Mapping London – The Geotaggers’ approach
May 28th, 2010
As much as I love exploring cities, I love the tools which help me to uncover a city: Maps! Luckily we are not the only ones and are excited to see different people producing different maps of beautiful London. We would like to share our favourites with you and kick off with an extract from the Geotaggers ‘ World Atlas by Eric Fisher. Eric produced the pictures by using Flickr locational APIs for over 70,000 pictures and overlayed it on an OpenStreetMap. Enjoy! It’s a beautiful view of London.
You can clearly see that Greenwich in the South East and Kew Gardens in the far West of London are popular places to take pictures. I also think that there are a lot of pictures taken up in Wembley in the North West. Not sure what the cluster that is just north of Canary Wharf is.
Our friends at Flowing Data inform us that trace colours indicate mode of transportation: Black is walking, red is bicycling, and blue is moving by motor vehicle.
Side note: If you have any other beautiful maps geotagged or otherwise we are always keen to look at them!
Week 2 update
February 19th, 2010
Welcome to the second weekly update from your Whataplan headquarters
Also, earlier this week we felt it’s about time to write down our vision for what we are trying to achieve with whataplan.com. Even though it was more designed as a tool for Alan and I to keep our brain focused on the important things, we decided to publish it and see if you have any thoughts about it. It’s a bit long but in case you are a fan of many words, please feel warmly invited to read our vision which we then blogged about yesterday.
On the development front, the website is continuing to get into shape. Yes Yes! This week we have submitted the first exciting things to do in London using the website. We feel that users submitting/sharing plans is going to be an essential extension of our basic vision. In fact we have a couple of extension in mind which we will probably blog about next week.
In case you haven’t embraced us yet in the social media world, please feel invited to join our facebook group or follow us on twitter. See you there!
What a project!
January 21st, 2010
Hello World, pleasure to welcome you to What A Plan. We are excited to be able to relaunch our little website in new a new style with a lot of added functionalities that will allow you to discover and share exciting things to do in our great city. There is a lot to do and we will have to rely on your help to get the website off the ground. If you are keen to get involved, please don’t be shy, raise your hand and let us know that you are out there. We are going to be working hard to make the relaunch a success. It’s going to be an exciting journey and you are warmly invited to come with us and hold our hands where necessary. This is the place where we will update you on our progress.
All the best,
Alan and Matthias
