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| 553 | warren |
May 09, 2017 16:29
| almost 7 years ago
Inline maps
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| 552 | warren |
May 09, 2017 16:29
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| 551 | warren |
May 09, 2017 00:55
| almost 7 years ago
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| 550 | warren |
May 09, 2017 00:51
| almost 7 years ago
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| 549 | warren |
May 09, 2017 00:51
| almost 7 years ago
inline maps test:[map:content:40.67:-73.99] Getting started testing this!
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| 548 | warren |
May 08, 2017 23:27
| almost 7 years ago
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| 547 | warren |
May 08, 2017 22:41
| almost 7 years ago
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| 546 | warren |
May 05, 2017 20:12
| almost 7 years ago
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| 545 | warren |
May 05, 2017 20:12
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| 544 | liz |
March 09, 2017 18:37
| about 7 years ago
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| 543 | liz |
March 01, 2017 18:18
| about 7 years ago
Activities for balloon mapping:[activities:balloon-mapping] Questions about balloon mapping:[questions:balloon-mapping] Our whole toolkit is linked out below, but really fast:
Browse maps and data generated with this technique in the Public Laboratory Archive Browse Research Notes on Balloon Mapping A short video by Mathew Lippincott on setting up and launching your balloon. Grassroots Mapping ToolkitOur aerial mapping toolkit is a simplified kite and balloon aerial photography system for easy and accessible high-resolution map-making. The tookit consists of: Flight platforms: Assembling a balloon kit will cost from $100-200, including helium.
Camera housings: Single Line systems: The PET Bottle & Rubber Band Rig wraps around the small and medium sized cameras (up to micro 4/3) for crash protection while firmly mounting it in a position for vertical images. For heavy cameras, a Trash Can Rig offers more protection. Multiple Line Systems: these are more complex to build but can provide added stability, especially useful for video. Several people have created Picavet rigs. Cameras: A small camera that supports continuous shooting mode and a large storage card, or an excellent camera phone are our preferred options.
Mapmaking software: Public Laboratory's MapKnitter is easy to use browser software for map making. Continue on to MapKnitter Guide and MapKnitter Help for more information.
Useful guides: Our latest guides can always be found on the Guides page, including:
Curricula and workshops: Our Curriculum-Guide covers the entire process and some theory behind mapping. It is still in beta. Advanced Techniques
---END BALLOON MAPPING PAGE--- OLD CONTENT Getting started testing this!
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| 542 | liz |
February 28, 2017 19:29
| about 7 years ago
Activities for balloon mapping:[activities:balloon-mapping] Questions about balloon mapping:[questions:balloon-mapping] Our whole toolkit is linked out below, but really fast:
Browse maps and data generated with this technique in the Public Laboratory Archive Browse Research Notes on Balloon Mapping A short video by Mathew Lippincott on setting up and launching your balloon. Grassroots Mapping ToolkitOur aerial mapping toolkit is a simplified kite and balloon aerial photography system for easy and accessible high-resolution map-making. The tookit consists of: Flight platforms: Assembling a balloon kit will cost from $100-200, including helium.
Camera housings: Single Line systems: The PET Bottle & Rubber Band Rig wraps around the small and medium sized cameras (up to micro 4/3) for crash protection while firmly mounting it in a position for vertical images. For heavy cameras, a Trash Can Rig offers more protection. Multiple Line Systems: these are more complex to build but can provide added stability, especially useful for video. Several people have created Picavet rigs. Cameras: A small camera that supports continuous shooting mode and a large storage card, or an excellent camera phone are our preferred options.
Mapmaking software: Public Laboratory's MapKnitter is easy to use browser software for map making. Continue on to MapKnitter Guide and MapKnitter Help for more information.
Useful guides: Our latest guides can always be found on the Guides page, including:
Curricula and workshops: Our Curriculum-Guide covers the entire process and some theory behind mapping. It is still in beta. Advanced Techniques
---END BALLOON MAPPING PAGE--- OLD CONTENT Getting started
How can I share my work?
