In the wake of some similar initiatives, the first stirrings of an Irish free and open source mapping project has emerged in the form of OpenEir. It would be great to see this become a successful community project.
OpenEir routes are being created using MyGPS on WorldKit MapProxy satellite photos.
Related archive posts: 1, 2. Here’s a satellite photo and Google Map of where I live.
Back to life after a little server-move induced downtime. Technology, eh?
Speaking of which (what a link!), here’s a project I recently completed that addresses the role of technology as a mediating factor in everyday urban life: Walk/Shuffle.
The young lieutenant of a small Hungarian detachment in the Alps
sent a reconnaissance unit out onto the icy wasteland.
It began to snow
immediately,
snowed for two days and the unit
did not return.The lieutenant suffered:
he had dispatched
his own people to death.But the third day the unit came back.
Where had they been? How had they made their way?
Yes, they said, we considered ourselves
lost and waited for the end. And then one of us
found a map in his pocket. That calmed us down.We pitched camp, lasted out the snowstorm and then with the map
we discovered our bearings.
And here we are.The lieutenant borrowed this remarkable map
and had a good look at it. It was not a map of the Alps
but of the Pyrenees
Miroslav Holub, Brief Thoughts on Maps
The Guardian reports on Glastonbury’s plan to avoid late night noise pollution by issuing 3,000 clubbers with wireless headphones.
“I like the idea of people dancing in total silence,” said Emily Eavis, one of the festival organisers and daughter of the founder Michael Eavis. “Imagine if you were feeling a bit worse for wear and thought, ‘This would be a nice quiet place to sit down.’
See also Flash Mob clubbing.