Crowdsourcing the Shape of Neighbourhoods – Tom Taylor

Chris — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:18:54 +0000

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.

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.

WhereCamp 2009 – ‘Curating Big Data’

Chris — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:16:05 +0000

WhereCamp 2009 – ‘Curating Big Data’ with Aaron Cope from Flickr and Tom Carden from Stamen from Christopher Osborne on Vimeo.

Creating meaning from “the abundance of data produced in the precise but distant language of machines”.

Tom Carden from Stamen Design and Aaron Cope from Flickr talk about massive machine generated datasets in general, and the Flickr Alpha Shapes project in particular. Reverse geocoding the geotag of user contributed photos to Flickr to create epresentations of psychogeographic space.

Recorded at the 2009 WhereCamp

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Crowdsourcing the Shape of Neighbourhoods – Tom Taylor

WhereCamp 2009 – ‘Curating Big Data’