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notes.husk.org: studiox-nyc, via slavin: a team from Cambridge University and the...

studiox-nyc, via slavin:

a team from Cambridge University and the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais have created an online game to crowdsource Londoners’ mental images of the city, serving up a series of ten random urban locations in Google Street View, and asking locals to…

2 months ago

March 12, 2013

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The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) has launched an initiative to collect data about the cats of London into a map. It’s called, perhaps unsurprisingly, Cat Map.

Cat Map invites mog owners or acquaintances to plot their feline counterparts onto a mapping tool, uploading a photo, an address, the cat’s name, colour and age as well as a description

— DeMOGraphics: Cat Map plots locations, names and colours of London felines (Wired UK)

2 months ago

March 1, 2013

maps cats the internet! crowdsourcing

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Ushahidi CrowdMap reports (246,323 unique locations used for reports from the launch of Crowdmap on Aug 9, 2010 to Jan 18, 2013)

via iRevolution

3 months ago

February 11, 2013

ushahidi maps crowdsourcing vgi

Re-tweet activity during the first few hours following the 2010 Chile earthquake

via iRevolution

5 months ago

December 6, 2012

twitter crowdsourcing credibility visualization

Sound Around You

another soundscape research project/crowdsourced ambient sound collection (university of salford, manchester)

5 months ago

November 25, 2012

sound maps crowdsourcing

Dead Ushahidi

To end up in the Ushahidi cemetery, at least one of the following is true about the maps here:

No one (let alone a crowd) has submitted a report to the map in the last 12 months.
For time-bound events, like elections and disasters, the number of reports is so infinitesimally small in relation to the affected community that the map never reached a point anywhere near relevance. (Our measure for elections is, for instance, # of submissions / # of registered voters > .0001).
The map was never actually started (there are no category descriptions or fewer than 10 reports). DOA, anyone?
The map is listed in the Ushahidi deployment list but the link to the map is dead. That definitely warrants a death certificate.