[sugar] Idea: Aerial photographs of all villages where XO's are deployed

[Yamandu Ploskonka]

At Sur we tried that

http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2008-May/000061.html
Notice you cannot upload google maps results to the wiki, for they are 
not copyleft.

can the XO can access Google maps?

If someone wants to follow further, here's a map with the present 
locations of OLPC-Uruguay schools

http://ceibal.edu.uy/portal/proyecto/tabla_datos_departamentos.htm


Beware: there's people who are afraid of Big Brother and might mind 
their villages being in the public's eye.  (Apparently the Germans have 
some law about that)

Yama

Urko Fernandez wrote:
> I have this idea while reading an article about OLPC published on
> businessweek* 
> They talked, among other things, about a boy who seemed to think
> Internet was inside the XO-1, and I thought it could be a good idea to
> have this boy's village or town in google maps so he could learn in a
> simple glance where in the world he is, the size and proportions of his
> hometown, his country and the world itself.
>
> This would help children assimilate better those concepts, as they have
> as a starting point something they know very well, and they could see
> what they are being taught. This would make also their imagination go
> wild. As google is a member of the OLPC foundation, they could at least
> integrate aerial photos easily if they're available. Governments could
> use helicopters or airplanes to take those pics.
>
> There's no OpenGL yet in sugar, and the application (google earth)
> relays heavily in internet traffic, but internet prices would eventually
> be cheap and this could be useful to teach some concepts. It's just an
> idea, I wanted to share it before I forget it, it happens to me
> everytime.
>
> *http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_24/b4088048125608.htm
>
>
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