2016-07-14 7:58 GMT-03:00 Mishari Muqbil <[email protected]>: > Hello, > > I just wanted to feedback from the community for our effort to map the slums > in Klong Toey, Bangkok. The size of the area is about 1km x 2 km around here > and I have captured a sequence on Mapillay here. There are several > challenges here including access to internet and English literacy, so I have > come up with the following rough plan. > > 1. Put out a call for volunteers, work with NGOs in the area to find local > kids who are interested in putting their community on the map. > 2. Train the kids in using ID editor. I think I will limit them to doing > specific things i.e. walkways, houses, trees, restaurant, convenience stores > with individual kids limited to 2-3 features to avoid confusion then as they > get the hang of it, increase their repertoire. > 3. Take over a local internet cafe for a day for training and mapping > purpose. > > Now I'm not sure about the rest of the process, you can see from Mapillary > that due to the somewhat dense nature of the community, GPS is inaccurate > and neither Bing nor Mapbox has enough of a resolution to be meaningful. So > I have several (possibly overlapping) ideas. > > a) hire or borrow a drone to take aerial imagery and upload to openaerialmap > and use that as a basemap but I'm not sure how possible it will be to see > through the roofs. > b) get a team of surveyor students from Prof. Garavig to map out the paths > in the community (it's pretty big so I'm not sure how tine consuming it is) > then have the community kids fill in the blank. > c) use walking papers and have the kids go out, sketching what they see from > the rooftop but I feel this may be prone to errors. > > Does anyone have any experience or tips they can share on how we can achieve > this? > > Best regards > Mishari
FWIW, if you and your volunteers take tons of pictures for Mapillary and the Internet connection isn't good enough to upload them, you can physically mail them a hard disk. Or have them mail you a hard disk and you fill it with photos and ship it back. They have done it before for special situations like this. Let me know if you're interested in that. -- Nicolás with my Mapillary ambassador hat on _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
