Mapping Our Way to the Big Apple

Kate Chapman, CTO Frank and I are off to New York City this weekend for the annual State of the Map US Conference (SotM-US). SotM-US is the annual OpenStreetMap US hosted conference, and this year it’s being held at the UN Headquarters. While the venue excites me, the content is really what I’m looking forward to. For…

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The Power of the Network

Noel Taylor, CEO & President I was fortunate enough to have recently participated in the Omidyar Network Executive Forum (ONEF), as well sitting on a panel discussing “crowdsourcing everything” at the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) Global Digital Forum, both in San Francisco. Generally speaking, the participants at these two events couldn’t have been more different in their…

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Imagery as a Commons

Kate Chapman, CTO My first notable interaction with imagery of any type was 15 years ago in my “Introduction to Imagery Interpretation” class as part of my geographical studies. Our teacher told us that we were special because we could observe and analyze objects from above, instead of the on-the-ground frame of reference most people…

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Making People Count

Peter Rabley, Director of Property Rights Investments, Omidyar Network Noel Taylor, CEO & President, Cadasta Sometimes the toughest problems can be tackled by the simplest of solutions. Consider Makena. She is a bright, energetic 13 year-old who lives with her family in Kibera in Nairobi – the largest urban slum in Africa. Like every adolescent…

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