[Ráfaga] Nº1505: pedestrian, giant, oblique

[Jorge Sanz]

Nº1505: pedestrian, giant, oblique

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 by Raf

* "Desirable Streets" is an MIT project that compares the shortest
path and the actual GPS route chosen by pedestrians to assess the
environment and understand which are the best streets to walk in the
city of #Boston

https://senseable.mit.edu/desirable-streets/

* A huge plotter with interchangeable colors controlled by an Arduino
to draw maps on the walls. Data comes from OSM in SVG format. It
allows you to decorate your home in several steps (hw and sw a github)

http://volzo.de/posts/plottermap/

* The importance of oblique satellite images (outside of nadir) for
earth observation, in many cases higher than the commonly seen flat
vertical images

https://medium.com/nightingale/earth-at-a-cute-angle-dc2f8c29495a

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