[HOT] Crowdsourcing Satellite map gaps

[Liz Barry]

There is something nice about it! i copied Public Lab web team here because
there have been off and on conversations about how local folks can indicate
where they would like to do a future aerial mapping project to improve the
imagery.


On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 9:08 AM, alyssa wright <alyssapwright at gmail.com>wrote:

> I like this.  It reminds me of Trevor Paglen's thesis Blank Spots on the
> Map: The Dark Geographies of the Pentagon's Secret World<http://www.amazon.com/Blank-Spots-Map-Geography-Pentagons/dp/0451229169>.
>
>
> "...geography theory tells us that it really isn't possible to make things
> disappear, to render things nonexistent. Geography tells us that secrecy,
> in other words, is always bound to fail, and because secrecy is always
> bound to fail, perhaps counterintuitively, it tends to grow even stronger."
>
> Alyssa.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Heather Leson <hleson at ushahidi.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi folks, I participated in the Space Apps Challenge this weekend. One of
>> the shining stars that seemed HOT "curious" was MapGap.
>>
>> A webapp where users can select a location where satellite imagery data
>> is missing and report, thus crowdsourcing the demand data for agencies and
>> vendors to take up.
>>
>> http://spaceappschallenge.org/project/mapgap/
>> http://mapgap.herokuapp.com/
>> https://github.com/nileshtrivedi/mapgap
>>
>> Would this play nice with MapMill?
>>
>> Heather
>>
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