So I came across notice in my news readr of Steve Fossett[1] supporters turning to Amazon's Mechanical Turk to setup distributed "searching"[2] of satellite photos in the search grid where he his plane may have gone down.
They also have a fully setup KML file[3] with all the images that seems to be updated regularly. At least, the amount of HITs on Amazon keep rising. I logged into the Google Earth Community to see if anyone found anything yet (mostly in a single thread). [4] So far only one potential plane[5] has been found but according to a Times article this AM[6], there are 6 other crash sites that have been discovered with 3 being previously undocumented. Unfortunately - these have not been added to the KML nor have sample images of crash sites been released to give us a better idea of what to go on. It occurred to me that as we go on this rather complex and resource intensive project, that those who are on the ground and even in the plane can help better identify some of the anomalies on the Google Earth / Sat images. I'm disappointed that Amazon Turk does not allow for me to find a spot that needs analysis in the KML file and the give me the ability to search for said HIT that contains that grid piece for tagging. That would be more valuable and, in some places, much quicker. [1] http://www.stevefossett.com/ [2]http://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=9TSZK4G35XEZJZG21T60&kw=Flash [3]http://s3.amazonaws.com/fossett/geoeye-color.kml [4]http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/992512/page/0/fpart/all/vc/ [5]http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/992512/page/0/fpart/all/vc/1#996359 [6]http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2414579.ece -- B.K. DeLong (K3GRN) [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1.617.797.8471 http://www.wkdelong.org Son. http://www.ianetsec.com Work. http://www.bostonredcross.org Volunteer. http://www.carolingia.eastkingdom.org Service. http://bkdelong.livejournal.com Play. PGP Fingerprint: 38D4 D4D4 5819 8667 DFD5 A62D AF61 15FF 297D 67FE FOAF: http://foaf.brain-stream.org _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
