How can I get a better understanding of where I am? (Plant species, water levels , historical data etc), How can my location aware device support field-based, perpetual education?
I’m in “Forest park” becomes “Salmon spawning 6 meters north”. How can I navigate near and far using social memory maps? How can we always find the right place at the right time?
Mike Liebhold articulates his tricorder view of the world so well that its easy to forget it doesn’t exist and get annoyed when you go to use it and its not there. But the building blocks are in place for a viewfinder perspective of the world around us. The much hyped Sekai camera app embodies that world-view and points to better informed human race no matter where we go. Raven will talk more about this at Where 2.0. In stage 3, location is deeply connected to our immediate view and informs us in an ambient way as we passively gather information. The same questions, we answered in Stage 0, can be better answered with a finer grained, context changing description. “Where am I?” will provide a hyper local knowledge layer about everything from forgotten histories, toxicity levels and profile-based social commentary which will help us navigate both near and far with the benefit of millions of Geoweb contributors. Traffic, travel, interest, education, crime, politics, economics, language translation, news become a personal location layer. Maps become the ultimate transmitter of knowledge and education happens everywhere you roam.
The scale in some way brings to life On Exactitude in Science, where Jorge-Luis Borges sees “the science of cartography become so exact that only a map on the same scale as the empire itself will suffice.” Via Wikipedia.
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