Subject: ‘crowdsourcing’
January 20, 2012 Help Map Medical Locations in LibyaCommunity, DataWith the help of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), GISCorps, and the Stand By Task Force (SBTF) (an online volunteer mapping community), the WHO has been trying to map out all the medical facilities within the embattled country of Libya. The project is an ongoing effort and a call for help has gone out in a memo to ... read more November 17, 2011 Creating Maps for Wikipedia and Printed Materials with ShareMap.orgWeb MappingThe availability of simple online mapping tools (such as what Google Maps offers) allows those with limited geospatial technical knowlege to design simple maps via a web browser without using any external professional tools. These tools open up mapping to anybody who wanted to create a map of their neighborhood, holiday trip, and any other ... read more August 25, 2011 Crowdsourcing ArchaeologyDataYou can be an armchair archeologist and help National Geographic with tagging satellite photos of unexplored areas in Central Asia. The Valley of the Khans Project is being led by Dr. Albert Yu-Min Lin who is compiling a survey as a part of an effort to located the lost tomb of Genghis Khan. Registered users ... read more June 4, 2011MaptivismGIS NewsMaptivism can be defined as the use of maps to promote a cause. All maps tell a story and the use of geographic data and maps to accelerate attention on an issue has become more profound and globally available with the increase of crowdsourced geographic data and user friendly mapping technologies. Organizations like the Tactical ... read more May 16, 2011 GIS Talks from RedlandsIssues in GISThere are some interesting talks available online from Redlands GIS Week. The event was held this past February at Esri’s headquarters in Redlands, California. The week was focused on discussing the current and future state of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). Over three days, a series of workshop and talks focusing on crowd-sourced geographic data were ... read more April 19, 2011 Google Map Maker Arrives in the United StatesWeb MappingAlready available in 183 countries and regions (or 187 if you go by the statistics on this page), Google Map Maker is now available in the United States. Map Maker was launched in 2008 to develop data in areas where detailed geographic information was lacking. According to Google’s blog post: Using Map Maker, people have ... read more September 29, 2010 Social Driving Via WazeGIS NewsWaze is the social mobile application that uses real-time input from local drivers to update traffic conditions for other users and they recently announced the ability to create social driving groups. After thirty days, 4,199 social driving groups have formed on Waze worldwide. Of those 691 have been formed in the United States. The largest ... read more September 21, 2010 Future of GIS from GCNGIS NewsGovernment Computer News proclaims that the future of GIS is “crowds, clouds … and 4-D”. “It’s crowd and cloud,” said Mark Reichardt, president of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), a nonprofit standards organization. “We’re seeing this movement of geospatial and location-service functionality seamlessly into the business decision cycle and business tools and consumer services.” The ... read more August 10, 2010 Major Update for WazeGIS NewsWaze, the crowd-sourcing traffic application, has announced the release of version 2.0. This release launches new driving “groups”, a feature that allows users to discover and connect to other drivers who share common interests on the road. Groups allows drivers that share common interests, geography, or commutes to share information among themselves. Examples of the types ... read more December 4, 2009 Help Map MarsDataNASA is joining in on the crowdsourcing trend. Their Be a Martian web site solicits help from the public to help improve Martian maps and other tasks relating to studying the fourth planet in our solar system. From NASA’s press release: Drawing on observations from NASA’s Mars missions, the “Be a Martian” Web site will ... read more |
