Contribute information about villages

The project relies on data contribution from various stakeholders working/visiting villages in the mangrove areas of West Africa.  If you visit such villages for a project or personal reasons you can help us populating the database and make estimation of the number of people living withn mangrove areas more precise.

In order to contribute data to this project we ask that you first complete the short request form; once the info is reviewed you will receive an email granting access to the upload tools. After this one-tme registration you can contribute information at any time, for any country in West Africa, using the credentials you provided. You can upload the data directly from the field, if you have access to internet, or from your office/home or other area with internet connection. 

The Field Data Guidebook Instructions below cover the different ways to upload the data.

 

Field Data Collection Guidebook

After Being Approved for Data Collection, Start Here:
Sign in to ArcGIS
Signin screen
Click on "Groups"
Groups screen
Enter the MAHRV Group
Select MAHRV Group
View all Group content
Click to view all
Filter User Applications
Filtering
Further documentation

Pdfs can be downloaded from the AGOL page as shown, or from the links at the bottom of this web page.

Download pdfs

Collect/Enter Field Data (from the field):
Download and Install Survey123 for ArcGIS

Survey123 imageSearch for “Survey123 for ArcGIS” in

  • Apple App Store
  • Google Play Store

 

The following operating systems are supported for the Survey123 field app:
Android 4.4 (KitKat) or later, IOS 10 or later (64 bit)

(1) Access and Configure Survey123 Field App:

app icon 1) Click the App Icon

 

grant permissions to access media, files
2) Allow Media Access
allow device location
3) Allow location access
sign in!
4) Sign in to ArcGIS Online
(2) Access and Configure Survey123 Field App

Choose the "Enterprise Login" option.

ArcGIS Online sign-in box - Enterprise login
ArcGIS organization’s URL
columbia.maps.arcgis.com
ArcGIS Online sign-in box
Enter your assigned AGOL User Name and Password
Download Data Collection Survey
Get ArcGIS Surveys
1) Get surveys
Download ArcGIS survey
2) Download MAHRV_remote_villages
Access survey
3) Access MAHRV_remote_villages survey
In the Survey123 Field App: Start Collecting
  1. Access the MAHRV_remote_villages survey
  2. Start Collecting
  3. Collecting Village Location:
Access the<br /> MAHRV_remote_villages survey
 
1) No Basemap: If there is no internet, then no visible basemap
missing base map
2) Select correct TPK: Luckily we have downloaded Offline Tile Packages

Select correct TPK
3) Collect Point of Interest: Zoom to correct location and adjust as needed. Click Check Box to Collect
layer map
In the Survey123 Field App: Collect Attributes
1) For verification purposes, select Country where village resides
select country
2) Enter other descriptive information about Village
enter village info
3) Add any other Notes or information and submit
add notes
In the Survey123 Field App: Submit Results
1) Choose Send Later unless you have internet access in which case choose Send Now
survey completed
2) Once you have established internet access, submit results
Submit results
Submit results
Submit results
Enter Field Data (from the office):
Access ArcGIS Online
  1. Navigate to https://columbia.maps.arcgis.com
  2. Enter your assigned AGOL User Name and Password
  3. Access the MAHRV Group
  4. Access the Office VGI Data Entry Web Application
Log in

Location of Office VGI Data Entry app

Add a new feature
  1. Select New Feature
  2. Navigate to the proper latitude and longitude and click to drop point on map
view of map
Add attributes for the New Feature

Fill in attribute information following the same procedure as described in the field data collection section of this document

attribute entry box
[Optional] Offline Basemaps for the Field (from the office):
Preparing for Data Collection: Offline Basemaps
  • Tile Packages (TPKs) are compressed files for accessing imagery and other online GIS service data in an offline environment
  • ArcGIS Imagery Basemap for scale levels 10-17 of the AGOL Tile set available in varying coverages:
    • 15 Minute – 30 km 2
    • 7.5 Minute – 15 km 2
Basemap scale levels
layer info
layer map
Access ArcGIS Online

 

  1. Navigate to https://columbia.maps.arcgis.com:
  2. Enter your assigned AGOL User Name and Password
  3. Access the MAHRV Group
  4. Open the MAHRV Basemap TPK Download Web Map

Enter your assigned AGOL User Name and Password

Open the MAHRV Basemap TPK
Download Tile Packages (TPKs)
  1. Determine your area(s) of interest
  2. Click on the box for each area where you plan to conduct field work
  3. Click "More info" under the Download URL attribute to download the TPK for that area:
large layer map
Make Maps Visible to Survey123
  1. Navigate to the downloaded TPK(s...one or many)
  2. Connect your device to the computer that you downloaded the TPK(s) from
  3. Copy the TPK(s) to This PC\Your Device Name\Phone\ArcGIS\My Surveys\Maps
Download TPK's to your device

These instructions are also available as pdf files to download: