https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=3171 2025-04-28T05:42:54Z https://www.snipit.org/images/scissors.gif https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=3171 Snip!t channel - Alan Dix: Channels > cognition and art > space and place “people with greater lifetime GPS experience have worse spatial memory during self-guided navigation”. Thirteen of their participants were retested three years after the initial research, when they found that “greater GPS use since in... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1662598 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/27/smartphone-apps-gps-mountain-rescues-rise 2025-04-28T05:42:54Z Some people can strike off on any journey with no guide except their 'pigeon senses'. How do they do it? And can this ability be learned? https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1657505 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240215-do-some-people-have-a-better-sense-of-direction 2024-02-29T04:27:50Z There was one other, better map of the project that I fo... partially inspired by–a relatively simple yet powerful... Dakota Access Pipeline Indigenous Protest Map by Jordan ... Maps like this are great, and there should be more of th ... My Wisconsi https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1584022 https://northlandia.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/a-nodapl-map/ 2016-11-03T12:10:23Z One to two Indigenous languages are being lost every yea... estimate if the trend continues only 50 Indigenous langu... by the year 2050 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1582337 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-19/race-to-save-indigenous-languages-as-they-fade-away/7946006?pfmredir=sm 2016-10-19T14:39:55Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1514091 http://www.wordsinspace.net/wordpress/2015/09/18/gaps-in-the-map-why-were-mapping-everything-and-why-not-everything-can-or-should-be-mapped/ 2015-09-20T13:40:09Z When tourists visit sub-Saharan Africa, they often wonde... no historical buildings or monuments?” The reason is simple. Europeans have destroyed most of t ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1429233 http://www.siliconafrica.com/terra-nullius/?fb_action_ids=10152344700575426&fb_action_types=og.likes 2014-11-05T10:56:05Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1421848 http://mapstory.org/ 2014-10-21T15:29:41Z DataShine, a new census data visualisation tool from Oli... UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, shows ‘n... hotspots in Brighton, Bristol and Norwich; while Bradfor... clearly split and Liverpool keeps the faith. Dark blue a... least 39.5% https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1408971 http://www.theguardian.com/cities/datablog/gallery/2014/jul/03/where-atheists-live-maps-uk-godless-cities-religion-census-data-viz 2014-10-07T09:50:27Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1403587 http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/sep/24/manifesto-fairer-grounded-city-sustainable-transport-broadband-housing 2014-09-28T20:43:02Z Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, was a blank spot on the map un... when young Kiberans created the first free and open digi... own community. Map Kibera has now grown into a complete ... community information project. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1343721 http://mapkibera.org/ 2014-02-26T10:42:11Z At the heart of the Art Maps project is an exploration o... the future museum. Throughout the project we have been c... kinds of ideas and meanings – both personal and art hi... audiences might generate around artworks and geographica... Furthermore https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1255018 http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs/art-maps-and-museum-platform 2013-12-12T16:53:54Z The strange world of urban exploration Urban explorers scale skyscrapers, jump fences, lift man ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1123076 http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/20/urban-exploration-robert-macfarlane-bradley-garrett 2013-10-04T06:23:14Z They can be noisy and distracting or depressingly quiet,... In the spring of 1962, a fourth-year British architectur ... In the course of his research, Frank Duffy stumbled acro ... "The arrangement of the desks was somehow organic," Duff ... ... The pla https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1031297 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21878739 2013-03-28T11:25:50Z The Flowing city is a collection of projects that I foun... for information visualization projects about cities and ... of my thesis which you can download here. Some of these projects visualize community generated dat ... Other projects visualize Real https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1006445 http://flowingcity.com/the-project/ 2013-02-10T06:39:40Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1000170 http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v16/n2/full/nn.3304.html 2013-01-31T13:37:39Z The democratizing technologies of the web have brought t... raw-materials required to make a map to a wider audience... This proliferation of mapping has redefined modern Carto... general practice of “making maps” to the purposefu... Purposeful https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=997762 http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/geoinformatics/centre-for-geoinformatics-seminar-series/friday-1-february-2-3pm/ 2013-01-28T17:39:08Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=979219 http://www.lbc.co.uk/is-this-tube-map-an-improvement-for-london-59836/album/is_it_time_for_the_tube_map_to_change_/1850 2013-01-11T09:29:40Z Every 10 years since 1841, the government has collected ... population to understand how the country is changing. Us... to get a picture of how your local authority has changed... previous census in 2001 and the most recent. Our data tr... census cate https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=933733 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2012/dec/13/census-2011-truth-where-you-live-interactive 2012-12-13T13:49:25Z I looked down at Jane, aka the voice of my TomTom XL1 na... Completely empty. We are nowhere. Disturbingly precise, our nowhere was notated. ... 