Grassroots Mapping is a series of participatory mapping projects involving communities in cartographic dispute. Seeking to invert the traditional power structure of cartography, the grassroots mappers used helium balloons and kites to loft their own “community satellites” made with inexpensive digital cameras.

Visit to Waveland beach, Mississippi

May 7th, 2010 by Jeffrey Warren

Too much wind at Waveland today to fly our balloon, and we didn’t have a kite on hand. Can anyone donate big kites like the Sutton Flowform 16? Anyone do KAP and willing to come map with us? Contact the mailing list please!

On foot we found some weird stuff, some certainly petroleum… iridescent and leaving orange streaks. Other stuff was a kind of putty of orange claylike substance which was washed up with the orange streaks. Could this be oil all the way over at Waveland? It’s the same color as the stuff the mainstream press is photographing.

orange putty-like substance at wavelandiridescent stuff at waveland beach

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