Re: [grassrootsmapping] Digest for grassrootsmapping@googlegroups.com - 14 Messages in 3 Topics
Chris Csikszentmihalyi
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:14 AM, <grassroo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Today's Topic Summary
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> Group: http://groups.google.com/group/grassrootsmapping/topics
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> Google connects with Public Laboratory Map Archive [9 Updates]
> [PLOTS] Costa Rica is suffering slavery, no more pineapple destruction! [4
> Updates]
> Canon PowerShot SX260 HS GPS [1 Update]
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> Google connects with Public Laboratory Map Archive
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> Stewart Long <ste...@publiclaboratory.org> Apr 17 10:18AM -0700
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> We have some exciting news to share – Google Earth is now using 45 of the
> maps the Public Laboratory community produced!
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> The Public Laboratory Archive includes many public domain-released maps -
> so that they can be redistributed without "friction". Such is the case with
> today's announcement -- Google is now publishing finished maps from our
> archive that have the public domain designation. We are excited that Google
> has connected with our open data archive, and hope that
> other organizations will choose to do the same. The Google Geo "Lat Long
> Blog" has a nice post on the new maps in Google. We hope to continue
> distributing our maps to Google several times a year. This first wave of
> maps includes 45 total maps and 9 that are showing up in Google Maps as
> well as Google Earth.
>
> Google Lat Long Blog:
> http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2012/04/balloon-and-kite-imagery-in-google.html
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> KML feed. Download this feed and see the maps in Google Earth (they're
> already in there, this is just a list of places/times):
> *http://archive.publiclaboratory.org/google/PublicLaboratoryImagery_nl.kml*
>
> We’re preparing a news release now, which we'll hopefully send out later
> today, but in the meantime, it would be great if people could help spread
> the word about this exciting initiative. Please let me know if you have any
> questions.
>
> Thanks once again to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation -- whose
> generous Knight News Challenge grant helped make this possible.
>
> Thanks,
> Stewart
>
>
> --
> Stewart Long
> director of geography and data
> publiclaboratory.org
> +1-760-888-5287
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> Jeffrey Warren <je...@publiclaboratory.org> Apr 17 01:34PM -0400
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> Congratulations everyone, this is a big moment for our community.
>
> I wanted to call out a couple maps which made it to the "primary layer" and
> are now actually visible in Google Maps, not just the historical time
> slider:
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> - the Gowanus Canal (!!!!): http://g.co/maps/ds8bs
> - a natural gas well in Rifle Colorado: http://g.co/maps/8abnf
> - WhereCamp 2011 at the Stanford campus: http://g.co/maps/khpzj
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> Jeff
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> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Stewart Long
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> Gary Mortimer <grmor...@googlemail.com> Apr 17 08:11PM +0200
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> Hi Stewart
>
> Please make sure I am on the news release list it will give me no end
> of pleasure publishing this to sUAS News readers.
>
> Well done its quite a result.
>
> Thanks
>
> Gary
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> Stewart Long <ste...@publiclaboratory.org> Apr 17 11:15AM -0700
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>> - the Gowanus Canal (!!!!): http://g.co/maps/ds8bs
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> (people working on a community garden, a solar balloon launch is also
> visible in the center of the map)
>
> - a natural gas well in Rifle Colorado: http://g.co/maps/8abnf
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> (look for the horses and goats in the NW pasture)
>
> and a few more to call out:
> Jamison Square. Portland, Oregon (turn off 45 degree imagery to see the
> vertical map): http://g.co/maps/f2mxj <http://g.co/maps/f2mxj>
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> Foothills Community Park . Boulder, Colorado (turn off 45 degree imagery to
> see the vertical map) : http://g.co/maps/hwybt
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> -Stewart
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> hagit keysar <fie...@gmail.com> Apr 17 09:42PM +0300
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> I toured some of the maps in google earth. Congratulations! this is really
> exciting!
> We have two beautiful maps of places in Jerusalem, I'm a bit slow, but soon
> will upload...
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> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Stewart Long
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> Christiaan Adams <csa...@google.com> Apr 17 04:16PM -0700
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> Hi Public Laboratory and Grassroots Mapping communities,
>
> Christiaan Adams here from the Google Earth Outreach team. We're very
> excited that we were able to publish some of the imagery from the Public
> Labs archive <http://publiclaboratory.org/archive> into Google
> Earth<http://www.google.com/earth>!
> As you've probably seen by now in the blog
> post<http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2012/04/balloon-and-kite-imagery-in-google.html>,
> we published about 45 images into Google Earth's historical imagery
> database. To find the images in Google Earth download this kml
> file<http://archive.publiclaboratory.org/google/PublicLaboratoryImagery_nl.kml>,
> and use it to fly to the image locations in space and time (it will turn on
> the historical imagery tool for you). If it's your first time using
> historical imagery, check out this video
> tutorial<http://www.google.com/earth/learn/beginner.html#historical-imagery>
> and this user
> guide<http://support.google.com/earth/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=148094>.
> When you want to go back to seeing the default imagery layer again, you
> can turn off historical imagery using the button on the toolbar (or the "X"
> on the time slider control). As some of you discovered, we picked out a
> few images that were especially high quality and well geo-referenced to add
> to the default database for the baselayer imagery in Google Earth and Google
> Maps<http://maps.google.com/maps?q=gowanus+canal&hl=en&ll=40.675484,-73.990619&spn=0.002065,0.004128&t=h&z=19>.
> Have fun finding them!
>
> A few of you will also notice that some of the images from the archive
> didn't show up in Earth, since they didn't make it through our processing
> correctly. We'll try again later, and add them to the KML file if/when
> they go live. You may find a few other images that did make it into Earth,
> but had incorrect geo-referencing so they are distorted and/or shifted away
> from where they should be. These are not included in the KML either, but
> we'll add them if/when we get a chance to fix them. Also, we only used
> Public
> Domain <http://publiclaboratory.org/maps/all/publicdomain> licensed data in
> the visual spectrum (plus one infrared scene that slipped in). We might be
> able to use the Creative Commons
> Attribution<http://publiclaboratory.org/maps/all/cc-by> data
> in the future, but it would take some more legal work to figure out the
> licensing.
>
> I'm sure many of you want to know if and when we will add more Public
> Laboratory imagery to Google Earth. I personally hope that we can, but
> unfortunately I can't promise anything right now. Processing these images
> into our databases is relatively labor intensive per unit area, since they
> are significantly smaller than the large satellite datasets we usually work
> with, and the geo-referencing quality is more variable. If you all post a
> lot more interesting, high-quality data, and can show interesting use-cases
> for having it in Google Earth, it'll make it easier to justify the effort
> on our end... and of course, we'll keep you posted. I'll look forward to
> reviewing the archive with the Public Labs folks in 6 months or so, to look
> at any new data that is available, and see what we can do.
>
> Feel free to send any questions, comments or feedback my way.
>
> Looking forward to working with you all in the future!
> -Christiaan
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> Christiaan Adams
> Google Earth Outreach http://earth.google.com/outreach
> Google Crisis Response, Google.org http://www.google.org
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> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Stewart Long <ste...@publiclaboratory.org
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> Liz Barry <eba...@gmail.com> Apr 17 06:27PM -0700
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> Hi Christiaan,
> Thank you for all your help with this!
> Liz
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> Shannon Dosemagen <shannon....@gmail.com> Apr 18 09:05AM -0400
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> I've attached the news release for those of you that requested it. Please
> feel free to pass around to others that you think would be interested.
>
> Shannon
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> Shannon Dosemagen
> Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science
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> Liz Barry <eba...@gmail.com> Apr 18 06:40AM -0700
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> Great coverage = lots of visitors to the site = some downtime this morning,
> sorry about that!
> Below are a few links to the most traffic-generating blogs. Check out the
> stories and consider adding your informed voice to the comments sections
> where people are discussing the ramifications:
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> Gizmodo coverage:
> http://gizmodo.com/5902926/balloon-and-kite-cameras-give-gorgeous-google-earth?tag=google
> (comment
> section might be worth one of us making a note about privacy and the legal
> and ethical requirements on aerial mappers related to private property?)
