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document Distributed Knowledge
Crowdsourcing has allowed Yandex.Maps to add plans of such cities as Chita, Belgorod and Ulan-Ude, among many others.
Yandex.Maps now offers user-generated city plans for places as large as...
document Distributed Knowledge, Tools“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,...
document Distributed Knowledge, ToolsAXSMap uses browser geolocation and Google’s Places API to populate a database of businesses and locations for the reviewer community to build upon. Reviews are entered and published on the public...
document Distributed Knowledge
The stories behind the maps are John's motivation. "It's about context. A hundred years ago there were people running around, going to work and coming home. And you can figure out...
blog Distributed Knowledge, Open Innovation, Tools
Rick Hansen Global Accessibility Map is a unique call to action designed to focus on improving physical access to the public built environment in communities around the world. Using the map,...
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Public officials, landscape architects, and community advocates have long debated the idea of the accessibility and upkeep of planting fruit trees and berry bushes, etc. on public property....
document Distributed KnowledgeHow crowdsourcing was used to overcome the lack of public transport in Chennai, india. Presented at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for Mobilicity http://mobilicity.praja.in/
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The Public Mapping Project, an open-sourced software tool created to help the public better understand the redistricting process, enables users to make their own congressional maps which can be...
document Distributed KnowledgeAn offshoot of the town’s already-established Geographical Information System (GIS), a two-dimensional parcel-mapping tool that provides town-related geographical information, the CSR Dashboard...
document Distributed Knowledge
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...
document Distributed KnowledgeOn the data-mining side, Syria Tracker has repurposed the HealthMap platform, which mines thousands of online sources for the purposes of disease detection and then maps the results, “giving...
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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...
document Distributed Knowledge
“Our vision for the Flavour Map was to allow a global community to contribute to an entirely user-generated resource of flavours, and to share their amazing food taste experiences from around the...
document Distributed Knowledge
The Guardian is asking readers to add to their map of privatised public spaces in Britain.
For the purposes of this project, they are not looking at enclosed shopping malls - only open spaces,...
document Distributed Knowledge
In order to be useful, the maps must be “georectified,” or aligned with their modern virtual equivalents. (If that sounds interesting, good news: The NYPL is crowdsourcing that part of the...
document Distributed Knowledge, Tools
“If you’d like to help make our estimates better through crowdsourcing and have a GPS-enabled phone, try using Google Maps for mobile the next time you’re in traffic,” the company writes.
article Distributed KnowledgeThe crowdsourcing effort is somewhat unprecedented, and a really good way for Apple to improve its product quickly — at least in the heavily settled urban and wealthy suburban areas with their own...
article Distributed Knowledge
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...
document Distributed KnowledgeMIT’s Journal, Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization special edition includes lead articles by President Bill Clinton and Digicel’s CEO Denis O’Brien, a piece entitled Crowdsourcing...
site Distributed Knowledge / Health and WellbeingFounded by John Brownstein (Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School) and Clark Freifeld (software developer and PhD student in biomedical engineering at Boston University), HealthMap is a...