Flutterby™! : Geowankers at Burning Man

One of these days I'll make it to the Burn. But some fellow geowankers posted this to the listserv:

Tom Longson had modified a tricycle bike to hold a camera with a 360 degree camera, he and his brother Jay collected Street View type data of at least the Esplanade, Center Camp, and the Temple.

Jeffrey Johnson went up flying I think Wed, Thur, Fri and Sat and captured pretty complete aerial imagery of the city as it grew.

Mikel Maron did kite aerial photography, including this awesome image from directly above the man.

The Burning Man Earth Crew had a map of the city in Garmin format, so you could actually do things like navigate to a specific Art piece. At least a few members of the public (for a particular definition of 'public' :-) got the map loaded onto their Garmin's.

Andrew 'Haggis' did a lot of pre-playa modeling of the city in Sketchup, and captured texture maps on the Playa.

I took about 45 gigapans, including going up really freaking high in a cherry picker and taking this gigapan.

You can zoom in on the Man's heart and read most of the signatures and inscriptions. (this is a draft stitch - the final stitch should get rid of most of the vignetting).