Interactive text mapping of “real places”
I wouldn’t be as interested in this previous to my life being inundated with geographers but…
Someone has started a project to develop easy tools to let people collabaratively create textual “maps” of the places they live. Like MUDs or choose-your-own-adventure novels. But of actual places. Producing I suppose, virtual worlds that mirror real landscapes but are subtley, or not-so-subtley modified by the perceptions of the people who live there.
There is a paper here for some cloistered academic interested in social perception. Or something. In any case, there are probably some interesting implications of this which I can’t think of right now.
And it has a text-messaging interface!
Still in it’s infancy, but apparently there is a substantial map of London, which I haven’t been able to figure out how to view: