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This Creepy App Isn’t Just Stalking Women Without Their Knowledge, It’s A Wake-Up Call About Facebook Privacy [Update] | Cult of Mac
now I know everything to know about Zoe. I know where she is. I know what she looks like, both clothed and mostly disrobed. I know her full name, her parents’ full names, her brother’s full name. I know what she likes to drink. I know where she went to school. I know what she likes and dislikes. All I need to do now is go down to the Independent
facebook  foursquare  privacy  geo  locationaware  panopticon  thepropagandasarecoming 
9 weeks ago by wrrn
King's Cross, London - Streetstories app for iPhone and Android | Help | guardian.co.uk
Last year, thanks to an Arts Council grant I built a prototype called Hackney Hear. This only works on location around the area of London Fields in E8. The Guardian's Kings Cross Streetstories app takes this one step further so you can listen from home too, clicking on stories on the map in 'manual' mode.
psychogeography  geo  storytelling  locationaware  mobile 
10 weeks ago by wrrn
Geotagging poses security risks | Article | The United States Army
Warren cited a real-world example from 2007. When a new fleet of helicopters arrived with an aviation unit at a base in Iraq, some Soldiers took pictures on the flightline, he said. From the photos that were uploaded to the Internet, the enemy was able to determine the exact location of the helicopters inside the compound and conduct a mortar attack, destroying four of the AH-64 Apaches.
gps  geo  geotagging  information-society  privacy  military 
10 weeks ago by wrrn
Leaflet - a modern, lightweight JavaScript library for interactive maps by CloudMade
Leaflet is a modern, lightweight open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. It is developed by CloudMade to form the core of its next generation JavaScript API. Weighing just about 21kb of gzipped JS code, it still has all the features you will ever need for your web mapping needs, while providing a fast, smooth, pleasant user experience.
geo  javascript  library  maps  programming  web 
10 weeks ago by wrrn
solar stylesheet (tecznotes)
a map stylesheet for OSM data that could generate maximally-compressed tiles to fit onto a portable GIS / disaster response system they’re prototyping.
maps  cartography  geo  design 
12 weeks ago by wrrn
Convert between Latitude/Longitude & OS National Grid Reference points
Some people have asked me about converting between latitude/longitude & Ordnance Survey grid references
geo  maps  UK  locationaware  code 
february 2012 by wrrn
qwghlm/WhensMyBus - GitHub
When's My Transport is a suite of three bots that tell you what time London's buses, Tube and DLR are arriving at a stop near you. It currently runs as three bots:
travel  twitter  python  api  geo  locationaware 
february 2012 by wrrn
GPS jamming rife, could PARALYSE Blighty, say usual suspects • The Register
the assembled nav-and-timing scare experts are also bigging up the fearful possibility that crooks or other miscreants might move on from mere GPS jamming to actual spoofing - in other words the satellite signals would not merely be blotted out but replaced by stronger ones designed to generate false position or time readings.
gps  locationaware  geo  hacking  space 
february 2012 by wrrn
Data Driven Journalism - The essential collection of visualisation resources
The series will cover visualisation tools, resources for sourcing and handling data, online learning tutorials, visualisation blogs, visualisation books and academic papers. Your feedback is most welcome to help capture any additions or revisions so that this collection can live up to its claim as the essential list of resources.
geo  api  programming  tools  information  visualization 
february 2012 by wrrn
MaPit
MaPit is our database and web service that maps postcodes and points to current or past administrative area information and polygons for all the United Kingdom. It has been rewritten from the ground up in GeoDjango and PostGIS, providing us with a large array of improvements including speed, a lovely admin interface, and much easier updating.
api  geo  maps  UK  connectionmachine  government 
february 2012 by wrrn
Harvesting ambient geospatial information from social media feeds
We argue that such data conveys ambient geospatial information, capturing for example, people’s references to locations that represent momentary social hotspots. In this paper we address a framework to harvest such ambient geospatial information, and resulting hybrid capabilities to analyze it to support situational awareness as it relates to human activities.
geo  social-software  psychogeography  city  information-society  connectionmachine 
january 2012 by wrrn
geocrimedata_review - Google Docs
This document provides a review into the potential data sources that could, potentially, be used by the GeoCrimeData project to inform crime analysis.
