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Seeking to invert the traditional power structure of cartography, the grassroots mappers used helium balloons and kites to loft their own âcommunity satellitesâ made with inexpensive digital cameras. </div> 62<div id="page"> 63 64<div id="header"> 65 <div id="headerimg"> 66 <a href="/" style="float:left;padding-right:12px;"><img src="/wp-content/themes/mapcraft/images/grassrootsmapping-small.png" /></a> 67 <!-- <a href="/"><img src="/grassrootsmapping.jpg" /></a> --> 68 <h1><a href="/">Grassroots Mapping</a></h1> 69 <div class="description"> 70 <a href="/about">About</a> | 71 <a href="http://wiki.">Wiki</a> | 72 <a href="http://publiclaboratory.org/join">Join</a> | 73 <a href="/data">Our Data</a> | 74 <a href="http://publiclaboratory.org/contribute">Contribute</a> | 75 <a href="http://publiclaboratory.org/tool/balloon-mapping">Get Started</a> 76 </div> 77 </div> 78</div> 79<!-- index.php --> 80 81 <div id="content" class="narrowcolumn"> 82 83<style> 84.notice { 85 padding-right:20px; 86 margin-bottom:20px; 87} 88.notice div { 89 border-top:3px solid #eb9; 90 background: #ffc; 91 padding:12px; 92} 93.notice p { 94 padding-top: 8px; 95 margin-right: 20px; 96} 97.notice a.btn { 98 padding:12px; 99 -webkit-border-radius: 4px; 100 -moz-border-radius: 4px; 101 border-radius: 4px; 102 background:#66f; 103 color:white; 104 text-decoration:none; 105} 106.notice a.btn:hover { 107 background:#44c; 108} 109</style> 110 111<div class="notice"> 112<div> 113 114<h2>This site has been merged into <a href="http://publiclab.org">Public Lab</a></h2> 115 116<p>At Public Lab, we've grown the Grassroots Mapping community into a broader effort to enable communities to understand and respond to environmental threats with DIY techniques.</p> 117 118<p><a class="btn" href="http://publiclab.org">Read more and join us »</a></p> 119 120</div> 121</div> 122 123 124 125 <div class="post" id="post-86"> 126 <h2><a href="/about/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to What is Grassroots Mapping?">What is Grassroots Mapping?</a></h2> 127 <small>January 27th, 2010 by <a href="http://unterbahn.com" title="Visit Jeffrey Warren’s website" rel="author external">Jeffrey Warren</a></small> 128 129 <div class="entry"> 130 <p>A group of activists, educators, technologists, and community organizers now known as <a href="http://publiclaboratory.org">Public Laboratory</a> came together to organize the <a href="http://publiclaboratory.org/place/new-orleans">Gulf Oil Mapping project</a>. Since May 2010, we have been working with New Orleans-based <a href="http://labucketbrigade.org">Louisiana Bucket Brigade</a> to get Gulf Coast residents out on boats and along beaches to produce high-resolution aerial imagery of the spill’s effects. All the imagery from this project is being released into the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/">public domain</a></p> 131<h3>Read more</h3> 132<ul> 133<li>Learn about <a href="http://publiclaboratory.org/tool/balloon-mapping">balloon mapping here</a></li> 134<li>Assemble your own kit by reviewing our <a href="http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/balloon-mapping-materials">balloon mapping kit</a></li> 135<li>Learn about <a href="http://publiclaboratory.org/places">the places we work</a></li> 136<li>Explore our <a href="http://publiclaboratory.org/tools">other low-cost, DIY environmental sensing tools</a></li> 137</ul> 138<h3>How it started</h3 139 140This January 2010, Jeff Warren worked with a series of organizations and communities to produce maps with children and adults from several communities in Lima, including the Cantagallo settlement of Shipibo on the bank of the Rimac and the Juan Pablo II community in Villa El Salvador. 141 142Seeking to invert the traditional power structure of cartography, the grassroots mappers used helium balloons and kites to loft their own "community satellites" made with inexpensive digital cameras. The resulting images, which are owned by the residents, are georeferenced and stitched into maps which are 100x higher resolution that those offered by Google, at extremely low cost. In some cases these maps may be used to support residents' claims to land title. By creating open-source tools to include everyday people in exploring and defining their own geography, we hopes to enable a diverse set of alternative agendas and practices, and to emphasize the fundamentally narrative and subjective aspects of mapping over its use as a medium of control. 143 144(Funded in part by the <a href="http://legatum.mit.edu/">Legatum Center</a> at MIT and the <a href="http://civic.mit.edu">Center for Future Civic Media</a> at MIT)</p> 145<p><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/tags/grassrootsmapping/interesting/"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/4298480648_a5ce0f023b.jpg" /></a></p> 146 </div> 147 148 <p class="postmetadata"> Posted in | <a href="/about/#comments">8 Comments »</a></p> 149 </div> 150 151 152 <div class="navigation"> 153 <div class="alignleft"></div> 154 <div class="alignright"></div> 155 </div> 156 157
