Designed and built for Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team collaborative emergency/disaster mapping, the OSM Tasking Manager 2.0 divides an area into individual squares that can be rapidly mapped by thousands of volunteers.
Abstract: A protocol for the collection of vector data in Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) projects is proposed. VGI is a source of crowdsourced geographic data and information which is comparable, and in some cases better, than equivalent data from National Mapping Agencies (NMAs) and Commercial Surveying Companies (CSC). However, there are many differences in how NMAs and CSC collect, analyse, manage and distribute geographic information to that of VGI projects. NMAs and CSC make use of robust and standardised data collection protocols whilst VGI projects often provide guidelines rather than rigorous data collection specifications. The proposed protocol addresses formalising the collection and creation of vector data in VGI projects in three principal ways: by manual vectorisation; field survey; and reuse of existing data sources. This protocol is intended to be generic rather than being linked to any specific VGI project. We believe that this is the first protocol for VGI vector data collection that has been formally described in the literature. Consequently, this paper shall serve as a starting point for on-going development and refinement of the protocol.
Keywords: crowdsourcing; data collection; protocol; vector data; VGI; Volunteered Geographic Information
This reference is a scientific paper, with recommendations for software and organisers of volunteer mapping.
http://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/5/11/217/htm ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2016, 5(11), 217; doi:10.3390/ijgi5110217 Towards a Protocol for the Collection of VGI Vector Data Peter Mooney https://github.com/petermooney, Marco Minghini https://github.com/MarcoMinghini, Mari Laakso, Vyron Antoniou, Ana-Maria Olteanu-Raimond and Andriani Skopeliti