Rwanda Development Board (RDB) in partnership with Google, yesterday, commenced the mapping exercise where all tourism attractions in the country will feature on the web.
The two-day event dubbed, Rwanda Tourism MapUp, started with the team's road trip from Kigali where key touristic features were mapped and continued to Musanze and Rubavu districts whose attractions were also added to the Google map list.
About 40 people including GIS professionals helped with the mapping which will be redone annually to insure locations are correct.
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The Initiative for Solidarity with Arrested Students released the "Map of Unnamed Students". With this project, the initiative wants to create awareness for judicial and administrative rights violations encountered by students and to make these violations visible. The map also aims at keeping track of the situations of the arrested students.
The idea is to add other incidents to the map and get more information on the known ones.The effort focuses on Turkey and uses CrowdMap.
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UBC Okanagan and the Central Okanagan Food Policy Council have put together a set of food discussion maps for the Central Okanagan area of British Columbia, Canada. Discussions are "pinned" to their locations and live on four different maps.
Food Experiences: Participants are asked to "Describe your experiences with food on the UBCO campus and in Kelowna."
Food Access: Food stores, food services and other food locations used to explore the question, "Is there food everywhere?"
Agricultural Land: Understanding the agricultural land reserve (ALR).
Community Food: Mapping community gardens, food banks and soup kitchens to discuss the question, "Is there food for everyone?"
The maps are Google-based and at least one class at UBC, Geography 491, was involved.
- press release via @gletham
WWF is asking supporters to identify places that carry or sell paper products made from Sumatran rain forest timber, and then note the location and take pictures using MapHook. Supporters can post a “hook” with their photos on http://www.worldwildlife.org/sites/tigers/toiletpaper-map.html . This site also has information about the paper campaign along with details on how to get started.
The goal is protection of the Sumatran habitat for tigers and other animals.
- press release
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Residents [of Reynosa, on the Mexico side of the Texas/Mexico border] are now using social media and Google Maps to report drug dealers in their neighborhoods.
An anonymous group of Twitter users launched the project a few months ago but it's now surging in popularity.
In an email interviews with Action 4 News, the creators of the map said they are asking people to report drug dealers using the #reynosafollow channel of Twitter.
Officials have their own reporting channel.
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The McCreary County [Kentucky] Tourist Commission is looking for local mappers. The goal?
to “map” trails for tourists who may share their particular interest — such as hiking, off-roading, crafting, coal history, photography, etc. The resulting maps can then be developed into itineraries available on the county’s tourism website for self-guided tours.
“We need information for all kinds of trails,” County Tourism Director Ginger McCartt-West told The Record. “It doesn’t have to be an outdoor experience.”
A grant enables the effort and volunteers can use helmet cameras to make first person videos for the county website.
- McCreary Record
A class at UC Berkeley is mapping doggie amenities vs number of babies in San Francisco's Mmission District. Have any input?
- Map via Mission Local
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D Magazine (that's for Dallas) is looking for feedback on its rendering of neighborhoods in the city. The goal is to use these for identifying bars, restaurants, etc. so residential areas are not so important.
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What Was There is a crowdsourced effort to tag old photos so we can look back in time either on a map or via cell phone app ("augmented reality -ish" it seems you have to georef the photos).
The premise is simple: provide a platform where anyone can easily upload a photograph with two straightforward tags to provide context: Location and Year. If enough people upload enough photographs in enough places, together we will weave together a photographic history of the world (or at least any place covered by Google Maps). So wherever you are in the world, take a moment to upload a photograph and contribute to history!
- Whatwasthere.com via engadget
CrowdFlower, the leader in enterprise crowdsourcing, today announced general availability of the industry's first enterprise crowdsourcing platform to address the data management needs of Fortune 500 companies. Built on the patent-pending CrowdEngine technology system, CrowdFlower's technology platform enables companies to streamline large-scale business processes and obtain automated, high-quality results at exceptionally low costs. Examples include eCommerce product categorization, SEO content creation, business and marketing data verification and enrichment, and brand sentiment analysis.
This sounds more like Amazon's Mechanical Turk than what I expected.
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The Bermuda Cultural Map Trust announced the launch of ’Are you on the map?’, a campaign designed to offer organizations and individuals involved in Bermuda’s creative and cultural industries a no-cost marketing and cross-promotion opportunity.
The Bermuda Cultural Map Trust is a Bermuda-registered charity whose vision is to provide a platform for Bermuda’s creative and cultural assets and explore how they can contribute to Bermuda economically, socially and culturally.
The Trust oversees the development and management of the Bermuda Cultural Map, a Google Maps-based directory that is fully editable and extendable with user-controlled updates.
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The New York Times is building a map of places to breastfeed babies in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. If you think there should be a map of something, there probably is, or it can be crowdsourced.
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BMW's Ultimate Drive app for Android and iPhone lets users search for, create, and share their favorite drive routes. The navigation app is less about how to get where you're going, and more like a travel guide for Sunday drives.
C|NET found adding the routes tedious and since the app is only a few days old there are few routes. The big request: uploading routes from Google Maps created on a computer. Creating routes on a phone (if they are not captured by GPS) can be quite challenging.
- C|NET
I saw an interesting new, low-tech crowdsourcing idea over the weekend. A while paper ad, the kind with paper strips at the bottom to tear off, was tacked to a tree on one of my favorite streets in the city. The text: "Would you raise a child here?" The rip off strips were printed half with "yes" and half with "no." Three "yes's" were gone and all the "no's" remained.
- eye witness account, Hancock St. in Somerville
Back in June for UK Bookseller's Week the Guardian crowdsourced a map of independent book sellers (and hoped reader would buy books there). It was an update of a Flickr map project from the year before.
This week we're building a tweet map of our book-buying hive mind. Just tweet us @guardianbooks with the title of the book you've bought, the name and postcode of the bookshop where you bought it and the hashtag #indybooks, and we'll assemble a map of independent action.
- The Guardian
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Crowdsourcing: Improving the Quality of Scientific Data Through Social Networking A PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM will be hosted by the National Academies on June 13, in DC.
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The Straits Times' (SIngapore) called on the community of readers to collaborate on a Google Map to show areas of flooding last weekend. Seventy locations were marked.
- Straits Times
This is an interesting "paid" crowdsourcing effort in developing countries.
A model like this is being deployed by Nathan Eagle, the CEO of txteagle Inc. As described by Eagle, txteagle is an “artificial artificial intelligence” system that enables 2.1 billion mobile phone subscribers living in the developing world to earn money, in the form of airtime sent to their mobile phones, by completing simple tasks. As an example, a subscriber in the developing world could use the location-based service to translate things into his or her local language.
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