Manual for projectleaders

Full manual for anyone who wants to use Lomap

independently. Teachers, youthworkers, researchers...
Contents
1. Preparation: registration and creating a project
2. Preparation: setting up your workshop
3. Start of a workshop: introduction
4. Launching the app and participant registration
5. Walking around town with Lomap
6. Uploading photos and discussion
7. After the workshop, output possibilities
1. Preparation: registration and creating
a project
Step 1: Registration on the Lomap website
If you want to use Lomap with a group of people,
you need to register as a projectleader on the web-
site. Go to www.lomap.be - click on the projects
tab, then click on ‘create your own project’ follo-
wed by ‘register’.
Step 2: Once you’re registered you need to log in
in order to get to the “My Lomap” menu.
Step 3: In the “My Lomap” menu, select ‘create a
new project’ and fill in the form. You can choose
between an open or a closed project. In most cases
you will need a closed project.
2. Preparation: setting up your workshop
Try to work in a room with a working WIFI
connection or use smartphones with a good inter-
net data plan. In order to let participants register on
Lomap, you’ll need a working internet connection
on the smartphones.*
Get every participant an Android smartphone
or -tablet. Lomap exists only on Android devices;
iPhones, iPads, Windows phones or tablets and
Blackberries are not yet supported. (A smartpho-
ne is better than a tablet, it’s a lot more practical to
walk outside and to take pictures with a compact de-
vice with a good camera.) Turn on the wifi-connec-
tion and the geolocation (GPS) on all of the phones.
To Download the app
you can visit the Google
Play Store and search for
“lomap” or simply scan
this QR-code:
* If you’re having trouble getting a good internet connection
you can use a mobile router or turn your smartphone into a
mobile hotspot. Get one or two phones with a good data con-
nection and let those work as a portable wifi hotspot. More
info on how to set up a mobile hotspot can be found online.
OPEN VS CLOSED PROJECTS
In an open project, all Lomap users will have
the possibility to add their photos to your project.
Just create your project here, make sure you add
a clear description to it and place an open call on
social media so that people can join your project.
(possible open projects: pictures of street art in
a certain city, dangerous pedestrian crossings in
a certain neighbourhood, a general research on
how people see their neighbourhood...)
If you want to organize a project with a speci-
fic group of participants or if you’re organizing
a (guided) walk through a neighbourhood on
a certain day and time, it’s best to choose the
closed project option. In a closed project only
people you give the project password to will be
able to add photos to your project. You can also
create users yourself, so they only need to login
on the app (and not register). Users will not be
able to edit the project settings or hide/unhide
their own photos once they uploaded them. Only
the project leader has full access to the project.
A closed project has a project password, this can
not be the same as your user password! Choose
a password that isn’t too hard, because all users
in your group will have to register or log in using
this password.
There’s no difference between open and clo-
sed projects when it comes to their publica-
tion on the Lomap website. All Lomap projects
are instantly visible on the lomowall and lomo-
map viewing modes. The only way to hide your
entire project is by logging in and hiding each
picture individually. If you’re having problems
here or you want to delete an entire project, you
can always contact us. If you don’t want your
project listed on our projects page, just uncheck
the box at the end of the project form.
 3. Start of a workshop: introduction
As an introduction it helps to show the Lomap website at the beginning of the workshop. We recom-
mend using a computer with a big monitor or a projector for this. This way participants can have a look at
the area they’re about to ‘lomap’ (click on LomoMap) and you can already have a look at the symbols
that are used in Lomap (see under). Also for showing the uploaded pictures when you return from your
walk, a projection is a good way to show the results and start a discussion.

Structure of a typical Lomap workshop

TIP
When explaining the symbols you can already ask the partici-
pants what their opinion is about some of these subjects (e.g.
“nature and environment”, “mobility”...) for this particular
neighbourhood. Even if they haven’t been there before, they
might already have some preconceived ideas about it...
LOMAP SYMBOLS
First screen: place defining symbols
nature and
environment
1. introduction (explanation) - 30min
2. installing the app and registration - 15min
3. walking through the neighbourhood - ...
4. upload + discussion - 30min
For small children(8-12 yo), you might want to
use one or more introductory methods. Through
these methods they can get to know the app and
(especially) the used icons in a playful way. You
can find those methods on the Lomap-website
under the info-tab, unfortunately they’re not yet
available in English, but we’re happy to translate/
explain them to you upon request (lomap@jes.be)

Second screen: personal connection/opinion symbols

mobility

meeting place (especially for) boys/men

sports and games

(especially for) girls/

danger or violence
women

economy

personal or
tourist hotspot taste or touch

culture and
heritage
idea!
I want to change sight
something here
living and living environ-
ment
place where few people
smell
come
shopping, foods and
drinks
place where lots of peop-
sound
le come
work and
education
4. Start of the workshop: launching the app and user registration
Launch the app. For closed projects (98% of the projects) particpants can easily register by tapping “Par-
ticipant of a group” followed by “Register”. In the next screen they will have to complete a registration
form:
! ! !
Important
During registrati-
on you need an ac- In the “username” field they should
tive internet con- use a unique username, so some-
nection thing like john1989, ShadowDan-
cer32, Ahmed1080... Names like
Joe, John, Sarah will probably have
At ‘Age’ fill in age (in years) been taken by earlier users.

