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Alexandre Enkerli

iOS 6 review | iMore.com - 1 views

www.imore.com/ios-6-review

Mapping

shared by Alexandre Enkerli on 20 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Maps are mainstream. Maps are serious. Maps are my mom and my sister not being able to find where they need to go.
  • Alexandre Enkerli on 20 Sep 12
     
    Maps are mainstream. Maps are serious. Maps are my mom and my sister not being able to find where they need to go.
Alexandre Enkerli

Knight Foundation Announces Support for New Open Mapping Tools | TechPresident - 1 views

techpresident.com/...support-new-open-mapping-tools

Mapping OSM

shared by Alexandre Enkerli on 21 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • licensing terms
  • grant
  • licensing restrictions
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  • places where Google cannot or does not often go
  • big, largely Western, multinational corporations
  • worst of times, OSM reveals itself as a volunteer-driven project
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      Alexandre Enkerli on 24 Sep 12
       
      Hurray for citizen-driven innovation?
  • awful performance
  • DevelopmentSeed
  • DevelopmentSeed CEO
  • really rich community of people
  • want to map
  • worldwide basemap
  • making it easier
  • competitor
  • famously sophisticated map layers.
  • complicated relationship
  • supporter of open source
  • funded through Google Summer of Code
  • Map Maker and OSM sometimes compete for market share.
  • undermining Google's geospatial dominance
  • challenge a competitor's core competency
  • weaken the competition
  • grant challenge program focused on data in civic life
  • Open Elections
  • developer-friendly data
  • LocalData
  • research
  • tool for community groups to collect and store data about their neighborhoods
Philippe Huot

Crisis Mapping Analytics: Crisis Mappers Webinar available | UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal - 1 views

www.un-spider.org/...isis-mappers-webinar-available

crisis mapping webinar

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  • Philippe Huot on 27 Aug 12
     
    Webinar on crisis mapping given by Helena Puig from UNDP's Threat and Risk Mapping Analysis unit in Sudan.
Alexandre Enkerli

How Google and Apple's digital mapping is mapping us | Technology | The Guardian - 2 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...google-apple-digital-mapping

mapping

shared by Alexandre Enkerli on 18 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • someone's way of getting you to look at the world his or her way
  • Any square mile of the planet can be described in an infinite number of ways
  • Traditionally, the interests reflected in maps have been those of states and their armies
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  • What happens when we come to see the world, to a significant extent, through the eyes of a handful of big companies based in California?
  • maps based on mined data come to shape our sense of space
  • Google's and Apple's maps might not just observe our lives, but in some sense come to play a role in directing their course.
Philippe Huot

Google Lat Long: Map Maker updates for Lesotho, Oman and Trinidad & Tobago - 2 views

google-latlong.blogspot.ca/...ates-for-lesotho-oman-and.html

google map maker mapping crowdsourcing

shared by Philippe Huot on 28 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Philippe Huot on 28 Aug 12
     
    Google Map Maker being used in Lesotho, Oman and Trinidad & Tobago. Video inside.
François Burra

Open Street Map has officially switched to ODbL - and celebrates with a picnic | Open K... - 1 views

blog.okfn.org/...l-and-celebrates-with-a-picnic

map mapping open data

shared by François Burra on 14 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • François Burra on 14 Sep 12
     
    Open Street Map has officially switched to Open Data Common's ODbL 1.0
Philippe Huot

Healthy Living Harlem: Green Mapping for Eco-Justice - 2 views

www.policyinnovations.org/...000122

mapping urban ecology

shared by Philippe Huot on 27 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Philippe Huot on 27 Aug 12
     
    Green mapping initiative in Harlem.
Philippe Huot

Maps for Driving Change | Stanford Social Innovation Review - 2 views

www.ssireview.org/...maps_for_driving_change

mapping crowdsourcing social innovation

shared by Philippe Huot on 27 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Philippe Huot on 27 Aug 12
     
    List of crow-mapping initiatives.
Philippe Huot

Map Kibera - 2 views

mapkibera.org

mapping africa kenya kibera crowdsourcing

shared by Philippe Huot on 28 Aug 12 - Cached
  • Philippe Huot on 28 Aug 12
     
    Mapping a Nairobi slum.
Philippe Huot

Center for International Earth Science Information Network Map of the Month - 2 views

www.ciesin.columbia.edu/archives.jsp

mapping earth science

shared by Philippe Huot on 28 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Philippe Huot on 28 Aug 12
     
    Columbia's Map of the Month feature.
Alexandre Enkerli

Exploring Local » Blog Archive » Google Maps announces a 400 year advantage o... - 1 views

blog.telemapics.com/?p=399

Mapping

shared by Alexandre Enkerli on 24 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Google learned that you cannot take the human out of the equation
Philippe Huot

Crisis Mappers - THE HUMANITARIAN TECHNOLOGY NETWORK - 2 views

crisismappers.net

mapping crisis network crowdsourcing humanitarian

shared by Philippe Huot on 27 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Philippe Huot on 27 Aug 12
     
    International Network of Crisis Mappers. Blog + Google Group for discussions on crisis mapping.
Philippe Huot

The Standby Task Force | We believe that digital volunteers are the future of humanitar... - 2 views

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crowdsourcing mapping crisis response

shared by Philippe Huot on 27 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Philippe Huot on 27 Aug 12
     
    The Standby Task Force is a team of digital mapping volunteers that work for faster, more efficient humanitarian response.
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