Great idea - count me in too :-)
Alan
>
> I thought I might check the mail base - I know we are all really busy
> before the conference but there was one unique and urgent thought.
>
> Everyone could do with a large open data set of observation
> pedestrian movement. This would require a large number of people to
> be in a large number of points over the city at the same time. There
> will be a large number of space syntax people at the conference at
> the same time.
>
> Perhaps we might use the conference to set a world record on
> pedestrian observations! If we could get everyone at the conference
> to go out at the same time for 30 mins and observe a street segment.
> The values could be collected together and applied to a syntactical
> map of London. Everyone would then get an opportunity to have access
> to the data everyone collected. Its a little last minuet but If we
> select a site around the conference then the whole thing might take
> less than an hour.
>
> Perhaps people might think this adherence to collecting accurate
> information is a little old fashioned and beneath them.If On the
> other hand, your like me and feel accurate open and statistically
> large scale information is the heart of new theoretical thinking the
> field then please email me or respond to the mail base.
>
> If I get 8 replies, I will being the notion of a mass observation to
> the SSS4 organizers and see if it can be slotted in somewhere
> conveniently into the program.
>
> thanks
>
> sheep
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