Tag: googlemaps

Social networking saved New Orleans

In a powerful presentation on the marriage of software tools and crowds of people in desperate need of organization around a cause, Alan Gutierrez of the nonprofit group Think New Orleans detailed an inspiring post-Hurricane Katrina story of how a crash course in social networking helped people emerge from the rubble; find their voice; fight the government; solicit help; and save their neighborhoods, schools and each other.

alan’s projects. including google maps to visualize demolished houses

London And Its Dead

10000s of skeletons that lie hidden beneath the streets, houses and offices of London have been revealed for the first time on a map, in a collaboration between the Museum of London and The Times.

2014-06-25:

they fell through the surface of the tennis courts only to find themselves standing in a maze of rotting coffins hidden just beneath the soil, an infernal honeycomb of badly tended graves like something out of Dante.

crazy

Mapmaker Review

Google MapMaker is out. There are several geowiki projects, but when someone like google decides to have a go at the problem you have to take notice. First thing to note is that the MapMaker is open for a limited set of countries, one of which I have blogged about earlier. So let’s see what the uptake of MapMaker is by looking at Karachi (a city of ~20million, metropolitan and where locals are cultured with a strong entrepreneurial spirit) it appears there is very fast uptake from the locals. Here is what has happened in the course of a few hours

compared to OSM: superior UI -> superior results