The last few weeks we have been kicking about with some books on ‘Processing’ the open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. We have been reading them with a number of thoughts in mind, one of which is the visualisation of GPS tracks. The people behind Spatial Nodes have done some good work, the movie below shows the tracks of 8 people in Amsterdam:
Below is a virtual tour of the City District in Moscow with a focus on the Mirax Federation Tower:
The Federation Tower is a skyscraper currently under construction as part of the Moscow International Business Center. Construction of the towers began in 2003 and is ongoing – see the Wiki page for full details.
An update movie on our data collection via Twitter in association with urbantick. The data covers a weekend period from Friday evening to Monday morning containing 380,000 individual tweets. Within these 60,000 were geo-referenced, tweeted by 5,500 individual users.
The movie clip uses Google Earth to visualise the data:
Music – Becoming Visible by Xanthe on MP3 Unsigned.
Note the ‘tweets’ at Heathrow and how you can almost pick out London’s shape via the twitter cloud alone. The original movie can be found here.
An update movie on our data collection via Twitter in association with urbantick. The data covers a weekend period from Friday evening to Monday morning containing 380,000 individual tweets. Within these 60,000 were geo-referenced, tweeted by 5,500 individual users.
The movie clip uses Google Earth to visualise the data:
Music – Becoming Visible by Xanthe on MP3 Unsigned.
Note the ‘tweets’ at Heathrow and how you can almost pick out London’s shape via the twitter cloud alone. The original movie can be found here.