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Crossing Boundaries Our Inadvertent Recreation of Real-World Geometry Tyler Bell 22 September 2009 [email protected]

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Crossing Boundaries

Our Inadvertent Recreation of Real-World GeometryTyler Bell

22 September 2009

[email protected]

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Crossing Boundaries

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OpenStreetMap

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OSM Users August 2009

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Changing Business Landscape

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Traffic!

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“Results suggest that a 2-3% penetration of cell phones in the driver population is enough to provide accurate measurements of the velocity of the traffic flow."

Evaluation of Traffic Data Obtained via GPS-enabled Mobile Phones: the Mobile Century field experiment, UC Berkeley's Institute for Transportation Studies

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Reconstructing Geometry

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Please Turn Off All Devices

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The World’s Attention is On…

David Crandall et al., Cornell University

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David Crandall et al., Cornell University

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The World’s Attention is On…

David Crandall et al., Cornell University

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The World’s Attention is On…

David Crandall et al., Cornell University

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The World’s Attention is On…

David Crandall et al., Cornell University

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The World’s Attention is On…

David Crandall et al., Cornell University

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Rome: Trevi Fountain

Flickr user atila_y

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Flickr user atila_y

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Rome: St Peter’s Dome

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Flickr user valerio.l

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Rome: Flavian Ampitheatre

Flickr user David Paul Ohmer

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The Humble Tag

Flickr user Sarah Parrott

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Yahoo! TagMaps Prototype

DayNight

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Tag Reinforcement

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TAKE A PHOTO WITH AUTOMATIC GEOCODING AND UPLOAD IT

DESCRIBE THE PHOTO USING SUGGESTED TAGS AND USER ADDED TAGS

SEE TAGS THAT WILL BE ADDED TO THE PHOTO

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Most Popular Places

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Flickr user loungelistener

Flickr user light collector

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Think Place, Not Space

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Semantics Required

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Colloquial Names: Personal, Local

George C Payne Elementary School >> Payne Elementary

James Woods Regional High School >> James Woods High

University of Southern California >> USC

University of South Carolina >> USC

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art >> SFMOMA

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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art >> SFMOMA

Yerba Buena Center For The Arts >> Yerba Buena Center

San Jose Diridon Caltrain Station >> San Jose Caltrain

>> Diridon Caltrain

Norman Y. Mineta San Jose

International Airport >> SJC

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Who Really Uses Official Names?

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