Entries from Orange Cone tagged with 'geolocation'
The postal service as geographic DNS
I was recently at a bar with a bunch of other technology designers. The conversation turned to the postal service. Problem: the US Postal Service is in financial troubleAmerica's postal service was partially privatized in the 1980s, so it needs...
Firefox 3 Places: Geotagging Browser History and the Site Diet
Geotagging site history Reading a geolocation paper gave me an idea that I'm not going to implement, but may be an interesting exploration of using location as a memory aid when looking up browser history. The idea is to...
A neighborhood tour through time
How do you define a sense of place? I've lived in the same San Francisco apartment for 11 years. It's the longest I've lived anywhere, ever. I have a great deal of affection for this neighborhood, for what was once...
Urban Palimpsests
(click for interactive version, courtesy of Platial) Stewart Brand talked about how building learn, and defined a set of what he called shearing layers. The bottom-most layer of his shearing layers is "Site," which states that the site is...
Ellis Evictions Map
After a discussion with a bunch of nice folks about mapping systems over dinner the other night, I started to think about how all of the point-wise mapping tools (such as Platial and Plazes) are to me, personally. For the...
Geographic markup, folksonomies and regions
In the last couple of months Liz and I have become friends with Jason and Di-Ann in Portland. They have a new startup called Platial. Platial is one of the sites in the cluster of social geographic bookmarking sites which...
Google/Flickr Memory Maps: More Personal Geographies
The personal geography meme continues with the explosion of the MemoryMap pool on Flickr (invented by Matt Haughey), where people annotate Google Maps photos with their memories linked to places. Like the Billy maps in Family Circus (where Billy--represented by...
My own private SFO: a personal geography
In thinking about personal geographies, I decided to see what it felt like to make one, so I did. This is a map of the town of Airportainia, one of the several towns I've spent the last couple of years...
Personal Geographies
I've been thinking about personal geographies for a while, especially lately. It came up a bunch in the last year in various forms, though I didn't know the term until a couple of days ago. Mappr is one, Jack Schulze's...
John Udell's Google Maps Annotation
About a year and a half ago, I did a sketch of an idea I had about how a dynamically created travelogue could look like. It was nothing earth-shattering, but it was an interesting exercise. John Udell has now taken...
WiFi Heat Sensor
As part of the Design Engaged conference last November there was a day when we were broken up into groups and encouraged to walk around Amsterdam and brainstorm ideas about design, technology, cities and human interaction. It was a pretty...
WiFI Ethernet + GPS database = GPS--
Thinking about NetStumber databases of WiFi access points and GPS coordinates made me realize that there's a way to use that to create a kind of "poor man's" GPS using a table mapping WiFi Ethernet addresses to GPS coordinates.
Ad-hoc car networks
Ad-hoc automotive networks that could reduce traffic congestion by informing new cars of the duration and severity of traffic problems.
A photogeoblog sketch
I decide to do a quick sketch of how a vacation with a location-aware camera could be documented.
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