Hi there, I'm a newbie but I've been following (nearly) all the posts along the way.
I found out that there is actually a way to identify where in the world your tomnod map is: replace "challenge" in the url with "api". This will give you a page containin the latitude and longitude. Then try a site like http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html to see where this is.
I agree with other tomnod comments about having the ability to see where you are looking. I think crowdsourcing is a great tool but its limitations are very frustrating and it should be exploited much further, in several ways:
1. on the overview tile, colour each tile according to how many views they have had (grayscale perhaps).. then users can seek out tiles with few views.
2. show a small image of where the overview tile is in the world.
3. persuade other satellite imaging companies to contribute to the images so that much more ground can be covered.
4. get some image recognition going: machine learning/algorithms.
5. promote, promote, promote, via the hundreds of otherwise pointless articles written every day. Even my tech-savvy, software engineer husband hadn't heard of tomnod .
Apologies for any naive assumptions these suggestions contain.
It's all so frustrating.
I found out that there is actually a way to identify where in the world your tomnod map is: replace "challenge" in the url with "api". This will give you a page containin the latitude and longitude. Then try a site like http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html to see where this is.
I agree with other tomnod comments about having the ability to see where you are looking. I think crowdsourcing is a great tool but its limitations are very frustrating and it should be exploited much further, in several ways:
1. on the overview tile, colour each tile according to how many views they have had (grayscale perhaps).. then users can seek out tiles with few views.
2. show a small image of where the overview tile is in the world.
3. persuade other satellite imaging companies to contribute to the images so that much more ground can be covered.
4. get some image recognition going: machine learning/algorithms.
5. promote, promote, promote, via the hundreds of otherwise pointless articles written every day. Even my tech-savvy, software engineer husband hadn't heard of tomnod .
Apologies for any naive assumptions these suggestions contain.
It's all so frustrating.
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