My Job For The Week
Mar. 26th, 2008 07:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deird_ljImagine some railway tracks.
You've got one set of tracks going north, and another set beside them going south. Both tracks look pretty much the same.
And this is in rural Victoria, so the landscape is pretty much long stretches of dried-out grass with the occasional excitement of "oh look! A tree!".
This set of tracks runs for twenty kilometres.
And over the last two years, a whole bunch of people have driven out to bits of the railway tracks, and taken photos. There could be photos of the north-going tracks, taken by someone looking north. Or photos of the north-going tracks, taken by someone looking south. Or both of those directions of photos, for the south-bound tracks. Everyone pretty much takes photos, and then chucks them in the computers at work, without bothering to label them.
My job for the week? To go through all of the photos we have for this particular set of railway tracks, and for each photo, to figure out:
a) whether it's a photo of the tracks that go north or the tracks that go south
b) whether the photo is looking north or south
c) where, along the twenty kilometres of track, the photo was taken
Wish me luck!
You've got one set of tracks going north, and another set beside them going south. Both tracks look pretty much the same.
And this is in rural Victoria, so the landscape is pretty much long stretches of dried-out grass with the occasional excitement of "oh look! A tree!".
This set of tracks runs for twenty kilometres.
And over the last two years, a whole bunch of people have driven out to bits of the railway tracks, and taken photos. There could be photos of the north-going tracks, taken by someone looking north. Or photos of the north-going tracks, taken by someone looking south. Or both of those directions of photos, for the south-bound tracks. Everyone pretty much takes photos, and then chucks them in the computers at work, without bothering to label them.
My job for the week? To go through all of the photos we have for this particular set of railway tracks, and for each photo, to figure out:
a) whether it's a photo of the tracks that go north or the tracks that go south
b) whether the photo is looking north or south
c) where, along the twenty kilometres of track, the photo was taken
Wish me luck!
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Date: 2008-03-26 02:49 am (UTC)And we could market it for ADDers, and set up a job exchange program. So that whenever anyone got bored with their work, they could just fill in a request on our website, and get a couple of weeks swapping jobs with someone in China...
I think it's a winner.
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Date: 2008-03-26 12:39 pm (UTC)