Comments on: Seeking new ways of seeing – collaborative mapmaking in Jerusalem

By: hagit

hagit — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 08:42:47 +0000

Hi Tanya, as Dan wrote you should definitely subscribe to the mailing list, people are usually very responsive and extremely helpful. If you are not in the US you might want to check the possibility of creating your own kit. It can be cheaper and easier. See the details for kite mapping here: http://publiclab.org/wiki/kite-mapping you’ll find many answers there, but also sign in to the public lab, tell the grassroots mappers you are about to do a flight – maybe someone who has experience is close by in your area and can help you with your first flight, might also be able to share equipment. Create a research note in the Public Lab website, this can be a short description of what you set out to do and how it went, your next steps and such… good luck!

By: Tanya

Tanya — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 01:40:28 +0000

thanks Dan. I am about to order a kit so let’s see how it goes!

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 00:45:40 +0000

http://publiclab.org/wiki/guides is a good place to start. If you have further questions I encourage you to subscribe to one of the appropriate mailing lists.

By: Tanya

Tanya — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:13:04 +0000

Hi Hagit, I’ve been perusing the link you provided from OpenLab and it does seem to me I can buy a basic kite kit from them for about US$100. The balloon mapping kit looks to be the same price. From what I can work out balloons will give a better, more stable result but won’t be useful if there is too much wind or the weather is a bit choppier but also they can be a hassle since you have to source helium (how does one do that??)? How easy do you think it’d be for a novice with no experience to use the kite kit? is there a video or simple 10 steps type link you can recommend and what kind of first time results might I expect? I guess this so much depends on the camera you use? What sort of camera do you use? I found your story inspiring and really want to try this out. Thanks! Will def keep reading too. Tanya