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Initiatives like OpenStreetMap and Map Kibera democratize the production of geographic knowledge and might thus be able to bring diversity back into (state) planning and policy. - mikel

thematic mapping - mikel

thematic osm maps - mikel

We're building the first up-to-date, interactive map of today's changing nonprofit landscape. - mikel

something like this is needed for Kibera - mikel

wow, anselm's imagewiki lives - mikel

The USGS development team concedes there can be a lot "noise" in the data stream. For instance, the filter has had to be tuned to ignore references to the popular video game "Quake" and an ice cream known as the "Oreo Brownie Earthquake". - mikel

we must maintain a humanist view of data, relying on our own faculties to tell a story - mikel

i have again learned a lot from wikipedia - mikel

We believe that people have the right to know where things come from and what they are made of. Sourcemap is a platform for researching, optimizing and sharing the supply chains behind a number of everyday products - mikel

How the elephant got its nose - mikel

youth community mapping in Greater Victoria - mikel

netvibes -- actually a nice simple way to collect social media streams around an event - mikel

At the same time, it’s also clear that there is a practical and psychological difference between flying a kite/balloon with a camera on it while you are actually in a community, and flying a satellite which they cannot see, having never visited the community you’re imaging. But I’m hoping that the former can form the basis of a more participatory way of mapping contested geographies. In any case, this is a great ongoing discussion, and I’m eager to see how it plays out on the ground in Lima. - mikel

Richard mines Google's data mining - mikel

silver plan. - mikel

volunteer opportunities for KDE posted as jobs, nice - mikel

farmers cooperatives direct sales to Kibera - mikel

For certain, politicians, NGOs, and the Kibera residents themselves have an interest in inflating the numbers, not only for a kind of prestige derived from the fact of living or operating in a slum with a record population, but also because high numbers attract attention and hopefully, funding. - mikel

Tim mentioned as an example Open Street Map, and a particular initiative aiming to put the Web the map of the biggest slum in Nairobi, called Kibera - mikel

"hill towers around San Francisco as the characters" - mikel

Quite simply, I’ve grabbed about 2,000 photos in each location from Flickr, determined the dominant color in each, mapped those colors, and interpolated liberally. - mikel

tonee reads the draft Kenya Constitution - mikel

mpesa for online shopping - mikel

more on my favorite art installation in Kibera - mikel

Google's Street View car and the Google Trike were in Soweto yesterday - mikel

The project cost $87,310 - mikel

aaron at stamen! - mikel

Engg college students to map village digitally - mikel

we're not funded by web foundation (yet :) ) but at least some coverage of the project in the Daily Nation - mikel