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May 16, 2003
king of nodes
So I took part in Noderunner London tonight, and I won! Yay for me! Woo! Hoopla!
I managed to connect and send photos through 5 open nodes, and logged about 100 nodes all together, in two and a half hours. Not bad, considering I left 40 minutes at the end for tube + DLR to Limehouse. The biggest motherlodes were around the City high walk, and the Barbican. Very little in the City itself, especially that's open. Our old buildings have walls that are far too thick, and the financial institutions are too clued up.
Basic route was:
Old Street
City Road
Moorgate
Finsbury Circus
London Wall
Guildhall
High wall to Barbican
Near and in the Barbican Centre
Barbican Exhibition Halls
Barbican tube station
tube to Tower Hill
DLR to Limehouse
Commercial Road
Limehouse Town Hall
I'll document the process properly soon, but for the time being:
Photos I took here (note some of these weren't uploaded as part of the game).
GPS tracks here, in text, XML, and even AutoCAD DXF.
Macstumbler log here.
What was odd was that, for a variety of reasons, I was on my tod for this. A one man noderunning machine. I was expecting other teams to do a lot better than me, if only for more hands (GPS + digital camera + open laptop), but also different types of wi-fi hardware: signal strength is low on the nodes picked up, and some hardware will do better than others. I hope this shows that there's lots of colab mapping that can be done by many individuals - the whole is bigger than the parts. I've got an idea for this, but I need time to meditate on it. I'll publish something soon.
Anyway, great fun, congrats to Jo and Earle for organising this.
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