Its not cheap taking images to help keep a big oil company honest. The grassroots mapping team has released the following. We are a group of citizens and activist mappers who are documenting the effects of the BP oil spill in the Gulf Coast with a set of novel DIY tools — we send inexpensive cameras up in helium...
A Grassroots mapping team lead by Jeffrey Warren is positioned in New Orleans and taking coastline images that may be useful in the future for establishing a baseline of conditions before oil arrives. Perhaps sadly also recording the aftermath for comparison. Grassroots mapping seeks to invert the traditional power structure of cartography, the grassroots mappers used helium balloons and...
