interesting map application currently being developed, which helps to calculate travel time, find short cuts/ best route etc. or decide on the nearest bar you can crawl to within 3 mins.
and here another a similar app (via swiss miss)
me news
pattern matching and intuition
…these images might still have visual information within the image, or other clues, that could enable a system — either completely automated or using automated and human processes together — to make a guess about where the image was taken. The best case for intelligence analysts would be a fully automated system. This way they could suck in images from a terrorist website, download them off of captured cameras or cell phones, or scan them from hard copy, and feed all this through the system and get locations of where the images were taken. With more and more images being created in our world every day this automated approach is going to be crucial…
really interesting article from ‘wired’ on what military intelligence is doing with the help of google and all of that other data we all put online everyday, privacy issues? forget it…
crowd control
…commissioned as a crowd study during the Celebration of Light Fireworks show in Vancouver to illustrate how the crowd forms and disperses over the course of the day… (via ‘thijs van exel’)
am x dam
the city of amsterdam will soon be deploying a new system of small, handmade ceramic tiles with a bright red cross and a QR code to denote buildings of historic interest, the project was devised and designed by local agency edenspiekermann
although i must admit it bears a lot of similarity to a recent project i posted from fabrique/vandejong