Re: [HOT] newbie needs advice

[Springfield Harrison]

Hello Michael,

        Thanks for your feedback, sorry for the slow reply.

        I understand what you mean by preselection by the crowd but they may well miss a lot of potential sites which the experts will never get to evaluate.  Or select a lot of duds which may bog down the verification process.  The best way would be to get experts in at the beginning, are they in short supply?

        I think the preselection is being done on pre-earthquake maps which means that a lot of non-disaster territory is probably being covered unnecessarily.  If my assumption is correct, are there earthquake damage map layers that can be used to guide the volunteers to the more critical areas?  Being new, perhaps I do not have the whole picture.

                 Thanks, Cheers . . . . . . . . Spring


At 06-05-2015 01:33 Wednesday, Michael wrote:

Hi Spring,

2015-05-06 7:41 GMT+02:00 Springfield Harrison <stellar...@gmail.com >:

     As a 30+ year helicopter pilot, I did have some concern with the very skimpy helipad instructions. In high-altitude, rugged terrain there is much more to locating helipads than finding a 30 m flat square of ground. Is there any technical oversight by experienced pilots on this task?

I fully agree that the potential sites can not directly be used. But for sure they will be reviewed as given in the task's description "After completion, this info will be evaluated by experts.."Â Â

To me the idea is to speed up the process by finding and marking candidate spots for the experts to evalutes. So save the experts' time by having the crowd to a pre-selection.

Michael (user Ohr)

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