tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85399623046775932192024-02-07T04:59:57.296-08:00XXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14941695929357663391noreply@blogger.comBlogger150125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539962304677593219.post-89174828769465898062022-09-30T08:17:00.003-07:002022-09-30T08:17:51.159-07:00The Poetry of Exploring The World <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5eGOoKZ93coQkXqH7PHmmggso2dRkjo__NQQr82Ckw77iX2TrtcLJLrwAgAqEzqRBYkmt7w7I_2Mjo5QWi04iNcyDEZGBROSrWSLQzWGVsBZAXSBwAkt2EvbYien1sPmTqmfZ_mJ2mf4yEOzbHQAkfR7MYRls5fbGSttrqToB6QcJH9Mbhw_NvIV4/s900/at.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="900" height="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5eGOoKZ93coQkXqH7PHmmggso2dRkjo__NQQr82Ckw77iX2TrtcLJLrwAgAqEzqRBYkmt7w7I_2Mjo5QWi04iNcyDEZGBROSrWSLQzWGVsBZAXSBwAkt2EvbYien1sPmTqmfZ_mJ2mf4yEOzbHQAkfR7MYRls5fbGSttrqToB6QcJH9Mbhw_NvIV4/w552-h552/at.jpg" width="552" /></a></div><p>Just hit a milestone of 350,000 stories for a cultural atlas. Only Wikipedia has more English entries.</p><div>Food and Music were key themes. Food to reach stories not expressed in English words. The 2nd & 3rd largest encylopedias are in Chinese and Spanish.</div><br />Virtually walking around the world to learn things is faster than than by foot (I started by walking around one block in Greenwich Village collecting music stories). I was meaning to go more by foot at 300,000 entries (surpassing a German encyclopedia, 4th largest in world). But then the pandemic came.<br /><br />You have to learn so much just to even see invisible connections and roots anywhere. Until then, we are blind in a world of our own. A narrowness at the heart of so many misunderstandings. <br /><br />Had to browse a billion words to distill 20 million words for geographical notes, scanning 60,000 biographies. The joy was the geographical illumination, to deeply understand what happened at a place, what made a neighborhood and what highlighted a journey. There was so much unnoted cross-over between biographies. That's where the real history is. The invisible made seen. <div><br /></div><div>There's a poetry in combing through life to create a collection of experiences to live life. That's the current focus. How to explore all this geography in post card poems, mixtapes and scrap books. Travel expressed like haikus. Parts Untold. </div>Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14941695929357663391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539962304677593219.post-57446977932689729322021-12-06T07:59:00.030-08:002021-12-06T09:08:42.910-08:00Spotifying the Map <p> Your goal is not "zits on a map."</p><p>I'd never heard the expression for pins on a map until mapping 70,000 stories. </p><p>Now I've mapped 335,000 stories projecting history and points of interest geospatially. As I dove into 40,000 hours of mapping, that line got bigger and bigger. Did I really want more zits to show? </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2UbRtDI3xdxlppAzsvHYAdBRY7VrncRMVXmTo2WZa6x00ifqjpxmPFKDwJYn5_v2EP9nTr_1xGYITFHwgqtgGcl4WmsDVXNrF8_jGLJeqqHrLiqKJd-uuHJx3QPD1E3nri41hyphenhyphenwt_ImL_/s1800/zits.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="1800" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2UbRtDI3xdxlppAzsvHYAdBRY7VrncRMVXmTo2WZa6x00ifqjpxmPFKDwJYn5_v2EP9nTr_1xGYITFHwgqtgGcl4WmsDVXNrF8_jGLJeqqHrLiqKJd-uuHJx3QPD1E3nri41hyphenhyphenwt_ImL_/w464-h284/zits.jpeg" width="464" /></a></div><p>I started with a map of just one block in Greenwich Village which I physically circled many years, growing the "zits." Collecting 100s of stories on one block, aiming for a story in every building. But a pockmarked map was clearly not the best way to narrate the geography. </p><p>The "zits" became more of an eyesore as I started to cover all of Manhattan and then journeyed worldwide, landmarking stories. </p><p>On a sidebar, I filled out tweet-sized story bullets with profile, topic and geo tags. But even scrolling text like Twitter was cumbersome to explore geography. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F557crRilp8/Ya4mjMZwZvI/AAAAAAAA0p0/VcZDqrXyIeYfjpxW5txj1lsCzhrvhQYYACNcBGAsYHQ/s400/dismiss.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="400" height="332" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F557crRilp8/Ya4mjMZwZvI/AAAAAAAA0p0/VcZDqrXyIeYfjpxW5txj1lsCzhrvhQYYACNcBGAsYHQ/w387-h332/dismiss.jpg" width="387" /></a></div><p>The best experience was staring at automatically-changing photos, showcasing someone's journey. A scrapbook of images travelling a route. Windows into a biography or topic (Noodles, Pizza, Soup, Patti Smith, Anthony Bourdain etc). It felt like walking the earth, keeping places alive. Not dead on a map. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jcXQeH5BNlU/Ya4dzKo044I/AAAAAAAA0pU/wz9f9o5TKjw_5V1dK_U8vEhd9Xmq3Z2ggCNcBGAsYHQ/s714/click.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="714" height="286" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jcXQeH5BNlU/Ya4dzKo044I/AAAAAAAA0pU/wz9f9o5TKjw_5V1dK_U8vEhd9Xmq3Z2ggCNcBGAsYHQ/w381-h286/click.png" width="381" /></a></div><p>You could imagine so many visual experiences for voice command. Show me Keith Richards nearby or in Paris. Show me Rock and Roll in Nashville. </p><p>No different than social media, we look at pictures most and longest in duration in digital media. There's no competition from a map or even a streetview. Photos rule for both engagement and traffic conversion. </p><p>In a social media, where I share geographic stories regularly to 114,000 followers in NYC, it's obvious the engagement starts with a photo, especially one that is nostalgic, recognizable personally and cool. Something that triggers memories or a desire for exploration. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LU-h3xzErU0/Ya4oeuiNMeI/AAAAAAAA0qM/xuwnGhJB2To1RY00ubXBXsPtGdymWiJ1ACNcBGAsYHQ/s1000/77.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="1000" height="307" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LU-h3xzErU0/Ya4oeuiNMeI/AAAAAAAA0qM/xuwnGhJB2To1RY00ubXBXsPtGdymWiJ1ACNcBGAsYHQ/w464-h307/77.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><p>On top of this, I got into deep map literature. </p><p>A geospatial layering of interesting history by address by street. Here are stories you never knew on this street, even if you lived there. I try to stitch stories thematically to show a "geo-pattern." Here are my notes identifying notable addresses bundled by theme (e.g. music history), showcasing the regional identity of The Bowery:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kpTznuKwTc8/Ya4uDk40TKI/AAAAAAAA0q8/KcMXe9UexdE41eEY205qexj5gseVzoe1wCNcBGAsYHQ/s1817/359.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1817" data-original-width="1440" height="538" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kpTznuKwTc8/Ya4uDk40TKI/AAAAAAAA0q8/KcMXe9UexdE41eEY205qexj5gseVzoe1wCNcBGAsYHQ/w426-h538/359.jpg" width="426" /></a></div>A map, however, first only shows you places you might already know. In this case, just one street, The Bowery. A lot of visual redundancy would be in that viewing experience. <p></p><p>Then there's the homogenous looking pins not reflecting the diversity or level of interest inside each point of interest. Pins are no match for headlines or photos. They're callouts but you're being asked to click each one in the primary view. This map of pins tells you nothing yet about The Bowery and shows a street you might already know. The primary layer has no added value: </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tUytysXp9NQ/Ya41Ht8b_vI/AAAAAAAA0rc/HxmZQW8t2uUAT3M-9uA204VbURcp5zDzACNcBGAsYHQ/s651/pins.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="651" height="383" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tUytysXp9NQ/Ya41Ht8b_vI/AAAAAAAA0rc/HxmZQW8t2uUAT3M-9uA204VbURcp5zDzACNcBGAsYHQ/w396-h383/pins.png" width="396" /></a></div><p>Though not obvious at first, for someone who passionately uses maps everyday to hunt for addresses (or for other research), over time it became very clear maps ironically do not draw traffic as much as other consumer content. </p><p>We look at a map primarily for research, not pleasure. Only if we need to know where something is or was. At some place, possibly unfamiliar. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_e8rCJUUHnU/Ya4yJWdt20I/AAAAAAAA0rM/4Tx844HHyDcvPC9pcVoRurJE-htqYMoYgCNcBGAsYHQ/s1463/prettier.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="965" data-original-width="1463" height="275" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_e8rCJUUHnU/Ya4yJWdt20I/AAAAAAAA0rM/4Tx844HHyDcvPC9pcVoRurJE-htqYMoYgCNcBGAsYHQ/w417-h275/prettier.jpg" width="417" /></a></div><p>That's not 24/7. It's not even for 1 hour. It might only be for a few seconds. Or, if you already know where all the streets are in Manhattan, you might not even need a map. </p><p>Maps might look more interesting than pinned content as a primary view if what's behind the pin is less interesting than editorial or social media. But what if the pinned stories are more compelling? Shouldn't we show why a story is interesting inside each pin first? Pins are not pitching Points of Interest well. What do these pins tell you: </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ruegcRBWZwA/Ya4yyvedXiI/AAAAAAAA0rU/hf_1yHPYyNsMIWReGeBzZKOZZtGzRnY9ACNcBGAsYHQ/s1200/5432.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="635" data-original-width="1200" height="222" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ruegcRBWZwA/Ya4yyvedXiI/AAAAAAAA0rU/hf_1yHPYyNsMIWReGeBzZKOZZtGzRnY9ACNcBGAsYHQ/w420-h222/5432.jpg" width="420" /></a></div><p>Don't get me wrong. From childhood, I loved street maps, atlases and globes. But if I were honest, I loved songs, photos and stories far more. And maps stayed stagnant. The more familiar you got, the less interesting a map became.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_cZ51XS_oFLOaCJHSD19Z-7y2mGW_4nEdPJjED-pRlCiq5qjc2l90dXdM1IeO6I3bxPQ3hCQm-aCNAMIvGA4R7UABogIG40hoFaUqhyYOqeTWfg1C_kFCVQn1B-Q-cKRcLoGKGkeJU2PE/s608/e.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="608" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_cZ51XS_oFLOaCJHSD19Z-7y2mGW_4nEdPJjED-pRlCiq5qjc2l90dXdM1IeO6I3bxPQ3hCQm-aCNAMIvGA4R7UABogIG40hoFaUqhyYOqeTWfg1C_kFCVQn1B-Q-cKRcLoGKGkeJU2PE/w473-h266/e.jpg" width="473" /></a></div>OK, admittedly, I liked spinning it more than viewing it. Like popping bubbles on packaging (which is similar to popping pins).<p></p><p>During the pandemic, I got rid of my data services because we had the world's longest lockdown. I had to stop for directions once and got guided to a crossroads where he said be sure to try the burger and milkshake there. Something my GPS could not even tell me. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3AYtbVMP2SU/Ya4rtfpYZCI/AAAAAAAA0qs/5c4HllvhIawrrJ5FNb0NpPrFDEi6BqK1QCNcBGAsYHQ/s1080/hamburger.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="423" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3AYtbVMP2SU/Ya4rtfpYZCI/AAAAAAAA0qs/5c4HllvhIawrrJ5FNb0NpPrFDEi6BqK1QCNcBGAsYHQ/w423-h423/hamburger.jpg" width="423" /></a></div><div><br /></div>What a selection for discovery: <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X7XZsr4uZwM/Ya4r71awmjI/AAAAAAAA0qw/AJLv5QQZn10dXgOxmUa2nK4DE1CnY_eUwCNcBGAsYHQ/s1080/milk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="393" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X7XZsr4uZwM/Ya4r71awmjI/AAAAAAAA0qw/AJLv5QQZn10dXgOxmUa2nK4DE1CnY_eUwCNcBGAsYHQ/w393-h393/milk.jpg" width="393" /></a></div><p>What I found is that I could survive without GPS to head to a new destination. I only got lost once, but it forces you to meet people, locals, and ask for directions. This local once lived where I was headed and had stories to tell. </p><p>I had to prep longer looking at streetviews to familiarize myself with visual beacons. I also had to write down instructions. And even then, I only spent 20 minutes at most looking at a map. I am spending more time writing this.</p><p>Being mapless by phone did make driving more pleasurable. I paid more attention to the road in front, the scenery and visuals, looking for beacons, more than I normally would. I was no longer traveling with blinders, relying on convenient GPS. My eyes were wide awake. </p><p>That became a refreshing novel experience for me - or more accurately a renewed experience.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RIC2Czm5LIs/Ya4na04dHgI/AAAAAAAA0p8/nTouLs7IQ60wEK8fjeXPSO-9H3AIVKuQACNcBGAsYHQ/s736/eliz.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="521" data-original-width="736" height="370" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RIC2Czm5LIs/Ya4na04dHgI/AAAAAAAA0p8/nTouLs7IQ60wEK8fjeXPSO-9H3AIVKuQACNcBGAsYHQ/w522-h370/eliz.jpg" width="522" /></a></div><p>In cartography, a map is a geospatial projection, but it doesn't have to be a roadmap, showing you what you already know or don't need. </p><p>Photos (with soundtracks even) can be projected geospatially, like windows into a place or journey. A smarter streetview deep mapping geography with layers of interesting stories. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z8ah4XJtytg/Ya4nkx3OT3I/AAAAAAAA0qA/rSVEDi8ziaocX7kxegy8Bpkmw2bv7hOSwCNcBGAsYHQ/s1000/eliz2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="561" data-original-width="1000" height="245" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z8ah4XJtytg/Ya4nkx3OT3I/AAAAAAAA0qA/rSVEDi8ziaocX7kxegy8Bpkmw2bv7hOSwCNcBGAsYHQ/w436-h245/eliz2.jpg" width="436" /></a></div><p>To generate traffic, the best content has to be projected. Content one needs first, for pleasure. </p><p>So the goal is the reverse of many mapping communities. Zits on a map are last for research. The content hidden by the pins are first. </p><p>They also need to be organized intelligently for exploration. For viewing and publishing. </p><p>Cartographic blogging can draw traffic in a compelling way. But not if "zits on a map" are the primary interface. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcJX5AU_fRPmWjauAwjoEA313_tBJBWpOIV-wgryfNCEYOTH_B_0ar-HDL0t0ll6nFkVt9Lront5CmCFkV8lGJruaV57el4QC5grNJLZzYR1HSlMeEjF27gPruO2_Wfdq7W7TYkNbq0O7t/s759/ugly.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="759" data-original-width="717" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcJX5AU_fRPmWjauAwjoEA313_tBJBWpOIV-wgryfNCEYOTH_B_0ar-HDL0t0ll6nFkVt9Lront5CmCFkV8lGJruaV57el4QC5grNJLZzYR1HSlMeEjF27gPruO2_Wfdq7W7TYkNbq0O7t/w453-h480/ugly.png" width="453" /></a></div><div><br /></div>You can zoom in for even more zits on the block. But you can't see any narration for the block, unless you click several times. This violates a cardinal principle of hierarchical navigation in user experience design. <div><br /></div><div>The primary layer needs to achieve an end goal ideally, engaging without leaving the page. Imagine if you kept on being required to click or leave Instagram. You would no longer be glued to it as a viewer. Even in map tech presentations, people zip by the zits, faster than a weather reporter. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pHofQry1QZk/Ya44SCyh90I/AAAAAAAA0rk/SWY133b7KFcyH0lsEKm5RuKuL97CsI1cACNcBGAsYHQ/s1800/6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1800" height="310" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pHofQry1QZk/Ya44SCyh90I/AAAAAAAA0rk/SWY133b7KFcyH0lsEKm5RuKuL97CsI1cACNcBGAsYHQ/w466-h310/6.jpg" width="466" /></a></div><div>But in great storytelling, a storyteller holds you captive to the stories. That's when cartography becomes more frequented as consumer product. </div><div><br /></div><div><div>Spotifying the Map is a good metaphor. </div><div><br /></div><div>Songs are intelligently playlisted for experiencing music. You don't even need to read much, the music just plays. If need be, you can search, explore, read and click to hear. Song metadata is not covered by pins. </div><div><br /></div><div>GPS experiences - geospatial experiences - should be like soundtracks. A rabbit hole easy to experience. </div><div><br /></div><div>Maybe it's a jukebox of postcards, visually compelling with ancillary notes and maps when desired. Just tap to see the back. The primary layer shows you what you might be interested in. The pin just covers a map, covering what you already know is there. It's not a mystery door. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UPknM9yvrjw/Ya4o9TsubSI/AAAAAAAA0qU/BnRI4q_ike8z9jniHLeeELEdTZ4otazzgCNcBGAsYHQ/s935/wall.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="851" data-original-width="935" height="374" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UPknM9yvrjw/Ya4o9TsubSI/AAAAAAAA0qU/BnRI4q_ike8z9jniHLeeELEdTZ4otazzgCNcBGAsYHQ/w411-h374/wall.png" width="411" /></a></div><br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMPlQlE9iKI80UUuf5aJvuQhtpxfCB2oQuvpKS33u6ZaMp5_2DAVhxLQtbOZpCQP6vy86c1MolKKhnlqG8AP-xl8JqOFZjaN4zzWwEJiwSd8b82bJqgA2-mpQXny3vIQ6z3MbW0r2rXevf/s930/back+cover+%2528SF%2529.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="930" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMPlQlE9iKI80UUuf5aJvuQhtpxfCB2oQuvpKS33u6ZaMp5_2DAVhxLQtbOZpCQP6vy86c1MolKKhnlqG8AP-xl8JqOFZjaN4zzWwEJiwSd8b82bJqgA2-mpQXny3vIQ6z3MbW0r2rXevf/w423-h310/back+cover+%2528SF%2529.png" width="423" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Maps can still be accessed to show patterns of someone's life or a group of people's lives like these pinned strings behind Feist. But the primary attractions are the stories, images and music of Feist -- pitched first. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Mw2Tz1PwVTU/Ya4qDMcmqUI/AAAAAAAA0qk/BuJ-Lzv2-K0LPcy2M3bOfLdF9jzydvaJgCNcBGAsYHQ/s1000/feist.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="391" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Mw2Tz1PwVTU/Ya4qDMcmqUI/AAAAAAAA0qk/BuJ-Lzv2-K0LPcy2M3bOfLdF9jzydvaJgCNcBGAsYHQ/w391-h391/feist.jpg" width="391" /></a></div><br /><div>Cartographic digital gardening is needed to display what people want to see first for pleasure. </div><div><br /></div><div>There are tremendous possibilities for intelligent connectivity between collections of stories so when I'm exploring jazz in Paris, I might be taken to St Louis too or a cool personal jazz record collection or cool jazz photos, all geographically mapped but connected by correspondences. Cool exploration routes. </div><div><br /></div><div>Geography can be playlisted meaningfully. Bucket-listed and scrap-booked. Linked to other cool collections. It's about designing the cartographic collection first (a new visual map) that pitches what is interesting. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yMZ-sssdgmU/Ya4lx-DTr2I/AAAAAAAA0pk/y3rIiuExy18Bsj8TvAboq6BqZE1OxnI0ACNcBGAsYHQ/s391/ultimate.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="391" data-original-width="386" height="422" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yMZ-sssdgmU/Ya4lx-DTr2I/AAAAAAAA0pk/y3rIiuExy18Bsj8TvAboq6BqZE1OxnI0ACNcBGAsYHQ/w417-h422/ultimate.png" width="417" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div></div>Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14941695929357663391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539962304677593219.post-63103821447431237082021-11-15T11:12:00.023-08:002021-11-17T07:15:46.937-08:00Smarter Streetviews<p><span style="font-family: arial;">No different than interesting people, the coolest maps are smart, with the best Points of Interest. They have great character (cool filtering). Not just looks.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Why do 80% choose Google Maps (Streetview/Satellite)? The best map has the best data.That's the universal rule for any data visualization. You're only going to be as good as your data. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Cartographic "data" can always be enhanced instead of staying static with the same old names on a map, with familiar looks day after day. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">A "Deep Map" adds a fresh, colorful 3rd dimension. Far past dynamic Waze traffic reports.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Here's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">E.T.'s view flying on a bike in 1982 over </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">White Oak Ave (between Tribune & San Fernando Mission) in Porter Ranch (CA).</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLKf9El28gwS03s-8PbAWO4oPszDhzAvoIEqYIKawY6P51Pi8yuHYJ18yy1fJAgxTvR7NvDCMAKGyBJxKfh08ib9o5vvmPCw1UVsz7s0QUFSq1UC8q9a0K8-Pni7QA0GBgXHvPaqpbaYTd/s400/et.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="250" height="604" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLKf9El28gwS03s-8PbAWO4oPszDhzAvoIEqYIKawY6P51Pi8yuHYJ18yy1fJAgxTvR7NvDCMAKGyBJxKfh08ib9o5vvmPCw1UVsz7s0QUFSq1UC8q9a0K8-Pni7QA0GBgXHvPaqpbaYTd/w377-h604/et.jpg" width="377" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Here's a widely available Streetview from a photo collection, not in Google Streetview: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q1_fHPZXQRA/YZJe9NyAmhI/AAAAAAAA0l0/XBFoxMDRzpU30njMEwF8gJHE7nFRB4wvACLcBGAsYHQ/s760/stret.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="760" height="289" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q1_fHPZXQRA/YZJe9NyAmhI/AAAAAAAA0l0/XBFoxMDRzpU30njMEwF8gJHE7nFRB4wvACLcBGAsYHQ/w429-h289/stret.jpg" width="429" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Did you know Kobe Bryant in his last flight flew by where E.T. flew? R<span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">ed marks E.T.'s take off route below. Green marks Kobe's last flight path along San Fernando Mission Blvd:</span></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c9l5UQVYRcA/YZJfezWL1TI/AAAAAAAA0l8/Sas2AlHfbiol7iA31sD_ArDX8bF1Wz0wwCLcBGAsYHQ/s779/red.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="779" height="276" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c9l5UQVYRcA/YZJfezWL1TI/AAAAAAAA0l8/Sas2AlHfbiol7iA31sD_ArDX8bF1Wz0wwCLcBGAsYHQ/w534-h276/red.jpg" width="534" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It's possible to know every point of interest Kobe last flew over by routing a flight path: </span></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK4t5d2g8XukHXe7t51O4TuxmrZsK2OzAtgwbzHomTXiXnsXgPvv8NTGbmdzzqnGYOOhB2gfg0ReDBDkWxipcVzeVwsMTD52ZhAQ5Mh4BDfD9qS1NsSuoSa_K3HuKJOcZeQgy6cUbxVhAx/s649/flew.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="649" data-original-width="490" height="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK4t5d2g8XukHXe7t51O4TuxmrZsK2OzAtgwbzHomTXiXnsXgPvv8NTGbmdzzqnGYOOhB2gfg0ReDBDkWxipcVzeVwsMTD52ZhAQ5Mh4BDfD9qS1NsSuoSa_K3HuKJOcZeQgy6cUbxVhAx/w348-h460/flew.jpg" width="348" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: white;">He flew over where Frank Zappa was based in 1961. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial;">Today there's interesting info available at all </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/chung.wong1/posts/10158089742573383" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">notable addresses</a> <span style="font-family: arial;">he flew over.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial;"> The 3rd dimension of cartographic data.