158 </div> 159 160<div id="sidebar"> 161 162 <div class="panel"> 163 164 <h3>Do you need maps?</h3> 165 <p>Are you embroiled in an cartographic dispute? Do you disagree with the official version of your geography? Contact us through the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/grassrootsmapping/">public mailing list</a>.</p> 166 167 <p><b>Grassroots Mapping</b> is part of the <b><a href="http://publiclab.org">Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science</a></b>, founded by a group of activists, educators, technologists, and community organizers interested in new ways to promote action, intervention, and awareness through a participatory research model.</p> 168 <p>We're now trying to learn from our balloon mapping experiences to develop <a href="http://publiclab.org/tools">new DIY tools</a> with <a href="http://publiclab.org/places">a variety of local communities</a>. This is an open community and you are <a href="http://publiclab.org/join">welcome to join</a>, and encouraged to <a href="http://publiclab.org/contribute">contribute</a>!</p> 169 170 </div> 171 <div class="panel"> 172 <a href="http://amazon.com/gp/product/B00545DFXA"><img src="http://publiclab.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/thumb/gmf_0_0.png" /></a> 173 <p>Purchase the <b><a href="http://publiclab.org/forum">Grassroots Mapping Forum</a></b>, our new community research journal/archive/zine/map, where we hope to share ideas, techniques, and stories from the Grassroots Mapping community. It is printed on a single 22.75x35" newsprint sheet, folded down to just over letter size, and includes a full color reproduction of a grassroots map along with essays, illustrated guides, and interviews on the reverse.</p> 174 <p> 175 You can find out more, and <a href="http://amazon.com/gp/product/B00545DFXA">purchase the first issue here</a> for $17 shipped. 176 </p> 177 </div> 178 <div class="panel"> 179<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreywarren/4596415680/" title="Launching balloon at Chandeleur by jeferonix, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3025/4596415680_a981530a60_m.jpg" width="240" height="191" alt="Launching balloon at Chandeleur" /></a> 180 181<h3>Map the oil spill with balloons and kites!</h3> 182 183<p>We're helping citizens to use balloons, kites, and other simple and inexpensive tools to produce their own aerial imagery of the spill⦠documentation that will be essential for environmental and legal use in coming yeas.We believe in complete open access to spill imagery <b>and are releasing all imagery into the public domain</b>.</p> 184 185<p><b><a href="/gulf-oil-spill">Read more here</a> 186 187<p>You can see all of our data here: 188 189<a href="http://publiclab.org/archive/">http://publiclab.org/archive/</a>.</p> 190 191<p>Browse some of our <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1475577@N22/pool/">best imagery</a> on Flickr.</p> 192<br /></div> 193 194<div class="panel"> 195 <h3>Learn more by reading the 5-page <a href="/guide/">Illustrated Guide</a> <small>(0.6mB PDF)</small></h3> 196 197 <p><a href="/guide/"><img src="/wp-content/themes/mapcraft/images/guide-screenshot.png" /></a></p> 198</div> 199 200<div class="panel"> 201 <h3><a href="http://publiclab.org/tool/balloon-mapping">About Grassroots Mapping</a></h3> 202 <p>Techniques and tools for people who want to make maps, on the Public Laboratory wiki. Includes readings and case studies on grassroots mapping projects.</p> 203</div> 204 205<p> 206 <form method="get" id="searchform" action="/"> 207<div><input type="text" value="" name="s" id="s" /> 208<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Search" /> 209</div> 210</form> 211</p> 212 213<div class="panel"> 214<div id="google_translate_element"></div>
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220 221</div> 222 223 224 225 <br /> 226 227 <div> 228 229 </div> 230 231 <div class="panel"> 232 <a href="http://cartagen.org"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2791/4118395487_0c57a391e8_m.jpg" /></a> 233 <h3><a href="http://publiclab.org/wiki/balloon-mapping">Balloon Aerial Photography »</a></h3> 234 <p>Instructions on how to use cameras on weather balloons to create high-resolution maps.</p> 235 </div> 236 237 <div class="panel"> 238 <a href="http://publiclab.org/wiki/balloon-mapping-materials"><img src='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2755/4445981062_73945db207_m.jpg' /></a> 239 <p>Want to start mapping? See the <a href="http://publiclab.org/wiki/balloon-mapping-materials/">Balloon Mapping Materials List</a> to get started.</p> 240 </div> 241 242 <div class="panel"> 243 <b>In collaboration with:</b> 244 <br /><br /> 245 <a href="http://labucketbrigade.org"><img src="/wp-content/themes/mapcraft/images/labb.jpg" /></a> 246 <a href="http://gonzoearth.com"><img src="/wp-content/themes/mapcraft/images/gonzoearth.png" /></a> 247 <a href="http://space.1337arts.com/"><img src="/wp-content/themes/mapcraft/images/1337arts.png" /></a> 248 </div> 249 250 <div class="panel"> 251 <b>We have received generous support from:</b> 252 <br /><br /> 253 <a href="http://civic.mit.edu"><img src="/wp-content/themes/mapcraft/images/c4cfm.png" /></a> 254 <a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org/"><img src="/wp-content/themes/mapcraft/images/knight-logo.gif" /></a> 255 <a href="http://goso.com"><img src="/wp-content/themes/mapcraft/images/goso.png" /></a> 256 <br /> 257 and the <a href="http://eco.media.mit.edu">Design Ecology</a> group at the <a href="http://media.mit.edu">MIT Media Lab</a> 258 <br /><br /> 259 </div> 260</div> 261 262<br style="clear:both;" /> 263 264<div id="footer"> 265</div>
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