geo  psychogeography  crime  UK  opendata  opengov 
january 2012 by wrrn
MapThing v1.0 Processing Library » Simulacra
MapThing allows you to perform a range of useful mapping (in the geographical sense) functions within Processing and offers a collection of classes for reading ESRI-compliant Shape files (a.k.a. shapefiles) and CSV point data, and then displaying them as part of a sketch
programming  maps  geo  library  processing 
january 2012 by wrrn
Anonymous Twitter alternative developed for rioters • The Register
Like Twitter in that it is open and lets you mass-message, Vibe is unlike Twitter in that all messages or "vibes" are anonymous. You can set how far you want them to be available too – from 15 metres to global.
communication  geo  geopolitics  mobile  locationaware  protest  dissent  tools 
october 2011 by wrrn
Mapnificent - Dynamic Public Transport Travel Time Maps
Mapnificent shows you the area you can reach with public transport from any point in a given time. It is available for major cities in the US and world wide.
maps  geo  api  travel  city  data  information-society  from delicious
august 2011 by wrrn
Till Nagel – TileMill for Processing
This tutorial describes how to create beautiful custom maps, and use them in a Processing sketch. We are going to use TileMill to style our maps, export it, and load the rendered map tiles into PImages. There are two ways of doing that.
processing  programming  geo  tools  howto  from delicious
july 2011 by wrrn
Everyone has a story to share | Crowdstory
For each snippet you create, you can choose to share it with just your friends, or you can let anyone with the Crowdstory app listen to it. If you never want to miss a beat, you can make sure you receive a notification each time a friend shares a snippet with you.
locationaware  geo  storytelling  narrative  distributed  iOS  apps  from delicious
may 2011 by wrrn
Nerdy Day Trips - tell us about yours, we'll build an archive #nerdytrips - bengoldacre - secondary blog
I am a very big fan of nerdy day trips, from Sea Forts to abandoned nuclear bunkers, dead victorian racecourses, roads that are falling into the ground, narrow gauge railways that take you to a power station, wherever. I like decaying infrastructure, terrifying modernity,
uk  london  geo  travel  history  beinghuman  from delicious
april 2011 by wrrn
Six to Start | We are Next-Generation Storytellers
We combine the emotional power of world-class storytelling with next-generation media to make unforgettable games and experiences. Our award-winning online and mobile games help market and promote new products and shows, and our original transmedia and alternate reality games engage millions of people in new ways.
storytelling  narrative  experimental  ideas  geo  locationaware  future  from delicious
april 2011 by wrrn
Wanderlust
Wanderlust is an experimental location-based storytelling platform.
geo  locationaware  storytelling  narrative  beinghuman  from delicious
april 2011 by wrrn
UrbanTick: Wanderlust - Stories to Go
Wanderlust (the making of) is a mobile story telling platform integrating with the cohort of Foursquare, making use of their massive database of check-ins. Via these location the narratives unfold. The clever concept of the Wandelust stories is, that they play at generic type locations instead of actual unique locations.
locationaware  storytelling  narrative  city  geo  from delicious
april 2011 by wrrn
Tell-all telephone reveals politician’s life
to show what you can get from a little bit of private mobile data. He handed the data to Zeit Online, and they in turn mapped and animated practically every one of Spitz' moves over half a year and combined it with publicly available information from sources such as his appointment website, blog, and Twitter feed for more context.
information  visualization  data-mining  mobile  geo  privacy  from delicious
march 2011 by wrrn
iPhone app store of "Color" may be best app store review ever - Boing Boing
color  iOS  apps  review  software  geo  data-mining  funny  from delicious
march 2011 by wrrn
Color to Get Major Update, Fix 'Loneliness' Problem
Nguyen says the app will dynamically calculate the distance required for somebody to be considered “nearby.” Currently, the app searches for anybody within 150 feet of your location. That number will not be a constant any longer: “We’re going to start adjusting that range based on the density of cities,” he says.
Color  apps  iOS  photography  locationaware  social-software  geo  augmentedreality  from delicious
march 2011 by wrrn
Color CEO: The Tech Justifies the $41 Million
Instead, your friends are people whose paths your own path intersects with, both in location, time and interaction. The more you interact with someone, the more persistent that connection becomes. Over time, it fades away.
