Tag: locative

Manhattan Eruv

much of upper manhattan is an eruv, a jewish workaround for moving around on sabbath. look it up 😉

SkypeFind

SkypeFind is one of the most interesting features that we’ve done in quite a while now. We call it “Local businesses you like”, and that’s what it is – a collection of businesses, with reviews and comments, built by everyone using Skype.

searching for user-generated business listings. they missed the opportunity to add the user’s current location.

The geoURI scheme

The ‘geo’ Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme is another step into that direction and aims to facilitate, support and standardize part of the interaction with geospatial services and applications. Accessing information about or trigger further services based on a particular place on earth shouldn’t be any harder than writing an email by clicking on a ‘mailto:’ link.

Oy!

Oy is a system of between-stop informal gaming, played for small stakes, the price of a text message, or just for fun with fellow passengers onboard. Oyster card holders (London Transport’s smart travel card scheme) can sign up in their existing online account to play for top-ups to their card.

locative game that shortens the travel time on london buses by utilizing onboard GPS

Personalized billboards

The boards, which usually carry typical advertising, are programmed to identify approaching Mini drivers through a coded signal from a radio chip embedded in their key fob. The messages are personal, based on questionnaires that owners filled out.

i think this is super awesome. sure we will see new levels of spam, but showing up on the big screens in shinjuku would be too cool.

Transit Camp

An ad-hoc gathering people passionate about transit in Toronto and the TTC.

community action, i love it. we need this for all metros.
2008-02-20: And for the Bay area, though one of their big headlines is “carpooling from the east bay”. how ironic.

Landscapes of net behavior

The (free) software keeps track of all the servers you visit, their geographical location and the kinds of data you access. Uploads make hills and downloads valleys, their location determined by numbers taken from internet address itself.

Microsummary Adium status

just what i need! except i haven’t dared running the plazer inside google corp yet 🙂

Geocoding Pages

people wondering how to geotag each page of a site. most were using ICBM tags on a per site basis, but why not per page.

Platial 2006 Map Awards

This year nearly 15K user created maps were made on Platial. Topics range from world history to local food. Here are our biased picks for the Platial 2006 Map Awards. Disagree? Good, we love that. If you feel we missed a great map, please post it here in the comments since we had to literally drag ourselves away from 4 days of obsessive search, discussion and review. We’re sure there are many fantastic maps that we didn’t get to review so feel free to let us know.

Mapper Of The Year: Defines Mapumentary Genre

Baostar has created 37 maps this year. Each map brings the reader closer into the world as Baostar sees it. Each one uses place and map to share an insight about a specific facet of life. He documents place in a way that embodies neogeography, where human perspective and social interaction supercede latitude and longitude. Baostar has created a new genre which has inspired us all, that of Mapumentary.

best platial maps for the year. some very nice stuff