So, you want to use Amazon Mechanical Turk to find something (person, plane, boat, etc.?)
What you need are:
- Current aerial or satellite imagery. This should be of sufficient resolution that an untrained individual can recognize what you are loking for. For example, satellite (60cm or 1m) is good at finding an airplane that is flying, it most likely can't find a crashed Decathalon.
- If an untrained individual can't recognize what is being sought, your search will be more successful if you have imagery without the subject (before the plane crash for example.) This makes it possible to present before and after photos and ask the simple question "is there anything new?"
- Image hosting. The images from satellite and aerial providers are large. For Mechanical Turk usage they are split into displayable tiles. Each tile is viewed by multiple people.
Here's what I can provide:
I can tile images. I can extract the location of the new tile from the old tile. I can help you tile.
I can load HITs, load data into S3, etc.
I can create GoogleEarth KML files (though I don't recommend unrestricted KML files, as the average person goes off into unknown areas via GoogleEarth.)
I can assist with other technical pieces.
I am not a project manager. I am not public relations. I can not acquire imagery for you. I currently can't deal with everybody doing the work and help them do a better job. I just provide access to data.
An alternative to Mechanicl Turk is www.InternetSAR.org. www.InternetSAR.org uses GoogleEarth so doesn't need old imagery to be provided. www.InternetSAR.org provides KML file generation. All that is needed is the tiles, and the locations of the images the tiles are from.