Quick Terrastories update: like Explore, the main app now also uses Protomaps as a default basemap for online, and PMTiles for offline.

You can still use Mapbox if you want to, and offline we will ship Tileserver-GL for backwards compatibility with MBTiles for some time.

I was reminded by a forum post that I recently put together this proof-of-concept of Stellarstories, an idea to extend Terrastories to storytelling about the cosmos. It's just a basic demo of what it could look like, using the highly customizable d3-celestial library.

'Being free from the constraints of a typical tech company means Protomaps is a better fit for applications underserved by the traditional software industry.'

We are excited to be using Protomaps and offline PMTiles in Terrastories!

After @foss4ga, wrapping up an interesting week here at Conservation Metrics and Terrastories, implementing Protomaps PMTiles for two projects.

MapLibre+PMTiles is a game changer for the space of building offline-first FOSS mapping tech for Indigenous communities 🧵

Happy Halloween! 🎃 #Terrorstories as imagined by DALL-E / ChatGPT

📣New Blog Post!

By Luandro Vieira, about our recent workshop in the Tumucumaque and Paru D'Leste Indigenous Territories in the Brazilian Amazon using Terrastories & Mapeo. A collaboration with Instituto Iepé Nia Tero and Rudo Kemper/Conservation Metrics

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This month, Terrastories achieved a landmark that I'm really excited about!

For the first time ever, using a new feature called #ExploreTerrastories , some of the content that communities have been creating on Terrastories can be explored freely without needing to log in 🧵

📣Check out #ExploreTerrastories !

🍃A freshly released feature of Terrastories that weaves a bridge between local processes and a broader public, through place-based stories that communities have decided to share online.

👇Take a look here:
earthdefenderstoolkit.com/explore-terras…

Terrastories was featured in a phenomenal video by Digital Democracy on the #EarthDefendersToolkit , with testimonies from Indigenous communities who are using Terrastories among others, captured an earth defenders retreat in Ecuador. Check it out!

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Now available: a ODK / KoboToolbox form to collect Places, Speakers, and Stories (with photo, audio, and video media attachments) for Terrastories in the field 📝

terrastories.app/now-available-…

A most wanted Terrastories feature has finally been built 🎉

It is now possible to add latitude and longitude coordinates for a Place by interacting with a map! 📍🌎

This works in both online and offline hosting environments, and is already live on our server 🙂

Este fue el resultado de un recopilado de tecnologias, recursos y herramientas para el despliegue de redes comunitarias de Wi-Fi en zonas rurales.
Entres esto el Libre Router desarrollado por AlterMundi.net y las aplicaciones Mapeo y Terrastories de Digital Democracy

As Scientific American reports, Indigenous groups are developing their own data protection technologies, “work that demonstrates how ordinary people have the power to sidestep the tech companies and data brokers” who seek to profit off our identities and culture.

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Data sovereignty is crucial for Indigenous Peoples. 💽
Hear how some communities develop their own storage systems and apps to prevent outside interests from collecting or using their data without consent.
Read more: scientificamerican.com/article/how-in…?

🌾Oral histories play an important role in indigenous cultures.

📌 [part (4/7) of our #EarthDefendersToolkit series where we worked with @digidem to bring their collaborative space for earth defender communities and their allies to life through our images.]

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🎨 From choosing the colour palette to creating mapping icons, it was a well-researched and thought-out representation of the communities.

Tap the images to learn more about mapping and its importance in guarding the environment!

Three new sprouts in our Community by Design garden:

🗺️ Terrastories from Digital Democracy
🏝️ Idyll from demi 🍉
🍤 Shrimp Zine from Andreas Laszlo Konrath

Links to each one in thread. Add yours today. newpublic.org/cxd/2215/submit

⁦Rudo Kemper⁩ presenting on the Indigenous mapping resource Terrastories at the Indigenous Cartographies panel ⁦yesterday Univ. of New Mexico⁩. These were very thoughtful conversations by all panelists!

Terrastories és una aplicació de narració geogràfica creada per permetre als indígenes i altres comunitats localitzar i mapejar les seves tradicions orals sobre el territori
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