Citizen Science in your pocket: Collecting data to support teaching and research using your smart-phone
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Presented by Tom Armitage and Addy Pope at the Digital HSS workshop, University of Edinburgh, 12 March 2014.
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Citizen Science in your pocket: Collecting data to support teaching and research using your smart-phone
- 1. Citizen Science in your pocket: Collecting data to support teaching and research using your smart-phone Tom Armitage – Digimap Support Addy Pope – Geodata team edina@ed.ac.uk @EDINA_Digimap @go_geo @FieldtripGB
- 3. The best things in life are free, sometimes “free” online mapping is great but…… Google OpenStreetMap (standard representation)
- 4. But….. The devil is in the detail Sometimes these maps miss the detail OS 50K
- 7. Beyond the classroom Pic RichardAllaway: http://www.flickr.com/photos/geographyalltheway_photos/5186209019/in/set-72157625415772442 Why bother?
- 8. Problem 1: Maps on Apps
- 9. Problem 2: Unable to connect http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14574816
- 10. FTGB What is it? Download: maps and view captured records. Login: to a Dropbox account Maps: view online maps or saved ones offline Capture Data: basic capture forms and GPS tracking Sync: Uploads and downloads captured data from Dropbox
- 11. Mapping Preview Map: shows the detail of the mapping you will download Zoom Levels: define the number of zoom levels you want to download
- 12. Define your own data collection http://fieldtripgb.edina.ac.uk/authoring/ Create your own data collection form and deploy it to your phone
- 14. Visualising the data you capture Easy Data Sharing: Sync to upload data Filter data by form name Visualise your data on a basemap Edit collected data Export to kml, GeoJson, csv, wms* Share maps through Dropbox
- 15. The beginning, not the end en Butchart ( project manager) ddy Pope ( product design) urray King ( engineer) eorge Hamilton (engineer) anos Terzis (engineer) ichael Koutroumpas (engineer) im Urwin (GIS / cartography) ona Hemsley-Flint (GIS / cartography) ackie Clark (graphic design) http://fieldtripgb.blogs.edina.ac.uk/
- 16. Let’s collect some data We will be using the following dropbox account: edina.media@ed.ac.uk hofficoffi • Start FtGB • Login using details above • Tap “Download” • Tap “Download Forms” • Forms should appear in Collect Section • After collecting • Connect to WiFi • Tap “Upload Records”