation.org/
http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/

-- Pat
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