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Map Your Bands: Map App Itinerizes SXSW

Event Interactive 2010
Format Dual
Organizer Jae Sung Kim Purdue University Libraries
Description Using combinations of web services and open source geospatial technologies, we've developed a prototype web app that helps solve the SXSW location problem, allowing users to find and map shows based on artist/genre sensibilities, generate a time and distance-sensitive itinerary, and locate supplemental information.
Questions
Answered
  1. What's the SXSW location problem?
  2. What are web services?
  3. What web services can enhance the SXSW user experience?
  4. What is a location-aware web app?
  5. Why is location-awareness increasingly important?
  6. How can academics contribute to the SXSW user experience?
  7. Can libraries possibly play a role in the modern music scene?
  8. How can a band use GIS and geospatial web apps for promotion?
  9. What's so great about open source geospatial technologies?
  10. What's a good way to inject some nerdiness in the SXSW scene?
Level Advanced
Category Back-End Programming / Databases, Front-End Programming, Geolocation, Mobile Applications, Web Apps / Widgets