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| 541 | liz |
February 28, 2017 19:28
| about 7 years ago
[activities:balloon-mapping] Questions about balloon mapping[questions:balloon-mapping] Our whole toolkit is linked out below, but really fast:
Browse maps and data generated with this technique in the Public Laboratory Archive Browse Research Notes on Balloon Mapping A short video by Mathew Lippincott on setting up and launching your balloon. Grassroots Mapping ToolkitOur aerial mapping toolkit is a simplified kite and balloon aerial photography system for easy and accessible high-resolution map-making. The tookit consists of: Flight platforms: Assembling a balloon kit will cost from $100-200, including helium.
Camera housings: Single Line systems: The PET Bottle & Rubber Band Rig wraps around the small and medium sized cameras (up to micro 4/3) for crash protection while firmly mounting it in a position for vertical images. For heavy cameras, a Trash Can Rig offers more protection. Multiple Line Systems: these are more complex to build but can provide added stability, especially useful for video. Several people have created Picavet rigs. Cameras: A small camera that supports continuous shooting mode and a large storage card, or an excellent camera phone are our preferred options.
Mapmaking software: Public Laboratory's MapKnitter is easy to use browser software for map making. Continue on to MapKnitter Guide and MapKnitter Help for more information.
Useful guides: Our latest guides can always be found on the Guides page, including:
Curricula and workshops: Our Curriculum-Guide covers the entire process and some theory behind mapping. It is still in beta. Advanced Techniques
---END BALLOON MAPPING PAGE--- OLD CONTENT Getting started
How can I share my work?
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| 540 | liz |
February 28, 2017 19:27
| about 7 years ago
[activities:balloon-mapping] [questions:balloon-mapping] Our whole toolkit is linked out below, but really fast:
Browse maps and data generated with this technique in the Public Laboratory Archive Browse Research Notes on Balloon Mapping A short video by Mathew Lippincott on setting up and launching your balloon. Grassroots Mapping ToolkitOur aerial mapping toolkit is a simplified kite and balloon aerial photography system for easy and accessible high-resolution map-making. The tookit consists of: Flight platforms: Assembling a balloon kit will cost from $100-200, including helium.
Camera housings: Single Line systems: The PET Bottle & Rubber Band Rig wraps around the small and medium sized cameras (up to micro 4/3) for crash protection while firmly mounting it in a position for vertical images. For heavy cameras, a Trash Can Rig offers more protection. Multiple Line Systems: these are more complex to build but can provide added stability, especially useful for video. Several people have created Picavet rigs. Cameras: A small camera that supports continuous shooting mode and a large storage card, or an excellent camera phone are our preferred options.
Mapmaking software: Public Laboratory's MapKnitter is easy to use browser software for map making. Continue on to MapKnitter Guide and MapKnitter Help for more information.
Useful guides: Our latest guides can always be found on the Guides page, including:
Curricula and workshops: Our Curriculum-Guide covers the entire process and some theory behind mapping. It is still in beta. Advanced Techniques
---END BALLOON MAPPING PAGE--- OLD CONTENT Getting started
How can I share my work?
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| 539 | liz |
February 28, 2017 18:51
| about 7 years ago
How Can I Do This?Our whole toolkit is linked out below, but really fast:
Why Balloons and Kites?These tools are being developed to provide a low cost, easy to use, and safe methods for making maps and aerial images. Over the last two years, we’ve built a global community of mappers who are engaged in discussion around the development and use of this tool and others. Normally aerial maps are made from satellites and airplanes. The balloon and kite ground-based approach introduces an on-demand capability where events or environmental conditions are mapped at a specific moment in time. Our community is particularly interested in applying this to civic and environmental issues. Maps are often used by those in power to exert influence over territory, or control territorial narratives. "Grassroots mapping" attempts to invert this dynamic by using maps as a mode of communication and as evidence for an alternative, community-owned definition of a territory. To date, our tools have been used to contest official maps or rhetoric by enabling communities to map sites that are not included in official maps. In Lima Peru, members of an informal settlement developed maps of their community as evidence of their habitation, while on the Gulf Coast of the US, locally produced maps of oil are being used to document damage that is underreported by the state. Browse maps and data generated with this technique in the Public Laboratory Archive Browse Research Notes on Balloon Mapping A short video by Mathew Lippincott on setting up and launching your balloon. Grassroots Mapping ToolkitOur aerial mapping toolkit is a simplified kite and balloon aerial photography system for easy and accessible high-resolution map-making. The tookit consists of: Flight platforms: Assembling a balloon kit will cost from $100-200, including helium.
