Enable Berlin, Session VII: A Visual Search

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A Visual Search. Enable Berlin Session VII

Imagine a way to easily map and search for curious spots in your city based on any interest or information...

Imagine instant updates, past, present and future events portrayed visually...

Imagine new ways to link and compare different perspectives of the city...

We are interested in creating dynamic new way of visualising our city - a user-generated online map, that can be added to and searchable by time, space, and participants.

Visualization from the book City Crawlers by Your Neighbours

We are looking for people who know of mapping projects like this, who are interested in developing them, or who are already working on a project of this kind.

We are members of different project groups with similar goals, and we would like to share our ideas with more people who are on the same track. We want to open up the discussion of online mapping and see whether we can work together more creatively and effectively to  really utilize the potential of open source, interactive and user-generated mapping.

  

The key questions that we would like to work on are:

Why are online maps great projects for the world?

How can we engage people in online mapping, visual searchs and mash-ups?

How can we cross-reference and share information and resources between different types of map-based projects?

Other open questions formulated after all our presentations

This Enable Session will try to build an overview of projects that are curently existing or that are in development; question why people want to make, use or customise maps; and discuss some of the struggles or successes which these types of projects experience. There will be a creative and fun hands-on collaborative mapping challenge, and then we will open up the discussion to find out ways to support or connect existing projects, and the possiblities in giving and gathering information through new visualisations of our city.

It would be great if those people who already have a project in existence, in development, or even just in their imagination could prepare a quick presentation, up to 3 minutes in length answering to the following three questions:

- What is your project?

  What are/were your motivations for starting it? What makes your project special or unique? Who/what is your project for? 

- What state is it in?

  How does it currently exist? what does it look like? is it being used? is it how you expected it to be?

- What is the next step?

  Where to next? How do you see the project developing? What factors are helping you to/stopping you from moving forward?

It would be great to see you next Wed 3rd of November at 19:30 in Open Design City (Betahaus)
Forward the word, and check our Blog or Facebook for updates!:)

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