• Our session of CWTS++ for (September 6, 2018) was fun and interesting. It consisted of learning a new map site, learning more about Mapilliary and OpenStreetCam, and doing more JOSM validation. We started our session with a phrase “Mapping is not always about mapping buildings, roads, etc. It can be mapping other things like constellations or network etc.” Mapping has many possibilities which can be useful and beautiful in both ways. The first topic was our FieldPapers Assignment and our diary entries. We’re finishing our task on each of our neighborhood using FieldPapers and Mapilliary. Our goal is to capture our neighborhood and map it down in our FieldPapers. The last topic is JOSM Validation. It was interesting to know that we can validate and correct the corrections of other users. Furthermore, we learned how to validate correctly on the work of other users and we got re-informed again when to use our group hashtag in mapping.

• We focused on how to use Mapilliary and OpenStreetCam correctly. According to its site, Mapillary is a collaborative street-level imagery platform for extracting map data at scale using computer vision. This goes with OpenStreetCam but a different version. There were some of my classmates that are having issues in Mapilliary and OpenStreetCam, but we managed to fix the issues so we can continue our work. We continued discussing on how to handle and upload files in the site. This is for the task in our own neighborhoods, which is capturing it using Mapilliary. One of my classmates had done a bit of capturing, so we used her captured images as an example. With the example shown, we captured the idea of how Mapilliary works and when it is safe to capture an image.

• Another main highlight of our session is validating task 4993 in Lake Sebu, SCO, PH. We validated each of our own tasks by using JOSM. This part was fun because we had our own though of each comment, which is formal and informal. Even though we were having fun, we learned how to validate and correct the work of my classmates and other users. It was surprising to see that there were many tasks that just got invalidated because of the wrong nodes or highway type or missing roads etc. This task was important because my classmates did not even notice their error. So it was our job to let them know so they can re-map it correctly.

• The last main highlight of our session is exploring Map Roulette’s feature. We did the challenges “Mis-tagged Castles in the Philippines” and “Mis-tagged funeral homes”. It was fun and easy to use because once you have click on the challenge, it will show its details and the location of the challenge. The “Mis-tagged Castles in the Philippines” challenge was done as an example for our activity. So we continued on finishing the “Mis-tagged funeral homes”. While doing the activity, I noticed how the A.I detected the nodes in one place. It appears that the funeral home that it detected was in the same place on the map all over. So it’s our job to correct what the A.I has detected incorrectly and to continue to finish their work. All of the activity was done using JOSM tool because were practicing more about JOSM. Overall Map Roulette is another website that we can help by mapping and correcting missing roads, building, mistagged features etc. It was cool to see how challenges give you a point after you have finished doing the challenge. It even had a leaderboard which shows all mappers with high points. I think the point system is a cool way to finish more challenges.

• We are improving our skills in mapping because we are deepening our knowledge in different mapping tools and other website. I am thrilled to learn more about mapping because not only I can apply this to my skills but also I can help the world by doing a small act. Overall our mapping session was exciting and fun. Each session that we enter gives us more knowledge that we need in mapping. The session won’t be complete without my classmates and our director of CWTS++. I hope to learn more in the upcoming sessions.

• These are our topics for today.

• Exploring Map Roulette

• My classmates doing validation

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