Peter Bradwell
Researcher
Peter Bradwell is a researcher at Demos. He is interested in digital identity, technology and the ways that information and knowledge is shared...
at 12:00am
on Tuesday, 23rd May 2006
Projects like OpenStreetMap and the related 'Mapchester' show how technology ' often GPS-based ' can be used by the public to map and draw out the hidden secrets of place. Time-lapse movies from Cabspotting and eCourier in particular sketch the curious arrhythmia of a cities heartbeat, while the Greenwich Emotion Map fused its results with Google Earth to create a compelling cartography of people's experience of walking through South-East London.
It seems that meaningful community-led efforts to develop visions for the future of places ' the kind suggested in the pamphlet 'People Before Structures' - will thrive not only on new methods of excavating and presenting urban information, but on who the information is used by and with what 'authority'.
Projects like OpenStreetMap and the related 'Mapchester' show how technology ' often GPS-based ' can be used by the public to map and draw out the hidden secrets of place. Time-lapse movies from Cabspotting and eCourier in particular sketch the curious arrhythmia of a cities heartbeat, while the Greenwich Emotion Map fused its results with Google Earth to create a compelling cartography of people's experience of walking through South-East London.
It seems that meaningful community-led efforts to develop visions for the future of places ' the kind suggested in the pamphlet 'People Before Structures' - will thrive not only on new methods of excavating and presenting urban information, but on who the information is used by and with what 'authority'.
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