shrug-l: We need your help crowdsourcing GIS data

[Brian May]

Hi Yosem,

If you don't want to reinvent the wheel, then use OpenStreetMap as much 
as possible, and develop custom layers that don't "fit" into OSM beyond 
that. There's already GIS people in Puerto Rico working on OSM [1]. I 
would reach out to them. A ton work has already been done updating 
OpenStreetMap in Puerto Rico after Maria hit. Your biggest challenge in 
a traditional GIS environment is making sense of the OSM tags and how to 
map them to "traditional" GIS layers. Its not hard, you just need to 
spend some time understanding the OSM tagging system. I would highly 
recommend loading OSM data into Postgres/PostGIS where you can easily 
manipulate the data attributes and do spatial analysis using SQL. Lots 
of resources out there to learn about OSM.

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico_Projects

Brian May
MapWise Inc.


On 11/11/2018 9:21 PM, Yosem Companys wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Do you or someone you know have expertise crowdsourcing GIS data?
>
> I'm currently advising Hunter College's Center for Puerto Rican 
> Studies ("Centro") on its GIS mapping efforts 
> <https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/events-news/rebuild-puerto-rico/data-hub> in 
> Puerto Rico. Centro is one of just a handful of groups using GIS 
> mapping to help Puerto Rico.
>
> Since Hurricane Maria's landfall in Puerto Rico, Centro's GIS mapping 
> has shifted from relief to recovery and reconstruction. To accelerate 
> its efforts, Centro would like to create a crowdsourcing platform for 
> gathering GIS data.
>
> I've suggested to Centro to connect with developers who have expertise 
> in crowdsourcing GIS data so as to avoid reinventing the wheel. To 
> this end, should you or someone you know have expertise developing 
> crowdsourcing platforms for gathering GIS data, please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Yosem
>
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