Does someone know a toolkit or fellowship for Mapping ?
I am interested in Maaping practices for agriculture and election related work and need help to have a self tuition kit or fellowship so I can learn and apply to my development work.
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Are you talking about creating maps of an unknown region, or about pulling data sense out of a previously created maps?
If it is about the former, then I have seen a technique to take a series of high-resolution-scale aerial photographs of a region by attaching the camera to a kite, and then piece these together to form a pretty accurate macroscopic picture. The camera could be a standard one, or even an infrared if you have use of such data!
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Thanks Kevein, please just share the way forward on this with me. I appreciate any support.
Here is one example of a project from the Public Laboratories, except they use a balloon instead of a kite:
http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2012/4/18/first-aerial-maps-produced-citizens-featured-google-earth-and-google-maps/
Here's one from Berkeley involving a kite:
These projects probably won't help you with mapping social stuff such as elections; however, I know someone at the New England Complex Systems Institute who studies the spatial distribution of ethnic violence; that is the closest thing I could think of in terms of mapping. I could make an introduction if you care to learn more about this.
I don't know if this is helpful, or maybe just some inspiration:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1276177353/food-an-atlas-0
They collected maps from all around the world and created an atlas of food production, distribution, consumption and security.