</span><div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">With a Deep Map, you can enhance locations, creating the ultimate Streetviews with already collected visuals. For </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">Blonde On Blonde (1966), Bob Dylan was photographed by </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">Jerry Schatzberg </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">at 375 West (NYC), a building no longer there. </span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wu5meL0Okh4/YZJhX2Cm0kI/AAAAAAAA0mM/rou-p82kFDIgLtl_2v6dSRQinItQpqQ_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s680/bob.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="544" height="430" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wu5meL0Okh4/YZJhX2Cm0kI/AAAAAAAA0mM/rou-p82kFDIgLtl_2v6dSRQinItQpqQ_QCLcBGAsYHQ/w344-h430/bob.jpg" width="344" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It took <a href="http://www.popspotsnyc.com/blonde_on_blonde/" target="_blank">PopSpots </a> 5 years to find this address, scouring old photos. A location can also callout old photos already archived in online collections, showing buildings no longer there today. Ghosts: </span></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Jw0RKNlbOJc/YZJiAuZlGsI/AAAAAAAA0mU/M2C4JFmfm2gPMGBd86Hnzj05XjehMneTwCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/bobs.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="352" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Jw0RKNlbOJc/YZJiAuZlGsI/AAAAAAAA0mU/M2C4JFmfm2gPMGBd86Hnzj05XjehMneTwCLcBGAsYHQ/w469-h352/bobs.jpg" width="469" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">Other music locations still exist in current Streetviews that can be enhanced and visited, like for Bob Dylan's album cover </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">Highway 61 (1965), photographed by Daniel Kramer, at 4 Gramercy Park West (NYC), once home of his manager Albert Grossman. You can enhance an existing Streetview with a personal photo and album cover (a<a href="https://www.popspotsnyc.com/highway_61_revisited/index.html" target="_blank"> PopSpot</a>): </span></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigJid2o0Gb2_b_hgclx4BhVrGIDdxYwitfg4QyhU5b8srd5MxD2LhzXvF2eni6GFqS8xWfYCJm67j9S7GD4vx3d05YSoZhzSxWsjLNEdW6N73sspdjO37tNa2MbmGHfqITclmYTdkunYgV/s1600/pp.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigJid2o0Gb2_b_hgclx4BhVrGIDdxYwitfg4QyhU5b8srd5MxD2LhzXvF2eni6GFqS8xWfYCJm67j9S7GD4vx3d05YSoZhzSxWsjLNEdW6N73sspdjO37tNa2MbmGHfqITclmYTdkunYgV/w536-h402/pp.jpg" width="536" /></a></div><p></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This cartographic data already exists as do collectors' photos to enhance what we can see in GPS or by searching streets. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The hard work has been consolidating geographic collections - collection after collection, geo-tagging stories one biography at a time, finding each address. One is surveying the land for the most interesting culture and visuals. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Points of Interest then need to be themed by genre (food) and subgenre (pizza). Geographic experiences also need to be playlisted across genres (Willis Tower is a scenic point to see Chicago, then have Chicago style deep dish pizza at Pizzano's).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFV10QLtODjDfhZtgwfDKy-1we00fnjdGK0Arfjrpk55G7QKMMbrllk-_ZY0yYnJgMdBFICrVpKAKv5XNVnkjW1ah4OiSfcFH4UY5eT6LkwOcWZaXiygA96lDG9tbtfHJKQdZnVq2Z7ZzP/s750/rand.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="750" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFV10QLtODjDfhZtgwfDKy-1we00fnjdGK0Arfjrpk55G7QKMMbrllk-_ZY0yYnJgMdBFICrVpKAKv5XNVnkjW1ah4OiSfcFH4UY5eT6LkwOcWZaXiygA96lDG9tbtfHJKQdZnVq2Z7ZzP/w513-h321/rand.jpg" width="513" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Over a decade, I personally collected and connected 333,000 Points of Interest curated for food, music, movies, literature, art/inventions, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">old/artistic photos,</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">biographies and journeys worldwide. It was laborious: 12-15 hours a day (mapped while isolated from society in a forest at first), but a labor of love unlike going everywhere in Google Streetview. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">These are Places you want to taste, see, hear, feel and touch. Tasty pizza or soup nearby. </span></div><div style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The last 4 years was spent next to a library, culling info not online, but only in memoirs, cultural books and documentaries. Bob Dylan nearby and afar. 700+ addresses now centralized. </span></div><div style="font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: arial;">The data got smarter over time with intersections of notable people, sharing routes, with unique regional identities and patterns emerging. I saw things you could not see in history without mapping biographies. The aggregation flavors a street in a new way. </span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-dlq8y3eToHQGynEADz25IyUUM6tqunVofgjMm8S0L9wkxfCjfUSipVcWufpoFOiolBUOcnXJBw_FB3oMEyCRdDEzkn1wRs-qB0FIJWSnepSfHP7IoPOPmegGNykF0h7gU97g7ZbKkPHb/s2048/wif.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-dlq8y3eToHQGynEADz25IyUUM6tqunVofgjMm8S0L9wkxfCjfUSipVcWufpoFOiolBUOcnXJBw_FB3oMEyCRdDEzkn1wRs-qB0FIJWSnepSfHP7IoPOPmegGNykF0h7gU97g7ZbKkPHb/w533-h400/wif.jpg" width="533" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div>English Literature grad Janie Tsao worked in IT for Sears Roebuck 1975-1983, now Willis Tower, which has an incredible view of Chicago (above), whose movie locations have the highest box office success for non-Blockbusters (a film scout's paradise).</div><div><br /></div><div>Janie later pioneered Wi-Fi and home networking in LA, starting Linksys (1988), as a mother of two. She started in her garage with spouse Victor, who worked at Taco Bell in LA.</div></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJltGAF_TkmygbJx7wubSL4ZZD6E9BfbK7_Y07TfWGfOLf1X5yNQ4VWceP7y132gbToqACTYPoDPTF6SXNW35fktyrP4VbcTLd3ByQ11oY4lf5xauKk2lakSwtShowBjHFDzb0OitJGmQl/s450/links.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="450" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJltGAF_TkmygbJx7wubSL4ZZD6E9BfbK7_Y07TfWGfOLf1X5yNQ4VWceP7y132gbToqACTYPoDPTF6SXNW35fktyrP4VbcTLd3ByQ11oY4lf5xauKk2lakSwtShowBjHFDzb0OitJGmQl/w389-h280/links.jpg" width="389" /></a></div></span></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There's a community that collects interesting "locative media" to use a term cited by William Gibson in Spook Country (2007). Some specialize in movie locations, others in music, history and other topics.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N5EeT2d7BFg/YZKkpb7Z0VI/AAAAAAAA0os/FoCXOwk2WkQ2SBv4DKkNygEvC_zhpvmxQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/spook.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1161" height="618" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N5EeT2d7BFg/YZKkpb7Z0VI/AAAAAAAA0os/FoCXOwk2WkQ2SBv4DKkNygEvC_zhpvmxQCLcBGAsYHQ/w349-h618/spook.jpg" width="349" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Some location IDs can take years to find. It is like a music fan's treasure hunt, in search of the Holy Grail. I still have not found the swimming hole dubbed the </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ball Pump where R.E.M. was among 30-50 friends who would sneak onto private property to skinny dip 1979-81, outside of Athens (GA). It inspired <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahJ6Kh8klM4" target="_blank">Nightswimming (1992).</a> An important biographical footnote.</span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NJRCQ3dMKxw/YZJ56PsG6aI/AAAAAAAA0nc/WZ_p38kelEEkF15eT5PwVw5_P6LhtcwIQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1798/centes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1798" data-original-width="1200" height="639" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NJRCQ3dMKxw/YZJ56PsG6aI/AAAAAAAA0nc/WZ_p38kelEEkF15eT5PwVw5_P6LhtcwIQCLcBGAsYHQ/w428-h639/centes.jpg" width="428" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cenotes have been beautiful to map. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">For me, collecting cartographic culture is in anticipation of new ways cartographic info can be projected in GPS, maps, augmented reality and maybe even handheld holograms (or 2D light projections) one day. A map is any kind of geographic projection. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LDTzh1HqFxc/YZKnbPNFdEI/AAAAAAAA0o0/BeO2PiXh_KQ_7W1KZQJbqHRDDyLTVe_aACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/wall.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1149" data-original-width="2048" height="306" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LDTzh1HqFxc/YZKnbPNFdEI/AAAAAAAA0o0/BeO2PiXh_KQ_7W1KZQJbqHRDDyLTVe_aACLcBGAsYHQ/w545-h306/wall.jpg" width="545" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">U2's Bono is seen above<span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"> behind a blue car walking by 10 Cedarwood Rd (Dublin), where he grew up, a projection at United Center (Chicago). Gavin Friday who named him Bono lived at 140 Cedarwood. Guggi lived at No 5. Geographic memories are projected. </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Geographic captions can also get poetic with deep thoughts. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Below is “Xenon for the Peggy Guggenheim” (2003) by Jenny Holzer in Venice projected at Palazzo Corner della Ca’ Grande. She has many geographic thought bubbles worldwide. </span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gbacbHDDrfw/YZKpso1du2I/AAAAAAAA0o8/uUJPz41BzzAb3MK5jTrPIPmax6ZH9dAvwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/jenn.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1589" height="461" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gbacbHDDrfw/YZKpso1du2I/AAAAAAAA0o8/uUJPz41BzzAb3MK5jTrPIPmax6ZH9dAvwCLcBGAsYHQ/w366-h461/jenn.jpg" width="366" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">For now, as an explorer of culture, I desire a smarter Streetview with greater character and richer Points of Interest. This 3rd Dimension of cartographic data "deep maps" what can be shown at a place, adding deeper flavor.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Part of my collection has been shared with a community of 114,000 New York City followers I manage in social media. I'm always trying to show rare interesting blind spot stories in streets. "I lived there and had no idea." </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Times Square is the most photographed place in history and it's been interesting to have visuals and stories for 125 years at almost every address. The depth of cartographic artifacts has been incredible. Truly the Crossroads of the World....where the "medium is the message."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6ZRGnXxpFQo/YZJvsuQlCaI/AAAAAAAA0nE/_pox405NBXAH73OjQqQMLLOl3tnHMfU0QCLcBGAsYHQ/s915/imag.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="915" height="375" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6ZRGnXxpFQo/YZJvsuQlCaI/AAAAAAAA0nE/_pox405NBXAH73OjQqQMLLOl3tnHMfU0QCLcBGAsYHQ/w562-h375/imag.jpg" width="562" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #050505;">Imagine a map that had more info than just names of places. One that can tell you what notable stories happened inside any building, show biographies of its people, defining taste across geography. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #050505;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #050505;">A map that can connect you to a like-minded place anywhere in the world. It goes far past the nearby radar. One where you can follow footsteps of notable people or similar tastes. It can also shine a light on your blind spots. That's the 3rd dimension of cartography.</span><br /> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The trick is how best to package the most interesting Points of Interest in a personalized way as soon as you land at the airport (for example), and are on the go. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e51L-qOq_zU/YZJo9qt7tII/AAAAAAAA0ms/1QcYUIZSAFcr3t4bDxolr_Xe4m_M7M6VwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1004/lar.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1004" data-original-width="753" height="517" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e51L-qOq_zU/YZJo9qt7tII/AAAAAAAA0ms/1QcYUIZSAFcr3t4bDxolr_Xe4m_M7M6VwCLcBGAsYHQ/w388-h517/lar.jpg" width="388" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">Welcome to Barcelona. </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">A concierge can tell you where to go like Alexa with presentation for rapid transit. Not shoving 100s of items at you but a handful. Useful for a GPS guide in a car, phone, taxi/bus, hotel/home. </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"> </span></span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">As illustrated above, cartographic visualization (map tiles) do not necessarily have to show Road Maps primarily. The best maps have the best data. Not data you already know. Blind spot data is primary. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">On-the-go, screen real estate could even get small and be text-only. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zsjSb5Pg0i8/YZJr4ag77BI/AAAAAAAA0m0/Zp0S6TuFLoIiCjBf6eM_MAKBCDrZIPBUgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/screen.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="400" height="381" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zsjSb5Pg0i8/YZJr4ag77BI/AAAAAAAA0m0/Zp0S6TuFLoIiCjBf6eM_MAKBCDrZIPBUgCLcBGAsYHQ/w445-h381/screen.jpg" width="445" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Audio guided tours might be enhanced with geo-tagged songs. Music can Spotify a map. A soundtrack for geography: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ak2le8YJ9nc/YZJsRCit1KI/AAAAAAAA0m8/lQ-7qd675ZUAzt7VhYPknFcvTAM5I9pxgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/ipods.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="285" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ak2le8YJ9nc/YZJsRCit1KI/AAAAAAAA0m8/lQ-7qd675ZUAzt7VhYPknFcvTAM5I9pxgCLcBGAsYHQ/w428-h285/ipods.jpg" width="428" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">An enhanced car GPS guide might only be a glance-worthy jukebox of postcards showing Top 5 places to eat lunch, find a pizza slice or have craft beer. Or it might even enhance hands-free voice-activated call and response tech. Where can I eat? </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Here's where your favorite singer or Anthony Bourdain had lunch. Best meals for $10. This is all about smartly tiered visual/audio decision making. The 1st decision isn't how to get there. But where to go for a call-to-action. The location pitch is the #1 map tile. It has to pitch much better than a pin on a map. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LnqnBMVzdfw/YZJnWOEdONI/AAAAAAAA0mk/nLvl4wGkZzExrCi34JJKbf2AVy9wM4y0QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1703/empty.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1703" data-original-width="1400" height="469" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LnqnBMVzdfw/YZJnWOEdONI/AAAAAAAA0mk/nLvl4wGkZzExrCi34JJKbf2AVy9wM4y0QCLcBGAsYHQ/w385-h469/empty.jpg" width="385" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Road Maps can be ancillary visuals if you don't know how to get there. But they're also unneeded primarily if you are local and know how to get to there. The majority of a user's experience should be *interesting* blind spot data and visuals you cannot find on most maps. The unfamiliar and desired. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Taste-driven Places like Songs also have to be playlisted for personal experiences. It's all about connective attributes connecting personally. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I see a day when cartography will have influencers like Youtubers or Instagrammers, who are licensed guides. Bob Dylan himself can guide you to his Places. He might even pop by to speak live virtually wherever you are. There can be MixTapes of Places by star guides. It's not the world of GIS as we know it today. </div><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It's all about having collections and curators who package geographic highlights. "New Data" not in GIS to power the most interesting cartography. And that's exactly what the world of <a href="http://xthespot.blogspot.com/2021/09/deep-mapping-digital-garden.html">digital gardens</a> is doing. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfEbtpV67s1dQ-1HJVuxDn5_a3guZ9LFhYy606m2m0imXcBRuK_EoUyDKzl3RuXg092bqZXFyJeJlZdFNTeGUaCTKbQmVl93Q2th_VHsS7NY5Yz05VsiO6MvQ3RWut_JoQBd24dakT2WUb/s2048/zz.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfEbtpV67s1dQ-1HJVuxDn5_a3guZ9LFhYy606m2m0imXcBRuK_EoUyDKzl3RuXg092bqZXFyJeJlZdFNTeGUaCTKbQmVl93Q2th_VHsS7NY5Yz05VsiO6MvQ3RWut_JoQBd24dakT2WUb/w325-h488/zz.jpg" width="325" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial;">The world of collections can be vast. But simply i</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: arial;">magine if everything you collect in your living room can be tagged for display to represent your personal taste (something regularly swappable). A digital garden is like your book or record collection on display, but linked to another collection. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iJ3wXXWKIXY/YZJ4sxVY7TI/AAAAAAAA0nU/yRjYCNvQl3s79ZuNjOCURggZpYNaMnHQACLcBGAsYHQ/s714/bb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="714" data-original-width="480" height="458" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iJ3wXXWKIXY/YZJ4sxVY7TI/AAAAAAAA0nU/yRjYCNvQl3s79ZuNjOCURggZpYNaMnHQACLcBGAsYHQ/w308-h458/bb.jpg" width="308" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial;">That in turn can branch you to other cultural trees to explore related worlds. Digital gardens are "mutual friends" connecting to each other in a culturally genetic way. My record collection can be connected to Bob Dylan's or Anthony Bourdain's. I can then find like-minded Experiences. That in turn can connect directly to Places to experience live. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial;">Geographic matchmaking is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial;">about connecting <a href="http://xthespot.blogspot.com/2021/11/coding-taste-in-geography.html">personal tastes</a> in geography. There might even be a day where friends leave things for you. Scavenger hunt treats at friendly Places. A personal treasure hunt. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial;">This is a direct-to-location blogging platform. One that needs competition for the best content (best "data") to yield the most rewarding Points of Interest. After this, there's nothing more powerful than a direct-to-location consumer world. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_BBYe9_gXvQ/YZKcRSBR4kI/AAAAAAAA0oU/XUXd6lN0454HcMtIAb3lIXm9pbz0zhMkQCLcBGAsYHQ/s774/one.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="495" height="545" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_BBYe9_gXvQ/YZKcRSBR4kI/AAAAAAAA0oU/XUXd6lN0454HcMtIAb3lIXm9pbz0zhMkQCLcBGAsYHQ/w349-h545/one.jpg" width="349" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">Like Michelin Guide, data needs to have minimum value standards to be effective. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">3 stars (worth a journey in itself), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">2 stars (worth a detour) and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505;">1 star (worth a stop). A reason to travel far by car.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: arial;">The map with the best data will win, but there are also artistic values in how cartographic artifacts are combined in an overall experience. Vibe matters for engagement. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">In recent years, I focused on Food and Music (passionate daily calls to action for me), which can diversify deeper into cultures abroad, places Google could not reach. There's even a map of <a href="https://www.tasteatlas.com/europe/soups" target="_blank">soup.</a> </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">There's also an incredibly invisible Native American and Black History behind food and music we love. The jazz, blues, rock, soul, funk, disco and hip hop we regularly hear. The chocolate, fries and tomato sauce we taste. Taste of the conquered has migrated worldwide to Places to create like-minded experiences. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oc5Ig9Mj_ao/YZKdHfCnLII/AAAAAAAA0oc/KYwRMq_8bMYLm6H51Y2zulxK3fc89UQWgCLcBGAsYHQ/s690/blus.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="687" height="422" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oc5Ig9Mj_ao/YZKdHfCnLII/AAAAAAAA0oc/KYwRMq_8bMYLm6H51Y2zulxK3fc89UQWgCLcBGAsYHQ/w421-h422/blus.png" width="421" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">History is not just generated by aristocratic literacy and conquest but also by songs and oral culinary recipes of the conquered, surviving even longer, prevalent at cool Points of Interest. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-yTjAuIJuk3dr21Fv8vG95fM_ZFTFL26OciraGf4B2xHdsq-su2Ey7JezfOxrebuXGlZSadSS1e7MMCfdqA3ZpX9mc6gZSPZuOIouh8xdZl_rR22Jkqe-S7QNABby-b-XAnNes3_rc9Nl/s691/ufj.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="691" data-original-width="691" height="407" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-yTjAuIJuk3dr21Fv8vG95fM_ZFTFL26OciraGf4B2xHdsq-su2Ey7JezfOxrebuXGlZSadSS1e7MMCfdqA3ZpX9mc6gZSPZuOIouh8xdZl_rR22Jkqe-S7QNABby-b-XAnNes3_rc9Nl/w407-h407/ufj.png" width="407" /></a></div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">I want to go past Wikipedia into the blind spots of geographic perception. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Blind spots are the most treasured spots of explorers. </span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Points of Interest are all about geographic influence and taste migration. Permanence weighs heavier than trendiness for locative notability. And survival of the conquered in history covers more culture than anything else in the world. </span><p></p></div>Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14941695929357663391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539962304677593219.post-51520675800019973192021-11-05T14:24:00.001-07:002021-11-05T14:33:13.505-07:00Coding Taste in Geography <p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;">There is a lot to discover in your blind spot. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;">A</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17.8px;"><span style="font-size: 18.75px;"> "deep map" offers far more depth than Google Streetview, beyond wading in shallow waters of cartography. </span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;">And that's what I want as a traveler or cultural explorer.</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;"> </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ASK_LgIxVFg/YYVwSxv9wqI/AAAAAAAA0kk/AK-HEwtWurY7mFiASV4LEZL9rg93mc_9wCLcBGAsYHQ/s691/at.