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Philippe Huot

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

www.unglobalpulse.org/...future-real-time-report

united nations big data crowdsourcing mapping real-time

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  • Philippe Huot on 28 Aug 12
     
    "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.
Alexandre Enkerli

Planning for the future in urban design | Guardian Sustainable Business | guardian.co.uk - 2 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ign-human-development-children

mapping

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  • Philippe Huot on 27 Aug 12
     
    Rapid urbanisation requires investments in infrastucture that prioritise human development, including the current health and future livelihoods of children and adolescents. Crowdmapping initatives can help.
Philippe Huot

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

blog.standbytaskforce.com

crowdsourcing mapping crisis response

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  • 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.
Alexandre Enkerli

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

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

Mapping OSM

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  • licensing terms
  • grant
  • licensing restrictions
  • ...25 more annotations...
  • 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
      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
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