Vism.ag & Creative Maps Blog

Edinburgh Creative Map

Edinburgh is the latest creative map to be rendered, vism.ag/edinburgh. Mapped in collaboration with creative-edinburgh.com launching Thursday 3rd November, 6 - 8pm at The Cube, 47 Leith Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3AT.

Identified as one of the 9 creative 'hotspots' in the UK by Nesta, this location has some great places on offer. From Edinburgh printmakers studio, Analogue Books, The Fruitmarket Gallery @fruitmarket to round the corner Stills photography gallery, there appears to be a lot of bustling creativity that the platform of creative-edinburgh.com @CreativeEdin will be sure to promote and keep you abreast of its output both nationally and internationally.

Creative Maps share knowledge of creative facilities in the world, or more specifically Edinburgh's area to help you in your creative and innovative endeavors.

Be it Galleries, Museums, Theaters, Bookshops, Arts Centers, Magazines, Studios, Design Companies, Craft Shops

Nearby on Thursday 3rd November, go check it out 6 - 8pm at The Cube, 47 Leith Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3AT

Check out the interactive map to see all the locations on Edinburgh's Creative Map vism.ag/edinburgh

Know any places in Edinburgh that aren't mapped? Sign up and add your own through vism.ag/sharegems

More info: @CreativeEdin

Published on 2011/10/28 11:37 pm.
Filed under: cartography, clean, constellations, creative, Creative Maps, cube, design, geography, information, innovative, interactive, knowledge, landmarks, landscapes, learn, map, mapping, media Tags: 3at, Analogue, Arts and Entertainment, Collaboration, Craft Shops, Creative Maps, Creativity, Cube, Edinburgh, Edinburgh City of, Edinburgh Map, Edinburgh Printmakers, Endeavors, Fringe (TV series), Fruitmarket Gallery, Hotspots, Interactive Map, Leith, Leith Street, Magazines, Map Edinburgh, Museums, Nbsp, Nesta, Photography Gallery, Scotland, Share Knowledge, Theaters

Photo Data App

Seem to be possessed with apps at the moment, and they're not even all available for an Android-HTC-User blogger, not good. But I was sent this link to the 'the first app which enables iPhone users to create infographics on their devices'. http://www.photostatsapp.com/

Its not the fact that its infographics going wild, even saw a TED video that envisions health care on mobile devices as infographics etc, but I like the fact that Photo Stats 'analyzes metadata from the photos on camera roll' as the data source to visualise.

Ok , there is daytum and its app to record data and visualise, but you are manually inputting and intentionally recording this data to visualise. I am intrigued that as I shoot it speaks/shows 'user’s photo taking habits' and where abouts these photos were taken recorded from gps and EXIF metadata... is it?

All that data such as the camera type, the shutter speed etc all data that should be visualised, not about the content of the photo.

But I liked it as I'm intrigued and started to record the geography not just photo, but emotion, feeling through written, showing taste? something looking appetising whet's the lips? anyhow i just explored and experimented as a start here: http://visualisationmagazine.com/dineography.htm . I know these aren't in the EXIF metadata but seems there is something more to photos like this app is trying to do with habits, regular places visited, times of the day, light levels... could add to the mood/atmosphere of a photo.

I leave with this:

'If an image is worth thousand words how much is an infographic about all your photos in the camera roll?'

http://www.photostatsapp.com/

Published on 2011/08/04 11:17 pm.
Filed under: data, device, mapping, model

Projected Reality Google Maps

I always thought that there is so much interactivity with google's street view, earth, maps, places... why cant you just hold your phone lens up to a scene and it show you a google map overlay?

Sheffield Creative Map

It seems it could be so easy. the data is there of the lat lng's locations of place markers, they have the street view. It could apply to the polygon overlays too showing you the polygon shape perimeters you are entering.

Imagine having this functionality of asking yourself 'where is this little back-of-the-road art book shop?... google says its on this road somewhere...'.