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="691" data-original-width="689" height="402" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ASK_LgIxVFg/YYVwSxv9wqI/AAAAAAAA0kk/AK-HEwtWurY7mFiASV4LEZL9rg93mc_9wCLcBGAsYHQ/w401-h402/at.png" width="401" /></a></div><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17.8px;"><span style="font-size: 18.75px;">So how do we see points of interest meaningful to personal taste? </span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17.8px;"><span style="font-size: 18.75px;">That dives into how discovery itself is personalized. A</span></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;">new way of seeing geography, history, and people. A new way to explore interests. "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;">Deep Map literature" is all about this - more than a 2D view of a place. </span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Hjnorx2qsCA/YYVsUpidZcI/AAAAAAAA0j0/kbW_nrUNH5olWHmVlj2xNxbHFDMT4sBbgCLcBGAsYHQ/s693/blue.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="693" data-original-width="689" height="384" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Hjnorx2qsCA/YYVsUpidZcI/AAAAAAAA0j0/kbW_nrUNH5olWHmVlj2xNxbHFDMT4sBbgCLcBGAsYHQ/w382-h384/blue.png" width="382" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;">This 3rd dimension is about digging up meaningful cultural regional data (stories, people, places) and connecting them in a way that defines their geographic influence. </span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;">A historian or curator can meaningfully articulate data but most algorithms today do not. They are more mathematical. More quantitative than qualitative -- and limited by data inputted. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z7Vz1c5A5UM/YYVtPWzDOOI/AAAAAAAA0j8/_ZqYude-6sA2faZ7pwK36amD6nZrPjhIwCLcBGAsYHQ/s688/ultimate.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="688" data-original-width="680" height="391" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z7Vz1c5A5UM/YYVtPWzDOOI/AAAAAAAA0j8/_ZqYude-6sA2faZ7pwK36amD6nZrPjhIwCLcBGAsYHQ/w386-h391/ultimate.png" width="386" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;">I spent the summer mapping 750 National Geographic journeys of a lifetime and another few hundred "Ultimate Food Journeys." The connections between places made me see how culture regularly migrates and is correlated to where we want to travel. What happens in New York City spreads around the world from punk to fashion to social media. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KiXlL28rc_s/YYVtpJGuQ4I/AAAAAAAA0kI/ADy4hD7yWMwXSpBDC91AgQClBKz7LPWqACLcBGAsYHQ/s693/wild.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="693" data-original-width="685" height="379" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KiXlL28rc_s/YYVtpJGuQ4I/AAAAAAAA0kI/ADy4hD7yWMwXSpBDC91AgQClBKz7LPWqACLcBGAsYHQ/w374-h379/wild.png" width="374" /></a></div><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;"><p>Geographic stories (e.g food and music history) and personal connection to them (my flavors, my culture, or something to broaden my mind) need to be curated and connected meaningfully as personalized points of interest (my interests). </p></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh67PIMjdLkfu2uuYJGJbQzY9NyuQqaw454BKVLBiF13ch6D82MprdRk6VWPvEG4edbpnxCPbpCv00xGozTCPK-M8ZJ7Xj_O2l4IsYqE-u-qlNBpiTv2d1-7wqq-rrSsiTnlm5_TqL4iRT2/s687/blues.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="687" data-original-width="687" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh67PIMjdLkfu2uuYJGJbQzY9NyuQqaw454BKVLBiF13ch6D82MprdRk6VWPvEG4edbpnxCPbpCv00xGozTCPK-M8ZJ7Xj_O2l4IsYqE-u-qlNBpiTv2d1-7wqq-rrSsiTnlm5_TqL4iRT2/w386-h386/blues.png" width="386" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;">For a traveler, discovery lenses</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;"> also need to be dynamically refreshed, to see new things constantly. Connected to related "objects," not necessarily at the same spot. Intelligent recommendations. From local to afar. </span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-946thiAHc2k/YYVuJhSddyI/AAAAAAAA0kc/o4E_hk79g20Oy2lcG6ZNJsNplq8ki3nhwCLcBGAsYHQ/s690/thread.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="678" height="392" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-946thiAHc2k/YYVuJhSddyI/AAAAAAAA0kc/o4E_hk79g20Oy2lcG6ZNJsNplq8ki3nhwCLcBGAsYHQ/w385-h392/thread.png" width="385" /></a></div><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">With more interesting data, cultural "routes" become interesting like the Mississippi Blues Trail. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Two places in the world with similar tastes can be connected -- like a thread connecting two pins on a map. People, food and music have migrated there from somewhere else. One book I mapped focused on how noodles spread around the world, which I augmented with notable noodle spots worldwide. It's like defining the quintessential road trip - where memorabilia and photographic milestones will be collected for a scrap book. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH3xEAmnY06MG3ExBhMKkvq6xpanT5ZnRtR2XxefteGC-MC_M0KDukQ93yDVJ0eQ1kx0619Il9hkQxZIxNJ7rw9yyoh8w1QZFHGHAnvqcIsEdg-13O2pGof00jKn4n48b7_5rQAdzf2Rnr/s774/roads.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="495" height="604" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH3xEAmnY06MG3ExBhMKkvq6xpanT5ZnRtR2XxefteGC-MC_M0KDukQ93yDVJ0eQ1kx0619Il9hkQxZIxNJ7rw9yyoh8w1QZFHGHAnvqcIsEdg-13O2pGof00jKn4n48b7_5rQAdzf2Rnr/w387-h604/roads.jpg" width="387" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>Like the Michelin Guide,</b> we must ask, </span><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;">is the destination worth an entire journey (3 stars), a detour (2 stars) or a stop (1 star). </span></span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">In music, the artist you want to go the extra mile for is the artist you love. </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">The longer you travel to reach art, the more important the art is to you. </span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Convenient art is not always healthy. In that sense, social media does not offer any journey. </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Scrolling is not even stopping. </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Spotify offers no trip to the record store. No lingering with an album cover. Once an essential part of fan loyalty. Once part of the emotional depth we had with music. </span></div></span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nhjbFvcNqV4/YYWbUMS5fyI/AAAAAAAA0k0/qKPNK2UOOgkB8_Lf49lpIfb-VnsLxduAQCLcBGAsYHQ/s350/raised.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="273" data-original-width="350" height="325" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nhjbFvcNqV4/YYWbUMS5fyI/AAAAAAAA0k0/qKPNK2UOOgkB8_Lf49lpIfb-VnsLxduAQCLcBGAsYHQ/w415-h325/raised.jpg" width="415" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">If we look at Places as a set of objects (a class), they typically have attributes like GPS coordinates and street addresses. And w</span>e typically just see cities or businesses named at Places projected on a map in 2D. It's flatter view of the world.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-83aJszR5zPw/YYWbsWyIcDI/AAAAAAAA0k8/syOc-vjy4Gs7Ygsrle5_Qv1th-JM6PtoQCLcBGAsYHQ/s700/sper.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="629" data-original-width="700" height="373" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-83aJszR5zPw/YYWbsWyIcDI/AAAAAAAA0k8/syOc-vjy4Gs7Ygsrle5_Qv1th-JM6PtoQCLcBGAsYHQ/w414-h373/sper.jpg" width="414" /></a></div></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;">Social media and Wikipedia might augment geography with a geotag or check-in function, but at an overwhelming volume, and often shown in a way unfiltered by personal interest.</span><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZhGvz-9k7sDcGusUN0j7_W8W5gs8s1f3sT4Q1oZscWomJVrc_M5gAIMKAFKFRARaGc3eLQkPuOmtrDJoRHkirBEExaYQxYhEj-QOrOMrqtBUGy64Fz-XNuS8AWpvibeSi2pSorggFGTWN/s631/globe.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="471" height="463" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZhGvz-9k7sDcGusUN0j7_W8W5gs8s1f3sT4Q1oZscWomJVrc_M5gAIMKAFKFRARaGc3eLQkPuOmtrDJoRHkirBEExaYQxYhEj-QOrOMrqtBUGy64Fz-XNuS8AWpvibeSi2pSorggFGTWN/w346-h463/globe.jpg" width="346" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I've collected 333,000 geographic stories of interest now, all geotagged by place (people and topic tagged too in many cases), culled over 10 years. </div></span><p><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;">Living next to a library full of docs, I went deeper than the internet, as I soon realized Google and Wikipedia focus most on English stories in the West, and even then they are still short on African American stories critical to food and music. The journalists, national historians, and Wikipedia writers didn't go there. A major blind spot. </span></p><p><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;">It's true - data is biased and algorithms amplify that. Even on maps, there's a reason why Western nations look bigger on maps. Ask yourself why Greenland looms large - it's not for its amazing Thai food today or ancient Viking migration.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8iTenZyOBRw/YYWcxmlNd_I/AAAAAAAA0lM/jZvhOr0VxkELp0AK9fRU6HAzBhCGjxKiACLcBGAsYHQ/s960/g.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="960" height="289" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8iTenZyOBRw/YYWcxmlNd_I/AAAAAAAA0lM/jZvhOr0VxkELp0AK9fRU6HAzBhCGjxKiACLcBGAsYHQ/w435-h289/g.jpg" width="435" /></a></div><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;">To balance this, I started to focus on geographic layers of food and music stories (culling stories of the conquered and illiterate in history), and topped it off with amazing world travel stories, to yield the Anthony Bourdain view of exploration. </span><p></p><p><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;">But it still was an enormous volume that needed to be contextualized in niches, or combos of stories. Chaptered for episodic exploration. We need to convert volume into a starting point of interest.</span></p><p><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;">Everyday I highlighted 10 stories on Facebook (less than 1% of the archive) to connect them thematically in one daily perspective. A mood. </span></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: 17.8px;"><span style="font-size: 18.75px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BwI1FhU53Ho/YYVjjFmre_I/AAAAAAAA0js/ij4eqoiv25IPXpPfa3rJNB1yqwnVvud1QCLcBGAsYHQ/s799/literatuture.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="799" data-original-width="641" height="441" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BwI1FhU53Ho/YYVjjFmre_I/AAAAAAAA0js/ij4eqoiv25IPXpPfa3rJNB1yqwnVvud1QCLcBGAsYHQ/w354-h441/literatuture.png" width="354" /></a></div></span><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;">But no platform offered me effective tools to create a class for these connected geographic stories with common attributes. </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;">A "photo album" does very little to connect like a "playlist" which only exists for music & videos. And more can be done than a playlist. </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;">Digital Gardens (collections blogged) are starting to connect to other Digital Gardens like playlists connecting songs. Imagine everything in your living room tagged in a personal collection. It's also geographic (from some place, at some place, related to many places). </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;">Imagine collectors connecting each other so each collector discovers more. </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;">But today's available social platforms mostly rank posts by popularity and engagement, without </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;">curation connecting stories. And in a fixed environment of a relatively fixed friends/followers list. At a certain point, the number of friends added diminishes. </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;">Randomizing (shuffling) also does not work because context matters to thematically connect stories like a MixTape. That's the difference between a MixTape and iPod shuffle. Or, a playlist vs a randomizer. A culture is represented in a MixTape, whereas any culture is repped in randomization. </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.75px;">To connect stories well, attributes need to be smarter, showcasing a taxonomy of taste - how places, people and events there connect. Interests then define journeys or routes of discovery people want to take. </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">We already see a bit of this on Spotify. Thematic curation defines what is heard. Genres and<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Genome_Project" target="_blank"> music genes</a> define related songs. People with similar culture connect songs. </p></span></div></div>Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14941695929357663391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539962304677593219.post-16159482524190871592021-09-02T14:53:00.119-07:002021-11-04T14:09:26.822-07:00Deep Mapping A Digital Garden <p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">"Deep map" literature explores more than a 2D image of a place. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">William Least Heat-Moon, who wrote in the genre, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">drove 13,000 miles in 1978 living in a van.</span></p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">"I was heading toward those little towns that get on the map--if they get on at all--only because some cartographer has some blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity, Virginia; New Freedom, Pennsylvania; New Hope, Tennessee; Why, Arizona; Whynot, Mississippi, Igo, California (just down the road from Ono), here I come."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18.75px;" /><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">New York Times wrote, "he took to the road and went to Subtle, Neon and Mouthguard, Ky.; to Dull, Weakly and Only, Tenn.; to Dime Box, Tex.; Scratch Ankle, Ala., and Gnawbone, Ind. He wrote a book about his travels in order to find out where he was trying to arrive at and called it Blue Highways (1983), because on old maps the back roads were colored blue."</span></div><div><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vyqI1G09H5c/YTEcWB0RFkI/AAAAAAAA0iU/5oBX7ZWq44IA6t26q91pG7LN1uDKgvl1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s944/blue.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="636" data-original-width="944" height="329" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vyqI1G09H5c/YTEcWB0RFkI/AAAAAAAA0iU/5oBX7ZWq44IA6t26q91pG7LN1uDKgvl1wCLcBGAsYHQ/w488-h329/blue.jpg" width="488" /></a></div></span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">The intriguing aspect of his venturing was discovering the blind spot of America. It was also new way of seeing geography, history, and people. A new way of exploration. That's the key. </span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.75px;">A "deep map" offers far more depth than Google Streetview. It's beyond wading in shallow waters of cartography. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">And that's what I want as a traveler or cultural explorer.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"> </span></div><div><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.75px;">So how do we add points of interest meaningful to personal taste? That dives into the idea of how discovery itself is personalized.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">Lately been exploring the idea of "digital gardens." </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">In a nutshell, think of your bookshelf or record collection, but connected to other living rooms -- other private collections, representing personal taste. Culturally-related n</span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">etworked collections. </span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fjv1p3coCwk/YTEfpqAkboI/AAAAAAAA0ic/hEOcLz_AdTki82G3K1RRuNLpBFvS7vO5wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/good.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1383" data-original-width="2048" height="336" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fjv1p3coCwk/YTEfpqAkboI/AAAAAAAA0ic/hEOcLz_AdTki82G3K1RRuNLpBFvS7vO5wCLcBGAsYHQ/w497-h336/good.jpg" width="497" /></a></div></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">Like your identity-expressing, curated living room, items are swappable to refresh your display. Like plants, your personal exhibits decay and grow again. </span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.75px;">Now imagine if everything in your living room - your personal collection - was tagged and networked with other "digital gardens." </span></span></div><div><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.75px;">Your collection of jazz records might be connected to someone else's </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">Paris </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">photo collection, featuring jazz club Cave du 38 Riv. Here's what you think is special. It's b</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">oth personal and identity forming.</span></div><div><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FbtD5KHWGL8/YTGAHgllg5I/AAAAAAAA0jE/tj0OkZcCuKYM4YAgs6fnOd05YrbS0qAXQCLcBGAsYHQ/s700/jazz.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="700" height="264" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FbtD5KHWGL8/YTGAHgllg5I/AAAAAAAA0jE/tj0OkZcCuKYM4YAgs6fnOd05YrbS0qAXQCLcBGAsYHQ/w441-h264/jazz.jpg" width="441" /></a></div></span></div><div><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.75px;">The dynamic swapping within a collection and cultural connectivity to other collections create both refreshment and spontaneous discovery lacking in GPS apps to date. </span></span></div><div><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.75px;">Your collection is an ever-changing "living identity." And cultural traffic between gardens is also dynamic (like Waze) not stagnant. There's something new to arrive at over time at every garden. Newly collected items also create a new cultural tree like in ancestry. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">They can branch into other digital gardens.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"> </span></div><div><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.75px;">The next question for me is how can these "digital gardens" be culturally-connected meaningfully </span></span><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.75px;">to enable an interesting journey down a rabbit hole. Finding cool t</span></span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">hings that fit my tastes and interests today. </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"> </span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">How do I get to discover gypsy caravan travel in less travelled roads is still possible on the Irish coast? You can indeed live like a gypsy </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">by lakes, streams, woods and beaches through Ireland's Wicklow Mountains, fishing and reading books, with pub stops and shower stops. </span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EEDFzhy44c8/YTEkCQ7HTDI/AAAAAAAA0is/6qGc9EYNpo4aLeK5Eg9_Hhwi-ipFkbvJACLcBGAsYHQ/s1920/it.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="279" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EEDFzhy44c8/YTEkCQ7HTDI/AAAAAAAA0is/6qGc9EYNpo4aLeK5Eg9_Hhwi-ipFkbvJACLcBGAsYHQ/w496-h279/it.jpg" width="496" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">But how did I even get there - to this point of discovery? One thing led to another after a thematic exploration. And ultimately I entered my blind spot to find interesting things. </span></div><div><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">"Seeds" in common can define how gardens connect to other gardens. A common experiential heritage led us here. </span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2NhRkczx8P0/YTEopifJX-I/AAAAAAAA0i0/UYMc6q0Z2sUsh82Sr28yXo1uPjDpMw0TACLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/young.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="305" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2NhRkczx8P0/YTEopifJX-I/AAAAAAAA0i0/UYMc6q0Z2sUsh82Sr28yXo1uPjDpMw0TACLcBGAsYHQ/w543-h305/young.jpg" width="543" /></a></div><br /></span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">You can hang glide from the world's largest urban rainforest and land on the beach in Rio De Janeiro. </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">You leave Tijuca National Park, air-bound for Sao Conrado Beach.</span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.75px;">In common with caravan travel, there is adventure, water travel and transformative scenery. That's the shared "story gene." The shared experiential vibe.</span></span></div><div><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">This Cultural DNA defines how you might playlist something into the same mix and connect your experiential playlist (your collection) to another DJ (someone else's collection). That DJ in turn can connect to another digital garden. This expands your own discovery.</span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">Cultural DNA </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">defines how to </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">thread a compelling personal collection meaningfully into another personal collection.</span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">A traditional digital garden (if I can call it that) is connected to another digital garden by personal choice. But to link two digital gardens, you first need to actually find the other collection and make the call they are fit to be connected or married. </span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">That led me to ponder the idea of an augmented hashtag for matchmaking - a blending of multiple tags - for more interesting cultural connectivity. It's almost like astrology, being able to read the signs. </span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">Some embedded tags can be visual in nature, some geographic, some time-related, some topical, some contextual and others narrative-driven, all together defining a story gene (a blended hashtag). A smart tag. The deep tag. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">In music there are no more than </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Genome_Project" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18.75px;" target="_blank">450 unique genes</a><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">. Musical phrases. Song recommendations are born from related music genes. </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">But what about geographical or cultural experiences? </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">The sensational poetry of sights, sounds, feelings, tastes, and scents have many combinations. