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• Leave messages about a location using your telephone.

• Explore a place through audio messages left by others.

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• Recent efforts involved with mapping geocoded visual and textual information have given us many rich interfaces with which to explore a place through a web browser.

• Enabling users to participate by adding their own content to these maps makes the experience even more compelling.

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Examples of participatory visual-based maps:• Foundcity

“Foundcity is a social mapping tool for creating a personalized map of your life on-the-fly. From your computer or cell phone, you tag locations, add photos, label them with any words you want, and plot them to your map, which you can share with friends, keep private, or publish openly.”

• mappr“Mappr is an interactive environment for exploring place, based on the photos people take.”

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• Maps with audio content - sound maps - offer the opportunity to explore a location with sound.

• The voice is an direct and compelling medium to tell and listen to stories.

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Examples of participatory sound maps:• City of Memory

“City of Memory is a narrative map of New York City that is currently being created as a web application by Local Projects and CityLore. Visitors will share in a collective memory through experiencing and submitting place-based stories.”

• NYSoundmap“The NYSoundmap is a container - a concept or idea to hold many types of processes and projects. This online sound map is only one of these possibilities.”

(Geo) Phone Tag

• (Geo) Phone Tag is a system built in Asterisk that enables users to enter their stories about a specific place using any telephone.

• Users call a telephone number, enter a street address and leave a message.

• The message is automatically uploaded to an online sound map at the location entered.

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Future of (Geo) Phone Tag:• Widen scope by connecting to larger address

database• Encourage participation• Use content in conjunction with field

recordings in a sound map installation• Explore other possible uses:

– port sound map to mobile devices– restaurant reviews or advertisements as

content– aid in disaster relief