Support Public Lab Today! For the last twelve years, Public Lab has hosted Mapknitter.org so that people everywhere can make maps from their aerial photos. Unfortunately, current circumstances have led us to scale back and take certain services offline. MapKnitter.org will go offline August 15, 2022. The MapKnitter platform runs on a combination of volunteer and paid labor by the many people that build, maintain, and operate it via Public Lab. This is an effective combination thanks to the culture of Public Lab's Coding Community. Public Lab's web ecosystem, including PublicLab.org, MapKnitter.org, SpectralWorkbench.org, Infragram.org and associated projects, takes 20 hours a week from three Code Coordinators and our sysadmin. While cost effective, it is not free. Web hosting and server costs for MapKnitter are approximately $1000 per month. We are doing our best to sustain programming and support for our community, and we need your help. Thank you for being part of our community. We can't wait to be back online with you. Support Public Lab by making a donation today. *Part of the [Grassroots Mapping Curriculum](/wiki/mapping-curriculum) series.* MapKnitter is a free and open source tool for combining aerial images into a map, or composite image. Informally, we call this "stitching a map" and it's useful if you have many images of overlapping or identical areas, and getting either a web map or a printable map from your photos. MapKnitter can make maps from any image source, but it was designed for making maps with aerial photos from balloons and kites. Start using [MapKnitter.org](http://MapKnitter.org) or read on for more documentation! ## Exporting Once you're map is complete, you can download it as a single image in JPG and other formats. Read about the new Cloud exporter here: https://publiclab.org/wiki/mapknitter-cloud-exporter Learn more about [exporting maps in MapKnitter here](/mapknitter-exporting). ## Activities [activities:mapknitter] **** ## Questions [questions:mapknitter] **** ### Advanced * [Decisions with distortions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=S8uUM3p3_Bk#!) - Learn about the design process of stitching maps when images are highly distorted or include tall buildings. This tutorial is in Photoshop, but the techniques are applicable to MapKnitter as well. * [Infrared multispectral compositing](/wiki/mapknitter-multispectral) (no video, in progress) Learn how to combine an infrared dataset with your map to assess photosynthesis. (Also: learn [how to collect infrared imagery](/tool/near-infrared-camera)) ...
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clinicaveterinariavivavet | "I don't know much about NDVI Landsat, but if I talk about veterinary " | Read more » | 11 months ago | |||
francisetham01 | "this is an awesome work " | Read more » | about 2 years ago | |||
rachelgomez161999 | "The file size limit for most creative assets (images, audio, HTML, CSS, data files, JavaScript, etc.) is 10 MB. Video files are limited to 100 MB ..." | Read more » | over 2 years ago | |||
imvec | " @imvec has marked @xose as a co-author. " | Read more » | over 2 years ago | |||
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xose | "Hey Jeff! Probably! This is one of the drinking water deposits of my home city. At the end of summer I'll come back as in the last years it gets al..." | Read more » | over 2 years ago | |||
warren | "Some of that is depth related. But some is definitely sediment stirred up. Maybe vegetation too? " | Read more » | over 2 years ago | |||
warren | "Just looking at contrast stretched version too: " | Read more » | over 2 years ago | |||
warren | "Very beautiful map. And very interesting color variations by the shore! " | Read more » | over 2 years ago | |||
ranavivek_me19 | "Hey! @jywarren , thanks a lot for ur feedback. For the hashtag idea, it will be useful to aggregate similar kinds of authors and even during the s..." | Read more » | over 2 years ago | |||
warren | "Hi @ranavivek_me19, thank you for your proposal! I'll leave a few comments I hope are helpful feedback. The hashtags idea is interesting - can you..." | Read more » | over 2 years ago | |||
ranavivek_me19 | "Hi @TildaDares , @jywarren and @cesswairimu . Wating for your feedback so that I can make a require changes. Thank You! " | Read more » | over 2 years ago | |||
ranavivek_me19 | "Hi @TildaDares , @jywarren and @cesswairimu . I am Aayushi Singh an Outreachy applicant.Kindly review it and give feedback , suggestions on my prop..." | Read more » | over 2 years ago | |||
wozwas | "@warren Sorry for such a delayed response! These are WW2 aerial survey's of the Palmyra Atoll. I was hoping to use map knitter to put together a p..." | Read more » | almost 3 years ago | |||
liz | "nice stitch! " | Read more » | almost 3 years ago | |||
johncarter121233 | "I did this! " | Read more » | almost 3 years ago | |||
allifemats | "Thump provide mobile grow rack,grow tent system,pollen trim tray and square pots for cannabis grow system. " | Read more » | about 3 years ago | |||
skylineoharechicagolimo | " @skylineoharechicagolimo has marked @Username as a co-author. " | Read more » | over 3 years ago | |||
patcoyle | "This flight was 25 January 2021, on way back from Nicaragua. Stopped in at the 40-acre site. See http://belizeopensource.org/ " | Read more » | over 3 years ago |