OlpcMAP
Attend olpcMAP JAMs throughout the world!
Add Local Projects to the Map!
NEW PDF Tutorial (with Screenflow Animation)
How-To
To add a marker
- Use the search and Google Maps to find your location
- Click Join the Map Network on the top toolbar
- Click and drag the marker into place
- Type in your e-mail, then click Plant Marker
- Go through editor pages to set information, icon, and photo
- You can add a link using the format link:http://example.org
- Need to upload your photo? Use http://imgur.com and copy the Direct Link URL (.jpg)
- You also can link using HTML: <a href='http://example.org' target='_blank'>Link Title</a>
- At any point, click Save Edits
To edit markers
- Use the search to find the place or marker that you'll edit
- Click marker
- On the top of the info window, click Edit
- Go through editor pages to set information, icon, and photo
- You can add a link using the format link:http://example.org
- Need to upload your photo? Use http://imgur.com and copy the Direct Link URL (.jpg)
- You also can link using HTML: <a href='http://example.org' target='_blank'>Link Title</a>
- At any point, click Save Edits
Map Editing FAQ
Troubleshooting : click Contact to write to the community curators (beautify@olpcMAP.net)
Whose e-mail should I provide on the map?
E-mails should go to a volunteer or coordinator who can answer or forward questions about the project. If a volunteer writes and says "That's awesome; I'd like to volunteer there!" the coordinator is someone who can help them along.
How private is my e-mail?
Your e-mail address is kept in our database so we can process and forward mail from the Contact form. This hides your e-mail from users of our page and spinoff maps.
If you prefer to have a link to your organization's website or contact page, let us know through the main Contact form.
Open Community Architecture
In a democracy, we are each others' infrastructure. Our geo-social fabric takes inspiration from:
- Dialogue between public and private community spaces
http://theopensourceway.org/wiki/Communities_of_practice
- Good Faith Collaboration = people who share a passion to learn, by interacting regularly, and conscientiously
http://reagle.org/joseph/2010/gfc/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Reagle/Berkman_Reading_Group
- Creativity = allowing yourself to make mistakes
- ART = knowing which ones to keep
- 1 Billion children who are tired of waiting!
Open Source Effort
olpcMAP is written in Python and is hosted on Google App Engine
The code is fully open-source at http://code.google.com/p/olpc-map-net ; it can be run on open-source platforms such as TyphoonAE and AppScale.
Add issues or tackle problems listed at http://code.google.com/p/olpc-map-net/issues/list
API: Integrate maps into other sites & community services
Evolving here: OlpcMAP/data-api
Join our olpcMAPmakers mailing list!
Become a Map Maker, if you enjoy curatorial gardening of any kind! Please join and help cultivate our public discussion list -- just send email to:
olpcMAPmakers+subscribe@googlegroups.com
Archives are here:
http://groups.google.com/group/olpcMAPmakers/topics
To Do
Some of THE most important spatial media we need to welcome, are our established geo-communities:
http://laptop.org/map http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Places http://www.openwijs.nl/referenties/olpc 12 Dutch-originated microdeployments, on 3 continents? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments (already completed? move to "Inspiration" section below if so!) http://olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2010/people.php Actual "landmark" stickers on paper/laminate map at the Kleiders' house, from http://olpcSF.org/summit 2010! OLPC SF Community Summit 2010: wider list of registrants http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&vps=1&jsv=286b&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=108408553645876220956.00049038844650cba3cf0 (Jennifer Martino's Latin America & Caribbean deployment map!) http://groups.laptop.org http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Repair_center_locations http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE#Events http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/Tentative_POSSEs http://www.widernet.org/egranary/ (eGranary Digital Libraries AKA "The Internet in a Box" w/ 14 million docs each?) eg. http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=110300756731284107900.00046b13c0e8e5f0f820a http://www.franxophonie.org/Carte/carte-des-projets-francophones-dimplantation-des-xo.html geolocating-on-map forward-looking OLPC News stories, http://blog.laptop.org stories, http://planet.laptop.org blogs, and insightful Country Backgrounders etc! geolocating-on-map more of our global movement exceptional individual volunteers, reaching out to those who've asked for such via volunteer@laptop.org (etc) over the past 3 years
EG. What attractive iconography best represents your own local community's best efforts??
http://EscueLab.org (Lima, Peru) http://olpcLearningClub.org (Washington DC,, larger 427 × 306 pixel JPEG) http://olpcSF.org http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Southern_California_OLPC_Projects (incl Google Map of local prjcts!) http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc_boston http://olpc.at (OLPC Austria) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_NYC http://olpc-france.org http://olpcOceania.blogspot.com http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_New_Zealand (Uruguay's many strong groups have brilliant logos already; showcase these on our main page to spark others??) Etc!!
Inspiration maps & feeds
A Million Thanks go to these groups whose community feeds we're already tapping:
http://laptop.org/en/children/countries/ (500+ kids/XOs) http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/australia/olpc_australia_xo_laptop_deplo.html http://bit.ly/c20CRz (OLPCorps Africa, 2009) http://www.olpccanada.com/content.php?id=17 / http://www.olpccanada.com/doc/OLPC_Canada_Schools_Map.pdf http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ndoiron/OfflineMap
Please write us if you have/want ideas for more dynamically illustrating the Human Vibrancy of your community, its teachers and its children!
Global MAP making SPRINT: Dec 27-31, 2010 in Boston
Archived at OlpcMAP/2010Sprint
Outreach
http://twitter.com/olpcMAP (beginning slowly, Tweeters needed :)
Best blogs so far:
http://saigonolpc.wordpress.com
http://travelpod.com/travel-blog/nsevers/4/tpod.html
Dynamic newsletter/blog anticipated...contact Marina if you enjoy communications & can help!
Or help in any other way, even if just asking us for newsletter or fun/regional updates emailed occasionally :)