mishmap

Jason Tester writes about his experience in creating spatial content in San Francisco. He decomposes these spatial annotations into 2 categories - “I was here” and “You are here”.

The former is likely an emotional, possibly exhibitionistic statement (”I was standing under this window sill when someone exclaimed, ‘garde loo’”). The latter classification smells (sorry!) of intent and is potentially more useful. Jason provides these examples:

• warnings (”bad neighborhood!”)
• lost & found (perhaps with an incentive a la geo-cache)
• temporary notes (”bar was lame; the party has moved!”)

http://blogger.iftf.org/Future/000599.html