Monthly Archives: April 2009
Book
This could be good… http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/rjhs/2008/00000014/00000003 and in particular this essay inside: New Media, Cultural Heritage and the Sense of Place: Mapping the Conceptual Ground pp. 197-209(13) Author: Malpas, Jeff
Jeffery Veen on big data sets
An interesting talk by Jeffrey Veen on Visualisations of large data http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/001000.html
IceCondor and GeoCubes
While wandering through the RSS feeds this morning I came across two interesting projects via Programmable Web. IceCondor is interesting for a few reasons – it works with social media, location, mashups and it is for the Googles Android platform. … Continue reading
Data visualisations in Time and Space
Just as a follow on from yesterdays post I came across this interesting project – Synchronous Objects via One Floor Up The Cued Annontations view is really interesting, looking at how the dancers react to one another and how that … Continue reading
Data Visualisations and Time
As time will be one of the navigation elements in the project I was having a look through some implementations in other projects. I came across this rather interesting timeline of timelines. Smashing magazine have done a couple of round … Continue reading
Situationists City
An interesting thought that springs to mind about the experience of walking a city but using a map that doesn’t ‘match’ the actual space, is Guy Debord and his writings upon the Situationists International. A classic example might be Debord’s … Continue reading
Development Libraries for Mobile Platforms
One of the big issues facing the development of smart phone applications is developing something which will work cross platform. Trying to support multiple platforms can prove to be a challenge but there are a few helpful hands out there … Continue reading
Shadows from another place
This online art piece by Paula Levine is an interesting take on GPS the origin of surveillance technologies. “Shadows from another place” is a series of hypothetical mappings, web-based and site specific, that use Global Positioning Systems to imagine the … Continue reading