Ride The City

Ride the City

Tenho escrito e pesquisado sobre mídias locativas e cartografias urbanas. Há muitos posts nesse Carnet sobre essa temática (basta uma busca na janela search, na esquerda do site). E tenho feito algumas experiências com mapas a partir de GPS Writing com o SUR-VIV-ALL e o IDENTITE. SUR-VIV-ALL foi feito de carro, mas o IDENTITE, de bicleta, meu meio de transporte favorito e, acho, uma das soluções para os problemas ecológicos e de circulação nas grandes cidades. Post do Techcrunch, RideTheCity.com: A Google Maps App for Safe Biking mostra aplicativo “mashup”, que utiliza dados secundários para propor aos ciclistas percursos mais rápios e mais seguros em NY (obrigado Macello Medeiros pela info).

Abaixo trechos do post e mapa:

“RideTheCity is a cool mash-up application that allows you to plan bike routes based on safety and speed. By typing – or selecting – a start and end location in New York City, the application will find the safest and quickest routes by factoring in bike routes for ‘safest’ trips and the shortest travel distance for the quickest trips.

The project is run by three bikers, Jordan Anderson, Vaidila Kungys, and Josh Steinbauer (Full disclosure: I went to college with Jordan but found out about this via NPR.) who connected Google maps to a few basic heuristic rules and added a cool logo. The GIS data comes from the city itself and is merged with Google Maps for display.

(…) Every time you search Ride the City, we look through more than 125,000 records in a database. Most of that data comes from the City’s LION GIS data. The City’s LION file does not contain bicycle facility data, so we made a Freedom of Information Act request to the NYC Department of Transportation and NYC Department of City Planning. That got us a little closer, but we still had to put in dozens of hours of data cleanup to get everything working more-or-less correctly.(…)”.