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">How many experiential vibes can be defined? </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">This reduces the problem of sifting through an infinite volume of stories. My current GPS collection has already surpassed 333,000 stories. Much of it biographical with a recent focus on food and music. Not all equally relevant or interesting. Some ancillary, just there to augment location understanding (or </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">biographical geography)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">. Some outstanding to see. Some only in a certain context become significant. </span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">Blues Mafia Godfather James McKune believed the perfect Blues collection had exactly 300 records. No more, no less. He would swap out records over time to perfect his collection of "rarities." Taste is also time-sensitive. We don't like something equally over time. What we value changes. Improvements are continuous. So is our personal display.</span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0pw0pg_epX4/YTE4ANxRAeI/AAAAAAAA0i8/MpyH-F9HlLol1efpxfTQ1wYhObyZpbLoQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/robert.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="313" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0pw0pg_epX4/YTE4ANxRAeI/AAAAAAAA0i8/MpyH-F9HlLol1efpxfTQ1wYhObyZpbLoQCLcBGAsYHQ/w418-h313/robert.jpg" width="418" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">I like the idea of a digital garden being a finite personal collection that's swappable. It's compact and connected to other compact collections. All dynamic and evolving. Regularly branching into other digital gardens to expand discovery. </span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">The Blues Mafia would get together on Saturday nights and trade stories about their Blues collections </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">(the first liner notes to grow the value of a collection)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"> </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">and shared tips on how to hunt for more records -- networking people, places and stories. That in essence is the spirit of a digital garden. </span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">Secrets of the city in an augmented map shared between collectors. A shared subculture with common story genes, born from communal conversations (cultural connectivity). </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">The Blues Mafia in Manhattan</span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"> coined the "Delta Blues" (their deep tag) and created Blues Mythology (story genes in experiential vibes). </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jS47vvLpd6I/YTEhfol98FI/AAAAAAAA0ik/TzANHCaPLI0Tw4oMwHzOSSLn4pgj7nazQCLcBGAsYHQ/s612/grad.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="454" data-original-width="612" height="298" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jS47vvLpd6I/YTEhfol98FI/AAAAAAAA0ik/TzANHCaPLI0Tw4oMwHzOSSLn4pgj7nazQCLcBGAsYHQ/w403-h298/grad.jpg" width="403" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">Going deeper, there is also the idea of connecting people and places with similar story genes. </span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">You could represent every spot in the world with an x-axis (GPS coordinates in minutes and seconds) and every moment in time in history with a y-axis (also in minutes and seconds). Every person who ever existed could be along the z-axis (by name).</span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">X-Y-Z coordinates represent a story (deep-tagged with story genes) at a place (x) in time (y) of a person (z). </span></div><div><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18.75px;" /><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">The X-Y plane shows everything that ever happened at any place over time, layered from bedrock to topsoil (what is happening right now at a place). You can understand how we got here from the layers of a place over time. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18.75px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18.75px;" /><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">The connections between people and places (X-Z plane) graph related geographic/demographic stories (with story genes) between people</span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">. Here are all the people who have stories at CBGB over time. Here are all the other places where they have stories. </span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;">That extends digital gardens geographically past CBGB to other places. Within each place/person, there are experiences (with story genes) in common with other digital gardens, connectable by mutual deep tags. </span></div><div><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zUxVXTBlA70/YTJB4NblrHI/AAAAAAAA0jM/ULin-JzhHHcFwo6LRDsZK0J2KKFXA4j6wCLcBGAsYHQ/s700/subs.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="700" height="362" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zUxVXTBlA70/YTJB4NblrHI/AAAAAAAA0jM/ULin-JzhHHcFwo6LRDsZK0J2KKFXA4j6wCLcBGAsYHQ/w483-h362/subs.png" width="483" /></a></div></div><div><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.75px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">I find the <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/03/1007716/digital-gardens-let-you-cultivate-your-own-little-bit-of-the-internet/?fbclid=IwAR3y0wWlETyeyexItbe_AJJQy23VW6WI-jXc7f7pC8iavrz4_sjIm31_heo" target="_blank">subterranean real estate</a> of digital gardens interesting. It's like the independent old days of the internet. Social media does not control this real estate online. It's user-developed individuality like MySpace or WordPress, fit for "personal" collection. It's more creative. It does not condition the human mind to see and do the same thing over and over again everyday in a template repetitive way for more than a decade. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">This is no prefabricated fixed environment. It's ever-changing in look and feel, with expanding tools to create inspirational displays. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The most popular human activity is not a like button but discovery. It's not persuasion technology but independent thinking, improvisation and exploration. It's freedom. </span></div></div>Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14941695929357663391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539962304677593219.post-39964482797233776542018-08-29T15:23:00.002-07:002018-09-07T14:40:02.418-07:00GPS Food and Culture <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">GPS and wearables offer untold opportunities for locative media design and innovation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many design and innovation requirements were seen while compiling the <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/jump2spot" target="_blank">world<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;">'s largest GPS atlas for food and culture. </span></a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The goal is to efficiently recommend </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #878787; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">refreshing</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #878787; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> valuable places and experiences for artists, travelers, diners and well-educated pedestrians. Affordable visits offering rich experiences. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It could be a free visit to where an inspired quote was written by a writer or a soulful meal for under $10. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More and more, however, mobility users have less and less time or desire to stop and browse yet another new thing on a cluttered phone, disrupting real-life travel and conversations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Content needs to be highly-valued and personalized in curation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Visuals need to be very minimalist if not invisible. Audio experiences for music, a car GPS system or Siri enable less obligation to go to a screen. They compliment an activity in real-life more than disrupting it. But they also take up more battery power. GPS also takes up more data usage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Any audio narration also needs to be clearly heard like in public transit through the din of subway noise. Words need to be organized for clarity in the din. Unfamiliar words need to be bracketed by familiar words...to pay attention to anything foreign. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It would be nice to ask your watch a question and it tells you succinctly where to go and exactly what you want to know with an interesting brief story. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Question: Where is the nearest noodle place<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;">?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Answer: Turn right at next street, go to 50 Main St, you will find a soba shop (recommended by artists). Soba was imported by 13th Century Chinese monks to Japan who then asked local candy confectioneries to help make it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;">Question: Where did Bob Dylan write Blowin</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;">'</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"> In the Wind</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;">?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;">Answer: In April, 1962, Bob Dylan wrote </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;">Blowin</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;">'</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;">In the Wind at Fat Black Pussycat at 11 Minetta, New York, NY. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Related Answer: You can find the album cover location for The Freewheelin</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">'</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Bob Dylan (1963) at 9 Jones nearby:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Designing for mobile is almost like designing for the blind. There is much less capability to see a screen while in motion. It needs to be practical and efficient. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the go design is like design for a driver who cannot really see a screen fully. Everything you see in a car is designed for partial visual impairment. A GPS guide should depend less on disrupting a pedestrian for browsing and typing. It should enhance going somewhere. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ingesting personal interest cues from mobility users - what they want to explore in food and music e.g. - at any given moment in time would help sort out what highlights to put in a window of time reaching a user at a specific GPS location. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A key challenge is narrowing down just enough highlights from dozens to thousands of interesting location experiences in the database. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Routes packaged by others as having been interesting will be very useful. Routes themed by taste, topic, convenience and affordability. Best 10 places near your AirBnB or any address. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Options to branch out into a certain direction need to be available: More noodle choices, more Bob Dylan choices. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;">It is about personal desire at that time and can</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;">'t miss experiences recommended by other artists, budget travelers, diners and well-educated pedestrians. This is the thing to do here.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;">For related discovery, a user might also want to learn about faraway places related to a topic: </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Honke Owariya in Kyoto, Japan, has been open since 1465 and served soba since 1700. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Users can connect relationships to improve the intelligence of a GPS database in recommendations. They can package (list) places for a discovery route.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Initially tags, geographic vicinity and algorithms related to personal interests can rank recommendations. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No different than a car GPS system, standardized visual cues for directions and geographical beacons offer familiarity. The more familiarity framing a new place or story the better. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1) Familiar photo of Bob Dylan or Soba</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4) Route to get there (GO). </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5) Recommendations along route (nearby tagged) or related to search (faraway tagged). </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the zen of less is more. Navigation for the nearly blind.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Color cues need to be considered to differentiate topics (music from food e.g.) and names of people from places in recommendations. Maps are the art of color codes and symbols to quickly see things on the go. So are road signs and lights. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Design less for the web (or even a mobile app) and more for the road. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But discovery routes are not always geographical. They can be relational -- connected by people, topics, and dates in history. A genealogy connected by tags. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A place is also layered by many histories in time. Different stories connected by one place.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Navigation modes can be audio-only, audio and text, audio and visuals with text. No audio. Food content only. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Music content only. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Food and Music only. Various cultural terrains and combined views. Exploration can also connect topics, people and time independent of proximity for discovery. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Food and meeting places are perhaps the most frequent call to actions. Where can I eat</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Where should we meet</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">? Good deals are needed for artists, travelers, families and pioneering start up founders. The most valuable experiences per dollar spent at a location. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Metaphorically, you do not just want your GPS to tell you where a gas station is, but also what is the best value nearby. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Locations can also be optimized for night (bars, dinner, music venues), day (coffee shops, urban exploration) and morning (breakfast). Locals or travelers. Hours of the day. Types of activities. Modes of travel (foot, bike or car). A contextual itinerary. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The best guide will build a compelling, efficient and valuable itinerary. THE List. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Music needs to be optimized by era and personal </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">taste </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(playlists). </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Food is more universal (but still has categories like Mexican or Chinese). </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The base topography for a guide is ideally food. You can see it in Google Maps. It is something needed at least 3x a day plus any bars and event venues. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But there are too many choices (all choices). The best guide will filter out the best places. A must-dine place that artists love which you can afford, highlighting a must-have dish. And nearby you can explore other cool experiences before or after dining. A curated package. </span><br />
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A great GPS design makes you do nothing. It knows what you like and notifies you when you come across it. </div>
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Scrolling becomes strolling. As you walk, GPS triggers notifications for viewing opportunities you like. No sorting, no clicking. </div>
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One problem of window shopping "nearby" for content is seeing the same old stories on the shelf. This can be solved by "hyper-jumping."</div>
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You stroll, you get notified of a story you like. You look at the window and you can see other stories related to the person who was here. If Bob Dylan visited this spot, this spot now becomes a Bob Dylan museum you can explore. You can see new posts now at this window, the latest of Dylan's history. </div>
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Like Haley Joel Osmen at St Augustine's Catholic Church (243 N Lawrence St, Philadelphia) in The Sixth Sense, you can see "dead people" and where they have been, the trail that led them to this spot.</div>
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This is what William Gibson called a locative media exhibit in Spook Country (2007). You see the ghosts of history on site. </div>
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Overlaying powers virtual urban museums for locative narratives - augmenting reality. A story can connect people from the past and present who also have stories to share here. Locations are annotated with compelling stories. </div>
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You can flash fiction or non-fiction. </div>
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Geo-fiction leaves pieces of fiction, a part of a narrative on site. You have to go site to site to see the rest of the story at the sites of the plot. Places and travel become adventurous. </div>
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Locative narratives make a place multi-dimensional and can get quite elaborate. </div>
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In geo-cinema, you scavenge for scenes planted for game play. You are in the movie. The street is your movie screen. </div>
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<br />Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14941695929357663391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539962304677593219.post-58597189014090814082015-06-17T20:49:00.001-07:002015-06-21T08:50:57.861-07:00Making A Scene<b>Visually..</b>.<br />
For 9 years daily, I have been curating photos of the day, seeking in more recent years what makes an outstanding image in a world of billions of photos.<br />
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<i>SOS human chain around an oil drill in Ecuador posted in photo community I helped set up in 2007 for Al Gore's Live Earth, an event which had an audience of 2 billion. </i></div>
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<b>Culturally...</b><br />
For 3 years daily, I have been mapping notable photos of movie scenes, music history, and art history, threading them with other photos for locative context.<br />
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<i>Bob Dylan is watching Dean Martin, Aug 1964. Dylan was house-sitting his manager Albert Grossman's Woodstock home (<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.300000011920929px; text-align: center;">18 Striebel Rd, Bearsville, NY). </span> Photo by Douglas Gilbert. <span style="background-color: #f1f1f1; color: #888888; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"> </span></i></div>
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<i>Bringing It All Back Home (1965) cover with Bob Dylan was photographed in 1964 by Daniel Kramer at Albert Grossman's Woodtock home. Sally Grossman is pictured with items<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bringing_It_All_Back_Home#Cover_art" target="_blank"> time-stamping that year. </a></i></div>
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<b>Biographically...</b><br />
For 1.5 years daily, I started mapping biographies of notable people, where they made history, where they lived, and where they went to school. For some who made history, I mapped scenes of books they wrote. Quotes of the day were mapped in literary history.<br />
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It became fascinating to check-in people who never had an online profile. You could check-in a dead person at an extinct place to immortalize a story.<br />
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<i>After visiting Woody Guthrie at Greystone Hospital (</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.300000011920929px;">59 Koch Ave Morris Plains, NJ</span><i>), Bob Dylan went to Woody's home at <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.300000011920929px;">3520 Mermaid Ave (Coney Island, NY) in January, 1961, to look for songs Woody said Dylan could have. Arlo Guthrie answered the door. No one could find the songs. The house is gone now. Woody lived here 1943-50 before being hospitalized. The songs were later found by Nora Guthrie and recorded by Billy Bragg and Wilco on the album Mermaid Avenue (1998). </span></i></div>
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<b>Historically (before social media)....</b><br />
I started to map photos and stories from my dark room journalism days and pre-social media days. Historical items and cultural artifacts were being geo-tagged for the first time.<br />
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<i>Gwyneth Paltrow with Owen Wilson at 3rd Ave and 128th St (East Harlem) </i><i>in The Royal Tennenbaums (2001)</i></div>
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Geographical intersections with future imagery became profoundly interesting.<br />
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Deeper hidden history made wordless photos relevant. Things we never knew were nearby started to emerge on a regular basis geo-tagged at the same place or vicinity.<br />
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Photo sharing became enhanced with rich stories and alternate visual perspectives.<br />
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The most popular photos, I observed, were typically not the most beautiful photos or most artistic but rather photos that had the greatest personal connections. Viewers had been to those places, knew those people or identified with the story. And stories related to those photos illuminated those personal connections. It was time or place viewers knew. Time and place defined taste and vice versa for a scene. <br />
