In which form does the network data world manifest itself in our everyday life? What comes back from cyberspace into physical space? How do digital innovations influence our everyday actions?
What is this? This is a little hack that uses Google's superb mapping application to help record distances traveled during a running or walking workout. Why? As a runner training for a marathon for the first time, I found myself wishing I had an easy way to know the exact distance a certain course is. Looking at Google Maps, and knowing there was a vibrant community of geeks hacking it, I knew there had to be a way.
MetriVis is a server/client based application to visualize and interactively explore very big XY graphs. It allows the user to mark interesting parts in the graph on the graph and giving it a description that can be shared with other people. Exploring the graph is done in a way similar to Google Maps, instead of a map a XY graph is displayed. It let's the user browse the graph by dragging or using the arrow buttons. The graph supports X/Y independent zooming.
With the advent of Google StreetView, everyone wanted to know what the car looked like. Here are 21 files that show either the car, or some intersting situations for the driver.