[SF Meetup] mapping Mission Delores Park in San Francisco this Saturday at 1PM

[Stewart Long]

Greetings San Francisco Bay Area Mapper,
This Sat 5/12 some of us are meeting at Delores Park at 1PM. Come and join us to learn about balloon mapping and possibly try some new things as we see if we can map the park.
-Stewart

[Matthew]

Awsome!  We will see you there!

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[Matthew]

Hey Stewart,

We're thinking it could be cool to show up to your mapping meetup with a Rhus app that can be used to get geocoded ground based imagery that can be referenced against the map layer created by mapping the park.  Then, after the balloon images are made into a map, we can load it in as layer on the web app (so, like wildflowersofdetroit.org but with some custom balloon map layers).  This seems like it could be a fun proof of concept for using Rhus in this way for any balloon mapping project, and explore the idea of having tying temporal arial imagery with temporal terrestrial imagery.  We are going to deploy a whitelabel rhus webapp today for the Dolores project,. We can show up with apps too so anyone that wants to add imagery from their smartphones can.  What do you think?  

m.

On May 10, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Stewart Long wrote:

[gonzoearth]

Hi Mathew, Sounds like a blast. I also misspelled "Dolores Park" for the record. See you around 1PM if you can make it. Those coming to the park should be able to find the balloon and meet us that way.

Best,

Stewart

On Friday, May 11, 2012 11:59:54 AM UTC-7, Matthew wrote:

Hey Stewart,

We're thinking it could be cool to show up to your mapping meetup with a Rhus app that can be used to get geocoded ground based imagery that can be referenced against the map layer created by mapping the park.  Then, after the balloon images are made into a map, we can load it in as layer on the web app (so, like wildflowersofdetroit.org but with some custom balloon map layers).  This seems like it could be a fun proof of concept for using Rhus in this way for any balloon mapping project, and explore the idea of having tying temporal arial imagery with temporal terrestrial imagery.  We are going to deploy a whitelabel rhus webapp today for the Dolores project,. We can show up with apps too so anyone that wants to add imagery from their smartphones can.  What do you think?  

m.

On May 10, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Stewart Long wrote:

Greetings San Francisco Bay Area Mapper,
This Sat 5/12 some of us are meeting at Delores Park at 1PM. Come and join us to learn about balloon mapping and possibly try some new things as we see if we can map the park.
-Stewart

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[Matthew]

Hey all, we threw this deployment up for fun yesterday, http://wildbay.iriscouch.com/plots_dolores/_design/couchapp/_rewrite and added a few points.   Of course most of the 'creatures' in dolores are not your average ecological samples..   

[gonzoearth]

The Rhus map viewer looks great. You can see the our 3 "flight lines" as we navigated the balloon around the park yesterday: http://wildbay.iriscouch.com/plots_dolores/_design/couchapp/_rewrite
We had lots of fun yesterday and we got some pretty great data. The raw data is here for those that want to take a look. We are going to post our map in the next day or so on the site. And we have aerial video that we are still getting online.
Thanks to those who came!
Stewart

[gonzoearth]

[gonzoearth]

Dolores park map now online. The "Go Pro" video is worth a view as well, have a look
http://publiclaboratory.org/map/mission-dolores-park-san-francisco/2012-05-11

[Patrick Coyle]

Very neat results. Sorry I couldn't make it.

Pat

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:47 PM, gonzoearth <stewar...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dolores park map now online. The "Go Pro" video is worth a view as well, have a look
http://publiclaboratory.org/map/mission-dolores-park-san-francisco/2012-05-11

[Matthew]

Hey guys,

Finally got around to pulling the dolores map into the map viewer for Rhus, so you can see the ground based photos cross referenced with the PLOTs aerial imagery from that day.   https://wildbay.iriscouch.com/plots_dolores/_design/couchapp/_rewrite   is the URL.  This was a fun way to shake down the functionality of both the iPhone and Android apps!   We'd love to hook up with more citizen scientists who need custom iphone or android apps to collect data.   

One note about the datapoints - you'll see that they all line up in vertical stripes.  I'm pretty certain at this point that this is due to a problem (which we've fixed) with significant digits measuring longitude on the iphone - the points not in those stripes were from our android app.   

m.

On May 17, 2012, at 10:47 PM, gonzoearth wrote:

Dolores park map now online. The "Go Pro" video is worth a view as well, have a look
http://publiclaboratory.org/map/mission-dolores-park-san-francisco/2012-05-11

[Sara Ann Wylie]

This is really cool! I could see this being very useful for hydrogen sulfide
testing work: we could balloon map sites to be tested and then tag photographs
of both the locations of the test strips and the results to the map.

Looking forward to talking more about this,

Sara

[Stewart Long]

Thanks Mathew,
One feature request that I have is to get a static url for one of the point events so you could link the user to a specific ground photo on the map.
Stewart

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Sara Ann Wylie <saw...@mit.edu> wrote:

This is really cool! I could see this being very useful for hydrogen sulfide
testing work: we could balloon map sites to be tested and then tag photographs
of both the locations of the test strips and the results to the map.

Looking forward to talking more about this,

Sara

Quoting Matthew <deepw...@rhus.winterroot.net>:

Hey guys,

Finally got around to pulling the dolores map into the map viewer for Rhus, so you can see the ground based photos cross referenced with the PLOTs aerial imagery from that day.   https://wildbay.iriscouch.com/plots_dolores/_design/couchapp/_rewrite   is the URL.  This was a fun way to shake down the functionality of both the iPhone and Android apps!   We'd love to hook up with more citizen scientists who need custom iphone or android apps to collect data.

One note about the datapoints - you'll see that they all line up in vertical stripes.  I'm pretty certain at this point that this is due to a problem (which we've fixed) with significant digits measuring longitude on the iphone - the points not in those stripes were from our android app.

m.

On May 17, 2012, at 10:47 PM, gonzoearth wrote:

Dolores park map now online. The "Go Pro" video is worth a view as well, have a look
http://publiclaboratory.org/map/mission-dolores-park-san-francisco/2012-05-11

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[AAR]

:(

too bad. Maybe another time? Alternately, would you & your husband like to join us June 19 for the dinner- target marketing event? Or did you say that was th day you're speaking about fracking?

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[AAR]

whoops!! wrong recipient & event about dinner/ event. Please ignore!!!

"What the world needs is a good housekeeper," Aviva Rahmani
Affiliate with the Institute for Arctic & Alpine Research, University of Colorado at Boulder

Candidate for Ph.D.
University of Plymouth, England in collaboration with Z_Node, Zurich University for the Arts, Switzerland

214 Riverside Drive apt 614
New York City, New York 10025
Box 484, Vinalhaven, Maine 04863

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On May 31, 2012, at 1:15 PM, Stewart Long wrote:

[Matthew]

Stewart,

Yes that's an important feature.  We're finishing up twitter (and probably other social media) integration right now, and that's part of the social media post - an image + a permalink that brings up the callout box for that point on the map.

m.