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I started to think about an algorithm that made personal connections relevant in story networking.<br />
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<b>Intelligent story connections...</b><br />
<span style="text-align: center;">A locative database I grew by hand curation became increasingly powerful connecting stories in a way never seen before at this depth and breadth. It could do for stories what Pandora did for music, correlating stories. </span><br />
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The database became smarter at connecting narratives through cumulative curation. <span style="text-align: center;">The more notable stories were tagged at places with photos (accurately), the more powerful a streetview of a neighborhood became. </span>Locative intelligence of future layers of stories became only possible with knowledge of prior geographical layers.<br />
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The quality of locative intelligence, visual imagery and narratives drove the capabilities of this locative media engine.<br />
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The only other search engine I have seen this engaging is Google.<br />
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<b>Exclusive location IDs from geo-sleuthing...</b><br />
A record 20,000 hours was spent charting where notable art, invention and history got made. 1.6 million pieces were geo-tagged into 160,000 posts, covering the most relevant spots in the world.<br />
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A fair amount of geo-sleuthing was conducted to uncover mysterious locations of notable imagery and stories. Stanley Kubrick's first film was geo-tagged for the first time. As were other notable endeavors.<br />
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Meaningless photos offering geographical clues - a streetview of that time - became relevant <a href="http://xthespot.blogspot.ca/2015/05/taxi-driver-diner-location-solved-via.html" target="_blank">to help identify locations </a>nearby where history was made. Live community posts helped solve location mysteries or correct mistaken locations in comment threads.<br />
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<b>Points of Interest Illuminating Trails of Trailblazers....</b><br />
Stories that put places on the map were put on the map. The roots of history makers visually illuminated future trails they blazed. The first extensive map of JD Salinger's life was created.<br />
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<i>Last home of Catcher In The Rye author JD Salinger </i></div>
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Locative patterns were gleaned for the first time mapping where trailblazers made history. "Geo-patterns" emerged.<br />
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<i>400+ homes of Greenwich Village writers. Greenwich Village has had the highest concentration of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners in the world as well as people on the cover of Time. </i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This is an emerging field called locative media. A new way to exhibit media and art by location as points of interest. Stories paint the topography of a neighborhood and time in history. Ghosts visualize a neighborhood.</span><br />
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<b>Content gardening for a geo-tagged feed...</b><br />
For coverage, Google, Apple, Facebook, Instagram and other geo-players are challenged with finding compelling content to create something astounding by location. But user-generated content has a track record of being more social in nature and very brief. Posting by phone is limited by time and scope.<br />
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The difference is between showing this scene from The Godfather was shot where you are and Ernest Hemingway wrote this inspiring quote here versus just saying Jill met Jack here and enjoyed the food. Convenient user-generation produces lightweight insta-results. A community of curators produces heavyweight results.<br />
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Content gardening is critical for a decent viewing experience in locative media. The feed has to look very distinguished from social media. The question is how can a highly intelligent locative database produce something beyond Instagram and Conde Nast for viewing, publishing and conversation pleasure.<br />
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<i>Cafe Terrace (9-11 Place du Forum. Arles, France) as an Instagram for good coffee</i><i>...or as an 1888 painting by Vincent Van Gogh. </i></div>
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<b>Designing a new locative medium...</b><br />
It became obvious you cannot design a great new locative medium without the ideal content already populated. So that had to happen first. One needed to have a better idea of how locative content behaved and what the topics were. Enough relevant stories and visuals needed to be indexed first.<br />
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Otherwise, it is not so obvious how to architect and focus a compelling locative viewing experience. And that is just for viewing. Compelling community engagement and publishing have their own behavior.<br />
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GPS and maps seemed like natural tools for locative viewing. Stories and photos become v<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">iewable by GPS, browseable on map and searchable by address.</span><br />
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But a map was never intended to be a browser for media. It is too slow to scroll regularly by the hour, minute or second. People use them mostly only when lost. Maps also present stories as obscure pins (sometimes nicknamed "chicken pox"). That's something a web page or newspaper would never do in information architecture by design.<br />
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I needed to think of<a href="http://xthespot.blogspot.ca/2015/03/mission-impossible-self-destructing-post.html" target="_blank"> new ideas for how to view locative imagery</a> faster at a much higher volume level daily.<br />
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Maps also could not facilitate community engagement readily. That posed yet another challenge. Maps lacked "stickiness."<br />
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<b>Content refreshment needed...</b><br />
GPS (also slow to load) can only show stories nearby, which is usually home, work or at a personal hangout. The experience is myopic and often stagnant if no new stories are added nearby. You can be stuck seeing the same old stories nearby all the time without exploring new stories.<br />
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Featured daily/hourly new stories from anywhere in the world worked better than GPS for content refreshment. Cultural affinity and personal connections are still key for stickiness but are not dependent on being nearby.<br />
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While on the go, there is also very little time to use GPS unless you are lost. While travelling abroad, you might not have a data plan for GPS. GPS also consumes battery power fast.<br />
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I concluded GPS and maps (as they are today) would only be used as reference tools when needed, but not as a habit.<br />
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<b>The addictive habit found....</b><br />
A <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/140920042680963/?fref=nf" target="_blank">Facebook group</a> featuring notable photos in Manhattan by location showed me something addictive. Threading related photos and stories daily in comments created a wider view of a scene.<br />
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Locative experiences I soon realized are less about pins on a map and more about creating a "scene." What I call, "scening it." It's about augmenting a post with more interesting stories or photos at a place, creating enriching conversations.<br />
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Comments in a cool locative community differ a lot from the "all about me" traits of social media and are more about "here's an interesting story you might not know."<br />
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People who were/are part of a scene engage in a conversation regularly in this group. They add their exclusive stories and photos of that scene, and their unique takes on it.<br />
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Creative and social history gets further documented to augment a scene. I learn something everyday and in almost every post. The photos are also killer to start off, to incite conversation.<br />
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<b>Anatomy of a habitual community...</b><br />
Here's how a regular viewing habit was formed at this <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/140920042680963/?fref=nf" target="_blank">locative photo group for Manhattan</a> on Facebook:<br />
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1. FEATURED FEED - A featured feed (with a variety of curators) shows new scenes (photo, photo credit, people in it, location, date and story). I don't have to go look for a "scene." Cool new scenes get pushed to me by the hour.<br />
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2. LIKE - People "like" the scene to push the scene up in the feed.<br />
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3. ADD STORIES - People add personal histories or observations of the scene in comments to move the scene up in the feed. This separates it from a traditional "photo dump" site, as one administrator noted. The photo draws people to the scene. The personal stories make the scene.<br />
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4. ADD PHOTOS - People also add interesting photos related to that scene, including movie scenes there. Photos can show how a scene changed (then and now). This augments the scene visually.<br />
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5. NOTIFICATIONS - You are notified if someone liked a post you liked or added something interesting.<br />
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6. LOCATION ID - If a location is mysterious, others help to identify the scene's location. Locative clues are highlighted to help everyone search. Viewers found it fun and obsessive to look for a mysterious place in a city they knew.<br />
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7. SHARE - The scene is shared to a personal Facebook page. More people join the community as a result. The scenes are also blogged about because of their cultural interest. New York Magazine called this locative community "high brow" and "brilliant."<br />
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8. SEARCH - A search engine is available to find scenes by name or place.<br />
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<b>Accelerating scene augmentation....</b><br />
With an intelligent locative database, cool photos and stories can be connected to a scene powerfully fast. You can also follow people of your taste tagged to other scenes to see other points of interest rapidly.<br />
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You can branch off and explore fast.<br />
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<b>Creating new scenes (curated addresses)...</b><br />
Posting a new scene not already in the feed has been the hardest task to date when geo-tagging photos. After determining the scene/image is unique, you have to figure out who took the photo and where it took place. This is usually done at home on a desktop. The best you can typically do by phone is post a photo of what a place looks like now - or just view a feed (like and comment).<br />
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The locative database I have been curating doesn't use a pre-ordained venue database offered by Google, Mapbox or Foursquare. I had to manually look for and type each new address (or lat/long) into the database. But the benefit is that many notable addresses (homes, landscapes and new lat/long sites) are not in 3rd party venue databases already. Only this database now has these addresses compiled.<br />
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These are premium addresses because history was made there. The addresses themselves are curated. There were even astrological connections on birthdays and at birthplaces featured daily.<br />
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There is no 3rd party charging for traffic for an off-the-shelf venue database who can also pull the plug if you don't pay enough.<br />
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A style guide was also needed to differentiate locations (and sometimes people) with the same names. There can be common names like Chinatown, Little Italy, City Hall, Main Street, 1st Street or Starbucks in every major city.<br />
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Sometimes it is hard to know if a photo has been posted before at places with so many stories. There was no duplicate image detection other than personal memory of the feed.<br />
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<b>Filtering views (ranking by topic)...</b><br />
On average, history was made twice at a location that made history. But there were also event venues like Madison Square Garden with 100s of stories needing to be ranked for viewing.<br />
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1) Movie scenes<br />
2) Music history<br />
3) Photos of the Day<br />
4) History & Biographies<br />
5) Literature & Books (Quotes & Scenes)<br />
6) Art & Invention<br />
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Weekly since 2007, I have also been documenting music communities in Toronto and New York (as well as cross-country tours) - music history as it unfolds. I have snapped 100,000+ photos following the lives of several hundred Artists over 8 years who have each grown social media communities. It showed a geo-pattern for where music history got made today. <br />
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<i>Map of events chronicled for one singer in one city over 8 years. </i></div>
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<b>Photo Radius...</b><br />
Notable stories and photos local to a new photo posted gave macro-context. Something you cannot find in a typical social media photo feed. Any place, person, photo or story becomes enriched by nearby history.<br />
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Hidden stories get connected. People, art and places get connected in new ways.<br />
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In a prior post, I also noted a way to explore based on<a href="http://xthespot.blogspot.ca/2015/02/crossing-paths.html" target="_blank"> mutual interests </a>to discover even more hidden stories driven by personal connections. Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14941695929357663391noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539962304677593219.post-48107246980790719642015-05-23T20:05:00.000-07:002015-05-27T07:55:03.142-07:00Taxi Driver Diner Location Solved via Hell's Kitchen Mystery <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There's no better place than <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/140920042680963/" target="_blank">Manhattan Before 1990</a> for a mysterious location of a photo to be solved. The detective work is beyond anything a museum or library would do in New York City. There might be stellar geo-sleuths out there but collectively this group is unrivaled.<br />
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The mysterious location of this 1979 photo (above) by <span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">M. Joedicke</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> took</span> among the longest to find. The photographer didn't even know where it was.<br />
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There's a Pronto gas station sign but let's just say Pronto came and went and nobody remembered it having even arrived in New York City.<br />
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The next clue was the liquor store telephone number with a 563 exchange which we later deduced had to be in Midtown:<br />
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But hold on. Some members wondered if this was even in New York City. How do we know for sure? The bus stop is unique to New York:<br />
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That brings out the next obvious clue. This is a two-way street and it had an uncommon slope which also led the search towards Inwood, The Bronx and Harlem. That was far too wide of a search perimeter to find anything fast.</div>
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So another investigative approach was deployed. Another clue is the road is wet. A member then looked at all the rainy day photos in the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/m-joedicke/sets/72157612651284526/with/3733076320/" target="_blank">original album</a>. He immediately found rainy photos on 34th Steet (this would later prove to be the correct street). But the photographer traveled to both East 34th St in Kips Bay and to West 34th St by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/m-joedicke/5790956518/in/album-72157612651284526/" target="_blank">New Yorker Hotel</a>. He stayed at Hotel Mansfield on 44th St near 5th Ave and had also photographed 42nd Street all the way across. </div>
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But that narrowed it down to only two, 2-way streets he photographed on a rainy day. Additionally, 34th St and 42nd St only sloped closer to the rivers. </div>
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The taxi, garage and gas station led the member to believe it had to be near 10th Avenue where cabs often fueled. 42nd St is very well documented in New York photos so the member suggested focusing on 10th Ave and 34th St where there is an empty lot:</div>
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This turned out to be the correct spot but two notable members said it could not be the spot. One respected geo-sleuth said 2 buildings and a gas station could not fit. But the member suggesting 10th Ave and 34th St noted the slope, mentioned the photographer's 34th St and 42nd St rainy day photos and found a BP gas station on site there at one point: </div>
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The member suggested 1979 gas stations could be skinny and noted how small the Pronto sign was. There was also a speculative guess by another member that a blurry address above one door was in the 400s. This site was 461 W 34th St. </div>
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All the circumstantial evidence fit...spot for taxis to fuel up, former gas station was here, two-way street, empty lot (open to possibilities), bus route, 563 exchange area, and a two-way street the photographer photographed on a rainy day (1 of only 2 two-way streets he photographed that day). The bet was the photographer (from another country) had to have taken another photo during his stay nearby this photo<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/m-joedicke/sets/72157612651284526/with/3733076320/" target="_blank">.</a> </div>
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But still there were no firm believers of this spot being correct. Later, a former taxi driver and notable photographer almost put it to rest by saying he had pumped gas here into his cab and it cannot be the spot. </div>
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Then David Cohen revived the theory this could be 10th Ave and 34th St facing north...6 days later! There is a billboard which meant this had to have been a vacant lot, parking lot or gas station for a long time. </div>
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There was an M&N Restaurant there. But we had no photo of the exterior or visual confirmation this place was correct....until this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5U8voREiqg&feature=youtu.be&t=2m10s" target="_blank">video footage at the 7:47 mark</a> (used to solve the gas station mystery at 10th Ave and 34th St at the 2:11 mark). There were images of 632 10th Ave at 45th St:</div>
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He first stitched together two images for a wider view of 632 10th Ave:</div>
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Last night, I thought this Facebook group would be stumped for the first time as I watched people make guesses at where a park and building were in a 1940s photo by <span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Mike Katz posted by Ruben Iglesias</span>.<br />
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Other clues noted that turned out to be true...a store is to the right (via Ruben) and this entrance has a <span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.0799999237061px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.0799999237061px;">"T-shaped inset" (via Matthew Rohn) which is not that obvious in the photo. This is what it looked like after it was found:</span><br />
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My instincts told me it was either demolished uptown (or in Harlem)...or even further from discovery in The Bronx.<br />
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One member started looking in the Bronx because he remembered fencing with similar circles there.<br />
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Eventually a man who had worked for Ma Bell in the Bronx started looking there at buildings that felt familiar to him by a park.<br />
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He suggested 35 Mc Clelland across Mullaly Park. However, even though he nailed the place, it was not so obvious.<br />
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He was about to move on, after thinking the entrance was not the same. But another member recalled the "<span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.0799999237061px;">T-shaped inset"</span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.0799999237061px;"> clue for the entrance and felt the window pattern was similar (but he photo was not as detailed): </span><br />
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If you notice, social media feeds are very perishable. </div>
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We don't often re-scroll to see things again. It's now you see it, now you don't. Tomorrow, most of what you view is all but forgotten. Posts become dinosaurs after a few hours, replaced by a new story every minute. </div>
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And these days we are seeing a lot of things we don't want to see. </div>
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The interest factor is inconsistent and arguably in decline. How different can a selfie really look in each photo?</div>
