Mapping Hacks

The revolution will not be televised, and the revolution will not come from the creeping crudge of ‘The Internet of Things.’ I’m as excited as Bruce Sterling to have technology help me to keep track of my crap. You won’t need to look for your shoes, you’ll be able to Google Your […]

On the Geowankers list Andrea Moe made a query
> I have an existing collection of lat/lons, each representing a place where a
> photo was taken. I want to computationally find the geographic clusters in
> this collection, i.e. the geographic areas with the densest concentrations
> of points. (So it sounds like Andrew’s “location-closeness clustering” […]

Dima Diall and some other folks from the Urban Tapestries
project have converted a toy car to be an air quality and CO2
mapping maniac. Complete with GPS, WiFi, remotesensors…all the best
stuff.

I just spent three days at the O’Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference. Short coverage: wow! It was great. The ‘Conference Coverage’ page has lots of stories, and they are planning to release video of all the sessions where the presenters sign off.

A lot happened, and a lot of it gave at least a nod to location. […]

I am not one of those who’s whole existence is divided into the time before reading On the Road, and
my time after, but I have had a time in my life that I would call my time on the road. Like much in my life I
was more interested in the idea of having a […]

You get Paul Spencer’s project
www.ParisMinnesota.com — A PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIC ART PROJECT.

“In the 1920’s, avant-garde artists and writers converged on the Montparnasse
neighborhood of Paris making it the center of modern culture. But what if
they had all come to Saint Paul, Minnesota instead? That’s the premise of
‘ParisMinnesota.com’ a new website by artist Paul Spencer.

The website takes the […]

Jonathan Moore sent us a link to The
Neighborhood Project:

The Neighborhood Project is creating a map of city
neighborhoods based on the collective opinions of internet users. Addresses and
neighborhood data are translated into latitude and longitude values, and then
drawn on the map…. This is an experiment in collective knowledge. The more
people who add their opinion […]

The English ‘defra’ (Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs) has
a site on Noise Mapping England

Noise - unwanted sound - is a universal problem and most of us have been affected by it at some point in our lives.

It goes way beyond noise as a problem. Noise is. And it has effects, and
those […]