Showing posts with label maps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label maps. Show all posts

31.10.08

'Road Fatalities Map'

The Victorian Road Fatalities Map visualises the daily car-nage caused on the roads and other spaces. The interactive Googlemap is updated daily, visualising the place and mode by which a person's life has been changed or erased. "More than 256 drivers, motorcyclists and pedestrians have already been killed this year..." in Victoria, Australia. The icon and the above stats make it hard to differentiate between push- bikes and CO2 pumping motor bikes. There is no indication how such data gathering is utilised to prevent deaths and injuries in a risk society.

There is a U.S. mash-up 'Safe Roads Maps' , using the Fatality Analysis Reporting System with Google Maps by the University of Minnesota’s Center for Excellence in Rural Safety.

22.10.08

A' flickr' for GPS tracks

Timatio is a web service 'to share your GPS tracks and waypoints'. Whether you are walking (barefoot) , hiking, cycling or sailing, you can put your tracklogs and waypoints in this open source database and share it with whoever you like. The social networking side is still expanding on this alpha site. At the moment Google maps are being used, but later it is planned to incorporate Open Street Maps (traces).
It offers tags, just uploaded trax with countries and users' profiles. At this stage it seems to have a positive bias towards carbon-free mobility and the use of public transport.

Via futurezone.orf.at
Image: Bike Artist via Zeno