Presented by Tom Armitage and Addy Pope at the Digital HSS workshop, University of Edinburgh, 12 March 2014.

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

2. Maps are great

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

5. Digimap
View, print
and
annotate
maps
online
Download
data for
GIS/CAD

6. GIS
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dw712zncyyepau9/Screenshot
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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

13. Collaborative data collection
http://fieldtripgb.blogs.edina.ac.uk/

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”