Japanese aerial survey firm Pasco Corp. will soon begin selling software that shows on a computer screen the […]
Category Archive: locative
Based on google maps, Tokyo Art Beat‘s Event Map offers a listing/mapping of the art and design scene […]
Trolley Spotting, by Adele Prince, uses an interactive map to document the artist’s findings from recent ‘trolley spotting’ […]
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In the children’s game Red Light, Green Light, you are the traffic cop and the others are trying […]
Augmented Maps, engineered at Cambridge University, is a system which augments an ordinary paper map with additional information […]
Julian Gallo is having fun in Buenos Aires, Argentina, bringing Google Maps in the real world. He takes […]
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The FLORA (Fluorescent Light Organizing Radio Accessory) is a location-aware watch that helps people locate others, a mixture […]
Jorge Luis Borges wrote in 1960 a short story that described the ambition of a group of imaginary […]
Mountaineering is “the art of moving safely in mountains”. Still, the number of casulties is rising and amateur […]
Celestial Mechanics is a planetarium artwork being created by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. Rather than a presentation […]
Places which are more accessible seem to get “closer” to each other while less accessible places become isolated. […]
APCompass, by David Wiltshire, is a database of wireless access points that you can add to using a […]
In-car navigation and communication systems remain unconnected to each other, and entering addresses or phone numbers into them […]
The goal of Smooth Ride, by Noah Vawter, is to present cyclists with the data they need to […]
Fallen Fruit is project about mapping of all the “public fruit” planted on private property that overhangs public […]
rixome is a network and a tool that turns mobile screens into windows that show the virtual and […]
Key questions for long-distance inline skaters are: Where can I skate? and How is the road quality? GeoSkating […]
Pedestrian Levitation, by Thomas Laureyssens, is based on the movement of pedestrians on a pedestrian crossing. Some pedestrians […]
Glow Positioning System is a 1000-foot ring of lights installed in Mumbai, on January 2005. Lights were installed […]
Neighbourhood Satellites is one of my favourite projects. Ever. I’ve spammed Myriel Milicevic with messages asking her if […]
Mapamp uses existing structures and systems (architecture of a city, navigation and radio systems) to layer an artificial […]
One can often sum up the “Social architecture” – the spatial / temporal organisation of everyday life- to: […]
This one has just been added to my I want one list. For the INCITE/RCA collaboration, Jon Arden […]
Paula Levine’s Baghdad San Francisco imagines the effects upon San Francisco, had the bombs which fell on Baghdad […]
Engineers at Berkeley have found a way to map a city very quickly, recording every window and doorway […]
mates is a location-based social networking system developed at the University of Michigan and aimed at introducing and […]
GridLockd is an urban game, created by Mohit SantRam, where teams compete to capture grid positions in a […]
When Rebecca Anema goes snowboarding with her friends she sometimes looses sight of them. So she decided to […]
eRuv: A Street History in Semacode, by Elliott Malkin, is a digital graffiti project installed along the route […]
Location33 investigates the potential for new types of music made possible by location tracking and wireless technologies. Listeners, […]
Loca is an interdisciplinary project on mobile media and grass-roots, pervasive surveillance. A person walking through the city […]
Japanese school uniform maker Ogo-Sangyo Co has released blazers fitted with GPS for grade school pupils. The system […]
MEETRO is an online meeting place that lets you find new friends, events, restaurants, etc – based on […]
‘Ere Be Dragons, by Nottingham-based Active Ingredient, is the prototype of a game for PDAs that takes you […]
Placing Voices, by Brian House (remember Yellow Arrow?), is a mobile-sound-blog software which uses the recording feature of […]
SCOOT is a mixed reality experience designed by Deb Polson and Marcos Caceres, to explore the potentials of […]
Melodious Walkabout, by Richard Etter, is a wearable system that guides a user by contextualizing audio contents s/he […]
Robotica, by UK based artist Stanza, is an installation where robots are navigating the space to make music […]
We can’t feel the round Earth though we live on a globe and satellite photograph do not really […]
Oscillating Windows, by Katherine Moriwaki, is an application for close-proximity network communication that uses physical co-location, proximity, and […]