The development and popularization of the Global Positioning System (GPS), satellite navigation, and digital mapping, are transforming the way in which we imagine, encounter, and experience the city. Before we used to navigate with the aid of physical landmarks, paper maps and face-to-face advise from other citizens. Nowadays we can navigate with the help [...]
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Yesterday, as part of the UT-Explore open house, we run two 4o minute workshops for children and teens at the Belo Center for New Media. It was a very fast video game prototyping exercise that kids enjoyed a lot. This activity was a mini-version of some of the activities we designed and implemented last [...] Some weeks ago I wrote an entry in this blog about the aesthetic quality of GPS traces and shared a couple of expressive GPS drawings I found at OpenStreetMap. As I explained, the GPS traces shared by the OpenStreetMap community are not explicitly drawings, but they can certainly be appreciated as such. However, searching [...] |
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