>
> Clubic coverage:
> http://www.clubic.com/internet/univers-google/google-maps/actualite-487334-cartographie-google-earth-cerf-volants-ballons-helium.html
> does
> anyone on list speak French?
>
> Engadget coverage:
> http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/17/google-earth-adds-balloon-and-kite-aerial-imagery/
> (it
> would be good to respond to the more obnoxious comments others left about
> Google owning the data since that is not the case.)
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> Thanks all, truly an amazing community effort on this entire project!
> Liz
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> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Shannon Dosemagen <
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> @lizbarry <http://twitter.com/lizbarry>
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> [PLOTS] Costa Rica is suffering slavery, no more pineapple destruction!
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> Jeffrey Warren <je...@publiclaboratory.org> Apr 17 02:52PM -0400
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> (CC'ing grassroots mapping list which is more mapmaking-oriented)
>
> Carlos - are you proposing a mapmaking effort to highlight Del Monte's
> practices? That would be an interesting way to put this situation on the
> map.
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> jeff
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> carlos Arias <cararia...@gmail.com> Apr 17 07:26PM -0700
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> Jeff, Thank you very much for replying back soon, is indeed that we
> need to do that, we need to prove the incredible damage that causes
> this sort of business to costa rican lands and people. A lot of
> persons have tried to do something about it but there is always so
> much money in between so there is no way to keep an eye on them even
> for their deshonesties and more.
> Lets take action on them as anyone else can!
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> Muchas gracias, pura vida!
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> kino <kino...@gmail.com> Apr 17 11:28PM -0400
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> Hello Carlos,
> Hello lists,
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> First time post here but mapping projects are very interesting, esp as
> suggested in this context.
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> I have been to this area of Costa Rica working with a community in Terraba
> to make a video on a proposed dam project. I remember Buenos Aires, which is
> the large town near there and the fields of pineapple making a kind of
> repeating desert.
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> I did not get to spend a lot time in Costa Rica, but we did work with the
> youths of the community to make this video which is now hosted at the first
> nations video portal isuma.tv (a great resource) if you would like to watch
> it for context of that area. It is in Spanish with English subtitles. The
> video was part of a successful strategy to organize to stop the dam by the
> people featured in it. Organization in such a situation is key.
>
> http://www.isuma.tv/hi/en/terraba/terraba
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> This mapping project is really quite incredible. I am based in NYC so if
> there are some gatherings / projects I would like to attend / participate
> also.
>
> kino
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> On Apr 17, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Jeffrey Warren wrote:
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> Carlos Arias <cararia...@gmail.com> Apr 17 09:53PM -0600
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> Thank you very much for all help and for this new action that we need to
> take in order to be fair, i also would like to share these 3 important
> links below that will give you more knowledge about it.
> Kino thank you very much for all your time, this is more important than
> poeple think it is, all help is apprecioate it as how i can also share my
> help in any other wonderful project.
> Everytime i rise my head up and i get to see how blessed i feel to live in
> Costa Rica i cant think i cant let it die that easily!
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2010/oct/01/high-cost-cheap-pineapples-supermarkets
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> http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/oct/02/truth-about-pineapple-production?intcmp=239
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> http://www.makefruitfair.org.uk/news/costa-rica-pineapples-take-over-bananas-poor-working-conditions-still-prevail
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> 2012/4/17 kino <kino...@gmail.com>
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> Canon PowerShot SX260 HS GPS
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> conser...@gmail.com Apr 18 09:18AM +0900
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> Hello All
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> Normally, I just enjoying reading the discussion on grassrootsmapping.
>
> However, I am considering buying twenty Canon SX260HS GPS for an
> upcoming project in Timor Leste. Hardware availability is an issue, I
> cannot just go out and buy one to test. Before I buy twenty units, I
> was wondering if any you have experience and feedback you can offer
> regarding the camera model, e.g. battery life, ability to hold a GPS
> fix, storage capacity, image quality, etc..
>
> Also, if someone could send me some samples of images you have taken
> with the camera, I would greatly appreciate it, I would like to get a
> closer look at the EXIF header.
>
> Best regards
>
> Crispen
>
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