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Philippe Huot

Verifying Crowdsourced Data: Case Studies - 1 views

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    Paper by Patrick Meier on how to verify crowdsourced social media data in crisis situation.
Philippe Huot

Crisis Mappers - THE HUMANITARIAN TECHNOLOGY NETWORK - 2 views

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    International Network of Crisis Mappers. Blog + Google Group for discussions on crisis mapping.
Philippe Huot

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

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    List of crow-mapping initiatives.
Philippe Huot

Open Source for Humanitarian Action | Stanford Social Innovation Review - 1 views

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    Article on Ushahidi, the Standby Task Force and other crowdmapping initiatives. From SSI Review.
Philippe Huot

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

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    The Standby Task Force is a team of digital mapping volunteers that work for faster, more efficient humanitarian response.
Philippe Huot

Crowdmap | Create and Share Interactive Maps Online - 2 views

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    Initiative by Ushahidi. Crowdmaps are used right now in Haiti (hurricane relief), in Syria (violence reports) and Russia, among others.
Philippe Huot

MapStory : MapStory - 2 views

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    MapStory, as a compliment to Wikipedia, is a new dimension to the global data commons that empowers a global user community to organize all knowledge about the world spatially and temporally. Perhaps more important, MapStory is an infrastructure for enabling "MapStorytelling" as a means of communicating important issues to a global audience. The goal is to enable any student, teacher or practitioner on Earth to tap the power of this new mode of conveying one's stories, arrayed across geography and as they unfold over time.
Philippe Huot

RESEARCH | Future of Real-Time Report - Global Pulse - 2 views

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    "Prepared for the United Nations Global Pulse team, the Future of Real-Time Report identifies key trends emerging around the capture and transmission of real-time information streams." Le rapport recense les grandes tendances en traitement en temps réel de grandes quantités de données. Plusieurs projets relatifs à la géolocalisation et à la cartographie sociale et humanitaire y sont répertoriés.
Philippe Huot

Map Kibera - 2 views

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    Mapping a Nairobi slum.
Philippe Huot

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

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    Google Map Maker being used in Lesotho, Oman and Trinidad & Tobago. Video inside.
Philippe Huot

Can Live Crisis Maps Help Prevent Mass Atrocities? | iRevolution - 2 views

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    From Patrick Meier's blog.
Philippe Huot

Crisis Mapping for Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Resilience | iRevolution - 2 views

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    From Patrick Meier's blog.
Alexandre Enkerli

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

  • 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
    • Alexandre Enkerli
       
      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
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