Tag Archives: GPS

Talk of Deloreans and TagClouds

Posted on July 28, 2009 by admin

As we got our demo working our next phase is to move onto actually making it do something.  So after some sessions with Chris and Karlyn, Petra and I went away and attempted to come up with something useful which … Continue reading →

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One Small Step…

Posted on July 14, 2009 by admin

One small step for the Team. On Friday we managed to get our first image rendered locked to our position  – well in truth after a little bit of fiddling around, we got it. This was done using Javascript to … Continue reading →

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Open Location Services

Posted on April 21, 2009 by admin

Its intersting to note that the geospatial community’s main standards promoting body , whilst having a suite of open location service interfaces, seems not be as dynamic in this areas as in some others. Is this because the market is … Continue reading →

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Shadows from another place

Posted on April 18, 2009 by admin

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 →

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Jen Southern – Running Stitch

Posted on April 17, 2009 by admin

I’m working on a new piece for FutureSonic with Jen that explores collaborative Mapping. Features an iPhone app that is development. In the meantime read about running stitch… http://www.satellitebureau.net/p8.php Running Stitch is a 5m x 5m tapestry map, created live … Continue reading →

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daniel belasco rogers

Posted on April 17, 2009 by admin

I’ve always like the way that GPS trails lay down a sort of social history – a trace of human activity. Google maps show everything. Warts and all. http://www.planbperformance.net/dan/mapping.htm As Rogers traces his way around cities it develops highly peculiar … Continue reading →

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Great War Digital

Posted on April 16, 2009 by admin

This is quite interesting but limited to a specific historical frame: The Great War 1914-1918. It uses Windows Mobile and more specifically Memory Map to download specifc maps. http://www.greatwardigital.com/pda.shtml

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