Locative Media

Urban Tapestries/ Social Tapestries
This is a software research project of Proboscis in collaboration with some organisations and schools for mapping and sharing knowledge and also for public authoring. It investigates combining the web and geographical information systems to create an avenue for people to write about their environment. Its aim is to make everyday people creators of content about their daily activities and environment which can be recorded and shared through relationships formed across boundaries.
It enables people to build relationships between places using stories, pictures, information, sounds and videos and seeks to help people participate in marking territory so as to increase their sense of ownership.
It also provides a platform for a series of engagement with communities to explore public authoring in real world settings. These projects are recorded in form of installations, software, essays, pictures, videos, project reports and academic papers.
People can author and therefore contribute, instead of only receiving. This includes their virtual annotations of a city, adding new locations and threads that allow individual locations to be linked to local locations using hand held devices. It helps a community’s collective memory to grow.

GeoGrafitti
It is a community generated information site using voice marks from specific locations from mobile phones.
This information can be sent and viewed from the website on a map with place marks of the different information from the specific location. One can search, listen or publish voice mark messages on the website. Voice marks can also be rated and tracked by others.
It is useful for getting timely information, responses, sharing information, ideas and thoughts and increasing the pool of information available.
It can be useful for getting directions.

Urban / Social Tapestries versus GeoGrafitti.
Both sites have community generated content; information concerning events and the environment; encourage the increased sense of ownership in the community; use maps; they cut across boundaries; they enable formation and management of relationships; sharing of information and exchange of ideas and they are both forms of record keeping.
GeoGrafitti uses only voice messages while Urban/Social Tapestries uses installations, software, essays, pictures, videos, project reports and academic papers.
GeoGrafitti uses only mobile phones while Urban/Social Tapestries uses mobile phones and other devices.