Mapeo: p2p collaborative mapping

[hackergrrl]

Mapeo is a desktop and mobile app for offline & online peer-to-peer collaborative mapping. It is currently being used in multiple indigenous communities in {Peru,Guyana,Ecuador} for mapping territory (land rights) and monitoring ecological threats (environmental monitoring).

• https://mapeo.world
• https://github.com/digidem/mapeo-desktop
• https://github.com/digidem/mapeo-mobile

[hackergrrl]

Mapeo is still pretty specialized for use with our (Digital Democracy's) partners, so it would need some amount of tweaks to work well out-of-the-box on the dweb mesh net.

cc @karissa @gmaclennan

[whanamura]

I've talked with (@bnewbold) Bryan Newbold, an avid biker, about using Mapeo to create offline maps of the Farm's surrounding bike trails. What would be needed to apply Mapeo to something like that?

[hackergrrl]

For offline or mesh-only use, the big things would be:

1. preloading offline satellite imagery for the idea (not required, but makes the mapping experience a lot nicer than a black background)
2. preloading presets for the type of mapping being done (e.g. OpenStreetMap uses generally urban presets, whereas Dd's partners in the jungle would be mapping very different things).

[hackergrrl]

One could potentially create a custom build explicitly for the event, with the imagery and presets already loaded.

[benhylau]

@noffle any plans on having Mapeo here? Would be nice if you and/or @karissa can talk about experience in mapping territory and monitoring ecological threats.

If this is a project that requires logistical arrangements please send https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Iet2xk6qwZZWkDHTEMCUn5zlb80IwXNtb6epk4-9O-s/ but also could be a lightning talk https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1BEqSJtzagzEu4vUCnGNZquSJl8FpzZd7n7QanNS9fEk/?