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.(...)".
Temos insistido na popularização de mapas e croquis, como discutimos em outro post. Embora essa notícia não seja nova, o post da Wired, Map Mashups Get Personal, mostra bem esse processo. Trechos do texto:
"A women named 'Paiges' recalls hearing the band Portishead for the first time at a spot in New York's Upper West Side, while she was meeting a man with whom she was having a torrid affair. 'I was in NYC, your wife was out of town,' she writes. "We were in the bathroom and Portishead was playing. I remember being terrified that we would get caught." She bought the album on her way home, and 12 years later still associates it with seeing her lover in that place.
That intimate memory isn't locked in a diary or shared on a blog. It's pinned to a spot near the intersection of West End Avenue and 104th Street on a new and growing community site called Platial that's spreading a decidedly personal layer of geographic data atop the familiar terrain of online mapping.
Platial provides a home for people who love quirky geographical information or just want to mark the locations that have meaning to them. Sign up for a free account, and you can start building and sharing personalized maps, complete with place markers, tags and descriptions of each spot. Collaborate on them with your buddies, or keep them to yourself.(...)"
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