0mph 1:22pm 206 SW https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=932310 http://elizabethchurchill.com/abstracts/maps-and-moralities-blanks-and-beasties/ 2012-12-12T11:23:09Z PARIS https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=889318 http://www.armellecaron.fr/art/index.php?page=plans_de_berlin 2012-10-31T19:28:30Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=864481 http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/footer/about.jsp 2012-10-08T12:26:04Z Amid China's tumultuous dash to become rich, one man's p... Huang Qingjun has spent nearly a decade travelling to re ... The results offer glimpses of the utilitarian lives of m ... But seen more closely, they also show the enormous socia ... Elderly Chi https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=854743 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19648095 2012-09-25T08:10:48Z More than 200 schools are using CCTV cameras in toilets ... figures showed today. A total of 825 cameras were located in the toilets or ch ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=848761 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cctv-used-in-more-than-200-school-toilets-8129979.html 2012-09-12T22:55:04Z NAVIGATE TO THERE WHERE YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN Design your personal definition of silence, was the assi ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=829858 http://cargocollective.com/tomloois/Blank-Ways 2012-08-16T06:58:36Z Going beyond the standard media sharing and mapping solutions currently available, Placebooks aims to provide communities with richer ways to tell the story of the places they live in or visit. The toolkit is being made available for open, free distributi https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=823012 http://www.horizon.ac.uk/News/placebooks-a-new-mobile-app-web-service-launched-at-royal-geographic-society?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter 2012-08-01T14:17:09Z A study of the world's largest subway networks has revea... remarkably mathematically similar. The layouts seem to converge over time to a similar stru ... The study, in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface ... It found common distributions of stat https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=780674 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18072627 2012-05-17T13:11:21Z Browse all maps with options to filter by year, auth... Listing of all current & past venues. See what the exhibit entails, plus how to host it at ... Places & Spaces: Mapping Science is meant to inspire cro ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=770402 http://scimaps.org/ 2012-05-02T06:56:30Z It seems that a lot of people have been talking about pu... Each stone measures 40 x 40 x 7 centimeters (15.75 x 15. ... iPavement being installed in Spain Along with providing internet usage to passers-by, howev ... The apps are available in a number of https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=767725 http://www.gizmag.com/ipavement-wifi-paving-stones/22325/ 2012-04-28T15:40:58Z Art Mapping Event A two-day workshop for those with an interest in mobile ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=744505 http://beta.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/courses-and-workshops/art-mapping 2012-04-03T11:43:49Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=737137 http://woollythoughts.com/index.html 2012-03-26T15:12:19Z Microsoft is under fire this week over a patent it was g... dubbed the "avoid ghetto" feature for GPS devices. The n... to help pedestrians avoid unsafe neighborhoods, bad weat... terrain by taking information from maps, weather reports... The word "g https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=699834 http://www.npr.org/2012/01/25/145337346/this-app-was-made-for-walking-but-is-it-racist?sc=tw 2012-02-08T09:32:23Z People walking on Old Compton Street in Soho, London One part of the brain keeps track of the straight line d ... Brain scans have revealed the workings of the brain's GP ... Two areas of the brain appear to take turns as our inter ... ... identify how th https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=604749 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/nov/15/scans-reveal-brain-gps-navigate 2011-11-16T19:14:14Z HaptiMap, Haptic, Audio and Visual Interfaces for Maps a... Services, is a project which receives financial support ... Commission in the Seventh Framework Programme, under the... If you are walking or cycling, and don’t want to (or a ... The HaptiMa https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=580524 http://www.haptimap.org/home/about-haptimap.html 2011-10-31T15:07:33Z Remember the days before you could pull your smartphone ... and get instant directions from your current location to... world? It's kind of foggy for me, too. In fact, I'm so used to relying on my smartphone that I ... The answer is "yes," of course. B https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=561782 http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/10/indoor-navigation.html 2011-10-12T18:33:37Z Maps are universal