You hold the phone up and rotate 360 degrees and if you're far away its small, move closer and it becomes less faded and bigger.

You could tie-in the sat nav, 'Rotate right 3 degrees', 'stop', 'ahead 200 yards passing starbucks on your right'.

Bring it reality as it would work beautifully for the http://CreativeMaps.vism.ag

Published on 2011/05/29 10:16 pm.
Filed under: abstract, GUI, Interactive Mapping, mapping, maps, reality, representation

Mapping Derby

Do you have a photograph of a place in Derby? Then upload it to here http://mappingderby.com/, have it geotagged, printed and added to this brilliant, low-fi, photographic map of derby.

' FORMAT needs your help to Map Derby. Throughout FORMAT Festival we will be asking Derby visitors and residents to photograph the city streets under the theme of ‘Right Here, Right Now’. Each photograph will be uploaded and geo-tagged to create a unique map of the city. Give us your thoughts, memories and inspirations of the city.
There will be a growing installation in The Royal Insurance Buildings, 2 The Strand, Derby where a 3D map of the city will grow day by day.' http://mappingderby.com/

Ok, its not completely low fi they use a lovely printer called a poga printer that uses paper that has the ink inside it so no need to replace cartridges, apparently £8.99 for about 70 sheets (I realise I sound like I just discovered apps for the first time). But I love the pins and pictures relating to that area on a lovely a3 enalrging, hockney-joiner, A-to-Z photocopies that arent quite as smooth as google street view but I think adds to its charm and beauty with the handmade approach.

I also love that pins go off the map into unchartered terrains and only the photographs are the evidence of it. It is wierd for an exhibition to be on woodchip wallpaper I must admit and i suppose the only thing I didnt like was that the map had gaps because of the walls, couldnt orientate myself, not that i'm that familiar with Derby, but maybe i'm being picky. They have tried to adapt a space to present this project and the online digital geo-tagged images on a google map are great.

Format Festival was excellent too, with collaborations on projects with Magnum.

http://www.formatfestival.com/

Published on 2011/04/12 12:15 am.
Filed under: carto, collaborative, gadget, gps, locations, mapping, Uncategorized Tags: Low Fi, map, mapping, Photograph, Upload

Desk Map

Eye Magazine advertising by cartlidge levene

this represents what was on the desks and where they were arranged for every employee, found in Mapping by tang fawcett p36. I posted this to the site a while ago and thought i'd share its quirkyness.

Visit my aStore for Mapping by Tang, Fawcett plus more books and amazon kindle

Published on 2009/05/26 7:32 pm.
Filed under: cartography, desk, mapping, maps, tool

Data Mapping

SpatialKey is a next generation Information Visualization, Mapping, Analysis and Reporting System. It is designed to help organizations quickly assess location based information critical to their organizational goals, decision making processes and reporting requirements.

It looks really good, and I think you can upload your own csv data and have it visualised.

http://www.spatialkey.com/

Think it was either Data Mining, or Visual Analytics on LinkedIn that i spotted the link.

Published on 2009/04/25 7:51 pm.
Filed under: animation, data, design, graphic, mapping, spatial, territory, world

Mapping Knowledge

A new map of knowledge based on electronic data searches in which users moved
from one journal to another, thus establishing associations between them.

A new map of knowledge has been assembled by scientists at the research
library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. It is based on electronic data searches in which
users moved from one journal to another, thus establishing associations between them.

The map includes both the sciences and the humanities in a hub and wheel
arrangement, with the humanities at the center and the sciences arrayed around
them. The arrangement fell out naturally from the data and is not contrived,
said Johan Bollen, the leader of the research team.

In the map, published in the current issue of PLoS One, it has some great clustering and is excellant to realise through distance and colour their revelance to each other. The journals are color-coded as follows: physics, light purple; chemistry, blue; biology, green; medicine, red; social sciences, yellow; humanities, white; mathematics, purple; and engineering, pink. The interconnecting lines reflect the probability that a reader will click from one journal to another on the computer screen.

