The atlas of change that

everyone can edit.

What if we could access all of
what we know about how our
world has changed over time,
in one place?

Photo: CIFOR
 MapStory is a new dimension to
the global data commons which
empowers people to organize what
they know about the world
spatially and temporally, rather
than encyclopedically, the way
Wikipedia already empowers us to.
 Static maps represent a single time slice of Earths
history, and only the limited perspective of the creator.
 MapStories represent historical change and the
accumulated knowledge of everyone that has
contributed to the StoryLayers used in the MapStory.
 A platform based on 3 building blocks:

Composing MapStories by
combining StoryLayers and mixed
media (text, imagery, video).

Collecting open data Curating the commons

and importing as by editing StoryLayers
StoryLayers. and adding peer reviews
 Building Block 1:
Collecting Open Data
 Building Block 2:
Composing MapStories
 Building Block 3:
Curating the Commons
 So many ways to curate
Add the
StoryLayer to
your favorites,
or flag for
administrative
review

Send a direct private

message to the
StoryLayer owner

Edit features
one at a time or
Append many
edits at once.

Add tags to Add a public

comment Add an overall rating for
improve search accuracy and completeness
on a 5-star scale
Whats the upshot?
Dynamic Learning

Open source collaboration

Interdisciplinary research
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