I saw this interesting link on Boing-Boing. I don't think they've been mentioned here before.
Ian Sent to you by Ian Turton via Google Reader: Activist MIT cartographers aid Peruvian squatters via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on 1/23/10 Jeffrey sez, "This MIT Media Lab project worked with activists on Friday to make maps with a community of Shipibo who've taken up residence on the bank of the river Rimac in downtown Lima - a city of 11 million people. Using only helium balloons and a cheap camera, the GrassrootsMapping.org team, part of the Center for Future Civic Media, took pictures of the extralegal settlement from ~500 feet up. The images were rectified and the resulting map may help the Shipibo in their legal battle to gain deeds to the land. GrassrootsMapping.org is a project which supports communities in cartographic dispute by creating low-cost mapping tools." Grassroots Mapping with the Shipibo in the center of Lima (Thanks, Jeffrey!) Previously: - Google Maps hack: Cell Phone Tower Search - Boing Boing - Craigslist for-rent ads scraped and placed on Google Maps - Boing ... - Southern CA wildfires: good Lord they are huge. - Boing Boing - Map shows US marriage and divorce rates - Boing Boing - Future of Making map from Institute for the Future - Boing Boing - Transparent map over satellite photos of London - Boing Boing - Boing Boing: Annalee Newitz on the Geowankers - Boing Boing: Open maps of London event: April 14, London Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to Boing Boing using Google Reader - Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites
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