PUBLIC MARKS with tags data & cartographie

Visualizing locative data on distorted maps.

SwiftRiver is a media aggregation and filtering tool. It

aggregates sources such as Twitter, blog, email and SMS, and provides features that help

identify relationships and trends in the incoming data sets. Through semantic analysis,

incoming content can be automatically categorized for review.

I also learned from the blog that many transit systems were making data available to Google and software developers that could be used in the creation of a "Frequent Service Map." The Chicago Transit Authority makes such data available. Since I have some skills and tools that could produce such a map and since I also have the interest, I decided to give it a shot.

Thematic Mapping API is a new JavaScript library which allows you to create thematic maps from your own data source.

Emotional Cartography is a collection of essays from artists, designers, psychogeographers,

cultural researchers, futurologists and neuroscientists, brought together by Christian Nold, to

explore the political, social and cultural implications of visualising intimate biometric data and

emotional experiences using technology.

We all now what a map is, its a diagram that tries to represent the real world on a flat piece of paper.if you understand something then you can control it, if you can control it then you own it.The methods of interacting with data have changed, but those producing it haven’t. if they create any new information with reference to the OS maps, like recording the location of every public toilet, then that data is classified as “derived data”. This derived data effectively cannot be shared with anyone who isn’t also licensing data from the OS. Essentially, it means that nearly every government dataset with any kind of location information is under lock and key. OpenStreetMap. If you want truly free data, that you can edit, share and do whatever you want with then pick up a GPS unit and start mapping.

Amount of files: About 350,000 tiles Total data size: About 1.2GB (They are totally static data.)