diy aerial mapping in perugia - school of data
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DIY aerial mapping workshop in Perugia through the School of Data as part of the International Journalism Festival 2014. "From tools to issues and from DIY to DIT (or doing it together)". Thanks to Eymund Diegel for the slides on the Gowanus Canal and to Hagit Keysar for her materials on mapping Jerusalem.TRANSCRIPT
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Imagine Your IdeaMAKE YOUR TOOLTell Your Story
www.publiclab.org
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publiclab.org
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Google Earth Outreach earth.google.com/outreach
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aerial mapping
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balloon mapping
camera
Helium-
filled weath
er balloo
n
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Creative Commons Share Back with Attribution for the collaborative production of knowledge
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simple noise monitor
kite mapping
kite-making worksho
pcame
ra
Kite
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SEEING THINGS BETTER
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examplesGowanus canal, NY
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Helping to set up a cleanup process – but where ?
Gowanus Canal Sewage: gets a million gallons a day …
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Gowanus Low Altitude Mapping Program
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15 DECEMBER 2012 BALLOON AERIAL
GOWANUS CANAL MAPPING OF SEWAGE PLUMES FROM HURRICANE SANDY DAMAGE
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15 DECEMBER 2012 BALLOON AERIAL
GOWANUS CANAL MAPPING OF FRESH WATER INFLOWS FROM HISTORIC SPRINGS INTO SEWAGE CONTAMINATED WATERS
Unmapped spring discovered
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LOCAL CITIZEN PHOTOGRAPHY
2008 State Photo Program
2011 Citizen Kite Photo Program
IMPROVING PUBLIC DATA &CREATING TOOLS FOR LOCAL INSIGHT
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CAN WE MAP ALL THE OLD GHOST STREAMS AND CREEKS ?
THESE CAN HELP DIVERT RAINWATER OUT OF SEWERS AND REDUCE SEWER OVERFLOW POLLUTION
Looking for Solutions to the Problem…
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First Street BasinAs seen from canoe
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1766 Freeke’s Mill Building
Potential Spring
This is a publicRight of Way:Could this stream be restored for the new park ?
Why are plants in concrete cracks growing so well ? Is the spring still running ?
July 2011 Balloon PhotoCIVIC DATA THAT ASKS QUESTIONS
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Grassroots Mapping – finding things that matter to YOU
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1766
CAN OLD MAPS HELP US UNDERSTAND OUR GRASSROOTS AERIAL PHOTOS ?
FIRST STREET
BASIN
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EXISTING SPRING
1766 stream
FIRSTSTREETBASIN
GOWANUS CANAL(SALTY WATER)
COLONIAL MILL NEEDING FRESH WATER
Origin
al T
idal
Dam
OLD 1766 MAP OVERLAID ON “DO IT YOURSELF” 2011 BALLOON AERIAL SHOWS US WHAT IS GOING ON
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Surviving stream is now argument
for 5th Street Basin Greenway
& Park Restoration
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The Revolution in our Back Yard
Battle of Brooklyn: 27 August 1776
Alonzo Chappel, 1858
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Delaware Regiment fighting in Battle of Brooklyn, painting by Domenick D’Andrea, Corbis Archives
1776 – Soldiers died and were buried here
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Where are the Buried Bodies ?
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Helping people tell their story
Bob Furman,local historian
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The OVER MY DEAD BODY BALLOON MAPPING EXPEDITION comparing notes with local Brooklyn authorities on how much space would be needed to bury 256 bodies
Pic by Dan Phiffer, 7 July 2012
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How much space would bodies take ?
Where could bones have survived ?
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PORTIONS OF THE NORTHERN MARYLANDER SITE WERE EXCAVATED IN 2009, AND THIS AREA STUDIED BY ARCHEOLOGICAL TEAMS – BUT NOTHING FOUND – WOULD WE HAVE MORE LUCK WITH SOUTHERN PORTION ?
1957 Columbia University Archeological Study Area( nothing found )
8 TH STREET
THIR
D A
VE
9 TH STREET
FOURT
H A
VE
Microsoft Bing Aerials, circa 2010
1998 Bona Fide Oil Archeological Study Area
2012 Over My Dead Body Balloon Mapping Site NEVER EXCAVATED…
1947 Robert Moses Historical Park Proposal Area
1890s Discovery of 30 bodies by Contractor Ryan - location unclear
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The 7 July 2012 Balloon Photographs show an interesting pattern of cracks running on a north south axis. Military burials typically had bodies facing the rising sun. Cracks match proportions of burial trenches described by by 1956 Archeological Survey.
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2010 NYC LIDAR 3D Topographic Model of Slab half inch “bumps” on slab
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examplesJerusalem, Israel
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“…aerial photographs do not speak for themselves. And in particular those made by communities. Exactly like any other form of photography aerial images are ground for interpretation, rather than for objective decoding.”
- Hagit Keysar, 2013
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other examples
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mapping a park
mapping
forest damag
e
mapping a demonstra
tion
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mapknitter.org
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DIY manifesto• DIY = empowerment & sense of ownership• DIY = independence• DIY = creativity• DIY = understanding of things and taking
charge• DIY = the right to choose• DIY transforms consumers into contributors• DIY is saves you money!
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Nat Fein, 1947, Central Park
SMALL DATA vs BIG DATAReconnecting the State
with it’s Citizen Knowledge
TELLING THE LOCAL STORY
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A very special thank you to all the wonderful staff and volunteers at IFJ
A big thank you to all of you - now masters in DIY kite mapping and who endured the cold and wet kite mapping intro
Thank you to PublicLab.org community for their work and open source materials, many of them included in this presentation
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