Comments on: Britain From Above http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/03/britain-from-above/ Exploring How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:21:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Andy Davies-Coward http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/03/britain-from-above/comment-page-1/#comment-166774 Andy Davies-Coward Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:56:25 +0000 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/?p=1822#comment-166774 I'm the Creative Director of the company that interpreted the data and turned it into the animations that feature in the BBC Britain from Above programmes. We're currently working to visualize data of the ocean floors for a big upcoming documentary. Our website is www.422south.com I’m the Creative Director of the company that interpreted the data and turned it into the animations that feature in the BBC Britain from Above programmes. We’re currently working to visualize data of the ocean floors for a big upcoming documentary. Our website is http://www.422south.com

]]> By: Brennan http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/03/britain-from-above/comment-page-1/#comment-162348 Brennan Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:23:25 +0000 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/?p=1822#comment-162348 here's a torrent link to the first episode as well http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4339393/Britain_From_Above_Ep01_PDTV_DIVX It does look sick. here’s a torrent link to the first episode as well

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4339393/Britain_From_Above_Ep01_PDTV_DIVX

It does look sick.

]]> By: Brennan http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/03/britain-from-above/comment-page-1/#comment-162347 Brennan Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:21:14 +0000 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/?p=1822#comment-162347 What David is saying is pretty solid. I think he's tap dancing around a more important issue though. Since we have all this information available we should be able to manipulate it and display it in a way that we find meaningful. This way people can search the internet for solutions instead of keywords. For instance, if I want to find a trip/hotel/activities in Florida I should be able to access every online flight and hotel website's database, sort my queries by whatever criteria I want and choose whatever output I find useful. You can even do this right now with Yahoo Pipes and Microsoft's popfly. I do it to aggregate my RSS feeds. I also use it to mash up google maps with news websites. The problem is that figuring out how to use these online programs is difficult if you're not a program, which I'm not. It's cool stuff to mess around with anyways. This google maps mashup website is pretty cool too http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/. What David is saying is pretty solid.

I think he’s tap dancing around a more important issue though. Since we have all this information available we should be able to manipulate it and display it in a way that we find meaningful. This way people can search the internet for solutions instead of keywords.

For instance, if I want to find a trip/hotel/activities in Florida I should be able to access every online flight and hotel website’s database, sort my queries by whatever criteria I want and choose whatever output I find useful.

You can even do this right now with Yahoo Pipes and Microsoft’s popfly. I do it to aggregate my RSS feeds. I also use it to mash up google maps with news websites. The problem is that figuring out how to use these online programs is difficult if you’re not a program, which I’m not.

It’s cool stuff to mess around with anyways.

This google maps mashup website is pretty cool too http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/.

]]> By: W. David Stephenson http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/03/britain-from-above/comment-page-1/#comment-159176 W. David Stephenson Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:16:31 +0000 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/?p=1822#comment-159176 Jeff: data enthusiasts in the UK will soon have a LOT of data. In the two months since I co-authored the white paper for nGenera on data feeds and data visualization tools http://tinyurl.com/6e7gkl , the UK has vaulted into the world lead in providing a wide range of data feeds (http://tinyurl.com/5j7j2e) and an incredibly creative competition ("Show Us a Better Way -- BTW, a refreshingly humble title, don't you think? -- http://tinyurl.com/6no48y) that is soliciting ideas from the public on better ways that government can use data to serve the public interest. Even better, they've created a £40,000 prize pool to further develop the best ideas (and, in a great Web 2.0 departure from normal procedure, all of the entries are publicly posted, which I suspect will result in "wisdom of crowds" ideas based on these ideas! Jeff: data enthusiasts in the UK will soon have a LOT of data. In the two months since I co-authored the white paper for nGenera on data feeds and data visualization tools http://tinyurl.com/6e7gkl , the UK has vaulted into the world lead in providing a wide range of data feeds (http://tinyurl.com/5j7j2e) and an incredibly creative competition (“Show Us a Better Way — BTW, a refreshingly humble title, don’t you think? — http://tinyurl.com/6no48y) that is soliciting ideas from the public on better ways that government can use data to serve the public interest. Even better, they’ve created a £40,000 prize pool to further develop the best ideas (and, in a great Web 2.0 departure from normal procedure, all of the entries are publicly posted, which I suspect will result in “wisdom of crowds” ideas based on these ideas!

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