GIS Workshop + OpenLexington

This video highlights/promotes a specific community-based GIS project in partnership with OpenLexington and Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government.  Students in this year's GIS workshop will work with OpenLexington to collect data to demonstrate the utility of open data within municipal government.

Matt Wilson on GIS Workshop from UK College of Arts & Sciences on Vimeo.

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Announcing "Iron Sheep": Map and Hack Day, February 26th @ AAG

Pack up your laptop, grab your data and head to New York for the first annual "lightning mapping of user generated information" event. Dubbed Iron Sheep (at least until someone objects) the event seeks to mimic the format of the “Iron Chef” television series. This workshop challenges participants (grouped into teams with members from diverse backgrounds and skill sets) to produce meaningful analysis and fun, evocative mash-ups from the same sets of user-generated, geo-coded data within a four hour time frame.

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Balloon Mapping the UK Campus

The UK campus is getting mapped--with helium-filled balloons!

As part of an ongoing project associated with the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (PLOTS) UK geography faculty and students have begun to map the campus from the air using balloons. The balloons, which are filled with lighter than air helium gas, are "tethered" with lengths of kite twine, to which a special camera rig (made from a recycled plastic soda bottle) is attached.

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UK Students Geocode Old Lexington

http://uknow.uky.edu/content/uk-students-geocode-old-lexington

By Whitney Hale, Erin Holaday 

College: Arts and Sciences

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 28, 2011) — University of Kentucky students took a new look at some historical images of Lexington in a groundbreaking, campuswide collaboration.

 

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Balloon Mapping -

Testing balloon technology in photo capture. (look for the red dot).

Click here for more pictures!

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DIY Aerial Photography: First Attempt!

DIY Aerial

Yesterday, The New Mappings Collaboratory took to Stoll Field on the University of Kentucky campus to attempt do-it-yourself aerial photography. Professor Jeremy Crampton and PhD student Ate Poorthuis led the effort.

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Welcome

Welcome to the the New Mappings Collaboratory, an initiative of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Kentucky.

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