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Support paper-based survey data entry #2183

Open jonfroehlich opened 4 years ago

jonfroehlich commented 4 years ago

@gari01234 mentioned yesterday that Liga Peatonal thinks offering paper-based surveys of neighborhood accessibility would be useful to people who do not have access to computers. The idea, in brief, is captured here: https://github.com/LigaPeatonal/evaluando/issues/6.

Basically, a person would mark and fill out a paper-based survey for a particular location in their neighborhood. This data would then be translated to Project Sidewalk's database (e.g., by trying to find the spot in the GSV imagery).

This is similar to our various requests to support smartphone data (e.g., pictures) uploaded to Project Sidewalk (but without the reliance on technology).

misaugstad commented 4 years ago

What all would this entail? Is it just the matter of providing a PDF form on our website for users to print out (or for orgs to print out and hand to people) and then making sure we have a process in place for inputting data from these forms? Would we provide an address for people to mail these to? Or are we asking our partner orgs to collect these from people, scan, and send digital copies to us?

jonfroehlich commented 4 years ago

Is it just the matter of providing a PDF form on our website for users to print out (or for orgs to print out and hand to people) and then making sure we have a process in place for inputting data from these forms?

I think this. But @gari01234 can expand.

gari01234 commented 4 years ago

What all would this entail? Is it just the matter of providing a PDF form on our website for users to print out (or for orgs to print out and hand to people) and then making sure we have a process in place for inputting data from these forms?

At the moment I see two options:

  1. upload pdfs of the different neighborhoods. Then, people can print it. Or group walks can be arranged.
  2. provide a tool to help generate these maps, (people will have more flexibility to choose the area). A good example of this is OSM's “Field Papers”.

Both options require a lot of work. The second I find more practical (but requires programming knowledge that I don't have).

Both need a process in place for inputting data from these forms. Which must be developed.

Would we provide an address for people to mail these to? Or are we asking our partner orgs to collect these from people, scan, and send digital copies to us?

Yes, I think it would be convenient to add an email address to receive the maps. I am doing a similar exercise with cycling activists in Munich BA03_Maxvorstadt_RadlVorrang-Karte-to-go.pdf .Participants send us the results by email, messages on social networks and by mail. For this exercise we made a map for each district. And we are manually adding the results to a digital map. So far, it is working.

Gehl Institute also has good examples of "non-digital formats" for auditing public space. https://github.com/gehl-institute/pldp

I think the group walks that Liga Peatonal performs could be well complemented by a non-digital format of Project Sidewalk.

What we are trying to do is to make Project Sidewalk tool in Mexico more accessible. This is in the interest of not excluding people who do not have a computer, Internet or computer knowledge. I am aware that it is a complex task and I will also understand if you do not wish to go forward on this non-digital format, for whatever reason.