Post Tagged with: "Mapping"
Get Your Local Farm & Food Data: Local Dirt & Locavore Launch Widget & API
Local Dirt and Locavore recently launched a free search widget and API for their farm, farmers market and CSA mapping data. There are over 35,000 United States and Canad-based farms, farmers markets and CSAs in their combined databases, which you are now able to integrate into your own website or mobile app
Tracking & Incentivizing Data Sharing: The Whole Chain Traceability Consortium
Knowing where food comes from and how it was grown is a top priority in an increasing number of American households. But aside from costly technological solutions employed by large, vertically-integrated corporations, very little exists to follow food throughout fragmented food systems from ‘farm to fork.’ The Whole Chain Traceability Consortium (WCTC) aims to change that, and make it available on smart phones
Meat #5: Are Grazing by GPS & Virtual Fencing on the Horizon?
Mac Magruder had his way, he would be able to control the grazing of his grass-fed herd by GPS. And while the technology for such a virtual fence is on the drawing board, Magruder might have to wait a while to use it on his own cattle
A New, New Map Plots Color of Food
An interactive Google map created by development shop Small Farm Central has spruced up the new Color of Food directory locating farms and food institutions in communities of color around the globe
Oxfam’s Map of “Food Price Volatility Pressure Points” Not All It Could Be
If you could make a map showing the impact of food price spikes in different countries around the world, it could be a great tool to teach people about hunger and inspire them to do something about it. That is what Oxfam is betting on with their new interactive map showing locations in the world
Best Coffee iPhone Apps Help Map The Artisanal Coffee Movement
One by-product of the artisanal food movement’s renaissance in the United States is that consumers are demanding more information about what’s in our food, where it comes from, who made it and how it was produced. As I’ve written about in the past, a growing number of entrepreneurs are leveraging information technology to help us
Polyculture+Tech Part I: The Permaculture Information Web- Growing Guilds
What would a design tool for curating meaningful ecological relationships look like? A decade ago, inspired by this question, I conceived of a web-based application for designing Permaculture guilds.
iTools: Building a System; Part 5 – Using CSS to Integrate Your Map Into the Site
On Thursday I discussed the loading of the data from the spreadsheet into a map. While the map is free, it is obviously limited. There are not nearly as many options for displaying data; not as many breakdowns beyond the state level; and just not the array of fancy colors and styles for the map.
iTools: Building a System; Part 4 – The Front End Map
Yesterday, I discussed the method for us to access our Google Doc data. Today I am going to speak of what we call the “presentation layer.” This layer is the actual webpage that viewers see, the map that is on it, and the styling of the data that is viewable.
iTools: Building a System; Part 3- Connecting to the Data
In yesterday’s installment, I spoke of how we decided to store our data, what freeing the data means for us and for others, and how we found a simpler data solution that worked for the software developer (me) and the layman (John and many other people out there). Today, I want to talk about how we got this data to an interface that is useable for people to analyze, gather, and use
iTools: Building a System; Part 2 – The Data Source
Yesterday, in part 1, I outlined how quickly the world of technology is changing. John set the bar by accessing open source code from Google and said: “Look, the map is up. Now what are we going to do with it?” It was now time for some programming tricks. How were we going to store
iTools: Building A System; Part 1 – The Dilemma
In this five part series, Bob Wall breaks down how created the interactive mapping system for the food sovereignty, urban agriculture zoning, and food policy council maps. In part 1, he discusses the dilemma that all those working with data face when they look to share it.
Introducing Bob Wall & The iTools Column
Please meet our newest contributor Bob Wall. Bob recently launched iTools: Urban Ag Technology, a weekly column on Grown In The City, that focuses on the intersection of urban agriculture and information technology. I am thrilled that he has agreed to cross-post his work on Food+Tech Connect
John Reinhardt’s Open Source Urban Agriculture Policy Approach
John Reinhardt recently launched the urban agriculture zoning and food sovereignty ordinance mapson his blog Grown in the City. Among other things covered, Reinhardt and his brother-in law Bob Wall are using technology to help people understand urban agriculture and food sovereignty policy approaches across the United States
Lovefre.sh: Crowdsourcing an Augmented Landscape Of Local Food
“We believe that change is needed in the way we consume and produce food. We don’t pretend to have the answer to what that change should be. It’s complicated. However, we see huge benefit in reducing the carbon footprint of our consumption by sourcing food locally wherever possible. Huge sense in the notion that by