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Scrolling is largely needed to skip over posts we don't want to see or see for much longer. </div>
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It is a big time killer.</div>
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It's like skipping over miles of places on a map being scrolled. </div>
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We will have probably spent years of our lives scrolling past things we don't wish to view by the time we die. </div>
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And for things we do want to see, the posts are often disposable media. We don't often go back to review them. Facebook Timeline is seldom used for this very reason. The posts of today, this minute and the next second keep us busy enough. </div>
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Tiling windows or tabbing to view pages would actually be faster than scrolling. </div>
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My secret agenda is to figure out a faster way to explore stories geo-spatially. A way to travel place to place without needing to<a href="http://xthespot.blogspot.ca/2014/12/the-irony-of-maps.html" target="_blank"> scroll slowly along a map</a> and barely seeing anything - and coming across signs (map pins) that don't really saying anything or tell me where to go to find something cool.</div>
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I started looking at displaying<a href="http://xthespot.blogspot.ca/2015/03/windows-into-place.html" target="_blank"> windows</a> into a place (instead of non-descript pins) and the idea of not even using a map to show stories at places. This is after spending time to figure out one way to <a href="http://xthespot.blogspot.ca/2015/02/crossing-paths.html" target="_blank">recommend windows</a> nearby and faraway. The next step was to figure out how to view these windows - to jump from one to another fast. I started to become focused on self-destructing windows that led to new windows. A view can clear up for a new window with a prior post bursting. </div>
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Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14941695929357663391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539962304677593219.post-62762802970183871762015-03-11T17:05:00.002-07:002015-03-13T06:43:21.932-07:00Windows Into A Place Imagine a world where your screen had windows into a place.<br />
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In one window, you see Al Pacino talking to Jerry Orbach for the film<i> Chinese Coffee </i>(2000) at Caffe Vivaldi (32 Jones, NYC). That's Al Pacino's debut as a feature film director.<br />
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In another window (same place at 32 Jones), you see Rob Reiner talking to John Cusack by the fireplace in Woody Allen's <i>Bullets Over Broadway </i>(1994).<br />
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Through a window by the front (same place), you see<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLXnS2XoF1I" target="_blank"> Marcus Mumford singing</a> with<i> Inside Llewyn Davis</i> (2013) star Oscar Isaac in January 2012. </div>
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And one day, nearly three years later, Dec 30, 2014, you are notified that your friend Kate Sland is at 32 Jones (same place) with <i>Inside Llewyn Davis</i> (2013) star Oscar Isaac and Erik Frandsen (who's played with Bob Dylan and appeared on <i>The Colbert Report</i>). You see a photo of them taken by someone you've seen sing, Jon D'Angelo. </div>
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Don Hunstein photographed Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo for Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963) by 8 Jones (r) and 9 Jones (l) where jazz legend Jaco Pastorius later lived in the 1980s. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.300000011920929px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">John Cusack and Jack Black are at Champion Vinyl (</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.300000011920929px; text-align: center;">1500 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.300000011920929px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">) in <i>High Fidelity</i> (2000). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.300000011920929px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">You'll get the technical issues of mapping lots of info in </span><a href="http://www.mapbox.com/blog/vector-density/" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.300000011920929px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" target="_blank">this post</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.300000011920929px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"> discussing the mapping of 375 million taxi origin points in Manhattan. And that is just to show a map (no media viewing). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.300000011920929px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">After spending about 20,000 hours, using tools to geo-index 1.5 million items into 150,000 notable stories, it became rapidly apparent, we need something more than a map to view media conveniently fast. Maps cannot achieve user goals fast or be used every minute of the day. </span></div>
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Known for its impressive photos, mysterious locations identified, and great audience of photographers, art curators, historians, bloggers and local experts, I've been participating daily for much of the year posting some of the 1.5 million items I've mapped. New York City is second to no other city in media assets available for curation.<br />
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The original, hard-to-find, and exclusive photos this photo-sharing group offers are compelling daily. The regular identification of locations (content cartography) kept me intrigued daily. The geo-sleuthing is unrivaled. But the addiction of this group has proven to be the live storytelling at places connecting people who offer unique personal stories. <br />
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A social media user shares a unique photo of Manhattan with photo credit, name of person, year and location.<br />
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There is an opportunity to like, share and comment to move the post up in the feed.<br />
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A photo thread offers new perspectives of the location and further identifies it as 7th Ave and 41st Street at and pinpoints the date further as <span style="background-color: #f6f7f8; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.3599996566772px;">June 1980. More info is added. This is where Basquiat first had a public exhibit. </span><br />
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Connections of people who were there surface including Fab Five Freddy himself aka Fred Braithwaite who tells us what he was doing in the photo.<br />
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Fab Five Freddy was featured in Blondie's video and song Rapture.<br />
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Others contribute to describe the area. "The scene" is re-created in the comment section.<br />
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The group has rapidly grown to nearly 12,000 members over the last few months. It is one of the rare locative photo-sharing places I have seen with a daily habit formed. This is content cartography at its best.<br />
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A way to cross paths with what you love outside your circles.<br />
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The most glaring thing we noticed when curating the<a href="http://www.jump2spot.com/" target="_blank"> world's largest GPS story atlas:</a> People go to the same places and scenes regularly. Home, work, and hangouts. People, for the most part, stay put.<br />
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Mobility is financially, vocationally and socially constrained to keep people in the same places.<br />
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New locations for exploration are sparse. New ways of connecting are sporadic among regular contacts in social media.<br />
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Leaving your circles for new stories would be a form of "reverse social media."<br />
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In theory, connecting to a new story could be similar to Pandora recommending a new song by parsing phrases of songs you already love. "Mutual" phrases shared by songs have the same resonance. <br />
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It is like tapping into a parallel universe.<br />
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If you like the Clash, chances are you like The Ramones. Chances are the Ramones and the Clash shared a mutual place. And chances are they will both be profile tagged together in one post.<br />
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<i>You might also like stories about the Ramones who were also there....</i></div>
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<i>You might also like stories of Blondie who also played there...</i></div>
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Places define tastes. <br />
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If you like a story that took place here, chances are you will find stories you like at other places anyone at this place frequented. There is "locative mutuality."<br />
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New story exploration can be made even more intelligent with "personal mutuality" and "curated mutuality." Personal mutuality can be defined as having interacted with a tag - through a like, search, comment, follow, post or view. Curated mutuality can be defined as having mutual tags, connecting curated posts like Wikipedia.<br />
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A viewer will also often skew towards a specific interest in media consumption.<br />
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Curated posts can almost be categorized into 6 topics: 1) Movies 2) Photos of the Day 3) Music 4) Biographies and History 5) Literature and 6) Invention and Art. Common topics further connect posts in "curated mutuality." <br />
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We also experimented astrological mutualities: People who shared common anniversaries had similar outcomes regularly. A horosocope came true daily.<br />
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So wouldn't it be wonderful if there was a new way to connect with people you don't know at places that are about what you love?<br />
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Through this method, you can be matched with viewers who have the most common "mutualities." This can be as simple as having crossed paths with a common place in your histories.<br />
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<i>Writers were at Frank Shay's Bookshop (4 Christopher, NY) at different times and signed this door. </i></div>
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This adds another "mutuality" - how 3rd parties personally connected with places can connect posts further. If Ernest Hemingway stayed at a hotel in Paris and Joe likes Ernest Hemingway and you like Joe, chances are you might like that hotel and the stories there. 3rd parties can also rank the most interesting posts.<br />
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"Locative mutuality" can be defined as stories or connections you have in common with a place. Or conversely, places you have in common with stories and connections.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">The people who have </span>"<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">mutualities</span>" with you <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.7999992370605px;"> can in turn offer you unique personal knowledge, intriguing stories or cool pictures of a place. Comment sections in locative posts become more like answers in Quora about a place. </span><br />
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The greater the curation, the greater the expertise becomes at a place. Quality attracts quality. So it is key to reward posts for quality. Curators might be voted Mayor of a place for best story or photo at a place, for example.<br />
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For the last little while, I've been meditating on what experiences I've had that I can't live without while participating in a new creative field.<br />
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Locative media combines both photo curation with location identification. The offspring is a new streetview that shows you iconic stories and pictures geo-tagging history. Iconic moments are displayed street by street. They defined the topography of a place by narrative.<br />
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<i>Movieview of Robert De Niro in Godfather II at 524 E 6th St, NYC</i></div>
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But a place like Central Park can have 1000s of stories, and a city like New York can have 8 million stories. Stories nearby can also remain static to nullify regular exploration nearby. So how to filter stories for an exciting presentation for you became the next challenge as well as how to extend your exploration. "Mutuality"is one way to understand what intrigues you most and can extend a path outside your circles.<br />
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It's no surprise notifications drive media consumption. But the question is how to make notifications less superfluous and more rewarding.<br />
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"Like" or new "follower" notifications may be more meaningful if the source is a peer of interest or expert in the field. Ranking profiles might make sense (e.g. by how many likes an expert has and how many mutualities a peer might have with you).<br />
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<i>Suzanne Vega favorited the places i mapped of her lyrics and life</i></div>
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Comment notifications might be more rewarding if they tell you stories you never knew about a place or profile you love. Photo threading can offer different perspectives of a post.<br />
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The posts with the greatest mutual personal connections tend to be the most popular. A viewer identifies most with a post where there is a personal connection.<br />
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1. Visual feed showcasing refreshing and highly interesting photos. </div>
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2. Mysterious locations identified for familiar images.</div>
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3. Personal connections with places and people that crossed paths with our past. </div>
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4. Comments adding personal stories, facts and interesting images related to the post. </div>
5. Likes from experts <br />
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The only question that remained was how to make it efficient to showcase what you love most. Measuring mutualities could be the answer. The net effect is a Pandora for storytelling.Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14941695929357663391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539962304677593219.post-24119984846497125762015-02-03T18:05:00.002-08:002018-01-24T17:18:37.545-08:00What drives habitual street viewingFor the longest time, I wanted to know where this 1950 Ruth Orkin photo was.<br />
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Many of her color photos were in Times Square so I focused on searching photos there, stopping for a while at's Grant's Cafeteria (220 W 42nd St) with its similar light bulbs and ceiling windows near 7th Ave and 42nd St.<br />
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I felt I was close but for many months I was stumped.<br />
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During those months, I was participating daily in a Facebook group called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/140920042680963/?fref=nf" target="_blank">Manhattan Before 1990</a> which rapidly surpassed 10,000 members. It combines curated photos of New York City with location identification.<br />
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<i>In Martin Scorcese's After Hours (1985), <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVhMgn_iEO8" target="_blank">the conversation between Griffith Dunne and </a></i><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVhMgn_iEO8" target="_blank">Club Berlin's </a></i><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVhMgn_iEO8" target="_blank">bouncer</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVhMgn_iEO8" target="_blank"> </a>is adapted from Franz Kafka's Before the Law. The script says the punk bar was at West Broadway & Grand (NYC). But a sign for Spring St can be seen nearby. </i></div>
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<i>Club Berlin was actually at 296 Spring (at Hudson) in New York City. </i><br />
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<i>Alex Smith aka blogger Flaming Pablum likes to re-enact </i><br />
<i>cultural moments with his kids seen at 296 Spring.</i></div>
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<i>296 Spring was once Half Note Club</i></div>
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<i>1959 jazz photo by Burt Glinn </i></div>
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Cultural threading is common in this Facebook group which is used regularly to identify stories and locations associated with photos.<br />
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<i> Al Pacino on the roof of 150 S 8th St, Willamsburg (Brooklyn) </i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.300000011920929px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Francis Ford Coppola with Robert De Niro </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.300000011920929px; line-height: 20px;"><i>on set of Godfather II at 534 E 6th St (NYC)</i></span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">It's become more interesting to me than any museum or gallery in New York City. </span><br />
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own public displays, social media feeds featuring similar posts
(but from any region) have generated millions of views with very
limited distribution. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">In our case, every scene becomes a locative art exhibit as well on location viewable with GPS. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">In the Facebook group, there's
an instant reward in seeing a stunning unique photo and then seeing
related stories and cool photos augmenting the story. People who have been a part of New York City
photography and local history participate in storytelling. We
learn a lot from each other. The group has attracted some of the most
knowledgeable people of New York City and its cultural, visual and
social fabric. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">That's
key for impressive geo-browsing. Beyond rich locative stories and visuals experts weave into a community, they also correct long-standing photo
caption location mistakes made by libraries, museums, photographers and
historians (duplicated many times by people who share them online). </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Storytellers who do locative detective work and gather historical and geographical artifacts are the core of this visual-spatial community. And their results form the attraction for the growing viewership. A new kind of streetview is being created with rich imagery and storytelling. One that generates hourly dialogue. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">In higher-caliber curation, we typically assume a viewer doesn't know any history and might not even care about the topic. A</span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> distinctive visual and compelling story are paramount.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> A location ID also makes any post interesting. You can now compare a spot on location with how it once looked. </span></div>
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For future locative products, we must assume a viewer has absolutely no patience and is frustrated by clutter. A viewer wants speed (convenience) and to retreat into sensual visual experience (inspiration).<br />
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As noted in a <a href="http://xthespot.blogspot.ca/2014/12/the-irony-of-maps.html" target="_blank">prior blog post</a>, maps are simply too slow and too static to achieve this goal. Geo-spatial navigation needs rapid media browsing to be competitive and a way for instant communication with other viewers to share locative knowledge. <br />
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this era, "pleasant" notifications drive the growth of any
digital media community. "Pleasant" being the key word. Each
notification must have a reward for it to be gratifying. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">In
the Facebook group, photographers and curators get notifications for "likes"
from very knowledgeable people. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">It feels almost like winning an Oscar in terms of the caliber of peers who judge posts. Viewers are often notable photographers, historians,
bloggers, curators and locals with a passion for the hood. But
the biggest reward is getting a juicy "comment"
notification. One that tells you something you never knew. One that
adds to your narrative or visual experience. One that
identifies a deeply mysterious location. </span></span></span></div>
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<i>Through collaborative geo-sleuthing, the buildings </i></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">The detective work is impressive among local experts who love the thrill of investigation and discovery. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">The
comments enrich the original post, sometimes even overshadowing the
original post. The threads are highly educational for anyone who considers themselves an expert on New York City, culture or
photography. For others, the threads re-live what they love about a
place. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">When
experts forge a locative photography community, the collaboration
yields faster location discoveries and a greater knowledge about a
photo or place. Thrilling photo wikis emerge with deep knowledge, new discoveries and exclusive history reports. </span></span></span></div>
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0. See locations of featured posts in a feed. Posts go up in the queue if someone comments or likes.<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">1.
