Preparation for upcoming issues of the Grassroots Mapping Forum

Upcoming:

Planning Grassroots Mapping Forum 8

January 2015: How about a five year (!!!) anniversary issue on how Grassroots Mapping has transformed over the past five years, a discussion of MapKnitter, the Carto Collective, geographic growth and spread of the GM community and we could have a photo send in/round up of rig versions to see how its been modified.

Planning Grassroots Mapping Forum 7

Q4 2014: In our 7th edition of Public Lab's Grassroots Mapping Forum we will be examining oil. Public Lab started as Grassroots Mapping after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion of oil. Grassroots mappers walked and boated the Gulf shoreline with cameras on kites and balloons to document the disaster as it unfolded. Four years later the oil is still present and our communities still depend on oil for energy. This Forum will be a chance to discuss anything and everything connected to this potent source of energy.

Contact me if you're interested in contributing a piece by next Thursday, September 25th. I'll get back to you with word limits.

Final pieces will be due to Molly at public lab dot org Wednesday, November 5th.

Special Edition: Barataria Bay Mapping

Planning Grassroots Mapping Forum 6

August 2014: TRASH! Working with waste

Submissions due Friday July 25th GMF Template

what we're looking at so far:

Nicholas Johnson: the impact of landfills in the US & internationally, mapping landfills and how the public can better understand and participate in monitoring their local landfill.

Max Liboiron of Discard Studies

Mathew Lippincott: Detritivore Design

Bronwen Densmore: photography & spectrometry form Dead Horse Bay, Brooklyn

Scott Eustis: cross referencing trash count per mile with NRDC's beachwater standards for the Gulf Coast

Planning Grassroots Mapping Forum 5

GMF Template May 2014: International projects focus

• Map of Construction site in Beit Safafa, map-making from the local protest tent.

• Social Context of Mapping in Jerusalem by [hagitkeysar]

• Interview with Pablo: by [Shannon Dosemagen]

• Public Lab Update by Shannon

• Mapping in Belize by Pat Coyle

• Tool for Stalling by Maria

• Update on Rio by Ives Rocha

In-Print:

Planning Grassroots Mapping Forum 4

New York City research.

Planning Grassroots Mapping Forum 3

The theme of Grassroots Mapping Forum #3 will be organizing, with articles that document and continue conversations started at the Cocodrie Barnraising in November.

Planning Grassroots Mapping Forum 2

Grassroots Mapping Forum 2 was printed in August 2012, download it here. Contact Mathew (mathew@publiclaboratory.org) if you need original artwork or files for your project, GMF is CC-share-alike!

current Grassroots mapping forum 2 contributors are :

Raymond Cha,Mathew Lippincott,Coby Leuschke,Cameron Hunt,Amie Stepanovich-- Dialogue on UAS Ethics

Jeff Warren and Chris Fastie-- Intro to thermal cameras

Shannon Dosemagen-- interview in the gulf and profile of the mappers

Issue 2 of grassroots mapping forum will be created around a series of templates designed for contributors to collaborate on. The template is explained in the following video. More can be found in this research note on the templates, and this one on style considerations.

The templates are available here in google docs.

click here to view the pdf dummy template

Regular ‘features’

• Cover (just an image)
• Back cover (image + some leading text), plots explanation, contributors
• Editorial
• About this map
• picture, mappers bio, field notes and photo and price of map kit used, a route (GPS track?) of the trip
• Editorial
• Notes
  • notes from the site + forum discussions

Suggested sections

• Site feature:
  • Interview
  • who where and why?
  • imagery collected, next steps
• Tool feature: (Chris F & Jeff W, tentatively, based on dual camera kit guide materials)
  • Interview
  • design considerations
  • how, with what?
  • why, who wants it?
  • media and brainstorming: http://publiclaboratory.org/notes/warren/5-17-2012/infrared-camera-how-guide-gm-forum

Preparing the map, considerations:

• where- (can someone use this map to place it in space?) does the map function without the PLOTS site?
• georeferencing- standard data points to place this map
  • putting in the bounding box for the map, place them on map.
  • Compass (north arrow) degrees of inclination, for true and magnetic north

Issue 2 Map

• Site: Chandeleur Islands, May 9
  • (this site selection is from old discussion, we can change our minds)

    Section Leads and contributors

• Site Featured interview: Shannon Dosemagen *contributors___
• About the Mappers: Shannon Dosemagen
• Tool Feature: Dual Camera/IR imagery: Jeff Warren *contributors___
• Editorial Feature: Ethics and UAS's: Mathew Lippincott *contributors___
• Notes summaries: ____