http://cybergeography.tribe.net/thread/1ec97a02-7c71-4e75-8e23-24f21da2354a?format=rss Tribe.net. Local Connections http://cybergeography.tribe.net/thread/1ec97a02-7c71-4e75-8e23-24f21da2354a#f85a7e0b-ebee-4557-9ed4-115afea60912 Habitat Perspective http://www.marumushi.com/apps/perspectives/ Article from SmartMobs http://www.smartmobs.com/archives/002401.html Marcos Weskamp is developing a Web-based application that tracks volunteer participants in their movements about a city (Tokyo). As he describes it: Habitat perspectives is an online instalation that atempts to visualize spatio-temporaly the places we inhabit. Through GPS-capable mobile phones, participants will be posting geocoded images to an online shared space which starts as a black canvas. As participants post more and more content, a map of the city, and the map of each of the participants "places" will slowly start emerging. One of ther reasons why Tokyo is such a mess as a city is that it is a tangled mess of intertwining main streets intersected and crisscrossed by back alleys and side streets. Specially when you don't own a car, and you mainly travel by subway as most other citizens, one of the biggest problems you get in such a place is that you never get to mentally visualize the relationship among all the places you usually hang out at. You only know about "islands" in the city; you get in the subway in Shinjuku island, you pop-up in Shibuya island. The more you move around those spaces you'll slowly start turning them into neighborhoods, along with your own personal networks of places. If you asked a group of people to draw you a map of the city, you'll notice that all of them will be inevitably different - each of them will have their own particular perspective of their habitat. Marcos is recruiting participants for this work-in-progress. Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:14:53 GMT http://cybergeography.tribe.net/thread/1ec97a02-7c71-4e75-8e23-24f21da2354a#f85a7e0b-ebee-4557-9ed4-115afea60912 Francis 2004-01-12T23:14:53Z