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When selecting a topic or story for crowdsourced mapping, remember that the story should have longer-term potential and a strong geographic component. Setting up a crowdsourced map requires some...
Being free and open source, Ushahidi can be deployed and configured as a community wishes. But what makes it an ideal platform for most communities is that there is a free web based deployment...
From Kimberly C. Kowal, the Lead Curator, Digital Mapping of the British Library: The technology is an an upgraded version of Klokan Technologies initial georeferencing software...
“The mapping service now includes detailed plans of almost 400 cities across Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Crowdsourcing has allowed Yandex.Maps to add plans of such cities as Chita,...
OpenPlans, the New York City-based open data nonprofit, is giving away free installations of Shareabouts, its crowdsourced place data tool. OpenPlans, the New York City-based open data...
Users of Dynamic Connections can also provide their own input as to streets’ cycle suitability by answering a few simple questions regarding traffic volume, topography and safety considerations for...
The crowdsourced map is part of a larger campaign led by FixFood, a non-profit run by documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner, to reduce the use of antibiotics in factory-farmed cows, hogs,and poultry....
you will see fast iPhone speeds The 3G/4G locales are submitted by iPhone 3G and newer owners (or non-AWS 4G phone users) who are seeing 3G/4G on T-Mobile. T-Mobile claims its HSPA+ network...
Supported by a Knight News Challenge Bridge Grant from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEMJC) and the Knight Foundation, the project will use advanced...
A UN initiative to boost emergency response by crowdsourced mapping and space technology
How to ensure that space-based information for crowdsource mapping benefits the emergency response community and disaster risk reduction?
This is the key question that specialists around the world will attempt to answer during the Expert Meeting being held in Geneva, this November, which is being held to coincide with the International Conference on Crisis Mapping.
The Expert Meeting is a fundamental part of the programme that is being organized by the United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (SPÍDER). The SPIDER program was established by the United Nations General Assembly with the mandate of ensuring that all countries, international and regional organizations, have access to space-based information, and to ensure they develop the capacity to use all types of space-based information to support the full, disaster management cycle. This includes the need to ensure that space-based information supports the crowdsource mapping efforts for the benefit of the disaster community.
The meeting will focus on exploring the different ways that the space technology community can collect, organize and provide greater access to its information and how it can better coordinate the communities through which it crowdsources information.
The Web map consists of numerous data layers integrated using Esri's ArcGIS technology. Esri technology has advanced significantly to allow the integration of user-generated or crowdsourced...
The way in which different groups have come together to channel citizen participation may mark a positive step forward in citizen driven initiatives for electoral transparency. There are, however,...
The second panel discussion featured Media Innovation Advisor, Internews and Crowdsourcing and Information Management Specialist, World Bank Anahi Ayala Iacucci who discussed “Crowdsourced Mapping...
During the three day event, more than 25 presentations on topics ranging from Crowdsource Mapping simulation exercises, crowdsource mapping responses to events such as Hurricane Sandy or the Great...
The map, released Feb. 5, by the online hacker group Anonymous pays particular attention to Thunder Bay, where the group has been critical of the police investigation into the abduction and...
Ben Marsh, who created the snow map by gathering tweets featuring the hashtag #uksnow, a postcode and a one to ten number rating of the amount of snow, has built a crowdsourced map for Channel 4...
OSM is "trustworthy" in that some people care enough to police and edit. "Vandalism" of the map can be reverted, and inaccurate information can be disputed. The real power is...
According to Penn Medicine, you don’t need a medical degree to use one of the devices: “Used in conjunction with CPR, AEDs are an important part of the “chain of survival” needed to save cardiac...
Whether mapping roads blocked by the Japan earthquake and tsunami or updating the location of new highways, stores or subway stations the day they open, volunteer Jonathan Bennett said the...
Open source advocates say those terms would preclude using non-Google platforms that compete with Google services, like OpenStreetMap. It seemed to folks like Ushahidi's Patrick Meier that...
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