[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

[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

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)

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:

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