André Lemos is Associate Professor, Faculty of Communication, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. PhD in Sociology, Sorbonne (1995), Visiting Scholar University of Alberta and McGill University, Canada (2007-2008). Coordinator of Cybercity Research Group (UFBa/CNPq) and Researcher level 1 at CNPq. Member of Prix Ars Electronica, Wi. Journal of Mobile Media and Canadian Journal of Communication Board. This Carnet is online since March 1st, 2001.
Tenho escrito e pesquisado sobre mídias locativas e cartografias urbanas. Há muitos posts nesse Carnet sobre essa temática (basta uma busca na janela search, na esquerda do site). E tenho feito algumas experiências com mapas a partir de GPS Writing com o SUR-VIV-ALL e o IDENTITE. SUR-VIV-ALL foi feito de carro, mas o IDENTITE, de bicleta, meu meio de transporte favorito e, acho, uma das soluções para os problemas ecológicos e de circulação nas grandes cidades. Post do Techcrunch, RideTheCity.com: A Google Maps App for Safe Biking mostra aplicativo "mashup", que utiliza dados secundários para propor aos ciclistas percursos mais rápios e mais seguros em NY (obrigado Macello Medeiros pela info).
Abaixo trechos do post e mapa:
"RideTheCity is a cool mash-up application that allows you to plan bike routes based on safety and speed. By typing - or selecting - a start and end location in New York City, the application will find the safest and quickest routes by factoring in bike routes for 'safest' trips and the shortest travel distance for the quickest trips.
The project is run by three bikers, Jordan Anderson, Vaidila Kungys, and Josh Steinbauer (Full disclosure: I went to college with Jordan but found out about this via NPR.) who connected Google maps to a few basic heuristic rules and added a cool logo. The GIS data comes from the city itself and is merged with Google Maps for display.
(...) Every time you search Ride the City, we look through more than 125,000 records in a database. Most of that data comes from the City?s LION GIS data. The City?s LION file does not contain bicycle facility data, so we made a Freedom of Information Act request to the NYC Department of Transportation and NYC Department of City Planning. That got us a little closer, but we still had to put in dozens of hours of data cleanup to get everything working more-or-less correctly.(...)".
Mapa mostra a conexão de Nova York com outras cidades do mundo. A pergunta que se coloca é: como NY se conecta com outras cidades e quais cidades ela tem maior troca de informação. Isso nos leva a ver como as fronteiras são fluidas e como uma cidade pode estar, informacionalmente, mais próxima de uma outra, mesmo a kilômetros de distância e como ela pode estar afastada de uma outra a poucos kilômetros de distânacia (via information aesthetics). O mapa oferece:
"globe encounters visualizes in real time the volumes of Internet data flowing between New York & other cities around the world. the size of the glow on a particular city location corresponds to the relative amount of IP traffic.
pulse of the planet illustrates the volume of international calls between New York City & 255 countries over the 24 hours in a day. areas of the world receiving & making fewer phone calls shrink while areas experiencing a greater amount of voice call activity expand.
the world inside new york shows how different neighborhoods reach out to the rest of the world via the AT&T telephone network. the widths of the color bars represent the proportion of world regions in contact with each neighborhood."
Vejam esse tour virtual do Viewacity pela cidade de NY ou Boston (outras cidades estarão diponíveis no futuro) com "mashup "de google maps e google streets e outras fotos. (via Locative Media)
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