mapping
Citysense - GPS For Your Social Life
For those lazy or inexperienced socialites, Sense Networks has the solution to a problem you never knew you had. Citysense brings urban mapping to your cell phone as a new mobile application for social navigation. In real-time, their system “senses” activity of other mobile users and displays them on a heat map.
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Quantifying Walkable Urbanism
Walkable urbanism is the new buzzword in community planning and development. Websites are dedicated to neighborhood walks, the brookings institute has a collection of several articles by Chris Leinberger, and now you can even check the walkable score of your own neighborhood.
[Image: Walkable urbanism is a new trend in the popular perception of neighborhoods. […]
Intervalography - Photographic Mapping
Intervalography takes patience, but the results are stunning. It is a process of photographically mapping cities, nature, and any other field of vision. The image below is the result of Alan Grinberg’s intervalography.
A photographic mapping of San Francisco using intervalography. Courtesy of agrinberg
To the uninitiated eye this image looks like “computer art”. I would […]
P.O.L.I.S. - MyMiniCity
SimCity meets web2.0. That’s the idea behind the new online game MyMiniCity by French game developer Motion Twin.
Screen shot of the start page where you can create your own mini city. Courtesy of MyMiniCity.
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An Agent’s Guide to Mapping
When it comes to defining and understanding the city and our environments, mapping has been the path of least resistance. It is often a direct representation of relationships from a birds-eye-view. This is not to say mapping is a simple tool. Mapping also offers us the flexibility to observe in complex and […]
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