From bfpk44@gmail.com Fri Jul 6 02:42:18 2018 From: Chris To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: [liberationtech] Global Occupy Map: Requesting Advice Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:42:18 +0000 Message-ID: <172289093282.3849117.5749261546854933245.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============3555514556881953332==" --===============3555514556881953332== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Friends, My name is Chris, and I am a member of Occupy D.C. I am reaching out to this list at the suggestion of @LiberationTech with a few questions relating to mapping the Occupy movement. An Occupy-affiliated group, We All Occupy ( website), has been painstakingly gathering data/links/advice/ and other resources on their site. I was able to geocode a listing of over 1300 Occupy locations globally, including their website URL, Facebook URL, and Twitter URL. Admittedly, the database still has many errors and is far from completion. I was then able to take this data and map each location with the appropriate URLs in a tooltip window using TileMill from MapBox: ( Global Occupy Map) as well as a map with Socrata: ( OpenData Map ). I have three mapping-related inquiries: *1. Do you know of anyone/any organization who might be interested in hosting the open-source MapBox software on their servers for the Global Occupy Map? * Development Seed (MapBox/TileMill) has been generous in offering to host the map for one month. I imagine there to be many other liberating uses for this type of mapping technology, and I hope the Occupy map will inspire others to consider visualization as an advocacy tool. *2. How should I approach real-time data? * MapBox and Socrata are not, to my knowledge, very good at handling dynamic data, which is what the majority of what I imagine Occupy Data to be. (See Occupy Research here for examples of previous visualizations, and I put together this stack of other Occupy maps for comparison: ( http://delicious.com/stacks/view/HruuI0 ). What I notice from the other maps is that the Ushahidi/CrowdMap maps are good for real-time but don't seem able to handle existing large datasets, and the tooltips/pop-up windows give limited information. The map itself is not very impressive. Data Visualization/maps should be beautiful, fun, perhaps even inspiring. I see some potential in using the Google Visualization API to generate dynamic maps, especially since data would be hosted in Google Docs already. However, I only recently (i.e., 2 months ago) started to script/develop. *3. Does anyone have experience in creating Google GeoMap Visualizations with a Google Docs spreadsheet as the source? * I apologize for the length of this email. I like to think it is because of all the links I included. Information is power! Sincerely, Chris _______________________________________________ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click abov= e) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?" You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator = in monthly reminders. Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech ----- End forwarded message ----- --=20 Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --===============3555514556881953332==--