Ah, the romance of classic cartography! Sometimes I wonder if the limitation is not in the human machine: making evident to us 'poor bare forked animals' the masses of data that otherwise easily confuses our 20-odd senses.
I wonder if rather than taking the tack of making evident to us Raj's measurements from 'anything is connected and geolocated' we should look at creating agents that respond to those measurements, like a weathervane, or Brown's pollen ejecta in water. Or like Stephen Colbert may be doing this with US Electoral finance. In other words, characters or agents that respond to the data so that we can viscerally relate to those agents - as we viscerally relate to 2d & 3d representations because we are such spatial beasts. Anyone have any compelling examples along these lines? I was thinking that Google's self-driving car might be such an agent, but perhaps not... -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Catherine Burton Sent: 17-Jan-12 09:04 To: 'Raj Singh'; 'Andrew Turner' Cc: 'geowanking' Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Where has all the geowanking gone ? - topic for discussion I agree with Raj: " the most fun geo thing to fantasize about right now is what we'll do when every device on the planet that measures anything is connected and geolocated." I'd also like to see more work around better integration of the various platforms we all use to play with geospatial data. Web apps often offer seamless and functional UI/UX. GIS/RS software can be awesomely robust and complex. Classic cartography is romantic and beautiful. Reaching across the divides between these disciplines is where I see future development. I believe we might all learn from each other. Catherine Burton | Managing Partner, Endpoint Environmental LLC | (415) 902-0403 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Raj Singh Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 4:51 PM To: Andrew Turner Cc: geowanking Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Where has all the geowanking gone ? - topic for discussion I like this one -- Pachube/Internet of Things/SensorWeb. I think the most fun geo thing to fantasize about right now is what we'll do when every device on the planet that measures anything is connected and geolocated. --- Raj On Jan 14, at 2:55 PM, Andrew Turner wrote: > Personally, things I wish I had more time to explore and just hack on > and would be interested to hear about follows somewhat with Jeffrey's > notes. Convergence of geolocated hardware + software. There is now a > preponderance of personal health devices showing up - why not the same > for Spimes/Motes/etc. Pachube is another community (besides Public > Labs) playing with this. _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
