Re: visualizing the movement - "maptivism" ?
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Ludovica Rogers
on Jul 27, 2013 02:06 PM
Something I am trying to use, but have not tested enough to assure it works is the following.
Create a wordpress website and add the following plugins:
- buddypress http://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/
- events manager http://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/
Buddypress is a social network plugin and Events Manager is compatible with it.
The way it works is that those that create an account on the website then have their own profile page. From there they can create their own events.
Also people not with an account can submit events with a form.
You can then view all the events together, or from the profile pages.
Another level to it is that you can create groups and add forums to it.
With event manager you can also create a map of all the locations where events are happening.
I think Ushahidi and crowdmap are great platforms, but unfortunately they are very limited on how you can personalise them. Still I think they remains one of the best platforms for "crisis maps" or when you need mapping with quite simple structures.
What I have described above needs more work, and some basic knowledge of website development (but quite basic…no coding!) but allows you to shape things exactly as you would like. Still as I said I haven't tested enough to say that it is worth using, but planning to do so in the near future.
Another platform is map box (http://www.mapbox.com/). But also needs more software knowledge and unfortunately when scaled up is not free anymore.
Vica
On Jul 25, 2013, at 7:17 PM, Gediz Er <gedizer@...> wrote:
> Hello, I have been researching on how to visulize our movement in Turkey.
>
> First findings were the ushahidi platform which was used for such activity in many places in the world.
>
> An ideal site would have a map, a calendar, a forum, and social networking possiblities.
>
> It would be a place to
>
> 1- pinpoint the issues on the map (if relevant) (example: mines, constructions, police brutality, media bias)
> 2- discuss them in forums linked to the issue - share news, laws etc.
> 3- organize action and place it on the map and the calendar.
> 4- a crisis map could also be used in live tactical protest mapping with fast data feed.
>
> the map would need to have filtering possiblities, depending on date, mapwindow, and category. Different icons for each category.
>
> some issues are security, filtering noise, modes of information entry (e.g. twitter, e-mail, instagram etc)
>
> any ideas? any working example?
>
> thanks. gediz
>
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