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 <[email protected]> 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 > > -- > Heather Leson > Director of Community Engagement > *Ushahidi* > [email protected] > www.ushahidi.com and https://wiki.ushahidi.com > @heatherleson / skype: heatherleson > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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