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Tag: locative
Rome’s Notte Bianca is all about the city, the people and the events. How are the people moving within their city in response to this exceptional pulse of activities and events happening? Below you see a project that has been projected live on screen during the night of September 8th in Rome. Overlaid on the map of Rome, you see different dynamic real time data as a fast forward view of that night.
anonymized cell phone records, etc, as art
Britain’s first official road signs to warn drivers about the dangers of trusting their satellite navigation devices were introduced on Tuesday in a Welsh village. The signs could be brought in across the country if the trial is successful.
ha. that sign will do no good. you can’t just pull signage like that out of your behind and expect tired and hurried truckers to parse them correctly. still, how about getting the navteq data fixed?
a public photo pool documenting non-emergency 311 conditions throughout New York City. dangling traffic signs, illegal advertising, dead or dying street trees
this would be nicer on a map that does not suck, but it’s a start.
Bill Live! live tracking of some dude driving from la to sf. gps, video, googlemaps, the works
The primary objective of Tripod is to revolutionise access to the enormous body of visual media. Applying an innovative multidisciplinary approach Tripod will utilize largely untapped but vast, accurate and regularly updated sources of semantic information to create groundbreaking intuitive search services, enabling users to effortlessly and accurately gain access to the image they seek from this ever expanding resource.
Based on geo clues, IR and other methods.
jabber extension for geo
Boston cabs recently began sporting oblong boxes with simple LCD screens anchored on the dashboard next to the driver. Always curious, I asked: GPS? No. Instead, it’s something that has anecdotally greatly improved the drivers’ fare intake: A computerized dispatch system to replace the constant stream of radio announcements. Before, every cab could hear the available fares over the radio, so the first one there won and the others had to find someone else.
i bet having this system in nyc could reduce all these empty cabs. but then i am not hopeful. the taxi mafia is getting a free ride from the congestion charge one hears.
What happens when people working on open source, public space, open content, mash up art, and open business work together? How do we make Toronto a magnet for people playing with the open meme?
web service that allows users to submit their location via a number of devices and then expose that information to application on a per-application basis. Each application has to register with the system and can be granted different levels of granularity.
The Next Web Conference was held in Amsterdam last Friday. The organizers had a last minute speaker back-out: Plazes CEO Felix Petersen emailed them the day before the conference to say that he couldn’t make it because they were dealing with bugs on their new product, and that his “9 month old daughter has become sick.” The problem, though, is that Peterson didn’t stay home to work on their product and take care of his daughter. He was actually attending a competing conference, Reboot, in Copenhagen. How was this discovered? The Next Web guys used Petersen’s own Plazes, a service which shows where users are at any given time.
the awesomeness, it doesn’t stop!
Gregor J. Rothfuss 