The state of everyone’s map
The 5th annual OpenStreetMap Conference (State of the Map 2011) is opening within hours in Denver, Colorado. OpenStreetMap is “a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you.” It...
View ArticleThe wisdom of the city
As crowdsourcing become a standard way of data collection, cities seem more and more the ideal ecosystem for this activity due to the high density of sensors and communication networks. The examples...
View ArticleCamping on the crisis
As multiple crisis of natural and human source hit Italy, the country becomes a natural playground to test and apply crowdsourcing techniques for emergency prevention and management. In a meeting in...
View ArticleData: visualize or analyze?
At the Eye On Earth Summit, a special working group has been devoted to crowdsourcing for environmental purposes. The White Paper introducing the discussion is a very clear presentation of the field,...
View ArticleGeographies of enthusiasm
An excerpt from one of the most exciting call for papers i have received recently: This session is interested in people, places and cultures that have for various reasons been overlooked, regarded as...
View ArticleGIS Wikification by the masses
A new interesting article on volunteered “GIS systems, OpenStreetMap and all that stuff is out, whose long long title is “Crowdsourcing, citizen sensing and Sensor Web technologies for public and...
View ArticleAfter crowdmapping, no-one-around-mapping?
To crowdmap a region, first of all you need a crowd. As people are lazy, you need a lot of small contribution to get a meaningful geographical annotation. Of course, this is more easily done in cities,...
View ArticleESA AppCamp call for participation
From the ESA AppCamp website: Are you an innovative developer from Europe with experience in app development? Then take your chance and apply to spend one week at the European Space Agency (ESA) near...
View ArticleClustered communities lead to better data
Communities of people are better mappers if they are spatially clustered, as revealed in an interesting new paper by Hristova, Mashhadi, Quattrone and Capra from UCL. “This preliminary analysis...
View ArticleEveryAware featured by TG Leonardo
LABORATORIO IN SPALLA Polveri sottili, temperatura, molecole inquinanti. Un laboratorio completo per l’analisi della qualità dell’aria dentro ad uno zaino. Invenzione italiana.
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