slowurbanism – ka-au

App to map happiness

Marite Guevara — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 09:35:56 +0000

It’s part of a research project at the London School of Economics. Mappiness maps happiness across space in the UK to better understand how people’s feelings are affected by features of their current environment—things like air pollution, noise, and green spaces.

http://www.mappiness.org.uk/

Information provided by Judith Sykes at the 8th Symposium Métropoles du Sud – ENSAM (January 2016)

England’s best places to live

Marite Guevara — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:58:45 +0000

An interactive map, coloured, depending on which view you have selected, by standard of living and crime rate. Underneath the colour lies detailed information about each point on the map; you just need to click on it, and read on.

http://illustreets.co.uk/explore-england/

SMELLY MAPS

Marite Guevara — Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:47:01 +0000

Think about your nose. Now think about big data. You probably didn’t realize it, but your nose is a big data machine. Humans are able to potentially discriminate more than thousands different odors.

On one hand, we have our big data nose; on the other hand, we have city officials and urban planners who deal only with the management of less than ten bad odors out of a trillion. Why this negative and oversimplified perspective?

Smell is simply hard to measure.

SmellyMaps have recently proposed a new way of capturing the entire urban smellscape from social media data (i.e., tags on Flickr pictures or tweets).

Cities are victims of a discipline’s negative perspective, only bad odors have been considered. The SmellyMaps project aims at disrupting this negative view and, as a consequence, being able to celebrate the complex smells of our cities.

http://goodcitylife.org/smellymaps/index.html