LABORATORIO IN SPALLA
Polveri sottili, temperatura, molecole inquinanti. Un laboratorio completo per l’analisi della qualità dell’aria dentro ad uno zaino. Invenzione italiana.
Communities of people are better mappers if they are spatially clustered, as revealed in an interesting new paper by Hristova, Mashhadi, Quattrone and Capra from UCL. “This preliminary analysis inspires further inquiry because it shows a clear correlation between spatial affiliation, the internal community structure and the community’s engagement in terms of coverage”, according to the […]
From the ESA AppCamp website: Are you an innovative developer from Europe with experience in app development? Then take your chance and apply to spend one week at the European Space Agency (ESA) near Rome between 18 and 22 June 2012. ESA is inviting 20 developers to its ESRIN location in Frascati […]
To crowdmap a region, first of all you need a crowd. As people are lazy, you need a lot of small contribution to get a meaningful geographical annotation. Of course, this is more easily done in cities, and that’s why projects like OpenStreetMap work so well in big towns like London or New York.
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A new interesting article on volunteered “GIS systems, OpenStreetMap and all that stuff is out, whose long long title is “Crowdsourcing, citizen sensing and Sensor Web technologies for public and environmental health surveillance and crisis management: trends, OGC standards and application examples”. It is authored (among others) by Maged N. Kamel Boulos and […]
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