Studies in Temporal Urbanism by Fabian Neuhaus

Author:Fabian Neuhaus
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

These dynamic visualisation scapes have been on show around the world and usually each show leads to another record, as the artist never travels without his equipment. So from London52 over Copenhagen53 to Paris54 and Texas55 to Sao Paulo56 the cities are sensed by stanza.

A more of a web 2.0 project relying on crowd sourcing is the lhrNOISEmap57 project by lan Tout58. He is currently finishing his masters in Geographical Information Science (GISc) at Birkbeck College. He is mapping the aircraft noise produced by an aeroplane approaching or leaving London Heathrow Airport.

For this he has built an online map based on Open Street Map and uses the web platform AudioBoo59 and their free iPhone application to record aeroplane noise in London. The short clips can then be mapped, as they are automatically georeferenced. In a second step the data will be aggregated and the noise levels should appear on the map as a layer. So if you have an iPhone and are somewhere under the flight path of London Heathrow give it a try and participate60 in this mapping project. A simple step-by-step guide can be found here.61 You can also follow the project on Twitter.62

VIRTUAL NOTES IN THE REAL WORLD—IPHONE 63 As promised with the last post on Google’s Latitude, I spent some more time on other options. And actually it can be said up front; Latitude is boring whereas other applications can be very exciting. Sorry, I had to mention this. As discussed in a comment last week Latitude is probably not meant to be cool. I now understand it more as an additional data service Google provides. A service that especially targets a new market of location based information. I assume Google plans to get people to use it, but then to involve third party companies to “use” the location data to target them specifically. This will most probably include Google itself, for ad placements for example. Anyway this is only speculation and others might be more expert in this field. There is a huge discussion on this topic, including some horrific stories about privacy and stuff. But this was about other options for location based interaction. From the iPhone based tracking, the step towards web based tracking is not far off and the set of additional options is enormous, starting from a simple message or chat tool right up to location based tags and content such as photographs. The limitations of gadget based tracking are obvious, it is as if you are talking to yourself, a rather introverted and singular recording of spatial movement. The web based option on the other hand offers instant updated and interaction. I have been testing Brightkite64 and MapMe65 the last few days and I am just blown away. Not necessarily with the interface, the options or the features, but more by what a location based social networking tool could be. Facebook66 is so 195767 compared to this. The exciting thing is probably that you can take it with you and that where you are actually influences what you see, on the little screen of course.

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