[sugar] Idea: Aerial photographs of all villages where XO's are deployed
I have this idea while reading an article about OLPC published on businessweek* They talked, among other things, about a boy who seemed to think Internet was inside the XO-1, and I thought it could be a good idea to have this boy's village or town in google maps so he could learn in a simple glance where in the world he is, the size and proportions of his hometown, his country and the world itself. This would help children assimilate better those concepts, as they have as a starting point something they know very well, and they could see what they are being taught. This would make also their imagination go wild. As google is a member of the OLPC foundation, they could at least integrate aerial photos easily if they're available. Governments could use helicopters or airplanes to take those pics. There's no OpenGL yet in sugar, and the application (google earth) relays heavily in internet traffic, but internet prices would eventually be cheap and this could be useful to teach some concepts. It's just an idea, I wanted to share it before I forget it, it happens to me everytime. *http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_24/b4088048125608.htm ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
[sugar] Idea: Aerial photographs of all villages where XO's are deployed
I have this idea while reading an article about OLPC published on businessweek* They talked, among other things, about a boy who seemed to think Internet was inside the XO-1, and I thought it could be a good idea to have this boy's village or town in google maps so he could learn in a simple glance where in the world he is, the size and proportions of his hometown, his country and the world itself. This would help children assimilate better those concepts, as they have as a starting point something they know very well, and they could see what they are being taught. This would make also their imagination go wild. As google is a member of the OLPC foundation, they could at least integrate aerial photos easily if they're available. Governments could use helicopters or airplanes to take those pics. There's no OpenGL yet in sugar, and the application (google earth) relays heavily in internet traffic, but internet prices would eventually be cheap and this could be useful to teach some concepts. It's just an idea, I wanted to share it before I forget it, it happens to me everytime. *http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_24/b4088048125608.htm ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
Re: [sugar] Idea: Aerial photographs of all villages where XO's are deployed
can the XO can access Google maps? I don't have an XO-1, but Google Maps works in the browse activity under sugar-jhbuild. Beware: there's people who are afraid of Big Brother and might mind their villages being in the public's eye. (Apparently the Germans have some law about that) There's people also afraid of being photographed, they said the camera steals their soul. That's just a cultural issue, it's just a picture, albeit a very descriptive and informative one. Security through obscurity never works. Urko ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
Re: [sugar] Idea: Aerial photographs of all villages where XO's are deployed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wade Brainerd wrote: | Too bad the new Google Earth API is much too high level for these purposes, | it would be great if Google would open up the data. Check out openaerialmap.org It's fantastic. - --Ben -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhJe5sACgkQUJT6e6HFtqSh6wCdGpj7VD3PtfQMCHuzNBmKrxU+ Vj8AnjFjt8mcdm3vZfO9JETZAi4FJ7w1 =Jd4L -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
Re: [sugar] Idea: Aerial photographs of all villages where XO's are deployed
For what it is worth, Seymour had a simple introductory project involving Google maps that he proposed in the early days of OLPC: have the children try to make a determination of when the photo was taken: time of day, time of year, which year, etc. -- opening the door to many of the ideas explored in projects such as Erik Blankinship and Brian Smith's Image Maps, etc. (See http://www.springerlink.com/content/u2pag8mfr651drcf/) It wouldn't require anything more than including an aerial photo as an xol bundle on the laptop. -walter ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
