Several months ago I knocked together a small app for my iphone and then promptly forgot about it.
Recently my posse (Paige,Ben,Marlin,John and I) picked up this app again and found it had collected a heck of a lot of data - so we added more folks to it and started making more data. We then decided to make an art presentation for it. As part of that I'm documenting the code here and I thought that this code description might be useful for other people who want to riff on the idea or take it further: Here is some technical information on what we were doing: http://hook.org/whereisanselm/about.html It is kind of cute because you can see the little motions of people (like me and my friends) as we wander about - in my case you can see my trek down to SF (where I kvetched about OSM not having any camping sites in it for the west coast earlier in the month on this list) and then my trek back up and a trek to hike the west coast trail as well: http://hook.org/whereisanselm/lines.rhtml Paige and I will present this at http://www.disjecta.org . Currently quite a few folks are contributing their implicit publishing moments / life contrails to the project and hopefully in a week we'll have a more comprehensive demo and description of the effort. Clearly the technology is trivial beyond belief but the focus on the privacy implications and even just how it appears aesthetically - how maps present - and the like has already been quite interesting and that is more where our focus is. It may become a full blown IPhone app at some point - right now it is still pretty hacked and there are of course many other solutions by many other people... -- anselm 415 215 4856 http://hook.org http://makerlab.com
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