This article explore location as multiple senses of place.
“Shifts in perspective allow a prismatic definition of location and forms layers and tension between multiple possible viewpoints. There are a thousand New Yorks and yet still it is New York. This is what projects utilizing elevation and perspective can now work with in ways currently untapped in the field.
The technology exists to alter data on the ground based on individual gestures (turning, direction change, shifts in location) the same is true for above the ground. This allows GPS based data to trigger above locations and at different altitudes. The shifts in scale, in semiotics, in totality and inclusion in the sense of the amount of space accessed at once; these are all factors to be quantified into shifts in sound, scope of data and narrative of data/history and are ultimately as malleable as is one’s gaze and position in a 3 dimensional space.”
Location has long been seen as a specific area, a static geographical point with latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates. Locative media broadens the consideration of location. Mapping and spatial representation have been and continue to be influenced by location-based technologies because they allow mobile users to connect to local spaces by navigating, coordinating, and communicating with others depending on their physical distance to each other. Users have the power to view the world through different interfaces (Google Maps, Google Earth, Yelp, Ingress, etc.) and also have the ability to attach their own digital information to locations. Location is now more than its geographical coordinates. The attachment of digital information to spaces and the large number of mobile map interfaces allows people to navigate and interpret the world in new ways.













