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Last month I wrote about importing six thousand rural dispatch targets out of an old federal dataset like churches, cemeteries, dams, post offices, etc. to fix the small-town coverage gap. That post ended with a confession: the very first dispatch the new system produced sent me to “Armstrong Lake...
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A game that sends you out into the real world, and quietly helps map it. Here is the pitch. A handler named Zero radios you an assignment, points you at a real landmark somewhere near you, and sends you out to photograph it as proof you were there. Maybe it is a mural two streets over that...
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When I posted about Dispatch Zero a month ago, I mentioned that the app was built from a town of about four hundred people, and that small-town coverage was the part of the system that worried me most. The Wikipedia tier kept things from breaking entirely (every small town has at least something...