[FRIAM] Distributed Urban Information Systems

[Carl Tollander]

Also, the October Sky and Telescope ($6, Smith's grocery store) reports 
on an astronomy camera/software setup  that lets you put easily stitch 
together a large number of images to increase resolution.  Imaging 
Source's DMK 21AF04.  Relatively inexpensive as these things go ($390, 
www.astronomycameras.com) , let's you get into multispectral imaging 
stuff.  Not that there are non-astronomy teeming throngs waiting to do 
such things, but it is cool.  (Actually I can think of some apps, but 
they're not particularly distributed, urban or social).

C.

John Goekler wrote:
> Check the next level of personal recon with your own UAV and Google 
> Earth from Global Guerillas
>  
>
>
>   Global Guerrillas
>   <http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/>
>
> 	Link to Global Guerrillas 
> <http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/>
>
> JOURNAL: DIY Hi Def Recon 
> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/typepad/rzYD/%7E3/159908234/journal-diy-hi-.html> 
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>
> Posted: 22 Sep 2007 09:38 AM GMT-06:00
>
> Chris Anderson (the editor of Wired magazine) has been pushing the 
> envelope of do-it-yourself reconnaissance 
> <http://www.thelongtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/09/uav-image-proce.html> 
> using low cost UAVs <http://diydrones.com/>, stitching software 
> <http://pictearthusa.com/> (in conjunction with Google Earth), a GPS 
> datalogger 
> <http://www.unityelectronics.com/product-product_id/4065/m/i_Blue/p/I_BLUE747> 
> ($99), and digital cameras (the Canon PowerShot SD650 
> <http://www.amazon.com/Canon-PowerShot-Digital-Camera-Optical/dp/B000ENPDSW/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-4692811-9911312?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1190472398&sr=8-1>, 
> at 6 MP). Yet another global guerrilla tinkering project for 
> applications in security and disaster response.
>
>
>
>  
> On 9/23/07, *Stephen Guerin* <stephen.guerin at redfish.com 
> <mailto:stephen.guerin at redfish.com>> wrote:
>
>     Here's a typical blog about the emergence of end-user tools for
>     digital capture
>     of urban information:
>
>     http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/09/top-5-urban-gadgets-and-software.html
>
>     The last bit is interesting where they say:
>     """
>     We know that there are users our there that view SketchUp as a
>     tool for the
>     masses and frown upon its simple tool set and interface. Yet this
>     is what its
>     all about, mass participation in modeling and geographic
>     information using
>     simple to use yet powerful toolsets.
>
>     In essence this is the start of a longer list of recommend
>     hardware and software
>     of note is our lack of mention of ESRI, 3D Max, Laser Scanners or
>     other high end
>     software/hardware.
>
>     The market is changing and with it both the software and levels of
>     hardware
>     required, to be continued..
>     """
>
>
>     So it's becoming an interesting question of what a community might
>     be able to do
>     when you combine data collection via SketchUp, Google Maps/Earth,
>     cheap GPS
>     devices, and GeoCoded photos and augment that with 3D GIS-based
>     agent-based
>     models. What type of applications could we imagine if data could
>     be managed in a
>     peer-to-peer way with groups within the community having private
>     and public data
>     layers? How might these tools help a community organize around
>     different issues?
>
>     -S
>
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