Color  apps  iOS  photography  locationaware  social-software  geo  from delicious
march 2011 by wrrn
Announcing Acetate – better thematic mapping | Off the Map - Official Blog of FortiusOne
We partnered with the design minds like the team at Stamen and Justin O’Beirne at 41Latitude to peel apart and rebuild the map from the ground up. We toned down the base geography to provide a subtle background that can be optionally combined with hillshading to indicate terrain.
tools  code  geo  javascript  from delicious
march 2011 by wrrn
stamen/modestmaps-js - GitHub
Though Modest Maps JS is in its infancy it's derived from our trusty Python and <br />
Actionscript code that has served us well for years. The best place to see it <br />
in action today is Walking Papers
tools  code  geo  javascript  maps  from delicious
march 2011 by wrrn
GPS chaos: How a $30 box can jam your life - tech - 06 March 2011 - New Scientist
a NASA-appointed executive committee for "space-based positioning, navigation and timing" warned that jamming devices could cause disaster if activated in cities.
gps  geo  hacking  humancomputer  technology  mobile  from delicious
march 2011 by wrrn
The 41 Places to Go in 2011 - NYTimes.com
From the beaches of Mexico to the wilds of Kurdistan, the places on this year’s list take you to the end of the world and back.
travel  ideas  geo  from delicious
january 2011 by wrrn
Sensor networks and the future of forecasting - O'Reilly Radar
The important thing to note here is that wheat prices started to increase in July, then exhibited a violent spike in early August. As this map is from mid-to-late July, we can see that by using tools such as satellite indices in conjunction with a long-range weather forecast, the current impact in wheat prices and ensuing financial turmoil could have been anticipated.
information  sensor  spime  systems  locationaware  geo 
september 2010 by wrrn
Polymaps
The goal of Polymaps is to better support rich, large-scale data overlays on interactive maps by extending the tile metaphor to v
geo  javascript  library  maps  visualization  opensource  car 
august 2010 by wrrn
Foursquare Launches Location Layers - This is Big
In a perfect world, these location-based social networks would act like browsers, able to see and post interoperable location-based data from and to any platform. Don't hold your breathe on that, though.
locationaware  space  foursquare  geo  data  social-software 
july 2010 by wrrn
UrbanTick: New City Landscapes - Interactive Tweetography Maps
In this visualisation London does not show the normally characteristic East-West differentiation. Here it is a more North-South directed structure. The highest peak is Soho Mountain in the centre of London extending Eastward towards Liverpool Street.
twitter  london  geo  cartography  maps  information  information-society 
june 2010 by wrrn
noticings : the game of noticing things around you
Cities are wonderful places, and everybody finds different things in them. Some of us like to take pictures of interesting, unusual, or beautiful things we see, but many of use are moving so fast through the urban landscape we don't take in the things around us.
city  flickr  games  geo  locationaware  photography 
april 2010 by wrrn
mapenvelop : beste miray
geo  maps  ideas  print 
february 2010 by wrrn
oostring/weblog » Roadtrip poster final
This poster (800×1000mm) was designed to summarize and explain the summer holiday of 2009: a roadtrip/ moving house expedition undertaken by my partner Marthe and I, from Norway to England and back.
It started as a tool for keeping track of costs, but was developed into a full trip overview as more details were added. Key data such as cost, distance and time are presented in various ways to create a rich data log.
design  geo  data  visualization  travel  europe  information 
december 2009 by wrrn
Help us map London's Silicon Roundabout
We’re trying to map out the creative/tech quarter that’s sprung up around Old Street and Shoreditch in north-east London – and we want to know which businesses we’ve missed. So let’s crowdsource this together. The final product will be a beautiful, shiny pull-out map in a future edition of the magazine.
london  technology  geo  maps  startups 
october 2009 by wrrn
On Locational Privacy, and How to Avoid Losing it Forever | Electronic Frontier Foundation
In the long run, the decision about when we retain our location privacy (and the limited circumstances under which we will surrender it) should be set by democratic action and lawmaking. Now is a key moment for organizations that are building and deploying location data infrastructure to show leadership and select designs that are responsible and do not surrender the locational privacy of users simply for expediency.
internet  privacy  surveillance  EFF  geo  locationaware  panopticon  thepropagandasarecoming 
september 2009 by wrrn
Tonchidot: Taking Augmented Reality Beyond Lab Science with Fearless Creativity and Business Savvy  | UgoTrade
: We feel that public data, such as landmarks, government facilities, and public transport should be shared. We see an AR world where people can readily and easily access information by just seeing – quick, easy, and efficient. And because of this ease and intuitiveness, children, the elderly and handicapped will surely benefit. AR could help create a safer society. Warnings, alerts, and safety information could save lives and avoid disasters. These are what we, and AR Commons would like to tackle in the not so distant future.
