I just listened to an episode of Here on Earth that focuses on this project called Urban Earth run by Daniel Raven-Ellison, a geographer at the Langtree School. Similar to Google Street, they are trying to capture still images of cities by starting at one side and walking to the other, taking a picture every 8 steps. The goal is demystify mega cities and show that there is much more to these cities than what is traditionally represented in the media.
If you're interested, here is the story...http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_081021k.cfm
There's not much on the website yet, but you can check it out here...http://www.urbanearth.co.uk/
Also, this summer On the Media had an interesting segment on border radio if Jim sparked your interest...http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2008/07/04/07
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There are a slew of other mapping projects that have been established around the vision of providing users with some control over (and low barriers into) the mapmaking process. See for example Open Streetmap’s wiki-style approach towards mapping - http://www.openstreetmap.org/, Greenmap’s community-centered take on online mapping and storytelling http://www.greenmap.org/, or Mapufacture http://www.mapufacture.com/. I am particularly interested in seeing why and how groups and individuals use/take up low barrier “open source mapping” (especially via online spaces). Yep, I am riding the hype of the “geospatial web” : )
For what it’s worth I do have a soft spot for Walk Score http://www.walkscore.com/ - not for its ability to produce a good scoring system, but for its transparency (it admits its weaknesses under the link “How it doesn’t work”) and as a starting point for discussions around what makes a good neighborhood or what makes a neighborhood walkable? I used it as part of an intergenerational workshop and it sparked some very good discussions.
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