About a month ago our second walking tour App went live in the AppStore and was promptly featured by Apple leading to a rapid spike in downloads. The Powerhouse Museum Walking Tours App is a free download, unlike our Sydney Observatory App, and it comes pre-packaged with two tours of the suburbs surrounding the Museum [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Geotagging & mapping'
China Heart goes live – a mobile storytelling experience
January 27th, 2011 3 Comments
China Heart launches tonight, Thursday January 27, at the Powerhouse and the ‘general public’ (more likely, niche publics) can start playing it with all the special real-world additions between January 30 and February 13. Of course, you can play it outside this period – and you can even play it without being in Sydney. If [...]
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Sharing with SepiaTown – historical images re-mapped
October 19th, 2010 3 Comments
Early in the year when I visited Josh Greenberg and the digital team at the New York Public Library, I was told about SepiaTown. One of quite a few ‘Then & Now’ web projects (see also History Pin), SepiaTown puts historic images back on the (Google) map, also using Google Street View to connect the [...]
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Subject or photographer location? Changing contexts of geotagged images in AR applications
April 20th, 2010 2 Comments
If you’ve tried the Powerhouse Museum layer in Layar in the past few days on the streets of Sydney you may have noticed some odd quirks. Let’s say you are in Haymarket standing right here. You open Layar and it tells you that where you are standing is the location of the following image. Now [...]
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New version of Powerhouse Museum in Layar : augmented reality browsing of museum photos around Sydney
April 16th, 2010 Comments Off
Last year we trialled Layar for the display of historical photos of Sydney from the collection. At the time Layar was not all that stable and our content was mixed in with those of others. Now the application is more stable and our layer in Layar is discoverable simply by searching ‘Powerhouse Museum’ in the [...]
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Augmented reality update – using Powerhouse geocoded photographs on your iPhone 3GS with BuildAR and Layar
October 17th, 2009 4 Comments
So you read about MOB’s implementation of the Powerhouse historical images in Layar for the Android phones . . . well, Layar is now available for the iPhone! You’ll need a 3GS as it uses the compass for orientation but the Layar application is free from the App Store. Once you’ve installed Layar on your [...]
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Augmented reality and the Powerhouse images in the Commons (or interesting things clever people do with your data #7215)
October 6th, 2009 1 Comment
On Saturday night at our (very rainy) Common Ground meetup in Sydney, Rob Manson and Alex Young from BuildAR demonstrated the first version of their augmented reality mobile toolkit using images from the Powerhouse’s geocoded photographs in the Commons on Flickr. This work riffs around the early mashup from Paul Hagon where he combined the [...]
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Suggestify – fixing incorrectly geotagged locations
October 6th, 2009 Comments Off
Flickr has been on fire recently with the addition of ‘Galleries’. Galleries have been put to great use – apparently 25,000 galleries in the first week – including the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s lovely Astrophotography gallery and, of course, those around the Sydney dust storm, Now Aaron Straup-Cope, also of Flickr, has released an alpha version [...]
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Introducing About NSW – maps, census visualisations, cross search
September 2nd, 2009 8 Comments
Well here’s an alpha release of something that we’ve been working on forever (well, almost 2 years). It is called About NSW and is a bit of a Frankenstein creation of different data sets mashed together by a sophisticated backend. The project began with an open-ended brief to be a cross-sectorial experiment in producing new [...]
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Maps are all around us
July 4th, 2009 1 Comment
I was reading Michael Chabon’s piece on childhood last week and one section popped out of the screen – It captured perfectly the mental maps of their worlds that children endlessly revise and refine. Childhood is a branch of cartography. Walking my daughter to school we tiptoe “past the wizard’s house” at the top of [...]
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