augmentedreality  locationaware  technology  geo  interaction_design 
september 2009 by wrrn
UK government database of all 1,841,177 post codes together with precise geographic coordinates and other information, 8 Jul 2009 - Wikileaks
The database, which is compiled at tax-payer espense, has long been the subject of hitherto unsuccessful information liberation campaigns, including by the Guardian newspaper.
Selected parts of the database can be licensed, for a fee, from the Royal Mail, but the full database has been denied to the public domain, probably as an effort by the Royal Mail discourage fair competition in the postal sector.
uk  geo  data  maps  government  information  opengov 
september 2009 by wrrn
So long, privacy: New satellites blow GoogleEarth away -- DailyFinance
I am overstating the immediate danger here a bit. DigitalGlobe has no intention of offering its service to suspicious spouses or to gumshoes on sleazy surveillance missions. Rather, the company, which managed a $1 billion IPO in June 2009, aims to sell its imaging capabilities to governments, big business, scientists, media and other heavy consumers of extremely detailed digital maps and pictures. This is big business with potentially enormous markets such as oil exploration, military operations, forestry, urban planning, and corporate intelligence. Getty Pictures, the huge photo agency, has linked up with DigitalGlobe to vend images to big media shops.
satellite  surveillance  geo  business  photography 
september 2009 by wrrn
Augmented Reality and atemporality | Beyond The Beyond
Tom Caudell, a researcher at aircraft manufacturer Boeing, coined the term “augmented reality” in 1990. He applied the term to a head-mounted digital display that guided workers through assembling electrical wires in aircrafts. The early definition of augmented reality, then, was an intersection between virtual and physical reality, where digital visuals are blended in to the real world to enhance our perceptions.
history  augmentedreality  humancomputer  technology  mobile  geo  locationaware 
september 2009 by wrrn
Create Digital Music » GPS Beatmap: Ford LTD + Salt Flats = Locative Driving Control Surface
“Locative art,” the idea that somehow location will feed into music and visuals, has eluded culture. We have the technology, in the form of sophisticated databases of location information and highly accurate, publicly-available GPS satellites. But it’s one of those solutions in search of a problem, and begs the question, why?
music  geo  locationaware  interface  psychogeography 
september 2009 by wrrn
Layar
Layar is a free application on your mobile phone which shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality through the camera of your mobile phone.
augmentedreality  geo  realitymining  maps  locationaware 
august 2009 by wrrn
Augmented Reality Soundwalk with Layar | SOUNDWALK.COM/BLOG
Soundwalks mix fiction and reality in a cinematic experience giving the listener the impression of actually being in a film. The Layar Soundwalk will augment reality with additional contents to the St. Germain des Prés in Paris Soundwalk with Virginie Ledoyen and original music by Benjamin Biolay.

If you haven’t heard about the St. Germain des Prés Paris Soundwalk yet, it’s a unique experience to discover private courtyards and let you guide between poetry, bliss and discovery of the St. Germain des Prés neighborhood...
augmentedreality  paris  locationaware  mobile  geo 
august 2009 by wrrn
acrossair | Nearest Tube Augmented Reality iPhone 3GS App
One of the first augmented reality apps to go live in the iPhone AppStore. Forget boring 2D tube maps! Try this amazing new application that tells Londoners where their nearest tube station is via their iPhones video function.
london  iPhone  gps  geo  locationaware  augmentedreality  maps  tube 
july 2009 by wrrn
Free our data | Technology | guardian.co.uk
A Guardian Technology campaign for free public access to data about the UK and its citizens
geo  realitymining  city  beinghuman  politics  government  policy  UK  opendata  connectionmachine  thepropagandasarecoming 
july 2009 by wrrn
Everyblock's Dilemma: How Do You Open Source Your Entire Site and Survive? - O'Reilly Radar
Everyblock is a site that crawls local data sources, aggregates the data, and then surfaces them geographically. For instance I get an email everyday that alerts me to news, fire department activity, health notices and flickr photos taken within blocks of my house
opensource  everyblock  geo  realitymining  python  software  tools  city  video  opendata 
july 2009 by wrrn
Everyblock's Code is Open-Sourced - O'Reilly Radar
Everyblock is a very impressive site that aggregates and geocodes local data -- news, crime, fire, restaraunt inspections and reviews - and then lets users define their interests down to the block-level.
opensource  everyblock  geo  realitymining  python  software  tools  city  beinghuman  opendata  connectionmachine 
july 2009 by wrrn
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Undiscovered rainforest 'Googled'
Scientists are hailing the discovery of a patch of rainforest in northern Mozambique as one of the most significant finds in years.

