New social media mapping sites are popping up all over the place these days - whether it's crisis-mapping sites like Sinsai.info or this new 'happiness' map from PhD student Alex Davies. Davies, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge's Computational and Biological Learning Lab, created a statistical model to analyze the sentiment (happy or sad) of Tweets from around … [Read more...]
NPR Story on Crisis Mapping in Japan
Last week NPR ran a story on crisis mapping in Japan - focusing on the open-source, citizen-driven Sinsai.info website. Here's the description from the NPR website: Open source software called Ushahidi allows people to add and update information to maps that anyone with an Internet connection can access. In Tokyo, a crew of volunteers is using the software to map everything — … [Read more...]
ChesapeakeView
Maurie Kelly and her team at PASDA (part of the Penn State Institute of Energy and the Environment) have just released ChesapeakeView, a website that provides free access to remotely sensed data about the Chesapeake Bay region. The website currently holds 263 datasets related to the Chesapeake Bay region - including remotely sensed data as well as habitat, land use, … [Read more...]
Libya crisis map
Click here to check out the new Libya Crisis Map. Courtesy of Adena Schutzberg over at AllPointsBlog: OCHA, UNOSAT and NetHope have been collaborating with the Volunteer Technical Community (VTC) specifically CrisisMappers, Crisis Commons, Open Street Map, and the Google Crisis Response Team over the past week. The CrisisMappers Standby Task Force has been undertaking a … [Read more...]
WikiWatershed – Model My Watershed
WikiWatershed is another exciting project under development by the team at Azavea. The project - a collaboration between the Stroud Water Research Center, Azavea, University of Pennsylvania's Cartographic Modeling Lab and Millersville University - features a suite of web-based mapping and analysis tools designed for use by students and concerned citizens in sharing … [Read more...]