Citizen Science and Cultural Heritage

Citizen Science and Cultural Heritage

Milan Antonovic1, Maria Antonia Brovelli2, Massimiliano Cannata1, Mirko Cardoso1, Candan Eylül Kilsedar2, Marco Minghini2, Giorgio Zamboni2

1 Institute of Earth Sciences, SUPSI, Campus Trevano, 6952 Canobbio, Switzerland

2 Politecnico di Milano, Como Campus, DICA, Via Valleggio 11, 22100, Como, Italy

Siena, Italy

24-25 November 2016

Via Regina: a European cultural route

Via Regina defines a cross-border area between Italy

and Switzerland.

trade and cultural route since Roman times

transalpine system of soft mobility links

Via Regina: a European cultural route

Via Regina defines a cross-border area between Italy and Switzerland.

Via Regina

Tabula Peutingeriana (IV century AD)

The project “The paths of Regina”

The Paths of Regina is an INTERREG project (Italy/Switzerland).

purpose: to valorise the cultural heritage of the area and foster tourism

beneficiaries: local communities, administrations, pilgrims, tourists

expertise involved: cultural heritage, land use and design, geomatics

Partners:

universities

local administrations

cultural associations

Slow tourism at a glance

Slow tourism (a special kind of sustainable tourism) involves:

environmental friendliness

rediscovery of local traditions and cultural knowledge

movement (no car/plane)

sustainability gastronomy (local)

culture leisure (peaceful)

simple accommodationservices (provided in a

relaxing environment)

The main Web GIS of Via Regina project

Entry point to the Web mapping applications developed in the project

main Web GIS for planning routes

mobile app for slow tourism

3D Web viewer

mobile app for surveying paths

virtual tour application

Link: http://viaregina3.como.polimi.it/ViaRegina/


Displays all the geospatial data surveyed during the project:

Via Regina and the related historical paths

the points of interest available among them



Displays all the geospatial data surveyed during the project:

Via Regina and the related historical paths

the points of interest available among them



Displays the bus routes and bus stops in the project area

kindly provided by ASF Autolinee

each bus stop has the link to its real time schedule



Displays the bus routes and bus stops in the project area

kindly provided by ASF Autolinee

each bus stop has the link to its real time schedule



Allows to plan customized routes:

based on the type of points of interests chosen by the user





based on a start point and an end point




























Print the information on the computed route:

2D/3D distance, average slope, height increase/decrease











Integration with TripAdvisor database:

access to the info/reviews of hotels, restaurants & attractions















Download of Via Regina GPS Track (in GPX format):

useful for people willing to walk along the path!


The main Web GIS of Via Regina

project - architecture


Cross-platform VGI application - purpose

Allows everyone to report georeferenced points of interest:

historical and cultural elements

morphological elements

tourism elements

critical elements


Historical and Cultural Elements

museum

religious building

civil building

archeological element

rural building

military building

factory

Morphological Elements

surface

bounding escarpment

traffic support and manufactured products


Tourist Elements

accommodation

transport

products

food service

services

Critical Elements

morphological

structural

Cross-platform VGI application

Started from the EmoMap developed within TU Wien.

Available on desktop and mobile browsers: http://viaregina3.como.polimi.it/app.

The apk for Android devices can be downloaded from:

http://viaregina3.como.polimi.it/app/viaregina.apk

The app is also available on Android and iOS online stores, named as “Via

Regina”.

Main features:

offline data collection

POI rating

integrated maps showing collected POIs


Report of a POI: setting the class and rating

Available at http://viaregina3.como.polimi.it/app/


Report of a POI: take/upload a picture of it



The map of POIs added by you or by all the users



Query of a POI and the app info


Cross-platform VGI application - architecture

ODK (Open Data Kit)

ODK Collect (Via Regina)

Main menu of the application

Detailed instructions:

http://www.viaregina.eu/files/documenti/2014/istruzioni_eng.pdf


Form compilation




Form compilation




Form compilation




Form compilation




Form compilation




Main menu of the application



NASA Web World Wind based VGI platform

The virtual globe (http://viaregina3.como.polimi.it/WorldWind/), developed using

NASA Web World Wind API is able to display data stored in the ODK Aggregate

server of Via Regina project and in the CouchDB database of a cross-platform

application (Via Regina), both on desktop and on mobile browsers, as long as

WebGL is supported.

The general look of the virtual

globe, where yellow markers

represent the ODK POIs and red

ones represent the CouchDB

POIs is on the right. The area of

the Via Regina project’s scope is

highlighted with red borders.

Available at http://viaregina3.como.polimi.it/WorldWind/

The data of each POI is displayed inside a popup upon clicking the marker.

NASA Web World Wind based VGI platform

NASA Web World Wind based VGI

platform - architecture

PoliCrowd 2.0

Collecting, managing, visualizing data in 3D/4D.

The volunteered data is submitted through Android mobile devices, using

ODK Collect application.

The data is visualized on a NASA World Wind Java SDK based virtual

globe.

PoliCrowd 2.0 PoliCrowd is a GeoWeb 2.0 application allowing users to participate in spatial

data management, uploading in real-time new geographic data collected on the

field and creating new maps through mash-ups of multiple data sources.

Every Point of Interest (POI) is open to collaborative contribution: everyone can

add his POI-related textual (comments) and multimedia content (images, audios

and videos).

PoliCrowd 2.0 - architecture In addition to the WMS servers, PoliCrowd 2.0 has also an innovative capability

to directly connect with any Open Data Kit (ODK) server available on the network

and publish the related data collected by the community.

WMS Servers ODK Servers

Restful

API

Application

Server

MOBILE CLIENTIt allows to collect the geodata on the field.

POLICROWD 2.0 CLIENTIt allows to interact with the data

uploaded by the users.

POLICROWD 2.0 SERVERManagement of accounts (authentication,

authorization), projects, multimedia content

Thanks for your attention!

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