Mount Mabu was unknown to science until a British funded project analysed the area with the help of the Google Earth satellite imaging programme.
google  geo  cartography  nature 
june 2009 by wrrn
Bizarre new atlas comes to the Great Land of the Tattooed - Telegraph
Other bizarre names include Dominate the East! (Vladivostock), Realm of the God of the Underworld (Madras) and Great Land of the Tattooed, which, rather unhappily, belongs to Great Britain.
geo  maps  cartography  linguistics 
june 2009 by wrrn
One Square Inch
The logic is simple; if a loud noise, such as the passing of an aircraft, can impact many square miles, then a natural place, if maintained in a 100% noise-free condition, will also impact many square miles around it. It is predicted that protecting a single square inch of land from noise pollution will benefit large areas of the park.
sound  health  human  environment  noise  nature  geo  space 
june 2009 by wrrn
Adactio: Journal—Designing for the street
Whenever I showed up in a new town, I would try to figure out the best pitch for busking. I developed a sense for it. The acoustics were important, of course. I didn’t want to set up anywhere too noisy. But a completely silent place would be silent for a reason: lack of people. Yet, I didn’t want to choose a spot where the flow of foot traffic would be too heavy either or I would be ignored in the bustle. Looking back now, I realise that I was seeking out those small urban spaces where people felt comfortable congregating and where the presence of a street entertainer would be welcomed.
street  urban  psychogeography  geo  information-society  design 
june 2009 by wrrn
oobject » 12 of the worlds most fascinating tunnel networks
This year the MIT class ring, the Brass Rat, hides a hackers’ diagram of a subterranean campus wide tunnel network.

Networks of secret passages and tunnels have been built on a giant scale, from components of the Maginot line to the Viet Cong Cu Chi Network.
geo  architecture  maps  cartography  urban 
june 2009 by wrrn
mySociety » Blog Archive » Say hello to Mapumental
Tom Steinberg from MySociety sez, "We've just launched Mapumental, which is an a realtime version of our lovely transport journey time maps which BB has covered before. As well as being realtime generated, they include house price and 'scenicness' data, generated by the web game ScenicOrNot. Beta's private at the moment but we're handing out invites in exchange for declarations of love."
uk  geo  maps  culture  visualization  curious  thepropagandasarecoming 
june 2009 by wrrn
Slashdot Ask Slashdot Story | Best Way To Build A DIY UAV?
I am very interested in building my own UAV, not just one that can fly around happily, but one that I can program to say, take photos every second as it does a barrel roll under a bus (ok that part may be a pipe dream)
uav  hardware  howto  mobile  geo 
may 2009 by wrrn
Google Street View blurs face of Colonel Sanders at every KFC - Telegraph
The company says it took the decision because he is 'a real person' - despite him passing away in December 1980 aged 90.
google  streetview  funny  geo 
may 2009 by wrrn
London Undersound & Oyster Challenge - My openHackDay apps — Dan W, Web App + Mobile Developer in London
I build London Undersound on top of this. It let’s you see your travels in a number of ways, such as most frequent routes, recent trips, your probable home location, how many stops you’ve ever passed through and how many minutes you have spent on the tube in the past month. It even lets you import your last.fm data to see what music you were listening to whilst travelling.
information-society  data  london  geo  tube  mashup 
may 2009 by wrrn
NOKIA Point & Find
Point at a movie poster and watch the trailer, read reviews and check showtimes in your neighborhood. Oh, and we can get you there with directions to the cinema, too!
mobile  nokia  gps  geo  everyware  spime  locationaware  curious 
may 2009 by wrrn
Just Landed: Processing, Twitter, MetaCarta & Hidden Data | blprnt.blg
Now, I realize this is a far stretch from a working model to predict epidemics. But, it sure does look cool. I also I think it will be a good base for some more interesting work.
