Add survey setting: Data collected by others visible / invisible

[jo-spek]

Data collected by others have previously been visible to data collectors and survey organizers in Ground for Android. That has been deactivated in response to #1800 for privacy reasons.
However, in the current Ghana campaign the organizers would specifically like data collectors to see each others collected data to avoid duplicates.

It would therefore be great to implement a setting in survey management to switch on/off the visibility of others' data in Ground for Android.

(Additional info: Survey organizers obviously can see data collected by others in Ground-platform, but NOT in Ground for Android!)

[jo-spek]

Hi @kenstershiro,

as @jabramowitz5 pointed out, "the CERSGIS team is flagging this as the main feature request right now, as data collectors are finding that they are often creating overlapping polygons because they don't know where the already collected polygons end for nearby farms."

[jabramowitz5]

It seems like in issue #1800 @lecrabe was acting as a data collector viewing the submissions of other data collectors in the web version of Ground. What CERSGIS is interested in is data collectors viewing the submissions of other data collectors in the Android version of Ground so that data collectors in the field can avoid overlapping with nearby farms that has already been surveyed by someone else. My understanding is that ideally the functionality would be:

• In web platform, survey organizer can turn ON viewing permissions for data collectors to see other data collectors' entries (for surveys like those being carried out for Lacuna Fund) or turning viewing permissions OFF (for public surveys like [Auth & ACLs] Introduce "public" surveys #2121)
• In both ON and OFF situations, the data collector can see all of their previous submission geometries on their Android mobile app (this should not require internet connection since they are stored on the phone until sync)
• In ON situation, the data collector can see all of the previous submission geometries of other data collectors in their survey (I suppose this would require connection for syncing, so might severely limit what CERSGIS is hoping can be done?)

Any thoughts on the syncing aspect here? Maybe @gino-m @rfontanarosa @anandwana001?

[gino-m]

@vittorino Has a proposal for how to manage this via the web console.

[vittorino]

this is a study to display and differentiate a collector's own polygons:

and this is to show multiple job's lois and polygons with completion flag:

[gino-m]

this is a study to display and differentiate a collector's own polygons:

Which are which in this example? It's not immediately clear.

[jabramowitz5]

@vittorino This looks really nice to me, would it be visualized this way (with different colors) in the Android version as well? The main concern is for data collectors to view the polygons already collected by other data collectors while in the field