EuroSDR Workshop | Crowdsourcing in National Mapping
In the past number of years use of crowdsourcing by National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies (NMCA) has grown from being a disruptive technological idea to a mainstream source of geographic data and information. Today, many NMCAs and companies within the geospatial technologies industry use crowdsourcing to update databases and registries. However, it is often difficult to find information about what projects or initiatives are currently in operation or have been used in the past. Where has crowdsourcing being used? What role did crowdsourcing play in collecting, editing or updating data and information for NMCAs, companies or other institutions?
We welcome submissions from participants who are willing to share their experiences, knowledge, expectations, use-cases, future planning, etc. for VGI and crowdsourced geospatial data and information.
The workshop has two principal aims:
- Create VGI-ME (the VGI Map of Europe). We will gather information and examples on projects and initiatives in European National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies and geospatial companies/SMEs where crowdsourcing has been successfully implemented. VGI-ME will be a conceptual ‘map’ of projects from around Europe which used crowdsourcing as a means of collecting geospatial data and information.
- Plan the design and delivery of a VGI Hackathon event in the second half of 2020 which will feature the creation of new crowdsourcing applications (mobile and web) and extending/improving existing ones. For this part of the workshop we actively encourage the participation of developers from NMCAs, universities, research institutions and companies who were/are active in developing crowdsourcing applications. We invite you to present your software, the data produced with it and its use in the organization’s workflow and discuss extensions/new ideas which can be developed as proof of concept in a hackathon with other developers and creative thinkers, in order to make our VGI apps more versatile, more user-friendly, and more effective.
The workshop will engage with stakeholders from NMCAs, the Geomatics Industry, academic research, software developers, citizens involved in geographic crowdsourcing and VGI, leaders or managers of crowdsourcing or VGI projects over 1.5 days to understand the most prominent and pressing questions related to crowdsourcing and national mapping in Europe (and beyond) today and to begin building the inventory of projects for VGI-ME.
TIME: 16 January 2020 (full day) – 17 January 2020 (half day until lunchtime)
LOCATION VENUE: Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe, Janseniusstraat 1, 3000 Leuven http://www.leuveninstitute.eu/site/index.php - +32 16 31 04 30
ACCOMMODATION: Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe offers bedrooms facilities
CONTACT PERSONS: Rob Lemmens r.l.g.lemmens@utwente.nl, Peter Mooney Peter.Mooney@mu.ie, and Joep Crompvoets joep.crompvoets@kuleuven.be
PROGRAM:
Day 1 – Thursday January 16th 2020
Time | Activity |
08:30 – 09:30 | Registration and arrival – The Irish College, Leuven |
09:30 – 10:00 | Welcome to the Crowdsourcing in National Mapping 2020 Workshop (pdf) – Joep Crompvoets and Rob Lemmens. This will include a brief ‘tour de table’ for all delegates to introduce themselves. |
10:00 – 10:30 | The VGI-ME concept – Explaining purpose, hackathon, etc. Presentation on previous hackathons, Living Textbook, etc |
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
Session: Developments and Overviews of Crowdsourcing Approaches Chair Joep Crompvoets | |
11:00 – 11:25 | Crowdsourcing at the Dutch Cadastre (pdf) |
11:25 – 11:50 | Feedback on the collaborative program managed by the French National Mapping Agency (pdf) |
11:50 – 12:15 | Research Developments in Crowdsourcing and National Mapping (pdf) |
12:15 – 12:40 | Crowdsourcing Opportunities at the OS (pdf) |
12:40 – 12:50 | Short time for additional questions, comments from delegates |
12:50 – 14:00 | LUNCH – At venue in Irish College Leuven |
Session: Crowdsourcing in practice – spotlight on projects. Chair Peter Mooney | |
14:00 – 14:25 | Slovenian applied research project to utilise volunteered images for the national topographic map updating in scales 1:5000 and 1:50000 (pdf) |
14:25 – 14:50 | Crowdsourcing gardens in Flanders (pdf) |
14:50 – 15:15 | Crowdsourcing projects in the National Land Survey of Finland (pdf) |
15:15 – 15:40 | The OpenVetMap project (pdf) |
15:40 – 15:50 | Short time for additional questions, comments from delegates |
15:50 – 16:15 | Coffee Break |
Session: The VGI Map of Europe (VGI-ME) | |
16:15 – 17:15 | Session Leader. Rob Lemmens |
17:15 – 17:30 | Wrap up and finish for Day 1 |
19:00 | Dinner at Irish College |
Day 2 – Friday January 17th 2020
Time | Activity |
09:00 - 09:05 | Scene Setting Day 2 – Led by Joep, Rob and Peter |
09:05 – 09:35 | Lightning talks • Michael Kölle, Institute for Photogrammetry (ifp), University of Stuttgart, Germany (pdf) • Lena Norberg and Elin Gyllenhammar, Lantmäteriet (The Swedish mapping, cadastral and land registration authority), Sweden (pdf) • Eszter Kiss, Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, Germany (pdf) • Joep Crompvoets, KU Leuven Public Governance Institute, Belgium (pdf) |
09:35 – 10:45 | VGI-ME Continuation Requirements for conceptualisation; Suggest usability improvements; Suggest other ways to manage VGI-ME. |
10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
11:15 – 13:00 | Plan the design and delivery of a VGI Hackathon event in the second half of 2020 which will feature the creation of new crowdsourcing applications (mobile and web) and extending/improving existing ones. |
13:00 – 13:15 | Workshop Close (pdf) – Wrap up, farewell and next steps (Joep, Rob and Peter) |
13:15 – 14:00 | LUNCH |
14:00 | Departures |
MEDIA PARTNER: GeoConnexion
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