#social mapping

[soapdispensersalesman]

Loopt is a social mapping service that is changing the way you use your mobile phone. See what's up and where your friends are, right from your phone -- anytime, anywhere.

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[soapdispensersalesman]

[youmap]

Social Mapping

As you probably already know, YouMap is a mobile application for social mapping. What exactly does it mean?

What is social mapping?

Let’s start from the basics. So, what does social mapping stand for? It is a visual method of presenting the relative location of households and the distribution of different groups of people together with the social structure, groups, and organizations existing in a given area.

Why to use social mapping?

There are many reasons why it is worth using social mapping. Not only it explores where and how people live and what does social infrastructure looks like, but it can help to strengthen local communities.

YouMap allows users to do exactly that, as public maps can bring together similarly-minded local community members with common goals and needs. On top of that, local businesses and media can use customized maps to share valuable information with their local community. Thus, customizable public maps can help people to know each other and the world around them better.

[tecnogaming]

Social Mapper, la herramienta de reconocimiento facial para redes sociales

El programa de código abierto está diseñado para investigadores de seguridad, quienes necesitan hacer busquedas manuales en las diferentes redes sociales.

[themadeleinemaie]

Images:

Plasticity Labs, (2014), Crowdsourcing Tap [ONLINE]. Available at: http://www.plasticitylabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/crowdsourcing-tap.jpg [Accessed 30 January 15].

National Defense , (2013), Fema App [ONLINE]. Available at:http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/archive/2013/September/PublishingImages/fema_app-WEB.jpg [Accessed 30 January 15].

[goldmercury]

A simple but innovative social mapping exercise has been capturing all-important data that has far-reaching implications for integrating sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and HIV services in Burkina Faso. Supported by the Alliance, Initiative Privée et Communautaire de Lutte Contre le VIH/SIDA au Burkina Faso (IPC) and its partners are bridging the gap between informal community systems and formal health services.

[dofpfilmupdates]

I drew a social map, and it has fun implications that you'd never hear in interviews! :D

The top image tells you who follows who on Twitter, and how friendly each person is to every other person by the distance between them. 

In the bottom image on the top right in purple, @IanMcKellen and @HughJackman dominate the social order, both have several followers but neither follows anyone back. Note the table is sorted on the "Total Followers" column, essentially listing popularity from top to bottom.

The director @BryanSinger follows all the actors but one, suggesting he's not following out of duty but out of interest, and that despite current hype, @BoobooStewart's "Warpath" may be relatively insignificant. The friendliest of the group is likely @ShawnAshmore, who has the most mutual follows and substantial interest in other people. Also, all this one-sided admiration makes for a hilarious dynamic; Colossus  o(￣皿￣///)      -->    likes Beast  0-0   --> who likes Kitty Pryde  =◕ω◕=  --> who likes Magneto o(︶︿︶///) --> who likes NOONE 。…。

[starkandsnark]

LOVELAND Technologies, a Detroit-based maker of "crowdfunding and social mapping systems", has created a GIS type map presenting another facet of the many issues plaguing Detroit as well as access to possible solutions. The interactive map allows users to research the tax status for properties in distress within the city along side "several ways to balance the tax debt – paying the fees online, for instance, or seeking a poverty exemption or financial assistance from grant-giving institutions". It's one thing to make information accessible to the public, it's another thing to also be part of the process of solving problems within a community. This project does both. 

Visit the map here: http://whydontweownthis.com/#11/42.3540/-83.0978