Preparation for upcoming issues of the Grassroots Mapping Forum

Overview

We are currently looking for contributors interested in writing for Grassroots Mapping Forum Issue 2. Please join us if you have an interesting idea for an editorial, tool feature, or summary of research being done on our site or mailing list.

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

• 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: ____

Timeline of issue 2:

• 2 months overall (started Mid may: publish by mid-July 2012

Issue 3

• Site: none yet
• Publication date: none yet
• Estimated cost shipped: ~$3.50