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 <[email protected]>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 <[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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > -- @lizbarry <http://twitter.com/lizbarry>
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