This is a regional page for the Public Lab community in the northeastern United States and eastern Canada, reaching from Washington DC to the Maritime Provinces. Join the mailing list--[publiclab-northeast](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/publiclab-northeast)--in the left sidebar. Also, look through the places listed below and see if your locality is already organizing locally. If so, join its local mailing list and subscribe to relevant tags on the website. ###Organizers in the Northeast Region 20 organizers + 4 additional non-profit arm representatives: * [Michelle Schmitt](/profile/manetomapping) (Philadelphia, PA) * [Yagiz Sutcu](/profile/ygzstc) (Arlington, MA) * [Katie Gradowski](/profile/kgradow1) (Somerville, MA) * [Catherine D'Ignazio](/profile/kanarinka) (Waltham, MA) * [Sean McGinnis](/profile/SeanKMcGinnis) (New Jersey) * [Bronwen Densmore](/profile/bronwen) (Brooklyn, NY) * [Nicholas Johnson](/profile/nicholas) (New York City) * [Philip Silva](/profile/p_silva_82) (Ithaca, New York City) * [Karen Vale](/profile/karenv) (Plymouth, MA) * [Will Ward](/profile/wward1400) (Boston area) * [Dana Bauer](/profile/geography76) (Philadelphia) * [Natasia Sidarta](/profile/natasia) (New York City) * [Oscar Brett](/profile/oscarbrett) (New York, New Orleans) * [Ned Horning](/profile/nedhorning) (Vermont) * [Chris Fastie](/profile/cfastie) (Middlebury, Vermont) * [Lela Prashad](/profile/lprashad) (New York City) * [Jen Hudon](/profile/hudonnoodles) (Greater Boston area) * [Sara Wylie](/profile/sara) (Boston) * [Stefan Unterhauser](/profile/nemo) (Somerville, MA) also on WebWG * [Don Blair](/profile/donblair) (Amherst, MA) also a [fellow](/wiki/open-water) * [Liz Barry](/profile/liz) (New York City) also on [staff](/wiki/plots-staff) * [Jeff Warren](/profile/warren) (Somerville, MA) also on [staff](/wiki/plots-staff) * [Eymund Diegel](/profile/eymund): also formerly on the [Board](/wiki/board) **See http://publiclab.org/organizers for more information and a complete list** ###Emerging places in the Northeast Region **Discussing on the [publiclab-northeast mailing list](https://groups.google.com/group/publiclab-northeast):** * http://publiclab.org/wiki/maine (by Ron Huber and many others) * http://publiclab.org/wiki/ottawa (by Haripriya) * http://publiclab.org/wiki/quebec-city (by Benoit) ###Existing chapters in the Northeast Region **Discussing on the [plots-boston mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/plots-boston):** * http://publiclab.org/wiki/vermont * http://publiclab.org/wiki/somerville-massachusetts * http://publiclab.org/wiki/boston * http://publiclab.org/wiki/massachusetts **Discussing on the [plots-providence mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/plots-providence):** * http://publiclab.org/wiki/providence **Discussing on the [plots-nyc mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/plots-nyc):** * http://publiclab.org/wiki/new-jersey * http://publiclab.org/wiki/newark * http://publiclab.org/wiki/new-york-city **Discussing on the [plots-philadelphia mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/plots-philadelphia):** * http://publiclab.org/wiki/philadelphia **Discussing on the [plots-baltimore-dc mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/plots-baltimore-dc)** * http://publiclab.org/wiki/dc-baltimore ###New Places * http://publiclab.org/wiki/new-hampshire * http://publiclab.org/wiki/camden (by liz) ...
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mathew | "Nice thinking Chris. @code4maine I don't mean to discourage you from acquiring a quad, I just really like kites, and think of coastal areas (even ..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
ajawitz | "cfastie- That seems like the best approach yet. I'm going to forward your suggestion to the teacher in charge of field collections though we might ..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
cfastie | "If you have Garmin GPS units, there might be a better way for students to georeference photos. If the Garmin units save track logs, with a waypoint..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
erget | "@code4maine - I haven't submitted a research note, unfortunately. What you describe, however, is pretty similar to what I'm planning. I have to say..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
mathew | "You're right that if you put together a kit there are some quads around $500 that are fairly capable, but there is some significant setup involved ..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
ajawitz | "$300 would admittedly be a challenge, but a $500 quad with decent lift and up to an hour of flight time is not only possible, I've seen it done a n..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
mathew | "@code4maine a $300-400 quad will hardly fly long enough to map much (10 minutes), and is likely to get blown going to get blown away in the wind. ..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
mathew | "@erget-- are you using entirely matched stereo pairs, or are you moving to do a SFM-style unmatched parallax extraction? We have a big team worki..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
mathew | "@code4maine-- certainly, doing bluetooth coupling with a home-built Gps unit and the rest sounds like a bit of a pain in the field. I'd just take..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
ajawitz | "That sounds like a very interesting project! Have you submitted a research note for it? I for one would definitely be interested in exploring DIY ..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
erget | "If you're wanting to use a multicoper for mapping, I'm working on automating many parts of that workflow for my dissertation. By the end of the sum..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
ajawitz | "That sure would be amazing if all we had to do was take a picture with the iPads the students are using to get coordinates! But my guess is we wou..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
mathew | "One of the other features we're adding to mapknitter is that it will recognize the geo coordinates stored in images' EXIF data, and the ability to ..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
ajawitz | "Wow! That sounds great! I'll try to add some more information to the wiki to give people a better idea of the general project parameters and what..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
mathew | "Hi, I see in the Wiki that you are planning to use Rhuus or a similar system to mark the sites. depending on the timeline of these activities, you..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
MicheleTobias | "Thanks for posting this information! I just tried it with one of my GoPro datasets that's been giving me fits and it did really well stitching the..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
carmelfromson | "Hi Liz, No I haven't yet, but am planning to make the mapping the main topic of discussion during our lunch on May 8th. I'm thinking that we need..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
liz | "Hi Carmel, have you talked with Eymund about plans to either get folks to sign up for a future balloon mapping event, or to actually put up a ballo..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
warren | "Hi, i'm an admin, so I was able to take a screenshot of your PDF and upload it. The lead image uploader does not work with PDFs, sorry! " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
warren | "Hmm... What seems to happen? Can you send a screenshot to web@publiclab.org? " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
carmelfromson | "Hi, Thanks for letting me know that the image of the flyer didn't upload. I have tried it again several times and am not having success. I'll ke..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
warren | "Hello -- it looks like your main image didn't upload properly... do you think you could try to upload it again? You can click "edit" on your post a..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
jenmansta | "Thanks Mathew and Chris! Chris, you were right that the soda bottle rig was hanging from a single line. It would be great to test out one of the Re..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
cfastie | "That looks like a fun day of flying, and lots of work. There were 40 mph gusts at JFK that day, so that was a severe test for your first outing. It..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago |