Interactive Design of Multi-Perspective Images for Visualizing Urban Landscapes
VIS '04 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '04
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Everyone understands their city in a slightly different way. This project seeks to leverage these differences by allowing people to share their understandings and compile a visual social history of the city.Most wayfinding systems are designed around a process of discovery, of locating a known destination within the environment. A more subtle proposition is that of exploration, a progressive uncovering of the environment centered around the creation of one's own pathways. This project seeks to allow people to more readily grasp the potential for pathmaking within their environment. It allows them to collaboratively map their neighborhood through a network of geotagged cameraphone images documenting shared landmarks.As people add their own photos to the system, the shared image of the city grows and reflects new connections. Encouraged to explore, even lifelong residents may begin to see their home with a greater sense of depth and understanding.