> > First question, does anyone know where I can get shapefile data from past > Burning Man events? >
You could contact the organizers or frequent participants ( there are several list serves) and ask if anyone has any GPS traces or KML files. Probabilistically, there may be some GIS attendee that has converted those to a shape file - especially since there is a raft of Federal Permits involved ( see http://igargoyle.com/images/City.jpg and ) The Burning Man event has been a target for Remote Sensing platforms to demonstrate sensor capabilities - For example, see the TerraSAR-X radar satellite <http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10377/> http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10081/151_read-1775/#gallery/3558 and Digital Globe http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/this-is-a-satellite-image-of-the-burning-man-festival-in-news-photo/158209283 and http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2011/09/burning_man_2011.html If you get the historical coordinates and dates of past sites, you can do a multi-platform multi-sensor search on the NASA and ESA data portals.Perhaps get some geo-referenced imagery and trace those. Landsat has a repeat rate of about two weeks, BM itself is a week and prep probably starts earlier than that ( like laying out the streets), the weather is generally clear, so you probably have a good chance of finding something. Michael Patrick ,
_______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
