Your Town?
Putting together a Workshops at The Rendezvous in Sherborne re: Make a map that represents your place!
Most people use maps for directions,we will be exploring a personal map of the town. Asking participants;
- Do the official maps show how YOU use Sherborne?
- Do they show where you work, play, eat and hang out?
- Do they show which routes you like to use to get about?
- Are there parts of Sherborne that you don’t know and would like to explore?
- Where do those green footpath signs in town take you if you just keep on going?
Experimenting with photography, sound recording, signs and drawing we will create some new maps in and around Sherborne. Our maps will mix images, sounds, our own signs, descriptions and GPS positioning data to show the town as we find it in 2009.
Global Positioning System (GPS)
The Global Positioning System (an initiative of the American Department of Defence) is a technology with which you can always find your location from radiographic signals from 24 satellites that circle the earth. A device no bigger than a mobile phone does the job. With a triangular (timing) measurement, the receiver records your position on the earth each time a measurement is made. Afterwards these points can be downloaded into a computer and you can decide if and how you want to share the recorded locations and time codes with the rest of the world.
