Following on from my look at image-based reconstruction of the buildings of a city, I want to explore another type of reconstruction; let’s call it psycho-social. While the image-reconstructions build a cloud of architectural feature points, location-tagged micro-blogging allows the formation of a cloud of social/emotional “enunciation points”.
With the announcement that Twitter will be building in support for latitude/longitude tagging, we are guaranteed a steady flood of points to build our Psycho-Social City.
The following is an example of what is being done with Twitter at the moment, without fine-grain location information:
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