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Title:

Map Your Bands: Map App Itinerizes SXSW

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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
Type:
Dual
Event:
Interactive 2010
Jenell Hawley
on 18/8/09
Very cool app. Maps out concerts and directs you to other shows that you might also like. Very sweet.
GB Ko
on 2/9/09
This is a real cool idea! thanks!
Developed for SXSW by Lindsey Simon