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Banana Open Access Platform HTTP://BANANA.mappr

Philippe Rieffel Hein Bouwmeester 15 th December 2010 Regional Disease Surveillance Workshop for Banana Nairobi 13‐16 th December 2010. Banana Open Access Platform HTTP://BANANA.mappr.info. A crowdsourced approach to collect and validate spatial data. Idea/Background.

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Banana Open Access Platform HTTP://BANANA.mappr

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  1. Philippe Rieffel Hein Bouwmeester 15th December 2010 Regional Disease Surveillance Workshop for Banana Nairobi 13‐16th December 2010 Banana Open Access PlatformHTTP://BANANA.mappr.info A crowdsourced approach to collect and validate spatial data

  2. Idea/Background • Banana is one of the main staple crops in Africa, they say.. • Where are the bananas? • To conduct spatial analyses, coherent and comprehensive data is needed • Some data have been collected starting at the Banana 2008 Conference • Use WebGIS approach to validate / expand data

  3. Goal • Spatially identify banana producing areas • Attach socio-economic, production and biotic attributes • Plant density • Pests/diseases • Weevils / nematodes • Fertilizer/chemicals • […] • Involve local knowledge in the wider context • Crowdsourcing

  4. Technicals - Software • Server Software: GeoServer hosted at IFPRI • Database: PostgreSQL/Postgis • Frontend: GeoExt Framework (Mashup of Openlayers, ExtJS) • Blog / User Interface: Wordpress • All software is Open Source • Data is freely available to the public

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