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Hi all,

I want to map like 2000 locations using Open data kit to Google map, then
the coordinates i get if possible i map them in an internal soft map. i
already have an aggregate appspot, build and collect android are set. i had
set these in January 2011 but the project stalled. now i'm just about to
get a go ahead. What is the best advice to progress on this, what are the
latest factors to consider on mapping. as u see it's a huge project and i
have to do things right here.

Regards,
Peter

If you want to use Google Earth desktop, I recommend exporting the data as
a KML file from Aggregate, then loading that into your Google Earth app.

The other option is to publish the data into Google Fusion Tables, then
render the maps from there. This is far more scalable (especially when you
have 10,000's of points).

The billing charges would probably be very high if you tried to display
these interactively on ODK Aggregate itself.

If at all possible, please consider upgrading your ODK Aggregate to the
latest version. See
http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/wiki/AggregateReleaseNotes for upgrade
steps. There have been significant improvements since January 2011.

Mitch

··· On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Peter Kaiga wrote:

Hi all,

I want to map like 2000 locations using Open data kit to Google map, then
the coordinates i get if possible i map them in an internal soft map. i
already have an aggregate appspot, build and collect android are set. i had
set these in January 2011 but the project stalled. now i'm just about to
get a go ahead. What is the best advice to progress on this, what are the
latest factors to consider on mapping. as u see it's a huge project and i
have to do things right here.

Regards,
Peter

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what charge will i incur, yet all systems here are open source, did they
start charging.

··· On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Mitch Sundt wrote:

If you want to use Google Earth desktop, I recommend exporting the data as
a KML file from Aggregate, then loading that into your Google Earth app.

The other option is to publish the data into Google Fusion Tables, then
render the maps from there. This is far more scalable (especially when you
have 10,000's of points).

The billing charges would probably be very high if you tried to display
these interactively on ODK Aggregate itself.

If at all possible, please consider upgrading your ODK Aggregate to the
latest version. See
http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/wiki/AggregateReleaseNotes for
upgrade steps. There have been significant improvements since January 2011.

Mitch

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Peter Kaiga kaigapeter@gmail.comwrote:

Hi all,

I want to map like 2000 locations using Open data kit to Google map, then
the coordinates i get if possible i map them in an internal soft map. i
already have an aggregate appspot, build and collect android are set. i had
set these in January 2011 but the project stalled. now i'm just about to
get a go ahead. What is the best advice to progress on this, what are the
latest factors to consider on mapping. as u see it's a huge project and i
have to do things right here.

Regards,
Peter

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Peter,

Mitch was referring to hosting your instance on app engine. The code is
free but hosting for your instance is not nor has it ever been.

Matt

··· On Tuesday, March 12, 2013, Peter Kaiga wrote:

what charge will i incur, yet all systems here are open source, did they
start charging.

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Mitch Sundt mitchellsundt@gmail.comwrote:

If you want to use Google Earth desktop, I recommend exporting the data as
a KML file from Aggregate, then loading that into your Google Earth app.

The other option is to publish the data into Google Fusion Tables, then
render the maps from there. This is far more scalable (especially when you
have 10,000's of points).

The billing charges would probably be very high if you tried to display
these interactively on ODK Aggregate itself.

If at all possible, please consider upgrading your ODK Aggregate to the
latest version. See
http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/wiki/AggregateReleaseNotes for
upgrade steps. There have been significant improvements since January 2011.

Mitch

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Peter Kaiga kaigapeter@gmail.comwrote:

Hi all,

I want to map like 2000 locations using Open data kit to Google map, then
the coordinates i get if possible i map them in an internal soft map. i
already have an aggregate appspot, build and collect android are set. i had
set these in January 2011 but the project stalled. now i'm just about to
get a go ahead. What is the best advice to progress on this, what are the
latest factors to consider on mapping. as u see it's a huge project and i
have to do things right here.

