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May 14, 2003
collaborative mapping show'n'tell
Here's my notes from the collaborative mapping show'n'tell at Limehouse Town Hall. Nice to meet everyone, and it's great to seee there's so many people doing so many good things.
Some events:
Thursday - Noderunner
Saturday - Hijacker Island party
week after - Orfordness
Ben from Headmap
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blogosphere
http://danger-island.co.uk/~dav/blogosphere/friendster
XML plotted onto a globe.
Spider of Friendster contacts.
Maybe data is open and available, but the connections between things are hidden/private.
FOAF - lots of work of people creating spiders
Focus on RDF, XML - graph related. Touchgraph & SVG.
Etcon - lots of connectivity - give verbal people with a common interest laptops, and see what happens. All that was important is if people were approximate or not approximate - so maybe relative is more important than absolute places/lat-long. Need Internet connection to start.
ambur.com
trail of GPS snowboarding
collaborative mapping
build up trace database (webmapper.net)
godseye.com
realtime.waag.org
gpsdrawing.com
[saul: might get realtime over, map something interesting]
Masiki Fujiawara (sic.) - mapping island in Essex (Norsey? Mailsea?)
video camera with GPS
10 year project
(talked at Tate last week)
Friendster
LinkedIn
Have FOAF people talked to them?
All networks are pretty incompatible and closed.
what are the reasons to use it?
FOAF uses RDF - you can join bits of RDF together, create a web of information.
Could be used, for example, as a trust network - FOFOFs probably won't send you spam.
Jo
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Grubstreet - open source guide to London
XML representations available, can include location information
Some SVG visualisation
http://space.frot.org/a_space/London/
IM, IRC bot interface
sharing data over lots of sites
noderunner - running around picking up wireless networks, upload pictures and GPS data for each
http://maps.nocat.net
uses lots of open source programs, server software and data to draw maps of their community wireless networks
Brian / Mongrel
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working with Waag society
9.waag.org
formulate your own subjective maps
link maps of sounds, texts, images to others
meant to overcome cultural barriers - looks for frequencies of languages to determine cultures
each area owned by different people. Links are subject to emails between space owners.
maps as self-representation? looks at how people subjectivise their world
community oriented
9.scotoma.org - 90s art and community, photocopy and plagarist work
work on hsitory of cartogrpahy
many maps are due to illness, such as smallpox
john bryant - Ordanance Survey
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set up 200 years ago, to map the invasion of France
(uses mapinfo professional)
230,000 1kmx1km maps
old Victorian maps had a greater level of annotation
moves from OS map to 25cm accurate topo map showing outlines of everything - buildings, plots, fields, roads
collected from the early 70s
not structured as sensible data
now OS master map - completed in last 5 years
objects that mean something - houses, roads
change in things that are mapped is purely on need
where does a mountain start and finish? how do people associate areas to spaces?
how do people subconciosly map their area?
expensive - but they map everywhere. Without OS, there would be lot of competition, but it would only map economic areas - cities etc.
OS Select map - can order inkjet print based anywhere - 15 quid
how to productise data?
[how can we get hold of the 1952 maps? (out of copyright)]
Urban Tapestries
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urbantapestries.net
public trial in Dec/Jan
works about spaces, and how we inhabit spaces
interested in public authoring
relies on communities rather than service or network providers
technology and network-agnostic
interested in sound (normally forgotten)
knowledge - social practices and customs
particular content - hobbies etc.
spontaneous content - annotated and added on the go
gpster
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spacial data
client works on an iPaq as well as the web
adding more ways to import and export
get data in waypoint database import (e.g. text file)
but want server that can ask waypoint databases if there are any points within range, and each database could cascade questioning each in turn
can show on blogosphere, or in html, magellan waypoints, xml etc. etc.
merging blogmapper and gpster
grubstreet
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open source guide to london - currently like a wiki - everyone can edit
now creating suite of software to create information about places - openguides
query svg images by location or type, filter
writing plug-ins such as geocaching or consume.net
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