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Hi everyone!

Public Lab is excited to announce the launch of Infragram: the Infrared
Photography Project<[link]>on
Kickstarter! The Infragram, which starts at $35, is a simple infrared
webcam that can be used to measure plant health-- one-twentieth the cost of

What about storing video and then pulling out the best frames from the lot?

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I wanted to share this thoughtful writeup by Maria Lamadrid on the use of
balloon mapping by the JuaKali Craft Village in Kampala to temporarily
stall eviction proceedings:

[link]

The map in MapKnitter can be found here:
[link]

Hi all -

I'm mostly a lurker on this list. I'm working with Luisa Beck to put
together a blog post for the MIT Center for Civic Media about making
maps for journalists and we are looking to cite a case where mapping
actually was _not_ ideal because not everybody wants to be mapped. In
these cases mapping can be an invasion of privacy or serve to "out"

Lynn Wolbarst had a great balloon flight a few weeks ago and got a lot of
images of a concerning metal processing plant in East Providence. She needs
some help getting a MapKnitter.org map started, and piecing together her
images.

[link]

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Hi all,

here Costantino and Zoe !!

Sorry for posting a bit late ;) but I'd like inform you that we're having a
workshop tomorrow May 14th and 15th.

The event is totally free and organized with the Triennale Design Museum

Capturing all of sensory data (temperature,barometric pressure ) in a
timestamped CVS file is complex(we have to use external library (Library<[link]>)
to create .csv file). Instead of that can we use sql database to store all
the parameter??
For weather info, I used weather.com data in my GPS navigation app so that

For the Visible and NIR imaging of community garden, Stewart got a pretty
nice set of visible and nir images.

Chris Fastie ran Ned Horning's ImageJ tool on the one of the image pairs in
Stewart's visible map and output NDVI and NRG images of the community
garden for an interesting result and nice example.

Two news bits I wanted to share with you all.

1. Some might be interested in this-- Executive Order on Open Data coming
from the White House today.

From the Sunlight Foundation
blog<[link]>

This Executive Order and the new

Hello all -- just wanted to share that Dana Bauer has been doing a lot of
organizing in the Philadelphia area and we've gotten both a mailing list
and a wiki page up for folks in that area -- you can post events, follow
the "philadelphia" tag <[link]>,
and more:

Posted note with photos, video, preliminary results from 5/4/13 Public Lab
NorCal Meetup at Fort Mason San Francisco CA at:
[link]

Short mention of Grassroots Mapping in US GIF's Trajectory magazine<[link]>.

Some of the details are wrong--like length of Public Lab's mapping, but it
is the connection to another segment of the geospatial professionals that

Hey
I just opened a new map for stitching, but I didn't enter lat. long. info.
Is there a way to add this info in the stitching stage? cause it is
difficult to find the location I need manually.

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This week in the Public Lab newsletter, check out announcements for last
minute mapping meet-ups in San Francisco and New York City, read about
mapping excursions to aerial image a nuclear power plant
in Massachusetts and mangroves in Qatar and learn about how trash and
technology can go hand-in-hand.

Hi everyone,

University College London Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) group is hiring
a Senior Developer to join their incredible team! This is a great
opportunity, please pass along to people you think might be interested.

______

**Senior Developer at the Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) group (UCL)*****

Thank you to those that have helped develop project ideas in the last 2
weeks. It is now last call to submit student proposals. If you would like
to sign up to be a mentor please add your name to the list as well.
[link]

I wanted to share this great note by Karen Vale of Cape Cod Bay
Watch<[link]>,
who I helped to do a (completely legal, FAA-notified) mapping of the
Pilgrim nuclear plant last weekend.

[link]

CCBW's been pushing for tighter permitting for the construction of a new

I'm with Michele, hot air balloons are magnificent but fairly impractical
for mapping. You have to have perfect conditions- basically no wind.
Solar hot air is much safer, but then you need even more difficult
conditions: no wind, full sun. On the bright side, even a huge solar hot
air balloon packs down to a lightweight ~20cm ball, so I keep one in my kit

I posted this here as well (with pictures):
[link]

On our recent balloon mapping expedition in Qatar, we used a GoPro Hero3
Black to capture images. This camera doesn't put any lens information into
the EXIF data, so post-processing the images is quite difficult.

Hi,

Any of you have tried the camera Galaxy EK-GC100 (an android camera) for
kap or bap? And any of new wifi cameras and smartpho/tablet as remote
trigger?

Thanks,

Juan