Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Mapping 2010-2011
Since May 2010, we have been using balloon mapping to capture aerial imagery of spill-affected sites in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Our work on the Gulf Coast in 2010, was done in cooperation with groups such as the Louisiana Bucket...
The New York / New Jersey metropolitan region is home to several projects with many partnering organizations, community groups, and individuals. The image above shows Eymund Diegel, archivist for Proteus Gowanus and Public Laboratory Board Member.
2012 planning notes
Gowanus Canal Investigations...
Projects
Carney Place:
Asheville PLOTS members mapped a new Habitat for Humanity Development on March 31st, 2012. The mission was a success despite pesky winds and variable cloud cover. Search for "Carney" on Mapknitter.org to check our progress! Thanks to all who came out:
Greg, Liz, Clark,...
Lima is home to a variety of initiatives and groups which share goals with Public Laboratory, and was the birthplace of the Grassroots Mapping project, which inspired Public Laboratory.
Digital+Media: Environmental Justice Research Cluster at the Rhode Island School of Design
Organized by Sara Wylie, RISD Students and Graduates Jae Ok Lee, Byeongwon Ha, Kyuha Shim and Mara Streberger, James Schaffroth, and Yuyu Chen (along with Shannon Dosemagen and Jeff Warren) are developing a...
Grassroots Mapping hosts workshops in Portland in collaboration with Pacific Northwest College of Art, Reed College, Gallery Homeland, and Research Club, focusing on Balloon construction techniques and aerial photography.
PLOTS member Mathew Lippincott lives in Portland and is pursuing kite...
Our work in Somerville is developing in partnership with Parts and Crafts. Somerville is also home to Sprout and the Boston-area Dorkbot chapter.
The Public Laboratory chapter in Somerville is currently hosted out of the p.irateship, a coworking and hacking space at 438 Somerville Ave. For...
A Public Laboratory group is just starting up in Texas, read below for more information and to get involved!
Current Activities:
At Occupy Austin, we have spun up a working group devoted to building both balloon/dirigible and quadcopter platforms for protest mapping and livestreaming. This effort...
Written by Elizabeth Wolf, Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente
The recent months of 2011 have marked the manifestation of student frustration with the Chilean education system. Hundreds of thousands of university and secondary students have flooded the streets of Santiago and other cities across...
Butte, Montana
Bert Mooney Airport (BTM)
Where I-90 & I-15 intersect:
119 miles east of Missoula on I-90, 85 miles west of Bozeman, MT on I-90
67 miles south of Helena, MT on I-15, 65 miles north of Dillon, MT on I-15
Major Landscape Features:
-The Continental Divide
-Silver Bow Creek/ Butte...
View the area that activists are currently working at: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Modrava,+Czech+Republic&hl=en&sll=37.0625,...
Sumava is the biggest and strictly protected natural park in the Czech Republic. It has had to repeatedly face attacks on its strict level of ecosystem...
Versão em português:
O UNICEF em parceria com o Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (PLOTS) realizou um workshop pioneiro na área de tecnologia de mapeamento comunitário com foco na prevenção de desastres, no Rio de Janeiro, entre os dias 22 a 26 de agosto. A comunidade piloto...
Public Laboratory working with interested members of the STS community around UCD in Davis, California. We are trying to reach out to interested folks and find some local issues to focus on.
http://keckcaves.org/
http://sts.ucdavis.edu/
Getting Started
Folks at the University of California Davis (...
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