Economist article on sensors and smartphones
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Suzanne Traub-Metlay
Nov 12, 2010, 5:38:17 PM11/12/10
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If you haven’t seen this already, The Economist talks about “crowdsensing”: http://www.economist.com/node/17388356
“At OpenStreetMap, a wiki-style website, some 250,000 volunteers record their wanderings, using their smartphones’ positioning functions. And SeeClickFix, a start-up, has come up with a smartphone app that allows users to report such things as broken streetlights or rubbish that needs to be picked up.”
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Suzanne
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