data  visualization  twitter  processing  geo  network-theory  epidemiology 
may 2009 by wrrn
Video: PSFK Conference NYC: City As Canvas - PSFK.com
Marc and Sara go on to speak about different aspects of their nine year involvement as web-currators of the world-wide street art scene, and share a slide show packed with amazing pieces.
streetart  city  urban  art  psychogeography  geo  narrative  storytelling 
may 2009 by wrrn
Where 2.0 Preview - DARPA's TIGR Project Helps Platoons Stay Alive - O'Reilly Radar
instead of just writing a patrol report that says this happened and hoping someone might read it, you're just really looking for geospatially relevant information for the mission at hand. If you're going to take this route and you're not familiar with this route that you're thinking of taking, you can look and see how many attacks have taken place; what kind of attacks have taken place; who's been there before. So all of that information is at your fingertips
military  technology  geo  maps  collaboration  wiki  information  psychogeography  cartography  DARPA 
april 2009 by wrrn
Slashdot | DARPA's Map-Based Wiki Keeps Platoons Alive
One of the biggest problem that a platoon on the ground in Iraq or Afghanistan faces is that when a new unit cycles in, all the street-sense and experience of the old unit is lost. Knowing where insurgents like to plant IEDs, or even which families have a lot of domestic disputes, can spell the difference between living and dying. In response to this, DARPA created TIGR, the Tactical Ground Reporting System. Developed as much on the ground in active warzones as in a lab, TIGR lets platoons access the latest satellite and drone imagery in an easy-to-use map based interface, as well as recording their experiences in the field and accessing the reports of other troops
military  technology  geo  maps  collaboration  wiki  information  psychogeography  cartography  DARPA 
april 2009 by wrrn
Emotional Cartography: Implications of Visualizing Intimate Biometric Data - information aesthetics
The (44MB freely downloadable) book Emotional Cartography - Technologies of the Self is a collection of essays from artists, designers, psycho-geographers, cultural researchers, futurologists and neuroscientists, brought together by Christian Nold, to explore the political, social and cultural implications of visualizing intimate biometric data and emotional experiences using technology
information  visualization  maps  geo  emotion  psychogeography  aesthetics 
april 2009 by wrrn
Where 2.0 Preview - Building the SENSEable City - O'Reilly Radar
The SENSEable City Lab is a recent initiative; a new initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which focuses on studying how digital technologies are evolutionizing the way we live in cities. And, therefore, how we can leverage these technologies; how we can make use of it through understanding how cities are using it; how we can design better cities. And then we can create cities that are more sustainable, more livable and automatically more efficient.
future  city  computing  geo  locationaware  MIT  mobile  realitymining 
april 2009 by wrrn
Gawker - A Drug Deal Caught From Every Angle - Top
Here, on a notorious drug trafficking corner on the South Side of Chicago, Google shows what looks very much like a transaction between a black man in long shorts and a baseball cap, and a sedan, numberplate clearly visible. And, because the map-makers take panoramic photographs as they drive around, one can see the exchange from at least half a dozen angles, as the van approaches, and then looks back. Amazing
google  geo  streetview  privacy  surveillance  maps 
april 2009 by wrrn
Google Latitude to Cops: 'I Don't Remember' | Epicenter from Wired.com
The policy, created in consultation with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, puts Latitude on equal privacy footing with Loopt, a popular friend-finding service that predates Latitude. Both services now overwrite your previous location with your new location, and don't keep logs.
google  geo  EFF  privacy  geotagging  policy 
march 2009 by wrrn
Radar Roundup: Sensors - O'Reilly Radar
Like all transitions, the incorporation of data from the physical web onto existing platforms is gradual. We are just beginning to see applications surface and the best is still ahead of us. Below are a few observations, predictions, and implementations of this emerging trend.
sensor  locationaware  realitymining  information-society  spime  personal-area-networks  geo 
march 2009 by wrrn
Sensing City: Urban Rhythms Influence a Musical Performance in Real-Time - information aesthetics
live concert by an eleven-piece-ensemble which was occasionally influenced by urban rhythms, here the movement of cars outside the concert venue. As the passing cars triggered the rhythms that were being played, the city became audible through the musicians, even when the urban dwellers not knowingly were part of the composition
music  information-society  psychogeography  urban  geo  aesthetics 
march 2009 by wrrn
Did Google Just Kill All the Other Mobile Social Networks? - ReadWriteWeb
The question we must ask now is this: did Google just validate mobile social networking ...or did they just kill all the competition?
