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Getting the Crowd to Help

Getting the Crowd to Help. How We Built a Mapwiki in Open Source. I nformation and mapping in the public interest www.greeninfo.org. About Us. Larry Orman , Executive Director Robert Graham , Web GIS Developer GreenInfo Network

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Getting the Crowd to Help

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  1. Getting the Crowd to Help

    How We Built a Mapwiki in Open Source Information and mapping in the public interest www.greeninfo.org
  2. About Us Larry Orman, Executive Director Robert Graham, Web GIS Developer GreenInfo Network nonprofit 16 years geospatial tech 12 staff Information and mapping in the public interest www.greeninfo.org
  3. 1.It started with a problem
  4. California’s Parks/Open Space 900 agencies/organizations 49,000,000 acres 16,000 units 55,000 holdings ~1.5 FTE . . .
  5. Options? Call everyone up and ask for data Hand out paper maps to draw on Isn’t there an app for that? Use phones and go out Just buy the data
  6. What we need is…The Crowd!
  7. 2.Let’s build it ourselves!
  8. The Recipe Sequence the user steps Choose data to review Actions = Notes, Drawings, Edits, Uploads See everyone’s stuff, too . . . badabing, bada boom
  9. MapCollaborator™ http://websites.greeninfo.org/mapcollaborator/cpad/
  10. Admin
  11. http://websites.greeninfo.org/mapcollaborator/cpad/
  12. 3.Ok, what else?
  13. Recreation Facilities?
  14. Recreation Facilities! http://www.mapsportal.org/mapcollab_facilities/
  15. School Footprints?
  16. School Footprints? Megan’s Law – 2,000’ Tobacco, beverage regulations – 1-2,000’? Probation tracking Safe routes to school planning Etc…
  17. School Footprints! http://www.mapsportal.org/mapcollab_schools/
  18. Anza Trail?
  19. Anza Trail!
  20. This can all be yours! Easily adaptable Core function set But don’t over do it (It’s not GIS. . . it supports GIS)
  21. 4.Get outta the way, I want to do it!
  22. The Tools You Need Online spatial database (PostGIS) Map engine (OpenLayers) Map/Data services (MapServer, TileCache, OGR) Web framework (CodeIgniter) Web server stack (Linux/Apache/PHP) Web Pages (HTML/JQuery) Forms PHP/CI PostGIS DB OL Map OGR MapServer/TileCache
  23. Data Actions Get - features (WFS, GeoJSON), Images (WMS, Tiles) Create/Edit - OL features Post - geometry (text), attributes (forms) Admin GeoJSON PHP/ CI/JQuery PHP/ CI WFS WMS Map TileCache MapServer Users PHP/ CI JS/ JQuery Database OGR Forms PHP/ CI
  24. More Tools Admin - DataTables.js Exports - PHPExcel, Wkhtml2pdf, pgsql2shp
  25. Directions to watch for CartoDB Google MapMaker/Fusion Tables Ushahidi GeoDjango UTF Grids
  26. Tools can do most anything Is the crowd willing (and able…)? We’re all too busy Make it easy and focused Use flexible tech
  27. Contacts Robert Graham – robert@greeninfo.org Larry Orman – larry@greeninfo.org GreenInfo – www.greeninfo.org
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