1. Volunteer mapping for
deforestation
Nicolas Maisonneuve, Peter Amoako Yirenkyi and
Daniel Lombraña González

2. Maps are vital for humans
by the Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands (no known copyright restrictions)

3. Maps are vital for humans
by The National Archives UK ("no known copyright restrictions)

4. Why Volunteer mapping?
Volunteers can help to improve maps

5. Current challenges
1 - Data quality, accuracy and reliability
by Jeff Shermann CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

6. Current challenges
2- Volunteers organization
by Cheuk-man Kong CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

7. Cybermappr: a research project

8. Cybermappr: a research project
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Components to improve data quality:
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Volunteer organization: task driven vs. spontaneous
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Training people
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Rewarding good contributions
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Data acquisition on the field with mobile platforms

9. Cybermappr example use case
Damage assessments
by Público and Google

10. Cybermappr framework
User Interface

11. Research: Improving data quality
Experiment 1: Parallelization

12. Research: Improving data quality
Experiment 2: Iteration

13. Research: Rewarding contributions
HP Gloe is a geo-located web content discovery tool
and contribution system for smart phones
by Mikael Ganehag Brorsson, Public Domain.

14. Gloe: Rewarding good contributions
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Virtual budget to invest.
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Good recommendations:
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Budget increases.
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My reputation improves.
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Applied to map contributions,
discoveries, tasks, etc.
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Meritocracy.
by Darren Hester CC BY-NC 2.0.

15. Conclusions
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The Citizen Cyberscience Centre is trying to:
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Build a new volunteer mapping framework,
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Research on:
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Data quality
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Volunteer organization
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Training people
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Rewarding good contributions
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Data acquisition on the field with mobile platforms

16. Future project: deforestation
by Google

17. Questions?
teleyinex@gmail.com
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