Camera housings: Single Line systems: The PET Bottle & Rubber Band Rig wraps around the small and medium sized cameras (up to micro 4/3) for crash protection while firmly mounting it in a position for vertical images. For heavy cameras, a Trash Can Rig offers more protection. Multiple Line Systems: these are more complex to build but can provide added stability, especially useful for video. Several people have created Picavet rigs. Cameras: A small camera that supports continuous shooting mode and a large storage card, or an excellent camera phone are our preferred options.
Mapmaking software: Public Laboratory's MapKnitter is easy to use browser software for map making. Continue on to MapKnitter Guide and MapKnitter Help for more information.
Useful guides: Our latest guides can always be found on the Guides page, including:
Curricula and workshops: Our Curriculum-Guide covers the entire process and some theory behind mapping. It is still in beta. Advanced Techniques
---END BALLOON MAPPING PAGE--- OLD CONTENT Getting started
How can I share my work?
This is a simple prompt for paragraph (textarea) text input: Enter some good text here Add a headerboo Add this here [prompt:text:Type in your greatest fear] Here's anothersomething else [prompt:paragraph:Type something here:uniqueId1]
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| 538 | warren |
February 21, 2017 22:40
| about 7 years ago
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| 537 | warren |
February 17, 2017 17:31
| about 7 years ago
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| 536 | warren |
February 17, 2017 17:30
| about 7 years ago
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| 535 | warren |
February 17, 2017 17:29
| about 7 years ago
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| 534 | warren |
February 15, 2017 23:33
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Expanding sectionsWow, check this out -- click "Expand me" on the next line: [notes:regulations] Latex test: $a=x^2$ Voices from Barnraising 2016 JaekyungGinaKatieMarySara?CarlaMاللغة العربية هي أكثر اللغات تحدثاً ضمن مجموعة اللغات السامية، وإحدى أكثر اللغات انتشاراً في العالم، يتحدثها أكثر من 422 مليون نسمة،2 ويتوزع متحدثوها في الوطن العربي، بالإضافة إلى العديد من المناطق الأخرى المجاورة كالأحواز وتركيا وتشاد ومالي والسنغال وإرتيريا و إثيوبيا و جنوب السودان و إيران. اللغة العربية ذات أهمية قصوى لدى المسلمين، فهي لغة مقدسة (لغة القرآن)، ولا تتم الصلاة (وعبادات أخرى) في الإسلام إلا بإتقان بعض من كلماتها.[4][5] العربية هي أيضاً لغة شعائرية رئيسية لدى عدد من الكنائس المسيحية في الوطن العربي، كما كتبت بها الكثير من أهم الأعمال الدينية والفكرية اليهودية في العصور الوسطى. وأثّر انتشار الإسلام، وتأسيسه دولاً، في ارتفاع مكانة اللغة العربية، وأصبحت لغة السياسة والعلم والأدب لقرون طويلة في الأراضي التي حكمها المسلمون، وأثرت العربية تأثيراً مباشراً أو غير مباشر على كثير من اللغات الأخرى في العالم الإسلامي، كالتركية والفارسية والأمازيغية والكردية والأردوية والماليزية والإندونيسية والألبانية وبعض اللغات الإفريقية الأخرى مثل الهاوسا والسواحيلية والتجرية والأمهرية و الصومالية، وبعض اللغات الأوروبية وخاصةً المتوسطية كالإسبانية والبرتغالية والمالطية والصقلية. كما أنها تُدرَّس بشكل رسمي أو غير رسمي في الدول الإسلامية والدول الإفريقية المحاذية للوطن العربي. More generic table of questions: [notes:question:spectrometer] Activity grid content:[notes:activity-grids] The Gowanus Canal Conservancy has been using kite and balloon photographs to map historic buried stream beds and opportunities for rain filter planting on the edges of a Superfund site in Brooklyn, New York. The Conservancy uses the kite photographs to create a record of their planting and activities during community “Clean and Green” events. Last Sunday 21 October, they held a free City sponsored Tree adoption program, where local residents could come pick up trees to help rebuild the urban forest of the Gowanus watershed. This event included a kite