After the tsunami of 2011 and the subsequent nuclear problem at Fukushima Daiichi, it became clear that people wanted to have more data than those that were available. Safecast has worked to build up a network of radiation sen- sors, made up of static and mobile sensors that are installed close to the ex- clusion zone and around the country. Safecast is a...

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Public Lab is a non-profit community that develops open code tools and applies them to the exploration and investigation of the environment. The instruments included in the Balloon Mapping Kit are designed to provide simple, cheap and safe methods for making maps and obtaining aerial images. The use of a balloon and a kite controlled from the ground permi...

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ITO World is a transport information company that provides mapping servic- es for organisations and individuals, based in the UK that supports the Open- StreetMap project. The video shows some of this mapping services such as: national public transport data feeds, historical bus traces, staff commute pat- terns to a campus, airspace visualizations, World ...

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Openstreetmap is one of the most successful examples of a data infrastructure created with the contribution of individual people. It is a geographical information service for maps that offers an alternative to its commercial equivalents. In the last decade, over a million participants have contributed to this detailed map of the world used by numerous appl...

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