This document discusses how geotagging can be used as a new tool in documentaries and creative works. It suggests that geotagging allows people to visualize invisible elements and histories of places. Locations and landmarks can be combined with rich media content, themes, and narratives to create new meaning and experiences for viewers. When guided by rules and interaction, geotagged works can turn real world landscapes into interactive "exhibitions" that bring history alive and make the cultural aspects of places more personal. A variety of examples of existing geotagged works are provided.

1. Is Geotagging
the New Tool in the
Documentary Toolbox?

2. Waag Society
Creative technology for social innovation

3. 7scenes
Mobile and online platform for GPS games and tours

4. Places - more than geography
have histories, invoke behavior, are personal, physical & virtual

5. Mobile phone: “swiss army knife”
always on, always linked in, location & context-aware

6. How can we see & shape this new mobile space?
We need new tools!

7. It’s more than a collection of points-of-interest

8. “All the world is a stage and all men and women merely players”
create scenarios, design rules, direct interaction

9. Geotagging for visualisation
Making the invisible visible

10. Britain from Above
planes

11. Britain from Above
boats

12. Britain from Above
trains

13. Britain from Above
taxis

14. Britain from Above
planes

15. Britain from Above
children

16. Britain from Above
carbagetrucks

17. Amsterdam RealTime
A new collaborative map of Amsterdam

18. Amsterdam RealTime
A new collaborative map of Amsterdam

19. Amsterdam RealTime
A new collaborative map of Amsterdam

20. Amsterdam RealTime
A new collaborative map of Amsterdam

21. N8 game
Competing teams with creative drawing tools

22. N8 game
Competing teams with creative drawing tools

23. N8 game
Competing teams with creative drawing tools

24. Futuresonic Festival in Manchester
a geotagged reporting experiment

25. Sarai, Delhi
a new psychogeographic map

26. Sarai, Delhi
tracing the old Delhi city wall

27. Esther Polak
Milk & Nomadic Milk

28. Christian Nold
Biomapping & emotionmaps

29. Steph Thirion
Cascade on Wheels

30. Beatriz da Costa with Cina Hazegh and Kevin Ponto
Pigeonblog

31. Jeremy Wood
GPSdrawing

32. Stamen
Cabspotting

33. A new tool?
visualize flows for a new understanding
•
(re-)explore your surroundings
•
traces are very personal
•
discussion platform: collect feedback & stories
•
• active user participation: mapping is a collaborative process
live broadcasting
•
Geotagging for visualisation
Making the invisible visible

34. Geotagging for on-site publication
New city experiences

35. (Urban) landscape
Rich in content
Cultural meaning, historic events, demographics and more
Rich in physical landmarks
Buildings, squares, monuments, paths, structures, natural elements, etc
Personal
personal memories and associations, social connections
The (urban) landscape as your exhibition space

36. The recipe
locations & landmarks + rich media content +
themes + narrative + navigation +
(game)rules for (social) interaction
personal trigger (GPS), perception & input
=
new meaning
That magic moment...

37. Anne Frank
Exploring Anne Frank’s direct neighborhood

38. Frequency 1550
www.waag.org/frequency

39. An educational location-based game, blending medieval
history out on the streets of Amsterdam.

40. Frequency 1550
The right balance: gameplay, narrative & interaction on location

41. Fort Amsterdam - Discover New Yorks Dutch roots
www.fortamsterdam.org

42. Fort Amsterdam - Discover New Yorks Dutch roots
www.fortamsterdam.org

43. Fort Amsterdam - Hudson ’09 - 400 year anniversary
www.fortamsterdam.org

44. Timemachine

45. Timemachine
Time travel to Holland’s golden ages by car

46. Re-architect
www.re-architect.org

47. Re-architect
Photographic treasure hunt exploring Hong Kong’s architecture

48. Games Atelier
Learn about citizenship in Amsterdam’s Oosterpark

49. Blast Theory
Uncle Roy All Around You, Can You See Me Now & more

50. Yolande Harris
Sun Run Sun

51. Teri Rueb
Drift

52. Mushon Zer-Aviv & Kati London
You Are Not Here

53. Ricardo Dominguez et al @ UCSD
Transborder Immigrant Tool

54. <TAG> & Sander Veenhof
Second Life visits The Hague

55. A new tool?
the city is a stage: a new publication platform
•
blending the physical & virtual: create new meaning
•
new formats: different possibilities for interaction
•
make history come alive
•
the power of maps & navigation
•
make it personal
•
co-creation
•
Geotagging for on-site publication
New city experiences

56. Thanks! Questions?
ronald@7scenes.com
ronald@waag.org