Where's the GPS?
I got these off of Do Lectures >> Matt Jones Designer. Creative Director. Web guru. Blogger. And was directed there by Tim Ferrirss of 4HWW. Very interesting – the use of maps to tell stories. Here are a couple links:
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FixMyStreet – Report, view, or discuss local problems like graffiti, fly tipping, broken paving slabs, or street lighting.
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Cabspotting – Cabspotting traces San Francisco’s taxi cabs as they travel throughout the Bay Area. … Brought to you by The Exploratorium, Yellow Cab, and Stamen Design.
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Bio Mapping – Christian Nold – Bio Mapping by Christian Nold is a research project which explores new ways that we as individuals can make use of the information we can gather about our …
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OpenStreetMap – Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 license by the OpenStreetMap project and its contributors. …
They were great talks – I’m loving the new mapping technology and location awareness stuff e.g. Fireeagle
I hadn’t heard of Fire Eagle (http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/). just checked it out. The restriction on the release of private data is a nice touch.