Passenger Pigeon is a project/concept for collecting aerial imagery from passenger plane windows with handheld digital cameras. To make a map, just take photos out the window of your commercial flight. Then use [MapKnitter.org](https://mapknitter.org) to align the images with a map as soon as you land.

###Examples###

* Utah (shown below): http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/eustatic/5-10-2012/hills-have-acne-passenger-pigeon-photos-drill-sites-out-west 
* Manhattan/Brooklyn: 

###Tips for photographers###

* point the camera as straight downwards as possible
* hold the camera as stably as you can - brace it against the window
* try not to sit behind the wing, where the engine exhaust blurs the air
* take note of where the photos are, if you anticipate difficulty in placing them on a map later

###Advanced###

Some Public Lab folks have done multispectral imaging from a plane window -- see http://publiclaboratory.org/passenger-pigeon for near-infrared

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