[Geowanking] the whereis? project and our presentation at the upcoming disjecta event in pdx

[Anselm Hook]

Several months ago I knocked together a small app for my iphone and then
promptly forgot about it.

Recently my posse (Paige,Ben,Marlin,John and I) picked up this app again and
found it had collected a heck of a lot of data - so we added more folks to
it and started making more data.  We then decided to make an art
presentation for it.  As part of that I'm documenting the code here and I
thought that this code description might be useful for other people who want
to riff on the idea or take it further:

Here is some technical information on what we were doing:

  http://hook.org/whereisanselm/about.html

It is kind of cute because you can see the little motions of people (like me
and my friends) as we wander about - in my case you can see my trek down to
SF (where I kvetched about OSM not having any camping sites in it for the
west coast earlier in the month on this list) and then my trek back up and a
trek to hike the west coast trail as well:

  http://hook.org/whereisanselm/lines.rhtml

Paige and I will present this at http://www.disjecta.org .

Currently quite a few folks are contributing their implicit publishing
moments / life contrails to the project and hopefully in a week we'll have a
more comprehensive demo and description of the effort.  Clearly the
technology is trivial beyond belief but the focus on the privacy
implications and even just how it appears aesthetically - how maps present -
and the like has already been quite interesting and that is more where our
focus is.

It may become a full blown IPhone app at some point - right now it is still
pretty hacked and there are of course many other solutions by many other
people...

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anselm 415 215 4856 http://hook.org http://makerlab.com
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