Regards,
Peter

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Hi,

The initial days i was setting my instance, i didn't incur any charge, it
was an online google appspot, also there was an option of having a local
host in port 8080; is it still charged, or by hosting what is the best
explanation to this term.

Regrads,
Peter

··· On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Matt Berg wrote:

Peter,

Mitch was referring to hosting your instance on app engine. The code is
free but hosting for your instance is not nor has it ever been.

Matt

On Tuesday, March 12, 2013, Peter Kaiga wrote:

what charge will i incur, yet all systems here are open source, did they
start charging.

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Mitch Sundt mitchellsundt@gmail.comwrote:

If you want to use Google Earth desktop, I recommend exporting the data
as a KML file from Aggregate, then loading that into your Google Earth app.

The other option is to publish the data into Google Fusion Tables, then
render the maps from there. This is far more scalable (especially when you
have 10,000's of points).

The billing charges would probably be very high if you tried to display
these interactively on ODK Aggregate itself.

If at all possible, please consider upgrading your ODK Aggregate to the
latest version. See
http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/wiki/AggregateReleaseNotes for
upgrade steps. There have been significant improvements since January 2011.

Mitch

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Peter Kaiga kaigapeter@gmail.comwrote:

Hi all,

I want to map like 2000 locations using Open data kit to Google map, then
the coordinates i get if possible i map them in an internal soft map. i
already have an aggregate appspot, build and collect android are set. i had
set these in January 2011 but the project stalled. now i'm just about to
get a go ahead. What is the best advice to progress on this, what are the
latest factors to consider on mapping. as u see it's a huge project and i
have to do things right here.

Regards,
Peter

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Peter,

See http://opendatakit.org/use/aggregate/deployment-planning/ for a bit of
information on deployment options, billing, etc.

Best,

Chris

··· On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Peter Kaiga wrote:

Hi,

The initial days i was setting my instance, i didn't incur any charge, it
was an online google appspot, also there was an option of having a local
host in port 8080; is it still charged, or by hosting what is the best
explanation to this term.

Regrads,
Peter

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Peter,

Mitch was referring to hosting your instance on app engine. The code is
free but hosting for your instance is not nor has it ever been.

Matt

On Tuesday, March 12, 2013, Peter Kaiga wrote:

what charge will i incur, yet all systems here are open source, did they
start charging.

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Mitch Sundt mitchellsundt@gmail.comwrote:

If you want to use Google Earth desktop, I recommend exporting the data
as a KML file from Aggregate, then loading that into your Google Earth app.

The other option is to publish the data into Google Fusion Tables, then
render the maps from there. This is far more scalable (especially when you
have 10,000's of points).

The billing charges would probably be very high if you tried to display
these interactively on ODK Aggregate itself.

If at all possible, please consider upgrading your ODK Aggregate to the
latest version. See
http://code.google.com/p/opendatakit/wiki/AggregateReleaseNotes for
upgrade steps. There have been significant improvements since January 2011.

Mitch

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Peter Kaiga kaigapeter@gmail.comwrote:

Hi all,

I want to map like 2000 locations using Open data kit to Google map,
then the coordinates i get if possible i map them in an internal soft map.
i already have an aggregate appspot, build and collect android are set. i
had set these in January 2011 but the project stalled. now i'm just about
to get a go ahead. What is the best advice to progress on this, what are
the latest factors to consider on mapping. as u see it's a huge project and
i have to do things right here.

Regards,
Peter

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On mapping, you will need Google Earth Pro (fee-based) in order to load a
kml, but usefulness is limited. you can load data in GoogleMap, but it is
unreliable and inefficient - lots of points are likely to be dropped for no
reason, and you can only display a limited number of points on a map. The
best (free) google based alternative is a Google fusion table (free, should
work with large number of points) . You may also be able to use other
products like crowdmap https://crowdmap.com/ which is not designed for this

  • it is a Ushahidi based type of product for crowdsourcing - but may be
    used to display your sampled points, or mapbox http://mapbox.com/ (fee-based,
    but not expensive). We are about to release a beta version of KoBoMap which
    let users map aggregated data by administrative entities, not points.

