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add to OSM from twitter - mikel

nice site design - mikel

"The $300 house responds to our misconceptions more than to real needs. " - mikel

building=yes is a searchable and linkable index of every single "way" tagged building=yes in OpenStreetMap (OSM). A web page for every building in OpenStreetMap! - mikel

1:1 mapping of flood lines - mikel

Ivory Coast is a divided society. The outsized egos of its presidential candidates were fed by a real social crisis that divided the country into a regional civil war. No one familiar with the country’s unfolding crisis should have been surprised by the ruling party’s refusal to accept the verdict in a 'winner-takes-all' election. Africa had already witnessed similar refusals in other countries, notable Zimbabwe and Kenya. - mikel

another instance where Google is placed as arbiter of map reality - mikel

clear presentation on history and impacts of mpesa - mikel

“Clever services on cheap mobile phones make a powerful combination” - mikel

Even with shrinking resources, journalists can do better than this. For a start, they can stop depending so heavily, and uncritically, on aid organizations for statistics, subjects, stories, and sources. They can also educate themselves on how to find and interpret data available from independent sources. And they can actively seek out stories that deviate from existing story lines. - mikel

excellent opening mapping party presentation - mikel

i need to do this one year, wonderful - mikel

reverse geocoder - mikel

The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (PLOTS) collaboratively develops and publicizes accessible technologies for investigating and reporting on local environmental health and justice issues. PLOTS provides an online research space for citizens, linking them to scientists, social scientists, and technologists. PLOTS is an expansion of Grassroots Mapping, where citizens use helium-filled balloons and digital cameras to generate high resolution “satellite” maps. - mikel

The Open Technology Initiative formulates policy andregulatory reforms to support open architectures and opensource innovations and facilitates the development and implementation of open technologies and communications networks. - mikel

nice maps site in Kerala, India - mikel

The residents of Tidy Street in Brighton's North Laine area have come up with an interesting way of displaying their electricity use compared to the rest of Brighton. They're visualising the data week-by-week as a chart chalked onto the road outside all of their houses, visible for both residents and the public to see. - mikel

Jordan antiquities GIS. Looks open source. Would be even better as open data. - mikel

reindeer tracking fo same - mikel

some historic maps ala nypl collection. the really cool thing is animated flow of street openings - mikel

The situation in Haiti is potentially explosive, and it is not because, as the US state department argues, Aristide might return before the election. Rather, it is because they have denied Haitians their right to self-government, and continue to do so. - mikel

"I love that the simple process of making the same mark over and over again, but making it slightly differently, results in this rich data set that can be understood and read if you've got the information and tools to interpret it. (As a side note, I also love having conversations with people who spray markings on the sidewalk. You think you're bothering them with your questions but I've found they're actually pretty pleased to talk to you.)" - mikel

"interactive digital map of Tibet that includes Tibetan, English and Chinese place names and shows historic and modern borders." - mikel

The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts. - mikel

The Australian Community Development and Civil Society Strengthening Scheme (ACCESS) is an initiative of the Australian Government and Indonesian through the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID). ACCESS has been operating since 2002, with the second Phase commencing in May 2008 for a five-year period. ACCESS Phase II builds on the successes of ACCESS Phase I and emphasises the importance of building demand for better governance and building the capacity of local communities and civil society organisations. - mikel

hack/change is a nonprofit that trains underrepresented youth in computer programming over the course of 3 months with intensive workshops and supplemental education in tech entrepreneurship. we connect these newly-educated programmers with bootstrapping entrepreneurs in effort to create a cycle of sustainable tech entrepreneurship among marginalized populations. - mikel

It is important that human needs are understood as a system - i.e. they are interrelated and interactive. In this system, there is no hierarchy of needs (apart from the basic need for subsistence or survival) as postulated by Western psychologists such as Maslow, rather, simultaneity, complementarity and trade-offs are features of the process of needs satisfaction. - mikel

Today, I published all of my known genetic data as open source and released all my rights to the data. - mikel

Open Edition was founded in 2009 by Flatbed Splendor to explore the philosophy of FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) through the medium of the artist's book - mikel

Using this website, you can create maps from the data to see where all the resources are in some neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago. - mikel