Subject: ‘geo-volunteeerism’
November 18, 2009 Geo-VolunteerismCommunity, DataThe New York Times is the latest publication to profile the various crowdsourcing efforts to collect geographic data: From Petaluma to Peshawar, these amateurs are arming themselves with GPS devices and easy-to-use software to create digital maps where none were available before, or fixing mistakes and adding information to existing ones. Like contributors to Wikipedia before ... read more |
