[Geowanking] time

[Mikel Maron]

hey

At the locative media workshop last weekend in manchester, there was
mention of the missing element of time in geography. so, in light of
that, i thought the conflict map from the Nobel e-museum (which may
have already seen) was interesting.

[http://www.nobel.se/peace/educational/conflictmap/index.html]

perhaps it's beside the point to focus on the interface aspects, but
then again they did use cute little fire icons to represent war.

standard GIS software completely ignores the time dimension. this makes
it difficult to manage many types of data, build simulations, etc. so
there's a real opportunity for the geo-periphery.

ON another note, I surprised to think and realize there's nothing like
a  current location map for geowankers. This seems like a doable target
for data architecture and visualization tech. Tons of issues of course,
it's maybe something to focus some efforts.

Best
mkl

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