google  geo  mobile  social-software  locationaware  lbs  latitude 
february 2009 by wrrn
Google Latitude: Ready to Tell Your Friends (and Google) Where You Are? - ReadWriteWeb
Long story short, Latitude adds a whole new level of complexity to Google's understanding of you and your habits. And while we'll no doubt derive some very interesting benefits from sharing that information, we should hold no illusions about the value of that data to Google and its efforts to run a profitable business.
LBS  google  location  geo  gps  locationaware  mobile 
february 2009 by wrrn
P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Groundcrew: software for the real-time coordination of constructive crowds
“I think both GPS and warfare are symptoms of a much larger, and positive, deep human desire. The desire to be synchronized, coordinated, to have beautiful choreographed teamwork across multiple scales. And to feel our power as humans in groups. Even the large industrial operations you people are critiquing involved logistics and a scale of operations that, I’m sure, got somebody excited."
hivemind  tools  collaboration  collective  mobile  geo  gps  activism 
february 2009 by wrrn
I Am Here: One Man's Experiment With the Location-Aware Lifestyle
But WhosHere had me stumped. It's an iPhone app that knows where you are, shows you other users nearby, and lets you chat with them. Once it was installed and running, I drew a blank. What was I going to do with this thing?

So I asked for some help. I started messaging random people within a mile of my location (37.781641 °N, 122.393835 °W), asking what they used WhosHere for.

My first response came from someone named Bridget, who, according to her profile, at least, was a 25 year-old woman with a proclivity for scarves. "To find sex, asshole," she wrote.
LBS  locationaware  psychogeography  geo  mobile  lifestreaming  realitymining  sex 
january 2009 by wrrn
Trains Disrupted Due To Wrong Kind Of Signal From Space - Londonist: London News, Food, Arts & Events
What kind over crazy, overcomplicated world have we built for ourselves when trains need to send and receive signals from outer space in order to open a few doors?
geo  funny 
january 2009 by wrrn
BNP Near Me?
The list has been independently verified by Wikileaks staff as predominantly containing current or ex-BNP members, however other individuals who gave their details to the BNP, or one of its fronts, are also represented. Included in this latter category are a handful of journalists and "anti-fascists" who have attempted to infiltrate the organization.

For a visualization of the data, see http://bnpnearme.co.uk/
politics  political-parties  geo  mashup  visualization  BNP 
november 2008 by wrrn
Vodafone | receiver » Blog Archive » Creating maps for everyone and network effects for the data driving them
Beginning in 2005, this paradigm turned upside down. This article will examine recent trends, including web mapping, the availability of government geographic data, user generated data, the emergence of mobile data, and shifting to where we are today with questions about what this mass of data means for the end user.
mobile  geo  geotagging  locationaware  trends  readme 
october 2008 by wrrn
Mashups: Plot Casual Encounters with Hookupmaps
It was only a matter of time before someone mashed up the personal ads from Craigslist with Google Maps, and that time has come thanks to Hookupmaps. Enter your location, pick your pecadilloes and see who's up for some fun
funny  maps  geo  sex  craigslist  human  locationaware 
october 2008 by wrrn
Google Code Blog: Introducing the Gears Geolocation API for all laptop WiFi users
we have enhanced the Gears Geolocation API so that developers can now securely locate users to within 200m accuracy in major desktop browsers in hundreds of cities around the world
geo  google  mobile  api  gears  tools  internet 
october 2008 by wrrn
BBC NEWS | Technology | The treasure hunt that's high art
He then struck upon the idea of turning art into a game by hiding objects around London at set locations for people to find using clues hidden within blogs.

When the 43 objects are found, the treasure hunters photograph the whole thing and post their images on Moblog while plotting the co-ordinates on a map to create a communal artwork.
future  mobile  games  gps  geo  ARG  locationaware 
october 2008 by wrrn
findme's moblog
We invite you to come and explore with us. This game will take you on an adventure through a square mile of London, on a hunt to find 43 objects that will give you the elements necessary to ask the question.
london  games  geo  arg  events 
october 2008 by wrrn
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