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LocalWiki Antarctica, a crowdsourced map of the icy southern continent

Xeni Jardin at 2:52 pm Fri, Oct 12, 2012

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LocalWiki's Philip Neustrom says,

My non-profit, LocalWiki, has been working on this really incredible project to help document the continent of Antarctica. Most notable, at least right now, is this custom map we've pieced together from very-hard-to-find NASA aerial imagery and coastline datasets. It's probably the most beautiful thing I've ever worked on.

Check out the LocalWiki for Antarctica. The project "aims to document the full extent of human involvement on the continent," and for now is focused on a two-mile region surrounding Palmer Station.

 
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Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • http://twitter.com/dargaud Guillaume Dargaud

    There are already some incredibly precise crowd-sourced maps of Antarctica, such as http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-75.0997&lon=123.3332&zoom=14&layers=M