This year
How to Map Where You've Mapped in OpenStreetMap | MapBox
convert this OSM file to GeoJSON format for styling in TileMill, […]a python script that outputs each node as a geo-referenced point along with the user associated and a timestamp marking when it was created.
2011
Geolife GPS trajectory dataset - User Guide - Microsoft Research
"GeoLife GPS trajectories " This GPS trajectory dataset was collected in (Microsoft Research Asia) Geolife project by 167 users in a period of over three years (from April 2007 to December 2010).
Flickr and Twitter mapped together – See Something or Say Something?
Blue dots represent tweets with location and orange dots are Flickr photos
stagas/maptail - GitHub
Creates a server, monitors a tail -f output for IP addresses, GeoIPs them and sends them to a map.
Run it and visit http://yourhost.com/map
2010
On Hertzian Space and Urban Architecture | Vague Terrain
This map represented the city not as a static network of streets, buildings, and spaces, but as a series of traces that aggregate over time to represent the city as different people traverse it.
Tactile Maps and Imaginary Geographies « Middle Savagery
3D wood carvings of the East Greenland coastline, with the details of inlets and islands in sculptural relief. These could be employed by at night in conjunction with the stars, feeling your way along the coastline, navigating at an intimate scale.
2009
United Maps - Walk & Ride submitted to the Appstar Awards
Know Your Place; Adding Geographic Intelligence to your Content « vicchi.org
capturing is the issue. Culture de l'écrit.n the same vein, our goal is to capture the world’s geography as it is used by the world’s people.
2008
The Mobile City » Blog Archive » Locative media and the situationists
:) Gauche caviar et Sofa RevolutionWhat struck me was that locative media practitioners often refer back to the situationists as some kind of ancestors, as if they’re working in the same vein. …
But that, to me, seems to be where the similarities end. As alive-and-kicking situationist muse Jacqueline de Jong pointed out during the evening, the situationists wanted one thing above all else: to destroy and disrupt our cushy society. They were sick of it, vowing never to work a day in their lives. They probably would have laughed if they had seen that their ideas had been cherry-picked for ripe concepts. The derive, the detournement. All simple concepts that they purposefully packaged in complex and artistc jargon. And we fell for it.
How We Watch the City: Popularity and Online Maps, by Danyel Fisher (PDF)
One additional point of high interest is visible on that map: a small, very bright point on the shore of Lake Washington points out Bill Gates’ house.