Good luck

Patrick

formhub.org gives you some you pretty good mapping options and
works seamlessly with ODK collect if you just want to map survey data.

··· On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Patrick Vinck wrote:

On mapping, you will need Google Earth Pro (fee-based) in order to load a
kml, but usefulness is limited. you can load data in GoogleMap, but it is
unreliable and inefficient - lots of points are likely to be dropped for no
reason, and you can only display a limited number of points on a map. The
best (free) google based alternative is a Google fusion table (free, should
work with large number of points) . You may also be able to use other
products like crowdmap https://crowdmap.com/ which is not designed for
this - it is a Ushahidi based type of product for crowdsourcing - but may
be used to display your sampled points, or mapbox http://mapbox.com/ (fee-based,
but not expensive). We are about to release a beta version of KoBoMap which
let users map aggregated data by administrative entities, not points.

Good luck

Patrick

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And if you want something you can use on your desktop, try a complete GIS
software: Quantum GIS (qGIS) http://qgis.org. It's free and open source.

··· On Wednesday, March 13, 2013, Matt Berg wrote:

formhub.org gives you some you pretty good mapping options and
works seamlessly with ODK collect if you just want to map survey data.

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Patrick Vinck zonblo@gmail.com wrote:

On mapping, you will need Google Earth Pro (fee-based) in order to load a
kml, but usefulness is limited. you can load data in GoogleMap, but it is
unreliable and inefficient - lots of points are likely to be dropped for no
reason, and you can only display a limited number of points on a map. The
best (free) google based alternative is a Google fusion table (free, should
work with large number of points) . You may also be able to use other
products like crowdmap https://crowdmap.com/ which is not designed for
this - it is a Ushahidi based type of product for crowdsourcing - but may
be used to display your sampled points, or mapbox http://mapbox.com/ (fee-based,
but not expensive). We are about to release a beta version of KoBoMap which
let users map aggregated data by administrative entities, not points.

Good luck

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What i want is to map, then put the locations on Google map, then also put
these locations on intranet and website. I have google fusion table & full
odk process with me, but i wanted to know how are people adding their
locations on maps, what the most optimal way of doing this especially if i
can borrow from developed country.

··· On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:24 AM, ゴー・ニコライ wrote:

And if you want something you can use on your desktop, try a complete GIS
software: Quantum GIS (qGIS) http://qgis.org. It's free and open source.

On Wednesday, March 13, 2013, Matt Berg wrote:

formhub.org gives you some you pretty good mapping options and
works seamlessly with ODK collect if you just want to map survey data.

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Patrick Vinck zonblo@gmail.com wrote:

On mapping, you will need Google Earth Pro (fee-based) in order to load
a kml, but usefulness is limited. you can load data in GoogleMap, but it is
unreliable and inefficient - lots of points are likely to be dropped for no
reason, and you can only display a limited number of points on a map. The
best (free) google based alternative is a Google fusion table (free, should
work with large number of points) . You may also be able to use other
products like crowdmap https://crowdmap.com/ which is not designed for
this - it is a Ushahidi based type of product for crowdsourcing - but may
be used to display your sampled points, or mapbox http://mapbox.com/ (fee-based,
but not expensive). We are about to release a beta version of KoBoMap which
let users map aggregated data by administrative entities, not points.

Good luck

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I use this: http://www.earthpoint.us/ExcelToKml.aspx

Hi Jerry,

i have tried your options but it requires one to purchase, isn't there
trial period for the same.

Regards,
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I use this: http://www.earthpoint.us/ExcelToKml.aspx

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You can export a map to KML using Quantum GIS http://qgis.org. Just
import them as a layer with geographic coordinates.

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Hi Jerry,

i have tried your options but it requires one to purchase, isn't there
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Regards,
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@Peter: you don't need to pay for anything unless you need advanced features.

Agreed with Jerry as I am using Quantum GIS for small projects relating to
community mapping in my area.

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