forms of communication, easily unders... appreciated regardless of culture or language. This trul... introduces readers to the widest range of maps ever cons... volume: maps from different time periods and a variety o... made for di https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=357289 http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo5486535.html 2011-03-10T21:19:19Z A new rock with “topographic compositions”discovered... Valcamonica, Italy by Alberto Marretta The Bedolina area is today known mostly for one unique r ... In general the imagery found in Bedolina links both with ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=337585 http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=18854 2011-02-24T10:41:37Z Just beyond the Cemmo Boulders there is the area of Sera... divided into four sectors. Most figures of this area dat... and the Iron Age (from the end of the third till the fir... B.C.). The rocks have small dimensions and present many ... The upper p https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=337581 http://www.voli.bs.it/itinera/Cd/english/rock_engravings/park_seradina_bedolina/default.htm 2011-02-24T10:38:32Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=337572 http://www.scribd.com/doc/9676854/New-rock-art-discoveries-in-Bedolina-Valcamonica-Italy 2011-02-24T10:32:52Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=219843 http://twitpic.com/2woim6/full 2010-10-13T07:52:10Z The Nakajima Laboratory at the University of Electro-Com... Japan has developed a prototype pair of GPS-enabled glas... lights built into the frame to keep you moving in the ri... The glasses house a microcomputer used to input your fin ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=183191 http://techland.com/2010/08/03/wherein-japan-stuffs-a-gps-system-into-a-pair-of-eyeglasses/ 2010-08-04T08:06:29Z There are two within subject variables to be investigate... angle and the other is pair type. A graph like the one b... convenient display of the effects of these variables, wh... analyzed for significance using a 2 X 6 repeated measure... In additio https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=179980 http://www.psych.uni.edu/psychexps/InstrOnly_Page/mentalrotation.htm 2010-07-20T11:32:01Z Wardriving is the act of searching for Wi-Fi wireless ne... in a moving vehicle, using a portable computer or PDA. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=138530 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardriving 2010-02-01T11:17:47Z Legibility is a term used to describe the ease with whic... Paths: familiar routes followed- (1st Kordon) "are the c ... Districts- areas with perceived internal homogeneity(Kem ... Edges- dividing lines between districts- (Izmir Bay) "ar ... ... ider ot https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=133958 http://www.angelfire.com/ar/corei/hbe1/lynch1.htm 2010-01-06T14:22:58Z Data.gov.uk Newspaper Friday, October 16th 2009 Over the last three days we’ve been working on a side ... We’ve been thinking about the beta Data.gov.uk reposit ... And perhaps unsurprisingly, we thought a good way to do ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=120187 http://blog.newspaperclub.co.uk/2009/10/16/data-gov-uk-newspaper/ 2009-10-17T15:17:55Z Architecture is often seen as the art of a thinking mind... organises and establishes relationships between the part... It is also seen as the art of designing spaces, which we... through movement and use. Conceptual ordering, spatial a... narrative a https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=90449 http://www.routledgearchitecture.com/books/Architecture-and-Narrative-isbn9780415343763 2009-03-28T09:13:45Z Annual Review of Sociology Vol. 26: 463-496 (Volume publication date August 2000) (doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.26.1.463) A Space for Place in Sociology ... laces matter for social practices and historical change? https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=90447 http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146%2Fannurev.soc.26.1.463 2009-03-28T09:11:16Z The atlas contains five maps which trace the territories... The maps are: – Public Authoring, Education & Learning – Neighbourhoods & Communities ... – Robotic Feral Public Authoring https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=87415 http://socialtapestries.net/atlas.html 2009-03-11T11:16:54Z The intelligent use of space David KirshE-mail The Corresponding Author Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 9209 ... Available online 6 April 2000. ... tasks, and how they continuously manage that workplace. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=79014 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TYF-4002FNS-2&_user=10&_origUdi=B6W48-46H14R9-7&_fmt=high&_coverDate=02%2F28%2F1995&_rdoc=1&_orig=article&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=6848254e5187985198a3e2ea0c097782 2009-01-16T14:22:43Z Non-Places, Placelessness https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=30950 http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/place/nonplaces.htm 2008-02-18T21:17:21Z Telstra hit over virtual Uluru By Simon Canning May 24, 2007 01:00am Article from: The Australian ... ts extensive investment in the online world Second Life. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=6365 http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,21785853-462,00.html 2007-05-26T10:34:29Z Signs and notices Created by on-the-run. View as slideshow (New window open in a new window) ... rance Toc6 half-sign protest1 site London Road Eid cards https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=3170 http://www.flickr.com/photos/on-the-run/sets/72157594172886292/ 2007-01-03T16:54:17Z