[Geowanking] Re: [headmap-code] 'geotag everything' workout at EtCon 2004 ?

[Mike Liebhold]

This is great. Let me add that, as much as possible we should be 
spectrum agnostic. 802.11 indoors, gps outdoors. I believe there's a 
cheap 2-way IP ethernet over the UHF band. Does anybody remember thename 
of the company that offered services in San Jose too? They're back on 
the air

Here's a list of free San Diego  wifi hotspots 
<http://airshare.org/share/nodes/index.cfm>. from the local Airshare.org 
<http://airshare.org/learn/>  community wireless cooperative.   And, 
lmost every wireless tech company has a research lab in San Diego .  
There's usable spectrum all around.

The 'songlines' theme is brilliant too. We should find additional 
dramatic, cognitive metaphors too, for a full range of modalities for 
both local users and visitor to encode, knowledge,  ideas and art.

Mike


Marc Tuters wrote:

> Mike Liebhold wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Why stop part way? How about a 'geotag everything' workout at EtCon 2004
>>
> now that's what i'm talkin about... what about this for a start:
>
> For Etcon 2004, we (sign up here) propose a networked interface 
> installation for location-based digital content (sound, text messages, 
> and video files), geographically encoded to various discrete locations 
> around and between the festival's venues, and indee through San Diego. 
> The installation will involve the creation of thousands files, links 
> and messages geo-encoded throughout the city for participants to 
> interface with through their wireless location-aware devices.
>
> For metaphors we propose the concepts of 'song-line' navigation and 
> graffiti. The song line is a mnemonic device from an Australian 
> nomadic tradition that functions as an interactive map for the terrain 
> whereby tribesman 'walk the line' while chanting, enabling them to 
> psychically 'upload' information stored in the line by predecessors as 
> well as to 'download' their own experiences into the song line, whilst 
> graffiti is a more modern nomadic tradition, based on territorial 
> encoding. The graffiti element encourages people to leave their own 
> annotations as well.
>
> The proposed acoustic guides and graffiti annotations would be 
> accessible to Etcon participants through networked wireless devices 
> interfacing with GPS devices, and an 802.11 positioning application 
> developed by The Locative Media Lab. With said augmentation to their 
> own wireless devices, Etcon participants will be able achieve a 
> positioning accuracy of up to 5 meters, in real time.
>
> The multi-media content of the song lines will reflect the local 
> themes picturesque streets, gorgeous beaches, history, culture, great 
> party bars. On-the-fly annotations can be left whatever format the 
> users device is able to encode, picture phones will be leave behind 
> snapshots (particularly form the bars).
>
> The initial 'song line' content which users then add to, would be 
> created by some locative media artists who could work in mixed, 
> locative media, geographiti, gps-drawing, gps fotomaps, gps-reality 
> games, head-mounted displays (anyone of whom may also slip into 
> formalisms like 'item property tables' geo-rdf graphs, 'gps waypoints' 
> 'geonotes' etc.)
>
> The project requires an extensive broadband wireless network from 
> which users can also obtain their position in the case of WiFi, or to 
> be connected to a positioning-enabled device fo those using the GPRS 
> or 1x network (whom will have much more flexibility that way).
>
> Marc
>
>>  
>> We could create conference wiki maps with links to everyone's weird hax.
>>
>> Mike
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>> Marc Tuters wrote:
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>>>>ETech == ETCon == Emerging Technology Conference... Sure, I think a
>>>>geo hack session would rock, and we can probably get ORA to generate
>>>>any level of buzz about it that we wanted... What sorts of goals were
>>>>you guys thinking of for an event like this?
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>
>>>Saul Albert proposed the following:
>>>- create or customise a useful ontology/namespace editor. I know Jo (Walsh) is
>>>already  working on one of these for Mute - but it would be good to get
>>>presentations, developments and more opinions.
>>>
>>>- work on a very general resource-sharing ontology - that would be
>>>  the basis for the device Ben (Russel) was talking about - I have ... books,
>>>... tools
>>>  etc. This would link in nicely with the ontology editor - if you want to make
>>>  the resource set extensible.
>>>
>>>- SVG SVG SVG. need more SVG - again I know jo's been working on it, but I'd
>>>  really like to see a kind of SVG based visualisation of structured data for
>>>  maps, links etc - linked to a collaborative system such as
>>>  http://openguides.net. That would make me very happy.
>>>
>>>I'd add the signal agnostic radio traingulation mapper as an ambitious goal...
>>>Also, we could bring the code to a WiFi triangulation software to the table,
>>>that could use alot of work to make it work with multiple cards and platforms...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Marc
>>>
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