Andrew Turner wrote:
Mike Liebhold wrote:
This year, I'm thinking of finding a sponsor, and formally
articulating a
'Tricorder Challenge' (perhaps at Where2.0) to geo hackers, search
engines
and GIS guys, to demonstrate the deepest, richest, and ideally filtered
collections and views of -standard- and -interoperable- geodata, and
hypermedia in a single place. Ideally a tricorder will tell us
-everything-
about a very narrowly defined place: Here! Everything about the
environment, infrastructures, health and safety, public resources,
history,
culture, commerce, and commentary, decorations, and entertainment,
available
- here- (wherever )
Have you seen Kevin Kelly's, "The Big Here" Challenge?
http://www.kk.org/helpwanted/archives/001084.php
It is a 30-question challenge of what a "tricorder" should be able to
do. Things like:
* Where does your garbage go?
* Point North
Watch your tricorder blow up when you get to the north pole! (Anyway,
are we talking magnetic north, map north, what?) A lot of these
questions though are pretty context specific, the context being a
US-Western Europe one, and require a certain amount of subjectivity on
behalf of the respondant. Concepts like 'wilderness', 'recycling' or
'spring' aren't universal, so the tricorder will present may present
answers which are correct for one person, but not for another.
Cheers,
A
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