“’With the help of a GPS device and DHL, I have drawn a self portrait on our planet’, writes Swedish artist Erik Nordenankar on his website for the project, appropriately named The Biggest Drawing in the World. ‘My pen was a briefcase containing the GPS (more…)
Ushahidi is a platform that supports crowdsourcing information in crisis scenarios, such as popular insurgencies, or natural disasters. It uses multiple channels such as SMS, email, Twitter and the web. “The core platform is built on the premise that gathering crisis information from the general public provides new insights into events happening in near real-time. It is also expected to help organizations marshal efforts to assist areas that are not well covered in the mainstream media.” The Ushahidi platform can be setup in 2 minutes to start crowdsourcing information on a subject.
Polymaps is an open-source JavaScript library of controls that simplifies and standardizes the creation of interactive online maps. Created as a collaboration between Stamen Design and SimpleGeo, the goal of the project is to better support complex, (more…)
