Another interesting local, location-based story project is
City of Memory
http://www.localprojects.net/cofm/cofm.shtml
Here local stories are entered on a shared map of the New York City -
demo is pretty easy to navigate and the stories are audio-based as
well. The only thing missing is some type of dynamic way of getting
the audio into the map without any third party intervention.
This is something that i've been trying to integrate into my
AudioBored project (http://www.audiobored.net) which allows people to
call up and post messages to a public audio archive on the web. If
anyone is interested in working on a location-based version of this
project, I am definitinely up for it since the audio portion is up
and running.
jonah
At 1:50 PM +0100 4/16/04, Andrew Wilson wrote:
>marc wrote:
>
>"I like Ed Mac Gillavry's <www.webmapper.net> definition: "an
>initiative to collectively create models of real-world locations
>online, that people can then access and use to virtually annotate
>locations in space. The value of the annotations is determined by
>physical and social proximity (expressed in distance and "degrees of
>separation"). Thus, the information is not only filtered based on
>proximity, but also ranked according to the trust one person has in
>another person through social networks" "
>
>That seems pretty good really.
>
>Would it cover something like this? -
>
>The tourism office of a city council sets up a system using mobile
>phone network cell boundaries to track location, and send visitors
>blue plaque style famous sons/historical building notes to their
>phones each time they cross into a new cell.
>
>Murmur (http://murmurtoronto.ca/), (area) code
>(http://www.areacode.org.uk/) and citypoems (www.citypoems.co.uk)
>[I'll declare an interest in that one] are lo fi "collectively
>created" versions of that. Do they fit?
>
>"accessed by the most "accessible" communications technology in
>history, the mobile phone...
>
>Of the people I've met who're making mapping hacks for mobile
>devices, they're doing so because they're feel like they want to, or
>_need to_ do something. "
>
>The relationship to phone companies is complicated, because only
>huge corporations can afford the technological infrastructure yet
>mobiles are definitely the most widely distributed communications
>technology in history.
>
>Who can resist seeing what can be done with all that collectivity,
>but you've got to get your hands dirty a bit because the call
>charges and the bulk purchases of sms messages all line Vodaphone's
>pockets in the end.
>
>Andrew
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