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Map Your Bands: Map App Itinerizes SXSW
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- 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: -
- What's the SXSW location problem?
- What are web services?
- What web services can enhance the SXSW user experience?
- What is a location-aware web app?
- Why is location-awareness increasingly important?
- How can academics contribute to the SXSW user experience?
- Can libraries possibly play a role in the modern music scene?
- How can a band use GIS and geospatial web apps for promotion?
- What's so great about open source geospatial technologies?
- 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
Developed for SXSW by Lindsey Simon