Just wanted OAM folks to know there are larger areas being mapped now, see below :-)
really -- with 2-3 more of Doc's images, i can get a 3m/px map of the 5 boroughs. It seems like OAM hasn't been pulling in new data as much but if there's anything I can do to make MapKnitter maps more auto-pullable, say the word. We also recently added different (open) default base layers to rectify against, as well as explicit licensing of the outputs: http://mapknitter.org/map/license/publicdomain http://mapknitter.org/map/license/cc-by It seems like a dedicated group of air travelers could map most cities around the world at ~1 m/px in a reasonable amount of time, say, months. jeff ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeffrey Warren <j...@publiclaboratory.org> Date: Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:04 AM Subject: rectifying Doc Searls' window-seat photos of NYC To: publiclaborat...@googlegroups.com, grassrootsmapp...@googlegroups.com Doc Searls takes LOTS of photos from the windows of commercial airliners: http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/ Most are Creative Commons Attribution! I gave a couple a try over Brooklyn: http://mapknitter.org/map/view/newtown-creek-docsearls You have to zoom out a bit, or just try this full-screen version (embeddable if you want to put it on a blog post): http://archive.publiclaboratory.org/leaflet/?tms=http://mapknitter.org/tms/newtown-creek-docsearls/&lat=40.7239029817&lon=-73.9606764107&zoom=12 We've talked about this before -- the idea of just getting lots of people to photograph key areas from their plane windows<http://publiclaboratory.org/passenger-pigeon>. Using Doc Searls' photostream, we can try this out. His were from quite high up -- 2-3 meter resolution -- i wonder if some on approach to LaGuardia could get intermediate resolutions like ~ 30-40cm/px. It'd be a great counterpart to the high-res balloon mapping, especially for places like the Gowanus Canal and New Town Creek, where periodic monitoring is the goal. Jeff
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