Mapping a task

Finally, it is time to map your first task. As mentioned before, we will work with the project Mapping Tartus #1148. Tartus is the second largest port city of Syria, located on the Mediterranean coast. The project is aimed to map the buildings of the port city Tartus in such a way to help humanitarian activities of the World Food Program (WFP) in that area.

Exercise 2: Find task Mapping Tartus according its number #1148 as it was previously shown

Read the description of the task

• it includes essential information about the project and mapped area

• when you get familiar with the task click „Contribute“ (Fig. 15)

Fig. 15: Mapping Tartus

Important instructions

• understanding all instructions is crucial for correct project contribution

• in instructions you will find following information (Fig. 16):

  • what you should map (eg. buildings)

  • what imaginery you should use (eg. MAXAR Premium Imaginery)

  • what tags you should add after mapping a feature (eg. #poliMi_WFP_Tartus)

  • what you should pay attention for (eg. follow accurately the footprint of the building)

Fig. 16: Instructions

Fig. 17: List of contributors and the changes

• in the section „TASKS“ you can check the latest contributors of Mapping Tartus #1148

• under the section „CONTRIBUTIONS“ you can see number of changes made by different contributors (Fig. 17)

Fig. 18: Types of mapping - buildings

• the project Mapping Tartus #1148 is aimed to map buildings (Fig. 18)

• mostly in some available advanced tasks you can meet with mapping other features:

  • roads, waterways, landuse or more (Fig. 19)

Fig. 19: Mapping other features

Choose a task

• here you can see the tiles that are being mapped at this project

• select one of white tiles, which are available for mapping

• then click “Map selected task” (Fig. 20)

Fig. 20: How to choose a task

• you can also map a random task. In that case you don’t need to select a tile. Just click “Map a task” and you will be assigned with a random tile which you can map.