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This paper the connection between technological gadgets and mobility from a psychological point of view. The authors ask themselves what is mobility, without going into details while answering the question. Some of the key points they discuss are:
– People threat themselves as projects to be self-consciously made.
– Mobile technologies can be used to make improvements to the self.
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In the MapTribe project I started from the assumption that every person has a mental representation of the city, that this representation may quite different from other people’s conceptions and that the same representation may be quite different from reality. (Milgram)
I believe to have defined the need that justify my project in the fact that people don’t live the place they inhabit with full understanding of its features or possibilities.
I believe technology can help people in forming their mental map of the city and in initiating a civic perception on the development and usage of the places they inhabit.
A possible research question may be phrased as: “People undergo their environment or they dominate it?”, “Do people have a clear idea of the place they inhabit?”, “Do people have an opinion on how they want their place to be?”, “Do they extend this idea to the public spaces?”
The author describes here WayMaker, a tool for forming two–dimensional diagrams of spaces remembered or imagined. The basic assumptions of this work are stimulated by Kevin Lynch’s work on the image of the city (\cite{Lynch60}). Essentially the author assumes that a finite number of elements can be used to describe a mental representation of the space; that elements preserve a topological relation also if they are placed in a malleable environment; that a possible way to support the understanding of the space is to support the construction of the knowledge about the place, helping the user to learn how to take reference points, separating different parts of the space, customising the space. The premises of this work are that: (1) conceptual elements of the city can be used as building blocks; (2) participants are part of the design of the virtual environment; (3) that learning happens through the design.
Normally we read maps with the expectation that we will find in the world what we see on the map. What if we designed maps with the expectation that we will create in a world what we place on the map? That is the premise of WayMaker, a design tool based on Kevin Lynch’s elements of the “city image.” Districts are broad regions, such as neighborhoods; edges are boundaries between one region and the next; paths are the channels along which people move; nodes are foci to and from which people travel; and landmarks are punctuation points used for general orientation. WayMaker users duplicate, stretch, and position representations of the elements to form a map. The software calculates and displays street-level views along the pathways.
This blog focuses on the community engagement and creation, focusing on three keywords:
Engagement,
Collaboration,
Technology.
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues.
R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, …) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible.
My personal interest in R is that it can be easily interfaced with GRASS providing Imaging statistical analysis.
— Mobile GIS is a growing technology.
More and more choices are becoming available for field spatial data collection. —
LBS – Location Based Services
Location Based Services is a growing technology field that focuses on providing
GIS and spatial information via mobile and field units.
ArcPad
ESRI’s handheld mapping software runs in the Windows CE environment using ArcView
shapefiles.
FieldWorker
Variety of products supporting field GIS functions. Uses Oracle 8i Lite as the
database engine.
GPSPilot.com
This application allows you to add mapping and GPS capabilities to your Palm Pilot.
Fugawi
FUGAWI,used in combination
with almost any popular handheld GPS receiver and a download cable turns your
PC, laptop, Pocket PC or Palm PDA into a navigation and mapping system.
HGIS
StarPal is the creator of HGIS, a handheld GIS solution that can run on Windows
CE, 2000, 98, 95, and NT Notebook, Handheld, and Pocket computers with export
options to .mif and .shp files.
MapXtend
MapInfo® MapXtend™, Java™ Technology Edition is a developer tool for creating
location-based applications running on wireless Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs).
Palm OS GIS Software
Links
to finding GIS and mapping software for your Palm and Visio PDAs.
MapFrame
Developers of mobile mapping/GIS-Based software with the suite of FieldSmart products.
PocketGIS
Field GIS
data capture software which can display and edit map geometry and attributes.
PocketGIS runs on Microsoft Windows CE for the Handheld PC, Windows CE Handheld
PC Professional Edition, and Windows CE for the Palm-size PC.
Web-Mapper
Find information about mobile GIS applications, downloads and devices. Browse
and download GIS applications for your PDA.
This site is dedicated to making Remote Sensing algorithms, code, and technology available to all interested parties. Resources are provided to facilitate communication and development of open source tools. It is hoped that this effort will attract participation from companies, students, professors, and agencies that are involved in remote sensing efforts. Through the combination of our collective efforts all parties will benefit through the development of new capabilities, tools, and advances in this field.
MapTribe is a tool for collaboratively building and sharing a personal representation of the city.
Everyone has a mental map of the city, which contains reference points and objects intrinsically connected with the social life of the person. The city is a social fact, therefore the mental map of the city is a social fact, and as such it emerge from the social interactions we have.
MapTribe is a software running on SmartPhones (J2ME enabled mobiles), which is able to display the map part of the city where you are in. In addition, it adds to this representation the position of a group of friends you can define plus objects you or them create to visualise your mental map.
MapTribe give you a way to trace your positions, leave landmarks, define areas, limits, or paths, enabling you to represent the way you see the city and to compare your vision with those of your peers. From the following negotiation an understanding arises, which we plan to support and explore further.