photography workshop with Saint John’s University students and local children who had come to help clean up the Canal edges. The photographs the volunteers took were intended to capture the community sponsored Compost Gowanus event, where volunteers help recycle restaurant waste to improve Canal soils, photograph the health of existing planting, and capture the creation of new gardens along the heavily polluted Gowanus Canal. The kite mounted Hello Kitty 10 megapixel SD880 Canon Camera ($50) took 677 photos (2.52 Gigabytes worth) using a CHDK (Canon Hack Development Kit) script loaded on the SIM card that allowed the camera to take pictures every 10 seconds while up in the air. While sorting the pictures 4 hours later, it was noticed that the students had also captured images of a major milky plume coming from an adjacent construction site, being redeveloped for a Whole Foods shopping center and a public waterfront park. Adjacent DEP oxygenation floating tubes in the Canal also feed this area, but the discoloration did not match the typical bubbling often seen by canoers. The building contractors for Whole Foods were immediately notified of the potential spill that morning, as was New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), responsible for preventing water pollution. The Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) was also alerted, as they were carrying out an extensive pipe outflow and pollution mapping survey to guide the Gowanus Canal Superfund Cleanup. This particular outflow had been missed in their survey as it had been camouflaged behind a welded steel plate. What is interesting about the kite photography, is that the outflow had been flagged on prior Grassroots Mapping aerials taken by home made infrared cameras flown from balloons via Gowanus Dredgers canoes. Grassroots mappers had debated how to interpret those infrared images, with some seeing a clearly visible plume, while others arguing that there was no plume, as this location was a known outflow of fresh water, and that what was being seen on the aerial was a coincidental floating layer of sewage scum floatables, formed by the tidal currents. The same streaking was not seen at other photographed points where historical streams were known still flow into the Canal. This healthy scientific debate prompted one of Grassroots mappers to canoe out to the outflow and stick his camera under steel plate at low tide to photograph the clean flowing water. Subsequent research established that this flowing water was a surviving remnant of Denton’s Pond, a large tidal pond buried in the 1850s during the construction of the Gowanus Canal. This pond was America’s first recorded oyster farm, growing the famed Gowanus oysters, a renown delicacy growing up to a foot long. The historic pond reappeared briefly during the removal of toxic soils from the site during its cleanup program. With the new mindset of working with natural systems, rather than fighting against them, there is an opportunity here for designers to take advantage of a unique site feature to manage 100% of the storm water on site. A more creative water sensitive landscape design for their parking lot could consider daylighting historic water features, improving local water quality, recreating ecological wetland habitats - and making water habitat food cycles whole again. The future public waterfront park being developed by Whole Foods on the site will be a welcome community asset. You can check out more pictures taken by local Brooklyn grassroots mappers here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/51802375@N04/sets/72157629561924342/ The NYSDEC, NYCDEP and EPA pollution control agencies promptly sent teams to resolve the photographed potential pollution problem, an example of constructive community dialogue helped along by fun rapid response grassroots mapping tools.
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