Post photo. Group identifies location if not already known. </span></span></span></div>
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See photos and stories related to location. See nearby angles
sometimes. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">3.
See how much a photo is "liked" by notable photographers or
knowledgeable New Yorkers.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">4.
View notifications of stories and photos in comments that augment
the narrative or visual experience for a locative post.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">5. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Share knowledge. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Add your stories and photos about a place in comments. </span></div>
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Share locative post elsewhere. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">It is a regular occurrence that people on Facebook who are not even members of this group are asked to solve mysteries about a post. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
posts that also offer a personal connection were the most popular.
They are posts that crossed paths with your life, your history or
ideas you love. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Crossing paths with what you love - that's where we see the future of geo-browsing. Discovering more info about what you love is the reward you get from a community. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">In
our own feeds, we added a daily birthday angle showing astrological
connections. A horoscope can surprisingly be expressed in photos and stories that happened. They are the outcomes of the predictions. Photos related
to notable profiles were featured on their birthdays and illustrated
clusters of similar outcomes among people born the same day. Profile birthday stories also vary locations and photos to be explored daily. A birthday story is also topical everyday (trending in social media). We also showed astrological stories on death anniversaries. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">A surprising number of "Americans" in history are also
Closet Canadians. So we also uniquely highlighted that. It almost felt like half of Hollywood's roots were Canadian. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Quotes of the day are added if a profile is a writer and expressed a personality for a visual horoscope. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Beyond
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Address/profile searches allowed you to see relational posts and surrounding geographical visual artifacts to identify a location. Each pin had a photo and story. </span></span></span></div>
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Mutual tags (geo-tag, profile/topic tag) allowed you to jump
to related posts. We soon discovered posts needed to be ranked when there are dozens of stories at a place. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: medium;">The habitual street viewer behaves very differently from a typical map viewer or social media user. There is a greater focus on stories, visual curation and comparative geographical artifacts to help examine or identify a location. The comments call for others to share stories and photos related to a place. Many of these stories are exclusive. New history is discovered about a place. </span></span></span></div>
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We started with the question: How do we make a geo-tag more interesting?<br />
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The direction we took was geo-tagging <a href="http://www.jump2spot.com/" target="_blank">"iconic moments."</a><br />
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I had already collected notable stories out of personal interest, including some from walking circles over 8 years along Jones, W 4th St, Cornelia and Bleecker in Greenwich Village. <br />
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We soon discovered the so-called "chicken pox" look and pin poking was not an efficient way to browse stories at locations. The top-level conveyed no meaningful info. The visualization had the same old look for every address search. A familiar map. And it was hard to tell which pin to poke.<br />
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We needed a new geo-spatial media browser for frequent, speedy, exploration. And in this world, people don't just want speed, they also want an exciting visual and sensual experience.<br />
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<i>Cafe Terrace (<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.300000011920929px; text-align: center;">9-11 Place du Forum, Arles, France</span>) </i></div>
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<i>Photo of the Day & 1888 Van Gogh painting </i></div>
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Stitching interesting visuals at a location became paramount.<br />
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<i>Chemin Des Segonnaux (Arles)</i></div>
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<i>Photo of the Day & 1888 Starry Starry Night by Van Gogh </i></div>
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In this world, it is also no longer just about looking good. It also has to be interesting. Compelling narratives for a location became paramount.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><i><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">At </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">18, in Ecstasy (1933), Hedy Lamarr became the 1st studio star appearing on screen in an orgasm. It was filmed in Prague. Reportedly a pin was used to achieve the expressions.</span></i></span></div>
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Combining intriguing visuals with location identifications drove "like" notifications in stories shared in social media.<br />
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And let's face it. Today it isn't just about looking good and being interesting anymore. It has to be about your viewer. There needs to be a personal connection.<br />
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<i>Al Pacino directed his 1st feature film Chinese Coffee (2000)</i></div>
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<i> at our music hangout Caffe Vivaldi (32 Jones, NY) </i></div>
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Notifications for stories shared in social media were mostly driven by adding personal facts and interesting related personal images to a story. The most popular posts we saw had an interesting visual, a unique story AND a personal connection. A post becomes most popular when a users have previously crossed paths with a place or a similar story. I call this the "crossing paths" trigger.<br />
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For depth, we went down a path we didn't even believe was possible, geo-tagging 1.4 million notable items into stories.<br />
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Categories started to emerge: 1) Movies 2) Music 3) Photos of the Day 4) Art and Literature 5) Histories and Biographies 6) Inventions.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><i> Serpico starring Al Pacino at 150 S 8th St (Brooklyn) </i></span></div>
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Additionally, I had curated more than 50,000 photos daily over a decade, from around the world, out of personal interest.<br />
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As time progressed, though unintentional, these geo-spatial story databases yielded the world's largest literature atlas and music history atlas, the internet's photos of the day, and almost every notable movie scene geo-tagged.<br />
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<i>311 10th Ave NY - Blondie by Roberta Bayley </i></div>
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Photos of the Day were later expanded into geo-tagged portfolios of iconic photographers from Brassaii, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa and Berenice Abbott to Vivian Maier, Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz.<br />
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<i>Vivian Maier 1953 self-portrait on Broadway </i></div>
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<i>between 86th and 87th Streets. </i><br />
<i>Location found by geo-sleuth on Facebook.</i></div>
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Archives suddenly had a new kind of search engine - by place.<br />
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It took on an increasingly important mission of its own: a movement to map the entire history of art and invention. In many incidences, we became the first to document "where" something important took place. Other photos, stories and clues became important scraps to help identify locations. Meaningless photos and Grade B movie scenes suddenly had greater meaning offering geographical artifacts to help identify locations in the past. Suddenly the only map of JD Salinger's entire life was available. The first map of Stanley Kubrick's first film was also created. Geo-tagging suddenly took on special historical significance.<br />
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<i>Where JD Salinger last lived </i></div>
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<i>(GPS 43.511931, -72.346789)</i></div>
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New history was discovered from mapping iconic moments.<br />
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We saw a high density of "closet Canadians" shaping American culture. The exiled Canadian expat seemed highly motivated to shape American history. Half of the Hollywood studios were founded by people who had lived in Canada.<br />
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<i>Angelina Jolie with dad Jon Voight. </i></div>
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<i>Her maternal grandpa was Canadian. </i></div>
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<i>Dorothy Chandler Pavillion (1986 Oscars) </i></div>
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While in social media, every post had a feeling of disappearing soon, we found in locative media that posts are more valuable because they re-appear to tell a story about a place whenever you cross paths with it. Social media (a collection of evaporating snippets) is disposable, locative media is collectible.<br />
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This became a place to study places. And in turn, study people who make history and how important things happened. These were stories that put people on the map.<br />
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We also discovered a user with GPS was prone to seeing the same stories over and over while regularly travelling along an habitual path. Pro-active place searches were slightly better for exploration, but one's thoughts of places to search start to diminish with time.<br />
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We needed a persistent method for regular exploration.<br />
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We settled on a birthday algorithm to feature places of notable profiles for daily birthdays. This allowed for spontaneous exploration and visualization, throwing back to nostalgic stories on birthdays. It even created an interesting horoscope of the day. Common stories were found among people born on the same day as if there was an astrological connection.<br />
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<i>Alt country singer Gram Parson (born <span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Nov 5, 1946) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">seen with Keith Richards 1971 at Villa Nellecote (</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.300000011920929px; text-align: center;">6 Ave Louise Bordes, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">) where Rolling Stones recorded Exile on Main Street</span></i></div>
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<i>Alt country singer Ryan Adams (also born Nov 5, 1974) </i></div>
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<i>seen at Massey Hall (Toronto) <span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Nov</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> 12, 2014 </span> by Dave Borins. </i></div>
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<i>Singer Bryan Adams (also born Nov 5, 1959) opened Live Aid </i></div>
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<i>at JFK Stadium (Philadelphia) July 13, 1985. </i></div>
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From these astrological, geographical stories, viewers could connect with other stories of the day with a mutual geo-tag or profile tag.<br />
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Story recommendations matched with user activities became another spontaneous trigger point for exploration. Whenever a user posted or viewed a photo, we could recommend another photo and story contextual to that post with historic significance.<br />
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There are 25 billion+ geo-tags out there and we had already pinned stories at the world's most popular geo-tags which proportionately cover most of the geo-tagging done daily.<br />
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We also needed a way to rank stories as some places had 1000 stories. I imagined the new Mayor of a place being a person who posted the highest ranked story/photo.<br />
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We see geo-indexing as the next big thing for Art. <span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Instead of profile check-ins, it's Art check-ins. You can then see art on demand, on location (ranked)...a photo, a movie scene, a song, a story, a blog..."locative art"...anytime you visit/search a place.</span>Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14941695929357663391noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539962304677593219.post-25145696757427114452014-12-23T14:36:00.005-08:002014-12-29T15:46:01.590-08:00The Irony of Maps The first thing we learned after creating the world's largest<a href="http://www.jump2spot.com/" target="_blank"> GPS story atlas</a> was a painful pill to swallow.<br />
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Users do not like to regularly use maps or GPS.<br />
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Map scrolling and GPS are still too tedious to use by the minute/second. They are made for incidental needs of drivers or walkers - not exactly for the speed of media browsing.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #40444b; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><i> </i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #40444b; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">scrolling map</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #40444b; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> system from 1927</span></div>
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Today map scrolling is not much faster than 1927. GPS and maps today are still primarily designed for one-off look ups. </div>
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Fixed map graphics are also visually familiar (on purpose). Not exactly thrilling new stuff to see. For GPS, information "nearby" is almost always fixed (stagnant).</div>
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People mostly use maps or GPS contextual to activities that need them, and only sparingly for reference..."because they have to" (not often because they want to).<br />
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In an era, where by-the-second notifications and speed are primary for any successful app, maps and GPS are doomed to fail in their current form.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #40444b; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> <i>1932 invention required driver to pull over and</i></span></div>
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Maps consume too much time without offering a return on a goal.<br />
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Millions of viewers did, however, find location identification fascinating for intriguing photos and movie scenes whose locations had mystique. They liked location IDs being featured with interesting visuals instead of maps.<br />
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<i>Robert De Niro in Godfather II (1974) between Ave A and Ave B on East 6th St in New York City near your hangout at Sidewalk Cafe. Red building above his head is 524 E 6th St.</i></div>
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<i>Joe Strummer of the Clash was photographed by Roberta Bayley by St George Ukranian Catholic Church (30 E 7th St, NY) which you photographed. <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: 0.300000011920929px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"> </span></i></div>
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<i>Bradbury Building (<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.300000011920929px; text-align: center;">304</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.300000011920929px; text-align: center;"> S Broadway, LA</span>) </i></div>
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<i>was featured in Blade Runner (1982)</i></div>
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Story recommendations for parallel photo activities and check-ins proved interesting in comment threads. Viewers wanted story recommendations contextual to their interests and activities - contextual to their posts.<br />
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There was also surprisingly a very passionate geo-sleuthing community identifying addresses of iconic imagery and movie scenes who are like daily crossword puzzle experts. They are creating an emerging new genre of geo-curation. <br />
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People in comments share facts, addresses, personal stories and imagery related to a location. Marc Weiner was identified as the mime with Robin Williams above by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.<br />
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Geo-tags map where creative heat in history happened.<br />
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Most images taken in history are notable. Most stories addressed in history are notable. A "geo-tag" can be seen as a highlighter for notable moments.<br />
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There can be hundreds of notifications for a great geo-tagged post of the day. The only problem is...maps do not allow for threads or notifications, which are the most used functions on the internet. Notifications and threads almost seem essential for traditional crisis mapping to get updates.<br />
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<i>Crisis map 24 hours after Haiti earthquake used to save lives. </i></div>
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Maps and GPS are set up more for drivers going from A to B instead of conveying geo-spatial information live. Maps do not accommodate narratives (threads) and vast community dialogue. In the narrative space, users need a much quicker way to "jump to" the next point of interest and explore related stories and places.<br />
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The feedback we got is users want a new kind of map illustrated with notable media as opposed to stock graphics, places and roads illustrated.<br />
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A navigation system and visual presentation are needed enable speed and fresh content for a user's taste. Recommended content triggers are needed based on a user's tastes and activities. Threads for a pin (and a "like" pin button) are needed to activate geo-notifications. Notifications today are the key driver of media browsing.<br />
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The mapping industry, however, is primarily focused on how to improve maps and their aesthetics. The industry is missing the boat on how to improve geo-spatial browsing.<br />
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Maps were not originally suited for media browsing. It follows that any improvement made to a map will still stay within the boundaries of a map. It's hard to imagine how so much earth scrolling will be viable for rapid media browsing.<br />
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The scrolling through vast useless or random places first doesn't work well for an app and an impatient user on the go. In media browsing, navigation requires "jumping" to enable an instant way to get from one point of interest to another to allow for speedy exploration and discovery.<br />
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Today rich storytelling is only skimmed at best using a map. When one location like Madison Square Garden has 1000s of stories, only one story is shown on a map. <br />
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Random pin displays also increase odds of users leaving a map due to a lack of interest.<br />
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<i>I find this neighborhood in Greenwich Villlage extremely interesting, but have no idea which pin is interesting or what any pin represents. I am lost as a browser. </i> </div>
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The headliners for you are not so clear. There is very little sorting in a map of stories.<br />
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Some developers are experimenting with geo-portals that allow you to jump from one related point of interest to another at warp speed to another part of the world. This is a step in the right direction. A narrative exploration needs to geographically skip places in between which have no relevance in a story arc. Related locations in a narrative need to be stitched together for jumping around. And it is key to recommend a narrative of interest for a viewer.<br />
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Any app is competing against Instagram for viewer attention..anything slower will not do as Facebook (mobile) found out. In Instagram, one scrolls from one point of interest to another rapidly in a feed.<br />
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Intersecting with someone you know, something you follow, some place related to your past, something you find interesting or someone who shares an interest drives notifications.<br />
