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Semantic Wayfinding, mental maps and the keyhole problem of GPS-navigation
Last week I visited an interesting presentation at Harvard’s Urban Mobilities Group. They had invited Austrian cartographer Georg Gartner who gave a talk about his ‘semantic wayfinding‘ project. Semantic wayfinding is an approach to navigation media that takes human thinking, language and action as a starting point for the design of wayfinding technology and mapping…
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Navigate, walk, burn calories, save the earth
The latest Demos newsletter pointed out a website that combines at least three hot recent trends: the use of digital media to organize and navigate the city, environmental consciousness and the attention for health and obesity issues: Walkit.com is a site that’s lets you plan walking routes between two points in London, Birmingham and Edinburgh,…