WhereCamp SF 2011
Wherecamp SF 2011 goes down April 22 and 23! This year we’re going to coincide with Earth Day and it’s running a day earlier so …
06 Apr
WhereCamp SF 2010 Quick Recap
WhereCamp SF 2010 Quick Recap
Briefly a quick summary of outcomes from WhereCamp 2010, First of all this year there is quite a bit of video on http://blog.wherecamp.org ( thanks to …
06 Apr
Sponsor shout-outs and WhereCamp planning
Sponsor shout-outs and WhereCamp planning
Goals The goal of WhereCamp is to simply encourage social cross pollination of ideas between developers, makers, artists. By being totally free to participants it can …
30 Mar
Amateur mapping for disaster relief: what could possibly go wrong?
Amateur mapping for disaster relief: what could possibly go wrong?
Maps have been an essential part of the ongoing humanitarian response to the Haitian earthquake. The OpenStreetMap and CrisisMapping communities have had a particularly important …
21 Mar
Paintings for Satellites: a project by Molly Dilworth
Paintings for Satellites: a project by Molly Dilworth
In the summer of 2009 I began a series of physical paintings for digital space – works on rooftops to be viewed via satellite. Though …
16 Mar
WhereCampAfrica and mapping Kiberia
WhereCampAfrica and mapping Kiberia
Right now, I am sitting in Nairobi, not far from one of Africa’s largest slums, Kibera. It is now mapped. If not for WhereCamp, I …
26 Feb
What is this WhereCamp?
What is this WhereCamp?
Today many of us are interested in space. We make maps, we share them with friends, we tell our friends where our favorite places are. We play geo-games like Gowalla and Foursquare . It feels like in fact this year may be the best year ever – and this may be the best WhereCamp so far.