At home city = city or community

Here your participants need in which they were born or live.
to enter the project password.
This is the password that
you as a project leader have
choosen for your project. In open projects (the other 2%)
Be carefull: this is not your
individual Lomap users will need
personal password! Choose
to add their photos to your pro-
a project password that’s not
too difficult and write it on a ject. For them this registration
(smart)board or flipchart for form will look slightly different.
everyone to see. For open projects follow these
steps:
Step 1: Participants need to
register as an “individual user”,
fill in the form and choose their
own password (so no project
password here)
LOMAP APP SETTINGS Step 2: To add photos to your
In order to change the language, user, or even your device’s geolocation or project they can choose from a
internetsettings you’ll need to access the settings menu. Tap on the settings list of open projects in the ‘com-
menu and you’ll get these options: ment-screen’(see below). Or they
can select your project as their
default project in the ‘settings’
menu. (see left)

Take a look at what user is logged in and log him/her out.

Choose a default-project (only for open projects)

Change the language of the app (Nederlands,

Français or English)

Go to the location settings of your phone.

Go to the internet settings of your phone.

Erase all lomap user data on the phone (if

you’re working with phones/tablets that are
property of the organisation: at the end of a
workshop after the upload)
5. Taking pictures with Lomap: using the app during a walk

Before taking a photo with Lomap you’ll first need to

select one of the five emoticons at the bottom of the ‘live
camera view’ screen. To choose an emoticon, you first need
to reflect on how you feel about the subject you’re about
to photograph. If you feel very negative, choose the red
emoticon, purple for negative, blue for neutral, lightblue for
positive and green for very positive.
‘live camera view’ screen

Next tap the visor symbol

in the center of your screen
to take a photo. This will also
add the color of the moodfilter
you selected as a colourfilter
to your photo.
You’ll now get two screens
in which you can add tags to
your photo by selecting one
or more symbols. In the first
symbols screen you add one
or more of the ‘place-defi-
ning’ symbols (see above).
place defining symbols screen
IMPORTANT:
1. Do not take pictures
of people(‘s faces). a) be-
cause of portrait right!* and
b) because Lomap is a tool
which focuses on public
space, not on people.
*Exception to this rule: if
the people on the photo are
just part of the scene, not the
main subject, and/ or they’re
not recognizable.

2. Take all of your photos

personal opinion symbols screen
comment screen
In the second symbols screen
you can add ‘personal opi-
nion’ symbols (see above) to
your photo
In the final screen you can
add a comment to your pho-
to (not required). Don’t forget
to click the green ‘check’
icon. This will save your
photo to the device (not yet
upload it to the website) and
you’ll return to the ‘live-ca-
mera’ view.
in landscape mode (hori-
zontally). Vertical/portrait
photos will be hard to look
at on the Lomap-website.
3. During the walk, no
active internet connec-
tion is needed!* Lomap
works perfectly fine on GPS
only. Devices only need to
be connected to the internet
for registration and logging
in and for uploading the
pictures (at the end of the
workshop, when you return
from your walk)..
*Do make sure people don’t
get logged out during the
walk, because you will need
an active connection to log
back in (you could use a
mobile hotspot).
6. Uploading pictures and group discussion
After the walk you should return to a place where there is a WIFI connection to upload the photos to the
website. We recommend to do this on a big screen. This way the entire group can see the uploaded pictu-
res appearing on the screen. Ask every particpant to upload their photos individually, this gives the
participants the opportunity to reflect on why they want to share each particular picture.

Pictures should be uploaded one at a time.

You do this by going to the startscreen and tapping

Next tap on your photos to select them. ! ! !

Important
Once a photo has
been uploaded, you
cannot edit it any-
more.
Tap to upload a photo

Tap to edit the comment or symbols of a photo

Tap to delete a photo

During the uploading process you can see the pictures appear live on screen. You can just visit the
main website (no need to log in), click on projects and select your project. Here you can choose to see the
Project Map or the Project Wall. Select one of the two modes and you’ll see the pictures appearing on
either your map or your wall. Refresh this page regularly in order to see new pictures appear. You can
then switch to the other mode (map/wall) in order to have a different view on the pictures that were taken.

Project Map Project Wall

7. After the workshop: project management and output possibilities
You can download every picture as a JPEG or as a ready-made postcard. To be able to do this you
need to login in as project leader on www.lomap.be, go to ‘My Lomap’, click on ‘Your Wall’, select your
project and click on a photo. Next you can...

check ‘hide’ to hide a picture (censor it)

click to download this photo

click to get a ready-made postcard

(pdf) of this photo

click the share buttons to share on various soci-

al networks or send by e-mail

You can use the menu on the left to compose a personalised

lomowall and save it to your computer. If you want to create a
larger print of your wall, e.g. in the public space, just send us an
e-mail and we’ll provide you with a high resolution pdf.

If you have any questions or if you need more

support, feel free to contact us!

lomap@jes.be

0032 2 411.68.83
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