Citizen Science in your pocket: Collecting data to support teaching and research using your smart-phone
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This document outlines the use of smartphone technology for citizen science, emphasizing the importance of collecting data to support teaching and research. It discusses tools like Digimap and features such as creating custom data collection forms, syncing with Dropbox, and visualizing captured data. The authors provide resources and instructions for users to effectively manage and share their geographic data.
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”