Cycle Running
I decided it was about time to get out there and start tracking my own cycle routes. On the map below you can see my latest track. Click on the Recent Tracks tab and you can scroll through all my journeys as I wheel about, gathering cycle interviews and other usual daily Hashbrum business!
If you click through to Details beside each track, you can see I've written a short piece on each journey in my Notes section. These act as a summing up of my journey including any safety concerns I see. If you'd like to add your routes and comment on your experiences (and you have an Android or Smartphone) then this App should cost around £5.99. Once you've got it if you could let me know below and befriend me.
I'm also hoping to export this data and it will inform my next map based on experiences of people road cycling in Birmingham.
Find out about my first cyclemap here.
Spaghetti Junctions #1
I'm currently working on game based around a kind-of psycho-geographic version of the 'six degrees of seperation' idea. Basically, the game encourages players to (tenuously) link together Birmingham facts and myths. Here's a version played on Google Wave before Christmas:
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It was quite fun but as you can see it collapsed when we used Wave to discuss 'the process' of the game. And I couldn't engage enough people in Wave to make it worthwhile.
It might be more appropriate to run it in Twitter but I think before I jump on there I want to work out how to get people understand how the game runs. I was thinking I might put some rules up either here or on #Brum site.
If it has a click through Wordpress page to I might be able to take the game to a second stage and prove or disprove the facts or myths, offering more background and links away from the focus of gameplay. This might be the journalism but the degree of proven truthfulness could be used as a points system of sorts.
Well there's still a lot to work through... Would love to hear what you think of this idea, or if you have any strong opinions on the following questions then speak your brains below...
Is Twitter the best place to run the game?
Should I be wary of too many rules?
Any ideas how I can get more folk involved?
Should there be a live geo-tagging picture version - and might that get you extra points?
Is there anything we can use to graphically show the facts so it represents a load of spaghetti links?