Following our Kickstarter success, Public Lab is embarking on its own version of March Madness. We aim for our community to self-organize meet-ups and training sessions to show new members of the balloon mapping community how to get started making their own maps! If you are an experienced grassroots mapper on this page you can volunteer to organize an event near you. If you are just getting started on this page you can connect with those putting together an event near you!

Get Involved!

This page contains dates and locations for a workshop series to welcome Kickstarter backers into the aerial mapping community.

Help organize a meeting in your area! Add your name and email beneath a site you can get to or if your area isn't listed, add your name beneath the virtual meeting and/or add your location to the list and see if anyone else could meet in your area!

Have an idea for a site to map in your area? Add suggestions for sites beneath the area you want to meet.

Interested in participating in a workshop? Add your name and contact info. below a site you can get to. If you can't find a site close to you, add your name beneath the virtual meeting and/or add your location to the list and see if anyone else could meet in your area!

Where are other Balloon Mappers?

These maps show roughly (by zipcode, with identifying information removed) the locations of people who purchased balloon mapping kits with the recent kickstarter. Take a look and find out if there are others interested in balloon mapping near you!

Balloon kit buyers: http://batchgeo.com/map/0e2c54d7ed353c559ed76c3f6001c41e All campaign supporters: http://www.batchgeo.com/map/a0e5669a009a48eb1925686cc3769fbd

Is there no one near you? No worries, collaborate on organizing a virtual meet-up to learn how to balloon map and how to use Mapknitter software to make your own maps.

Dates and Locations

February 14 London UCL February 17 London UCL

Upcoming TBD

Asheville - March 31st - Saturday 10 AM organizers:

Interested in participating:

Austin organizers:

Interested in participating:

Boston organizers: Jeff Warren, jeff@publiclaboratory.org, Katie Gradowski, katie.gradowski@gmail.com

Interested in participating: Jen Hudon, jen.hudon@gmail.com Arlene Ducao, arlduc(at)mit.edu (depending on date)

Location: Parts and Crafts

NYC - See NY-NJ-CT region page. Locations include StudioX, GreenMaps, and others TBD.

organizers: Liz Barry, liz at publiclaboratory.org; Manpriya Samra, mksamra at gmail.com.

Interested in participating: Arlene Ducao, arlduc(at)mit.edu (depending on date)

Portland organizers: Mathew Lippincott, mathew@publiclaboratory.org

Interested in participating:

We would like to have meet ups in the following places, so if you're able to organize, please put your name and email next to the place and get in touch on the email list:

Chicago Washington D.C. Philly L.A. Seattle North Carolina San Francisco Toronto Berlin Zurich Somewhere in the Netherlands A Virtual meeting for those outside of these cities

Anywhere else where mappers are interested in meeting up, add it on!

Topics

More on Balloon Mapping here See Balloon Mapping Quick Start Guide Full List of Screensharing Webinar with GonzoEarth

Organizational Questions/Requests/Concerns

email sara@publiclaboratory.org

Help Desk

Contact us if you need help working on that first map, or if interested in doing virtual collaborative map making training with the Public Lab Map Tools. We are also looking for people who would like to become leaders in training other people to use MapKnitter, or just want to volunteer to help answer questions.

MapKnitter Training sessions: Interested in participating? Add your name and email here:

Organizer and point person for MapKnitter Questions: email stewart@publiclaboratory.org