Similar maps have long been constructed on the basis of footnotes in one journal’s articles that refer to articles in other journals. Dr. Bollen believes that his electronic click map better represents scholars’ behavior than does citation analysis, as the footnote method is called.

from: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/science/16visuals.html?_r=2

found here: http://www.twine.com/item/123nz0p3g-ry/visual-science-map-of-knowledge-nytimes-com

Published on 2009/03/21 2:37 am.
Filed under: colour, constellations, knowledge, landmarks, landscapes, language, links, mapping, multidirectional, research, visual maps

Mapping Genes

Mapping the Human 'Diseasome' by Marc Vidal; Albert-Laszlo Barabasi; Michael Cusick

really like this, clean simplification of a complex subject showing the amount of genes associated with that disease. Researchers created a map linking different diseases, represented by circles, to the genes they have in common, represented by squares. Related Article: Redefining Disease, Genes and All

love the size ratio and soft pastels colours.

Published on 2009/03/16 4:38 pm.
Filed under: circular, colour, diagram, genes, mapping, science, simple, size

Advertising History Timeline

this is an excellant interactive timeline, as you hover over one of the red brackets between years, it displays a drop down/up of information with specific year and a form of communication/advertisign developed such as the cuniform pictographs.

a beautiful, clean, tidy layout with white space to hold the interactive mouseover links that softly animate into the space to display more information and thew use of red and black combines well. the style is similar to Type Timeline Half 1, Kurt Schwitters on a Timeline by stefan thermerson and with a few images of important inventions/communications already displayed that have a small films/animations appeneded to their nodes gives a great liuttle bit of interactivity and focus for the users attention until the discovery of the mouseover bracket links.

also like any timeline that progresses over the western logic of left to right reading of a notoriously landscape layout there are too many dates to keep proportionatley spaced and still fit to a3 size or 1024 x 768 screen. So the creatore at nonline give these bold brackets with small arrows for left and right as the most dominating feature to hint at the scrolling navigation of the years. What was an intersting interactive navigation of space was done for British History Timeline by BBC, which doesnt keep the same proportionate space but divides history into colour categories and expands/stretches the display for each category.

My only let down is the limited amount, although a great tool and overview already provided, a limited amount of information as i was left wanting more history appended to the smaller grey brackets. but their are plenty of brackets for this to be rectified in the future.

great tool for students/people to interactive with themselves or even be instructed through, just keep the use of pictures to break up the text.

from here: http://www.nonlineagency.com/multimedia/the_history_of_advertising/

found here: Cartographie d'informations

cheers arnaud

Published on 2009/01/06 10:22 am.
Filed under: animation, clean, colour, composition, design, innovative, linear, links, mapping, motion, nodes, time, visualisation, white space

Joy, Love, War, Peace

love will tear us apart by joy division - peter crnokrak

I literally love this visualisation by peter crnokrak, not only is it a great
record to do a visualisation about it gives you so much data too about the
record.

It lists its influences on other tracks, releases correlating in the centre
of the popular circular timeline visualisation method.

He has done another that he describes as the 'computational aesthetic of love & hate'

Using the 192 members of the united nations, he creates a geopolitical display of the quantative degree to which eacj contributes to war (on one side) & peace (the other).

Due the their size they could benefit from this little tool. zoomorama. make your pictures zoomable

see more close-ups here: http://theluxuryofprotest.com/LWTUA1.html

and: http://theluxuryofprotest.com/A_B_.html

from here: http://www.aisleone.net/2008/intervista/intervista-peter-crnokrak/

found here: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveTypography/~3/qGNuYIP8J1s/

Published on 2008/10/25 8:09 pm.
Filed under: aesthetic, clean, computer, geographic, geopolitical, information, landmarks, mapping, peace, war, world