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It's about connections at a place, not maps.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">William Gibson who coined "cyperspace" has been very prescient, predicting where the internet will go. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few years back, he wrote a book called<i> Spook Country (2007)</i>. A central theme was "locative art." Using a visor, you could see art exhibited on location. But it wasn't just any kind of art. You could see the past being exhibited </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in the present</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was the inspiration behind enabling GPS while building the <a href="http://www.jump2spot.com/" target="_blank">world's largest locative art atlas</a> showing where art and innovation took place. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Gibson's <i>Spook Country</i>, at </span><a href="http://www.jump2spot.com/viperroom" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Viper Room</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (8852 Sunset, LA), at a locative art exhibit, you could see where River Phoenix died outside, his body still there. His sister Rain Phoenix had tried mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Locative art can be expanded by 360 degree narratives with fast-forwarding (or rewinding). The pay phone where Joaquin Phoenix called 911 is still there today. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can add background tracks to augment a location. Viper Room owner Johnny Depp seen here with Johnny Cash and June Carter was inside when River Phoenix died on Halloween 1993 outside. Future Clueless (1995) star Alicia Silverstone was bartending that night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can add before-it happened background or after-it-happened evolution. Gangster Bugsy Siegel hung out here 1940s. Tom Waits helped re-develop the club. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can collage narratives in a fast-forward exhibit or rewind exhibit. This is John Travolta at Viper Room in <i>Be Cool (2005)</i>: </span><br />
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Locative art is about creating an artview (movieview, musicview, photoview, storyview etc) with many angles (and time stamps) instead of a stock streetview fixed in time. In a wider view or different angle, locative artifacts may be used in the future by geo-sleuths to help identify and stitch other images nearby. This is a long shot of John Travolta in <i>Be Cool</i> (2005).<br />
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The Viper Room played the London Fog venue for Oliver Stone's<i> The Doors</i> (1991). The bar where Alicia Silverstone bartended the night River Phoenix died makes a cameo:<br />
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The stage last seen by River Phoenix where Red Hot Chili Peppers Flea was singing with Butthole Surfers Gibby Haynes is seen in <i>The Doors </i>(1991) with Val Kilmer:<br />
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Aerial angles from<i> The Doors </i>(1991):<br />
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Perhaps a table experience River Phoenix last had or saw can be seen in this <i>Valley Girl </i>(1983) scene with Nicholas Cage and Deborah Foreman at Viper Room:<br />
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In <i>Be Cool (</i>2005), Vince Vaughan sits with The Rock at Viper Room VIP booth.<br />
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Re-creating a vibe is part of locative art. This is the album cover for The Sweet's Desolation Boulevard (1974), which featured Ballroom Blitz, outside Viper Room.<br />
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Sharing then and now images shows evolution in locative art. Meaningless images and B Movies become meaningful offering context in locative art. Movies chronicle locative artifacts. This is the stage at Viper Room in <i>Valley Girl </i>(1983):<br />
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Bruce Springsteen once played an impromptu show here.<br />
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Locative art can be disguised and dressed up in movie sets. There are diverse ways of collaging or stitching threads in locative art. This is Viper Room in the opening credits of <i>Entourage</i>:<br />
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In locative art, you can map thoughts for others to see there:<br />
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In locative art, you can also stitch related "ancillary" locations. The night River Phoenix died Oct 31, 1993, he was staying at Hotel Nikko (<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.300000011920929px; text-align: center;">465 S La Cienega Blvd</span>), now SLS Hotel (seen below), with girlfriend Samantha Mathis. Locative art can connect to a biography thread by recent locations. You can follow the actual course of history.<br />
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In locative art, you can also "jump" to a new spot by clicking a profile tag. This is River Phoenix escaping death in Stand By Me (1986) about to jump off Lake Britton Bridge (Eagle Mountain Lane, Burney, CA):<br />
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You can also jump to other stories at the same location. Tommy Lee Jones of Motley Crue was convicted of battery after he pushed Henry Tappler at Viper Room who tried to take a photo of his wife Pamela Anderson Sep 26, 1996.<br />
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You may wish to follow a story of your friend or your hero here. Others who were here include: Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Marie Presley, Jared Leto, Chistina Applegate, Angelina Jolie, Tobey Maguire, Leonard DiCaprio, Counting Crows Adam Duritz (who bartended here), Nicole Eggert, Mick Jagger, Uma Thurman, Courtney Love, Tom Hanks, Drew Barrymore, Rosanna Arquette, Oasis, Wallflowers, Pussycat Dolls, Gwen Stefani, Cameron Diaz, Christina Aguilera, Sean Penn, Tom Petty, Juliette Lewis, Dwight Yokum, Mick Fleetwood, Joan Osbourne, Michael Keaton, Ellen DeGeneres, Anne Heche, Rage Against the Machine, Stone Temple Pilots, Chris Rock, Go Gos, Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins), John Mayer, Matchbox 20, Green Day, Billy Idol, Sheryl Crow, Everclear, and <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.1200008392334px;">Run–D.M.C</span>.<br />
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Profile tags profile a neighborhood and its tastes. People and titles for works of art define neighborhood traits Greenwich Village had the highest density of writers, people on<i> Time </i>magazine covers, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.<br />
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Locative networks follow the tastes of trailblazers and where their history connects with places. They show where you cross paths with history. What gets creatively produced at places defines the dna of a locative network.<br />
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It's a matter of time when locative offers along a user's dotted path will replace meaningless ads with stories and opportunities. A more human dialogue.<br />
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Locative threading gives a viewer a perspective the news, social media, maps and history cannot give. The perspective offers new dimensions for understanding and a unique sensual experience. <br />
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This is 9 Jones (New York) today, on an album cover for<i> The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan </i>(1963) and in a fictional re-creation in Cameron Crowe's <i>Vanilla Sky</i> (2001):<br />
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Each locative artist usually has a unique style for identifying locations and displaying locative art. Bob Egan at <i>PopspotsNYC</i> uses a lot of geometry, a collage of old photos, and geo-spatial patterns in architecture. That helped him find this wall at Mercantile Building (<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.300000011920929px; text-align: center;">Plum and MLK Rd, Macon, GA</span>) in an empty lot (now a parking lot) where a hotel burned down. The Allman Brothers gave a clue it was geometrically visible from Capricorn Studios (<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.300000011920929px; text-align: center;">548 MLK Rd)</span>. Jim Marshall re-shot the cover for Allman Brothers At Fillmore East (1971) here. Locative Art can blend or super-impose then and now...or then and later in the past. Timelines merge in locative art.<br />
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Locative media is an illustrative platform that jumps from one relevant artifact to another for exploration - indexed at a spot. Stories are searchable by address.<br />
<br />Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14941695929357663391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539962304677593219.post-37705565991303021272014-12-08T21:52:00.000-08:002014-12-14T10:09:09.293-08:00Geo-Sleuthing Empire State of MindI have this theory that every block in New York City has appeared in a movie, tv show or music video. As<i> The Naked City</i> chimes, "There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them."<br />
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Having <a href="http://www.jump2spot.com/" target="_blank">mapped stories on every street in Manhattan</a>, it seemed fitting to map where Jay-Z and Alicia Keys sang in <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjsXo9l6I8" target="_blank">Empire State of Mind</a></i> (2009).<br />
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Jay-Z even pays homage to <i>The Naked City</i>, "Eight million stories out there and they're naked."<br />
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Geo-sleuthing is like a crossword puzzle. Once you figure out the rest of the locations, the last and hardest ones become easier to identify. This was the hardest spot which I saved for last.<br />
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Always start off with the easier locations to build momentum. Lots of ads can only mean this is Times Square where billboards are easy to locate:<br />
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Stella Artois (by Roxy Deli, 1565 Broadway at 47th St) <br />
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<i>"These streets will make you feel brand new, big lights will inspire you." </i></div>
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TKTS (Broadway and 47th ST, Times Square)</div>
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If you don't recognize a close up, there are usually other photos showing background to figure out an address. Sometimes the address will even be spelled out: </div>
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145th Street Station (Broadway & 145th St) </div>
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560 State St (Brooklyn) </div>
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I actually missed a spot. In this photo, Jay-Z is in an office that faces the Empire State Building. You need to use a bit of geometry to deduce where it is. Some geo-sleuths will also identify sunlight direction. But we will save that for another day. </div>
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Once you've narrowed down which buildings have the right angle, you can search real estate blogs to match the interior which clearly faces the sun (a clue):</div>
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I'd first do a quick check on where Jay-Z worked/lived. I recall he had a midtown apartment facing an apartment owned by <span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Beyoncé. Happy geo-sleuthing. </span></div>
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This tops up locations for movie scenes, photos of the day, music history, art, literature, history, and innovation. Some of the world's largest atlases have been built for these topics.<br />
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The idea originally was to show where you are crossing paths with someone who made history. </div>
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Among locations mapped were birthplaces, schools and roots of people when they were unknown. A surprising number of "Closet Canadians" have shaped American pop culture. Hollywood, for example, had Warner Bros Jack Warner (born in London, Ont.), Disney patriarch Elias (born Bluevale, Ont) and MGM founders Samuel Goldwyn and Louis B Mayer (who lived in the Martimes of Canada). Actors like Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie, Matthew Perry and Matt LeBlanc have roots in Canada. It is arguable that American pop culture is half-defined by ex-pat Canadian culture. </div>
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Another pattern showed astrological connections. Alt-country singers Gram Parsons and Ryan Adams share the same birthday. So does Bryan Adams. Woody Allen, Sarah Silverman and Richard Pryor share the same birthday. Astrological clusters of people in the same field were frequent. You could almost make a new horoscope app connecting biographical stories on birthdays. </div>
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Locative media shows where a person is mentioned for making a difference - usually in art or innovation. Of 100 billion people who lived on the planet, less than 50,000 people had a media impact in history. The status quo is indeed a powerful force.</div>
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The key editorial barometer for locative media has been: does this story make an interesting ghost to share?<br />
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Stories that are powerful in visual narrative had the greatest connection with viewers. The lens of seeing ghosts then in the context of what is now proved quite interesting. Evolution is mapped.<br />
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One of the bigger challenges for locative media has been the mapping platforms so far available for viewing. They do not account for easily viewing one location with 100s or even 1000s of stories. They are designed geo-spatially for one story per spot. Additionally, it is hard to see what makes a story interesting at a spot with just a pin or bubble on a map. There are also invisible pins for neighborhoods with a high density of stories that you can't see until you zoom in. A map with pins doesn't offer a great user experience. This shows a post you've already seen above, but you can't immediately tell. The other pins have invisible stories until you click. The other stories have invisible pins until you zoom in.<br />
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I forsee maps being invisible in geo-spatial navigation to accommodate many stories. A streetview made for narratives is possible. Triggers defining recommended and featured content for a user's path or contextual activity will be key. Filters by topic can help categorize stories for a user's taste. Points on a map will need to be easier to "jump" to. Scrolling a map and even downloading a map takes up too much time and real estate with non-functional activities.</div>
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In social media channels, there's been a strong interest from users who want to add facts, location IDs and related stories or photos in a thread for one post like this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lNP-x94-SE&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">Robert Frank film </a>for the Rolling Stones in 1972.<br />
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To date, mapping platforms don't allow for threads for one pin/post. You can only make a separate post (no thread) to add a fact. The problem is only 1 post is visible per spot on a map at top-level viewing, when you could have 100s of movie scenes at one location (e.g. Central Park). </div>
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One sees a different user experience after geo-tagging 1.36 million assets. Scalability and new dimensions are needed for geo-spatial design. It is also key to avoid offering only stagnant (already viewed) stories nearby and dynamically change stories contextual to a user's interest. GPS experiments early on in mobile applications showed the same old stories near one's home/work instead of refreshing new stories.<br />
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William Gibson's vision for locative media in <i>Spook Country</i> saw geo-spatial projections related to a user's desired path. It offered a focused experience. That's what geo-spatial design needs. </div>
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Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14941695929357663391noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539962304677593219.post-33912164289491438942014-02-04T15:02:00.001-08:002014-03-09T07:33:53.420-07:00Is This All? <span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Betty Friedan asked what may be the most timeless social question in history: "Is this all?"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">She had surveyed Smith College classmates about satisfaction 15 years later at a reunion. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Instantly, almost every woman in America identified with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"the problem that has no name."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Betty appeared in Time with my kid’s maternal grandma for changing the course of human history, becoming lifelong friends. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The future can always be seen by asking: Is this all? It's a question that asks for a bigger answer than what's in front. What is taboo one decade is often no longer taboo next decade. What is unaccepted today becomes the future. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> See </span><a href="http://www.pinterest.com/chungwong/geo-tag/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">highlight reel </a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (click thumbnails). </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locative_media#Locative_media_and_creative_representation" target="_blank">"Locative media" and "Locative Art" </a>are terms as obscure as social media once was. I anticipate this is the media that will eclipse social media. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">William Gibson got it early on when writing about a Sixth Sense visor in Spook Country that could see dead people (like River Phoenix at the Viper Room). Location-based art and stories that once took place at a spot are seen through a visor that blends the past with the present, then and now. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Imagine seeing ghosts of what happened anywhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In over 17,000 hours,<b> Jump2Spot</b> compiled the world’s largest GPS story atlas featuring <i>where</i> movies
scenes, music history, biographies, literature, art and disruptive inventions took place. 1.25 million geo-curated assets were compiled into 125,000 stories. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Among assets, photos of the day curated daily over 7 years were geo-tagged covering the
world’s most photographed spots. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Locative media is about compiling the most interesting digital artifacts at a place creating a compelling locative stream. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jump2Spot can now power a highly curated street view, stitching stories and
visuals street by street for a new kind of geo-browser. You can see meaningful visuals and stories instead of stock imagery and status reports. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Ley lines of inventive energy towards where notable people gravitate are mapped along creative hot spots. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With best-of-breed geo-content, Jump2Spot will be visually recommending notable stories for geo-tags in social media
and address searches. Today one in five Google searches are location-related. Pinterest has seen rapid growth in location-related boards. Foursquare has a major initiative to recommend places nearby. 25 billion geo-tags await our story recommendations. Imagine taking a photo and being able to see stories about it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This atlas of inspiration is an opportunity<a href="http://xthespot.blogspot.ca/2013/08/jumping-into-new-place.html" target="_blank"> to re-think and re-define</a> the nature of location-awareness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At Jump2Spot, stories of the most followed people are geo-tagged at their hot spots. Today </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jump2Spot is 4x the world's longest book in words and triple the 1st digital encyclopedia in entries. Each </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">geo-coded </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">entry has a notable visual, story and link. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Connective stories match people with stories at a place. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stories can be recommended for what you are doing - </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> what you photograph, what you view, places you search and where you post. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At some locations, you can see a time lapse of photos spanning a century. At other locations, you can see where notable people intersected and made history happen. The dreams of change-makers and history-makers have been mapped near your activities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today you can open <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/jump2spot/id571372545?mt=8">an app</a> and instantly see stories near you. You can also<a href="http://jump2spot.com/" target="_Blank"> search any address for stories.</a> Tomorrow you can geo-tag your photos and check-ins and see notable stories related to your places. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We’re looking for a coder who wants to build a next-generation locative media experience. </span><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">GPS and maps today show the same old stuff nearby. Geo-refreshment is the new cartography. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You’ve extensively used and worked with GPS and geo-tags. You know the depths of address searches, desiring to take your domain knowledge
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Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14941695929357663391noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539962304677593219.post-4428414434340034542013-12-21T08:27:00.002-08:002013-12-28T07:48:24.853-08:00How Geo-tags and Tags Change Historical Records<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Imagine re-doing history to see where "Elvis checked in." </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">That's how I spent 12,000 hours of my time. I helped a lot of dead people check-in as one friend jokes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Plotting paths reveals things you never saw in written history. Like why did F Scott Fitzgerald move into the same building (<a href="http://jump2spot.com/38w59St" target="_blank">38 West 59th St, New York</a>) as one of his hate-mailers within months of seeing the letter? Was this move a riposte? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">After geo-tagging the biography of Steve Jobs, I wondered why he never set foot in Canada. Not publicly anyways. Did he have a thing against Canadians? <a 13px="" 18px="" arial="" background-color:="" color:="" e="" font-family:="" font-size:="" grande="" href="http://jump2spot.com/stevejobs" line-height:="" lucida="" sans-serif="" tahoma="" target="_blank>Steve Jobs</a> biography, I wondered why he didn't set foot in Canada. Not publicly anyways. Did he have a thing against Canadians? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Geo-patterns defined pathways of trailblazers. You can see how destiny was shaped. The people who made history at more than 400 places became legends. Warren Buffett changed history less staying home than a globetrotting Allen Ginsberg who never seemed to have a salary. </span><br />
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