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.
