Hi
Not familiar with umap but it looks like it would fit well with your needs
and it is OSM friendly. If you wanted to put the data directly in
OpenStreetMap then hotosm have a tool that allows you to divide an area
into blocks that people can work on. That is a great way to divvy up work
and see what areas has been completed. The link is http://tasks.hotosm.org/
You can either use that in situ or you can build your own version since it
is opensource.
Regards
On 26 September 2017 at 09:35, Bernelle Verster <bernel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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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