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Personal Paths Through Cities

August 6th, 2006

Attach GPS locators to people and the resulting maps reveal a lot:

Cabspotting traces San Francisco’s taxi cabs as they travel throughout the Bay Area. The patterns traced by each cab create a living and always-changing map of city life. This map hints at economic, social, and cultural trends that are otherwise invisible.

Amsterdam RealTime: Every inhabitant of Amsterdam has an invisble map of the city in his head. The way he moves about the city and the choices made in this process are determined by this mental map. Amsterdam RealTime attampts to visualize these mental maps through examining the mobile behaviour of the city’s users.

Link: Amsterdam Real-Time
Link: San Francisco Cabspotting

Entry Filed under: Methodology