Jeffrey sez, "This MIT Media Lab project worked with activists on Friday to make maps with a community of Shipibo who've taken up residence on the bank of the river Rimac in downtown Lima – a city of 11 million people.
Using only helium balloons and a cheap camera, the GrassrootsMapping.org team, part of the Center for Future Civic Media, took pictures of the extralegal settlement from ~500 feet up. The images were rectified and the resulting map may help the Shipibo in their legal battle to gain deeds to the land.
GrassrootsMapping.org is a project which supports communities in cartographic dispute by creating low-cost mapping tools."
Grassroots Mapping with the Shipibo in the center of Lima
(Thanks, Jeffrey!)
Previously:
- Google Maps hack: Cell Phone Tower Search – Boing Boing
- Craigslist for-rent ads scraped and placed on Google Maps – Boing …
- Southern CA wildfires: good Lord they are huge. – Boing Boing
- Map shows US marriage and divorce rates – Boing Boing
- Future of Making map from Institute for the Future – Boing Boing
- Transparent map over satellite photos of London – Boing Boing
- Boing Boing: Annalee Newitz on the Geowankers
- Boing Boing: Open maps of London event: April 14, London
