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Urban Tapestries: A Brief Introduction

The Urban Tapestries system enables users to create a relationships between geographic places via the creation of pockets and threads.
Pockets are the relationship a user makes to a specific geographic place (with a granularity of 1 metre square) and contain the media the user chooses to associate with that place (such as a story and/or audio file and/or a picture).
Threads are the thematic relationships between pockets and geographic places and can vary from the practical, 'Fair Trade Goods Sold Here' to the personal, 'My Favourite Bars & Cafes'.

The content in the pockets and threads listed here was created during the December 2003 public trial for WiFi/PDA (HP iPaq) prototype and the June 2004 field trial for Symbian mobile phone (P800/900). Additional content continues to be added by the UT research team at Proboscis.

RSS Feeds

Use any of the URLs below to subscribe to specific feeds – by individual author or thread, or all pockets – or use the form at the bottom of the page to create a location-specific feed for content within a circle around a particular area. The total number of pockets in each feed is shown in parentheses.

All feeds' length can be adjusted by appending ;n=xx to obtain the most recent xx pockets. A special value of zero (";n=0") will return the entire list of pockets. Please note: do not use this except for the first time downloading a feed. (Every subsequent update will require downloading the entire feed.)

All pockets

Authors

Threads

By Location

Find your Easting and Northing (OSGB) coordinates (e.g. via streetmap) and enter them here with the max desired distance. If you use streetmap, just copy & paste the URL below and it'll work it out for you. (Sorry, GPS/WGS84 coords too hard right now.) Map of the trial area covered by the feeds. 


  Easting:  e.g. 527501
 Northing:  e.g. 179502
       or,
Streetmap: 

 Distance:
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