Posts filed for the month of November2007
The design of the iPhone is such that all other mobile…
Posted November 30th, 2007 at 4:01 pm. There are 0 comments.
The design of the iPhone is such that all other mobile phones, including those released after the iPhone, look not only old but antiquated and even defective. IMO.
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OpenAerialMap Is Ready For Your Data
Posted November 30th, 2007 at 3:57 pm. There are 0 comments.By Brady Forrest
OpenAerialMap is a site for collecting, hosting, and mapping freely available aerial imagery. The project comes at a good time. There is increasing interest in DIY aerial imagery. DIY Drones is a community started by Chris Anderson for aerial imagery enthusiasts. Commercial venture Pict’Earth offer aerial imagery systems that includes their custom geopositioning software. And of course Make has had a project for aerial photography via a kite for a while.
You can view any uploaded imagery set on a map. You can apply an OpenStreetMap layer if desired. Current sets include: Burning Man 2007, Afghanistan, San Diego 2003, and the San Diego Widlfires of 2007 (pictured above).
Anyone can register as a datasource. You can then upload and geoposition your imagery using the site’s tools. Though the project idea has been around for a while it was only recently put together by Chris Schmidt, an OpenLayers (Radar post) contributor and MetaCarta (Radar post) employee. Chris has made the site’s code available.
Why is the project necessary? Though the imagery that Google, Microsoft, and others make freely available is excellent in its quality and coverage, you are only able to use it under their terms. This project makes imagery fully available and in one place. Also it can take 6 months or longer for an area to have its imagery updated on the larger sites - in the case of certain events you may want to capture a change now. I would love to see this project scale out like Open Street Map has, but that will take a while as the barrier to volunteer is much higher.
Chris Anderson will be talking about his work with DIY Drones at ETech in 2008. DIY Aerial Imagery is going to be a big theme at Where 2.0 2008.
ABC Button
Posted November 29th, 2007 at 10:42 am. There are 0 comments.
Button typography. Very bespoke. Similar to minimal type faces made from 5X7 grid or LCD calculator numerals, I had never seen, or thought possible for that matter, that all the letterforms would be possible. You can download the font as well.
via Michael Surtees’ very excellent DesignNotes
touch: nearfield communications
Posted November 19th, 2007 at 12:26 pm. There are 0 comments.
At nearfield a presentation on RFID as a Material in Design outlines the background, goals and findings of the research into NFC (nearfield communications) using RFID.
four short films by gordon matta clark
Posted November 19th, 2007 at 12:26 pm. There are 0 comments.I have long loved the work of matta clark. In architecture school he came to be one of the most important architects in my mind. I obsessed over his active making of architectural work and absorbed much influence from him. Ubuweb has 4 short films available for view and download.
i am ipod earbuds
Posted November 5th, 2007 at 2:07 pm. There are 0 comments.
birds in the morning
Posted November 2nd, 2007 at 11:15 am. There are 0 comments.
mary’s unicorn pumpkin
Posted November 1st, 2007 at 9:17 am. There are 0 comments.