[Portugal] OpenLitterMap empowers people to map and share data on plastic pollution anywhere

[Artur Gil]

OpenLitterMap (https://openlittermap.com/en) empowers you to map and share
data on plastic pollution anywhere.
Snap it, tag it, share it.
It's like Pokémon Go for Tidy Towns!
The data is not just mapped, more importantly, the data is accessible as
open data.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data?fbclid=IwAR2TRSSiOVo-bjfxiyS0336HTGnPoyRQqoekdsw67fUJl7aeXZO8IkuOJP8>
This is a work in progress that is only about 5-10% of where it needs to
be. Currently, OpenLitterMap.com works on all devices as a web-app which is
built mobile first and works like an app. Mobile apps are in development
and will launch in June or July 2019.
If you would like to join the global community of people sharing data on
plastic pollution:

   1. Enable location services on your device. Instructions about how to do
   this are sent out in a welcome email when you sign up. Once activated, your
   photos will be geotagged and they can be uploaded and automatically mapped.
   2. Sign up, log in and upload your images.
   3. Tag x litter in your images. You can tag as little or as much litter
   in a single image as you want. If there is too much litter, use the Illegal
   dumping item in the Other category and choose a number between 1-100.
   4. Submit your image for verification. Once approved, your image will
   appear on the maps, the data will be made accessible for anyone to access
   and you get Littercoin for doing the work. We are manually and tediously
   verifying data to remove any ambiguity from our data which gives it as much
   legitimacy as possible. This high quality verified data will be also be
   used to train machine learning algorithms. Some super-users are trusted and
   their images achieve automatic verification. Users who submit images
   correctly get rewarded with Littercoin which is the first blockchain token
   rewarded for the production of geographic information.
   5. Anyone can download OpenLitterMap data for free as open data which
   can be used for any purpose without permission. This is essential to
   advance and democratize science. Otherwise, who will be allowed to produce
   knowledge on the state of plastic pollution?

This is all being developed by 1 guy (u/littercoin
<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fu%2Flittercoin&h=AT07BVU4sgCx57XncpTkpIsxL5XDKWCQLv6jK5HoDKd1utezKEeVDrpgkHv68Zb-uBWtndl2RAqnJ_jFhCJGz1aYiLk02l8p7_mFiNKcma7Jsbta7IC0RRRWJQ6NW9xiadA>)
who began researching litter mapping in 2009 when he was introduced to GIS.
After traveling and working as a divemaster in Koh Tao, he came home
super-motivated and took out a loan to do 2-masters just to get the
methodology right (MSc GIS & Remote Sensing, MSc Coastal & Marine
Environments). This one guy then taught himself how to code and is still
working on OpenLitterMap today. And he has a few more projects, should he
ever get some support.
If you like this work, or maybe you think the development of open data on
pollution is really important, OpenLitterMap has crowdfunding built into
the platform patreon style with optional once-off donations and monthly
subs starting at €5/month which is currently necessary to keep the servers
online. Maybe one day we could make a video or pay someone a living wage to
write a few lines of very important code? With support, this could have
been developed years ago!
If you can't afford to chip in, that's cool too. Likes & shares also go a
long way!
Litter mapping is a relatively new field of Geographical Information
Science that remains largely unexplored - and will continue to remain
unexplored when access to data is restricted.
Snap it, tag it, share it.
Welcome, to the Open Pollution Revolution.
Source: https://www.facebook.com/openlittermap/
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