Hi
I've been tasked with creating a way for the University of Cape Town
(UCT) community to pin locations of water seepage (details below). I'd
like to eventually use this application to contribute to assisting
people to understand the locations and risks of alternative water
sources ('springs' and groundwater, mainly) as we move towards water
sensitive settlements [1,2], so it's important to do this well.
uMap has been suggested, and looks good [3]. My next step is to figure
out how it works, so any help is welcome :) Also if anything like this
exists already that I can fork (I think that's the right use of the
word) or join, please let me know
Someone else suggested using OpenGreenMap [4,5]. They seem to want to
be open but they use google maps (I think??), which as far as I
understand is not open. My question is, if this is compatible with
OSM, it would be good to contribute through this way. Is this
possible/a good idea?
thanks
indiebio
[1] - iwa-network.org/projects/water-wise-cities
[2] - http://www.futurewater.uct.ac.za/FW-wsd
[3] - http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/
[4] - http://www.opengreenmap.org/home
[5] - http://www.capetowngreenmap.co.za/interactive-green-map
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From: Bernelle Verster <bernel...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 2:13 PM
Subject: OpenWaterMap? map of water seepage on UCT campuses
To: futurewaterforu...@lists.uct.ac.za
Dear all
Kevin Winter who heads up the UCT Water Task Team would like help from
the UCT community to help identify the location of water seepage (aka
springs) on the various campuses. There are apparently loads of them.
Some are weak running at 1 litre / 20 seconds but others are filling
the basement of buildings right now.
We'd like to find these discharge points and identify them on a map
(e.g. google or Open Street Maps - https://www.openstreetmap.org)
We could then ask people to pin these points of discharge onto the
map. Once we have the locations a team can go out to inspect the sites
and see if we can capture the water in tanks and obviously also see
what use could be made of the water. An image of the location would
also help.
Please note that this is in addition to a water audit that will be
conducted soon.
Do any of you know if there are any such initiatives in existence
already that we can link up to or adapt for UCT? Any coders/developers
keen to get involved?
Any suggestions or comments on how to implement this?
Next week we expect a reasonable rainfall and these springs should be
running well. Its an opportunity to identify them and to launch the
activity later next week.
Further ideas - gamify it?
geocaching
augmented reality
gamification
Looking forward, in the long term:
In the context of alternative water sources, blue green infrastructure
and water sensitive design - in short, making water more visible -
even when the drought is over, we need a handle to assist the public
on how to manage their water resources, and the risk associated with
it.
In the current context of the drought, it would be great if we can map
water resources - springs and groundwater, for example - and indicate
their relative safety (e.g. Newlands is safe to drink, the 'spring'
water at St James is not (I think)). As groundwater quality depends on
its surroundings and the soil composition it would be good to map that
too, and suggest interventions/tests required. I envisage this to be a
community driven thing, not delivered by consultants or scientists. I
also see that this may not be something that Future Water or the City
want to take responsibility for due to potential liability issues.
Thus I think it would need to be independently hosted - is this
assessment correct?
Related to this we are trying to figure our what is an appropriate
level of analysis we can advise the public - meeting with Scientific
Services gave the 'it's too complicated that's why it's expensive'
answer, which may be correct but does not assist the public who are
going ahead and doing silly things anyway.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
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