GEOG 231 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 1 THR: Green Leaves, Kibera, Openstreetmap
13 Sep 2017
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2300 bc babylons using map on stone. Today we rely on satellites for pictures of the earth, weather, communications etc. Ushahidi: open source platform for crowd sourcing crisis information. Open street map: a free wiki map that allows users to edit and add geographic data. Case example: transit tracker centralized database, real time location of buses. Case example: civic apps mobile users can catalog issues around portland. Mobile users take a photo of a problem with gps location to the city. Case example: ups spends 1 billion dollars per year on technology to make routes most efficient. This results in cost savings, less emissions etc. Telematics: the combinations of remote sensing and telecommunications with computing to gather and analyze data. Case example: philadelphia nutrition gis maps to describe problems in the community with stakeholders. Used powerscene to map a road between territories. First successful use of deployable technology in political negotiations. Can be detected using change detection over an area.
