Hi Jaakkoh,
Interesting interaction to build with the humanitairans in the field and we
should surely look at the best options together.
And all of this in an emergency context.
We have not discussed these details with OCHA-Mali and UNICEF. But we can
discuss this tomorrow. This is a workflow that we will build with them
at the same time we respond to this emergency We also have to adapt to
the operational context they will have.
And yes, we also have to take care of the license aspects in the solutions to
collect the data.
regard
Pierre
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De : Pierre Béland <bela...@yahoo.fr>
À : Jaakko Helleranta.com <jaa...@helleranta.com>
Cc : HOT Discussion list <hot@openstreetmap.org>
Envoyé le : Mardi 18 novembre 2014 21h06
Objet : Re: [HOT] West Africa Ebola Outbreak More Jobs for Mali
Hi Jaakkoh,
Interesting interaction to build with the humanitairans in the field and we
should surely look at the best options together.
And all of this in an emergency context.
We have not discussed these details with OCHA-Mali and UNICEF. But we can
discuss this tomorrow. This is a workflow that we will build with them at the
same time we respond to this emergency We also have to adapt to the operational
context they will have.
And yes, we also have to take care of the license aspects in the solutions to
collect the data.
regard
Pierre
________________________________
De : Jaakko Helleranta.com <jaa...@helleranta.com>
À : Pierre Béland <pierz...@yahoo.fr>
Cc : HOT Discussion list <hot@openstreetmap.org>
Envoyé le : Mardi 18 novembre 2014 20h56
Objet : Re: [HOT] West Africa Ebola Outbreak More Jobs for Mali
Hi Pierre,
Just a question-comment on the photos aspect of the field verification:
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Pierre Béland <pierz...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
These teams will take geolocated pictures of the infrastructures and documen
them
Do you happen to know what system/process they have for the photos
taking/handling?
It's pretty clear to me (personally, from the different photo-mapping related
things that I've tried) that if we're talking about objects that are public in
nature then Mapillary is the best system/service to use for (OSM-related)
mapping purposes. .. Well, it's the best photo mapping system that I've tried
altogether but for OSM-related uses it's best by a wide margin.
Three major things stand out that I think would matter for this:
- it's a ready-to-use platform + app + upload management system (with CC-by-sa
license + explicit OSM use permission) and an API
- compass direction is captured in the photos
- iD integration -- integration with JOSM would be easy to do, I've understood.
There's also an option for a private photos storage (if there would be a need
for that). I don't know of the details of that.
No, Mapillary is not open source. But it's open data. And while the API is
limited for commercial use it's free for non-commercial use. And I can't think
of anything that would come close to usefulness for mapping. Not to mention the
aspect of building a (quite) open street view.
.. I took some 15-20 thousand survey/streetview photos when I lived in Haiti
but haven't really made much use of nearly any of those because I didn't find a
reasonably good system to upload them to benefit mapping.
I've also helped conduct field survey data gathering and the photo management
of the tools I used (both proprietary systems and ODK) was really not something
I'd label as convenient. And now since March I've taken around 150 thousand
photos (of mostly Nicaragua) with Mapillary and it's already proved very useful
for mapping (and more). And take out upload bandwidth issues (that can be
worked around - sending micro SD cards to high bandwidth location being the
last resort) and some relatively speaking very minor things I've been happy
with Mapillary.
Anyways, just wanted to mention this.
The Mapillary dev team is also very responsive, which is a clear plus.
If Mapillary would be used I'd be happy to share my experiences/advice / help
out in using the system.
Cheers,
-Jaakko
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