In the UK, Parliament is considering increasing university tuition fees. Students are protesting, as one might expect. Some from University College London (UCL) are maintaining a blog about it here. They have also jury-rigged their own crowd-sourcing setup with Google Maps: see their input form & the map itself.
Given the obvious promise and appeal of using Google Maps for such purposes, one wonders whether Google is working towards incorporating a similar set-up as one of Google's own products (of which they have more and more). It is probably not a coincidence that they're already a partner of Ushahidi, the non-profit interactive mapping initiative I mentioned last month.
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