On 3 Jul 2008, at 14:49, stephen white wrote: > On 03/07/2008, at 9:34 PM, michael gould wrote: >> Ever seen a false-colour image? This stuff (overlaying real and not- >> so-real) >> is not exactly groundbreaking (no pun intended) > > > That is how it would appear in my view, but how are you going to > compute the data in the first place? Polarised light can be shown with > polarising filters, but try doing the same for heat maps of people's > movements, pollution levels over time, or other abstract and > extrapolated and collected data. > > The point is to link the data to the location in real time so that I > don't have to read text books and make the connection, or see a > picture of somewhere else and make the connection. The data is already > connected and around me, so I should be able to access it and see it > as an extension of my senses.
"That doesn’t tell me very much," Kivistik said. "Everything is a metaphor. The word ‘fork’ is a metaphor for this object." He held up a fork. "All discourse is built from metaphors." "That’s no excuse for using bad metaphors," Randy said. "Bad? Bad? Who decides what is bad?" Kivistik said, doing his killer impression of a heavy-lidded, mouth-breathing undergraduate. There was scattered tittering from people who were desperate to break the tension. Randy could see where it was going. Kivistik had gone for the usual academician’s ace in the hole: everything is relative, it’s all just differing perspectives. People had already begun to resume their little side conversations, thinking that the conflict was over, when Randy gave them all a start with: "Who decides what’s bad? I do." http://soquoted.blogspot.com/2006/04/thats-no-excuse-for-using-bad.html Best Steve _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
