Apr 29, 2014
seen from Philippines
seen from Malaysia
seen from Netherlands
seen from United States
seen from Estonia
seen from Malaysia
seen from Slovakia
seen from Poland
seen from Singapore
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Malaysia
seen from Germany
seen from Türkiye
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Singapore
seen from Mexico
https://squaresdatabase.crowdmap.com
It's really great to have a discussion of in Ushahidi Community Meeting. We briefly introduce our current progress on the Ushahidi mobile app and the supports of server plug-ins on Open GeoSMS. We talked some practices that are based on Ushahidi such as Farmers' Market, Charity Trading Platform, the SmartBizLead.com (a social enterprise project) in Nigeria, and our latest collaboration with Tzu-Chi in Taiwan.
Henry mentioned that it's better to make the out-going Open GeoSMS option fits better to the app, not to choose how we gonna shoot the message (via internet or SMS) every time we send. GeoThings will have a further discussion with Henry on this Use case/flow design.
Dale pointed out that to support Open GeoSMS and let user to send SMS with iOS is making sense, and added an issue for tracking, Add (Open) GeoSMS Support. We of course will have further discussion on the use scenarios for a better support.
Another project that caught my eyes is OccupyMap. It's Ushahidi based but allow users to tag stories, pictures, and videos to "location" (such as Time Square). Here's the quick introduction on Ushahidi's blog, Relaunching OccupyMap for May Day. Of course, here the source code on github.
During the meeting, it occurred to me that Google is also working on some disaster alert subscription called Google Public Alerts (source from NOAA i think), and it will be a plus if they can adapt Open GeoSMS as one of the notification format.
Very happy to be part of this discussion/meeting. Looking forward to having more fun with you guys, cheers!
slayer, GeoThings