On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Tom Steinberg wrote:
In fact, here's an idea. A voluntarily installed mobile app that only
shares your location data when you appear to have taken some sort of
public transport along a known route, between known nodes.
Just a leeetle bit tricksy
geotagged tweets and a hashtag?
Sam
Tom
On 4 June 2010 11:22, Julian Todd <[email protected]> wrote:
Mapumental proposal
The University here (Liverpool) has a Knowledge Exchange vouchers (up
to £7k) for mini-projects.
Last week I saw a mapumental-esque printout of a travel map centred
around the university with all staff home locations plotted, using
some commercial software.
What we could do is a project to validate the data. Actually survey
ever member of staff by giving them a digital stopwatch to take home
with them and bring back.
If poss break it down to how much on bus, waiting for bus, walking,
etc. (several buttons on stopwatch labelled "bus", "walking", "home",
"getting in car".
Yes, put the car travellers in the dataset -- do they take much longer
than by bus anyway.
Also, get people to verbally describe their journeys to and from work
-- you know how once you set people off describing a route, you can
never stop them. This is all good data that can be used for
psychology experiments (is perceived passing of time driving faster
than perceived passing of time on a bus?)
Result is an excellent dataset to validate or improve the maps, and
how they can be make a difference. Lots of value if you want to run
with it. Could be used as basis for real science.
Julian.
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Stefan Magdalinski
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 3 Jun , at 19:25:28, Tom Steinberg wrote:
Hello all,
We need someone really ace to become the commercial product manager for
Mapumental:
http://bit.ly/aS8DxJ
I think this is a pretty cool job for someone who loves mapping tech, and who
wants a challenging project.
Does that sound like anyone you lot know?
it's a bit of a hard sell since access to mapumental is still restricted.
Have you reached out to any of the people who blog on this area, like Nathan
Yau or Andrew Turner, or Brady Forrest at Oreilly?
tara,
Tom
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