PAYAL GUNAKI

CROWD SOURCING & GIS

Crowd Sourcing

Gained prominence in June 2006 article The Rise of Crowd Sourcing by Jeff Howe, in the Wired Magazine

Revolutionized how business firms, governments and humanitarian organizations viewed the internet and mobile phone market

“the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call”

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill one of the worst environmental disasters in recent times

Volunteers and citizens recorded incidents, captured images & videos and blogged on conditions in real time

Volunteered reports & data were used effectively to focus on most significant problems

Map The Spill, Trimble

Users can upload photos, videos and reports, also download all freely available information

Oiled shorelines, stressed or dead wildlife, and other spill-related information can be reported 

Turns cell phone into Citizen Reporting Tool

Internet

GISTO

TCC

Smart Device Users

Web Users

Vis/Query/Report

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Other GISServices & Portals

ArcExplorerArcGIS Desktop + MustangArcGIS Server + Mustang

ArcSDE

Web BrowserArcExplorer

ArcGIS Desktop

Internet

MAP SERVICES

GPX SERVICE

SHAPEFILE EXPORT

ArcGIS Server

Map the Spill Website

Map the Spill App

Victorian Bushfires

Australia ravaged by Bushfires during hot and dry summer months

The state of Victoria, Australia has a long history of catastrophic bushfires

Large areas of land ravaged every year causing loss of life and property

Country Fire Authority, Victoria

Handy map interface allowing users to see where fires are located 

Users can share details of incident to their social networks straight from app

 

People feel they are contributing in emergency situations. Sends a huge signal to community that says: “We are all in this together.”

OpenStreetMap

A collaborative project to create free, editable map of the world. Over 1 million registered users who can collect data using GPS devices, aerial photography, and other free sources

restrictions on use/ availability of map information and the advent of inexpensive portable satellite navigation devices major driving forces

These crowdsourced data are then made available under Open Database License 

Data Format in OSM

Topological data structure with four core elements

Nodes : eg. Mountain Peaks (using WGS 84)

Ways : eg. Streets, rivers, forests, parks, parking areas and lakes.Relations : eg. Turn restrictions on roadsTags : eg. Metadata of Map Objects

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