Grassroots Mapping

This site has been merged into Public Lab

At Public Lab, we've grown the Grassroots Mapping community into a broader effort to enable communities to understand and respond to environmental threats with DIY techniques.

Kite Flying Tree

February 16th, 2013 by dan.beavers

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That tree between the pines likes to fly kites. I was a little upset with it because it was my kite. The tree finally got bored after about 45 minutes and let go so I am not too upset. It took me a couple of hours to find the kite but when I did there was absolutely no damage to it. I love Tyvek! The wind was very gusty and the line got snagged by the tree during an extended lull.

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Do you need maps?

Are you embroiled in an cartographic dispute? Do you disagree with the official version of your geography? Contact us through the public mailing list.

Grassroots Mapping is part of the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science, founded by a group of activists, educators, technologists, and community organizers interested in new ways to promote action, intervention, and awareness through a participatory research model.

We're now trying to learn from our balloon mapping experiences to develop new DIY tools with a variety of local communities. This is an open community and you are welcome to join, and encouraged to contribute!

Purchase the Grassroots Mapping Forum, our new community research journal/archive/zine/map, where we hope to share ideas, techniques, and stories from the Grassroots Mapping community. It is printed on a single 22.75x35" newsprint sheet, folded down to just over letter size, and includes a full color reproduction of a grassroots map along with essays, illustrated guides, and interviews on the reverse.

You can find out more, and purchase the first issue here for $17 shipped.

Map the oil spill with balloons and kites!

We're helping citizens to use balloons, kites, and other simple and inexpensive tools to produce their own aerial imagery of the spill… documentation that will be essential for environmental and legal use in coming yeas.We believe in complete open access to spill imagery and are releasing all imagery into the public domain.

Read more here

You can see all of our data here: http://publiclab.org/archive/.

Browse some of our best imagery on Flickr.

Learn more by reading the 5-page Illustrated Guide (0.6mB PDF)

About Grassroots Mapping

Techniques and tools for people who want to make maps, on the Public Laboratory wiki. Includes readings and case studies on grassroots mapping projects.

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Balloon Aerial Photography »

Instructions on how to use cameras on weather balloons to create high-resolution maps.

Want to start mapping? See the Balloon Mapping Materials List to get started.

In collaboration with:

We have received generous support from:

and the Design Ecology group at the MIT Media Lab