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Real-Time Collaborative Mapmaking
savetz writes "Throughout October and November, citizens of Amsterdam were invited to wear a GPS tracker as they went about their lives. Their whereabouts were forwarded to a server which created a map of the city in real-time, based on "the sheer movements of real people." The site includes aggregate maps, and those created by individuals, including a subway driver, cyclist, and marathon trainer."
They gave a GPS to a subway driver? What next? GPS maps of deep mineshafts? : )
You can't take the sky from me...
this reminds me of a story of two guys who at intersections would carry the back wheels of the car over wheel sensors. thus the traffic department would have to account for 64.5 cars passing through the intersections.
Give it to me after a night of drinking. I'll make you one hell of a map!
Hey, what's that one that keeps wandering around that street corner...
Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but copyright will always protect me.
Finally, a way to track the "real people" movements of residents of Amsterdam. Now I can find the marijuana cafes and red-light clubs frequented by Dutchmen who know what they're doing, as opposed to settling for the crappy spots they push on tourists.
oh, come on. you didn't even take the time to make a referrer link so that people wouldn't immediately realize it's a goatse link. how do you expect to troll properly if people KNOW you are trolling?!
Government tracking with satellites == bad, remember?
I swear, when they finally start installing video cameras in everyone's houses, all they'll have to do is say they're BlueTooth enabled or XML-RPC enhanced and the geeks will eat it up.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
They should have asked me to participate, they could be having a most excellent map of the red light district by now!
Oh, it wasn't funded? Never mind.
This is a great idea! If only my country could embed a chip inside of me and everyone in the U.S., then we can bring spam to a whole new level!!!
Let me get this straight. You want a subcutaneous chip that will turn yours and everybody else's brains into spiced pork and ham?
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...cat. Just where the hell DOES he go when he vanishes for 3 days? Now If I can just tap into those orbiting "Star Wars" laser guns I could teach him to stay at home.
Bad KITTY!!! ***death ray come down from the sky***ZAP! Fried cat found 2 miles away.
Well maybe not...
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... you'd get a most excellent map of where the public restrooms are. Always useful when traveling to a foreign city.
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It's a little known fact that the average moggy enjoys the intellectual pursuit of Cat Chess almost as much as sporadic violent confrontations with other random cats.
The rules (based upon observation) are pretty straight forward, and are as follow:
A point is scored by a cat that can simultaneously observe at least 2 other cats.
Any cat observed by 2 other cats simultaneously is out of the game.
That's it - so strategy plays a big part - on the one hand, a high vantage point lends itself to high scoring rounds, but has the increased danger of being spotted by other cats. These games can go on for days though, often ending only in a mass fight or when the competitors fancy some milk and maybe the chance to bat a small bird around for fun.
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
That bright spot, to the right of the center, that is the red light district. Hmm...