We make money not art: Resistant Maps – report (parts 2 and 3)

Posted on November 29, 2006 by Reverend Dan Catt

Regine has part 2 and part 3 of her report from Resistant Maps up on We Make Money Not Art. From now on I’ll call them we make money not art to save space.Those who do not like their politics or political websites to be cutting, pointed, and possibly slightly less clever than they are cynical turn away now…. So who’s the most cynical: the where-next developers or the media who carelessly brush aside conflicts happening in places which do not happen to be called London or Madrid?Politics and maps, always intertwined.Especially in Italy.Addendum: the map at the Where-next website doesn’t seem to work.

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My New Favorite Map: Owls

Posted on November 29, 2006 by Reverend Dan Catt

Photos from the “Field Guide: Birds of the World” Group, tagged with Owl.http://www.flickr.com/groups/birdguide/pool/tags/owl/mapI like the way you can pick a group like “Field Guide: Birds of the World” and then start to throw up maps based on tags. I hope the Field Guide Groups take up mapping in a big way as we develop it more.

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Links for 2006-11-29

Posted on November 29, 2006 by Reverend Dan Catt

The interesting bits are in the comments.LegoMindstorms NXT Blog – Lego Compass SensorEven if the Lego GPS in the above link isn’t *quite* true, at least there is a Compass sensor. GPS really won’t be that far behind, again comments are the place to go.

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We make money not art: Resistant Maps – report (part 1)

Posted on November 28, 2006 by Reverend Dan Catt

Upfront Link: Resistant Maps – report (part 1)A few days ago in a “Links for” post, I linked to Resistant Maps, which attracted my attention with, and summed up well by …The representation of territory holds a historical role in the privileges of power…. Maps are not granted anymore by structures of power, but built by individuals who, drawing on the ideas of the psychogeographical movements, redraw the urban space according to fresh new coordinates.Which also ties into the Flickr Geocoder post of a couple of days ago, borders and location can now be defined by people rather than a single “in power” appointed agency.Well regine of we make money not art is there and has just posted her report, well part 1 anyway.Snippets …Google is the biggest operator on the net.

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Quick Link: Google Earth Blog video of the SpaceNavigator, swoosh, swoosh, fly thing.

Posted on November 28, 2006 by Reverend Dan Catt

Frank Taylor from the Google Earth Blog follows up his review of the 3DConnexion SpaceNavigator with a YouTube Demo of flying around Google Earth.I particularly like it because I think it shows the new Flickr Offices.Now if only they’d get the Mac drivers working.

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Backseat Playground, GPS based game for backseat drivers?

Posted on November 28, 2006 by Reverend Dan Catt

It could also context switch, if it knows the players need to find a hidden note, it’ll wait until there’s a radical change in the landscape and tie the note to that change somehow, be it entering into a tunnel, woodland, coast and so on. This makes more sense to me, although you’d need to know the length and duration of the trip before heading out, if you wanted to tell the whole story in one trip.In the second case you’re not really tied to the 35 kilometer square area, anywhere where you know details about the environment would do…. Also that you can have some form of interactivity between players, making it possible for players to ‘pick up’ items from one place and ‘drop them off’ at another, for other specified players.If players 1 always travel from A to B, missing out point C, but there’s an object at point C they need to solve a sub-problem on route A to B, they can ask players 2, Players 2 always travel from D to B via C, can be asked to pick up the item from C and drop it off at point B.

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Links for 2006-11-28 – The Where Do I Shove My Tracklogs Edition

Posted on November 28, 2006 by Reverend Dan Catt

I like the concept, but last time I tried it, it really felt like it could do with a whole bunch of polish.Memory-map: tracklog sharing site.I *think* this is tied to their own software, which AFAIKS is UK based [edit: nope, I just happened upon the UK version]…. Wishes everyone would use flickr as the backend image storage and geotag the images (want to make it to 20 million photos by next spring)mtbguru blog (which I assume to be MounTain Bike Guru)Another (and good looking) match your photos with your GPS tracklog site, this is the blog about it.

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The One where The Wall Street Journal does Geotagging.

Posted on November 27, 2006 by Reverend Dan Catt

I think they still don’t call themselves a geotagging site, but they pretty much get bundled into that group now.It’s also very odd reading about yourself as “Mr Catt”, makes me feel old.Oh and because the last paragraph of an article is always fun…Next year, meanwhile, Nokia Corp…. “Mapping and routing will belong to the standard phone experience in the next couple of years just as cameras are today,” predicts Ralph Kunz, vice president of Nokia’s multimedia group.Good to see more geotagging articles hitting the press, one day this will all seem so obvious.Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116412316419229623.html via my referrer log files, username/password required.

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How to use flickr as a geocoder

Posted on November 27, 2006 by Reverend Dan Catt

There’s no master geocoding database where the data is entered by agenciHere’s a visual example from Flickr, photos tagged with Manchester.It’s a bit blurry, but see if you can guess where Manchester is? Yup, it’s the place with a pink dot that says “Lots” over it.The method is simple, when you ask the geocoder for a location (or object), it asks flickr for photos with geo-information tagged with whatever you’re searching for, it then uses the geo-information for those photos to figure out <i>where</i> the location or object you’re asking for is.

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Links for 2006-11-27 – The Collective Intelligence Edition

Posted on November 27, 2006 by Reverend Dan Catt

Flickr Geocodr – Find locations using Flickr as a backend (with API goodness)Here’s a geocoder that finds places based on the combined knowledge – the tags, title or description of geotagged Flickr Photos.Turn Here – Video of places, in a try before you go way (the start of anyway)”TurnHere’s consumer Web site is designed to assist both travelers and locals in exploring cities, neighborhoods and destinations”flickr intelligence… see there before you go thereAnother comment about tagging based collective intelligence, if you want to know about the Tower of London, tag search it.

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