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As OpenStreetMap grows, companies like Mapbox are a threat to the long reign of Google Maps. And that’s a good thing.

The truth is that every map tells a lie, but they don’t all lie about the same thing. For example, Mercator projection maps—one of the most common in use today—exaggerate regions far from the equator. The Goode homolosine projection (pictured below) shows continents that are sized appropriately to one another, but with many interruptions and distortions of distance.

Tips from a geographer who's seen it all.

This report tells the stories of cities around the world - from Beijing to Amsterdam, and from London to Jakarta - that are addressing urban challenges by using digital technologies to engage and enable citizens.

Potholes in Panama City are tweeting at government officials to fix them, thanks to a project launched by advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather.

The Internet's visual storytelling community. Explore, share, and discuss the best visual stories the Internet has to offer.

#redundancy

“Tapebook”is an exercise in media archaelogy. It involves the conversion of data which are extracted from social networks into audio documents. They are recorded on cassettes. “Tapebook” takes the ...

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Typological Hybridizations in the Net.art | From Hypermedia to Data Visualization. a Yolanda Segura’s work

Vuk Cosic, Antoni Abad, Jodi, Brian MacKern, Antoni Muntadas, Olia Lialina, The Yes Men, Mouchette, Eva & Franco Mattes, Jonas Lund, Kim Asemdorf, Daniel Garcia Andujar, Constant Dullart, Paolo Cirio & Alexandro Ludovico, Jon Rafman, Benjamin Grosser, Cory Arcangel, Gregory Chatonsky, Ubermorgen, Les Liens invisible, Intimidad Romero and moreeee …

Good stuff!

http://www.4netart.org/netart_hybridization/

Picturing Place: From John Snow’s Cholera map to Le Corbusier’s plan for a contemporary city and Moose’s ‘clean graffiti’ – images shape our ideas and precipitate change, for better or worse

#cities #urbanisation #photography

Tabletop games offer a face-to-face opportunity to convey a message that the impersonal world of online gaming misses

#games #board games #life and style #politics

A must of creative placemaking

#placemaking #urban #city #sentient city

#offline #locative media #sousveillance #surveillance #internet

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Rules themselves create fictions by the very fact of complying with their respective rules, is separated from real life where there is no activity that literally corresponds to any of these games […

#game virtualspace rules

capture the moment! 3D print furniture and sound ;)

Councils and members of the public are helping develop a smartphone app that could change the way planning applications are publicised.

#urban planning #knowledge exchange #liverpool

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