Crowdsourcing Ocean Navigation Data

Reader Jay pointed me to TeamSurv. I’ll let that site tell its story:

Welcome to TeamSurv, the do-it-yourself survey project.

TeamSurv is a self-help community that shares depth and position information, collected from the boat’s own GPS and depth sounder, as you go about your normal cruising.
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TeamSurv is the public face of the EU sponsored CoSuDEC project, which is investigating the use of crowd sourcing to log position and depth data from seagoing vessels, and then to process that data to enhance the quality of nautical charts, and data sets for GIS systems as used by coastal engineers, for example.

The project consortium is a powerful blend of companies experienced in data logging, charts and GIS systems; software development; and sales and marketing. Bringing together these three aspects gives a project of this type the breadth of experience necessary to succeed. The project is supported by the GSA, who see it as an example of how European SME’s can exploit the technological benefits of EGNOS and (when available) Galileo, increasing Europe’s presence in the GNSS applications sector.

The project’s duration is two years (until the end of 2011), but after that the intention is that the consortium will carry on with TeamSurv as an ongoing project.