cloudsourced » alphashapes http://www.cloudsourced.com Big data, visualisation, design, product Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:21:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Crowdsourcing the Shape of Neighbourhoods – Tom Taylor http://www.cloudsourced.com/2009/10/23/crowdsourcing-the-shape-of-neighbourhoods-tom-taylor/ http://www.cloudsourced.com/2009/10/23/crowdsourcing-the-shape-of-neighbourhoods-tom-taylor/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:18:54 +0000 Chris http://www.cloudsourced.com/?p=367 This September, I had the pleasure of chairing the inaugral geoweb stream at the AGI GeoCommunity 09 Conference. Over the next few months I will be releasing videos of the best talks here for all to see. First up, is the talented Tom Taylor, who amongst other things is working on Newspaper Club – a service to help people make their own newspapers. I recently had the luck of contributing a little bit (a map) to the incredibly useful Postcode Paper, made as a demo for the recent data.gov.uk experiments.

Postcode Paper

Here, Tom is talking about his use of the Flickr alpha shapes and how crowdsourced data can be used to create the shape of neighbourhoods:

[To see more geo related wondery, come along to #Geomob on November 19th.]

Tom Taylor – Crowdsourcing the Shape of Neighbourhoods from Christopher Osborne on Vimeo.

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