Emergent Map of Amsterdam

This is an exceptionally interesting approach to town planning and traffic management. In essence the project has asked Amsterdammers to let it look at their movements around the city from their perspective. Carrying portable GPS transceivers, they report their movements throughout the day as they travel not only the streets and subways, but the canals, shortcuts and back alleys. Each track means very little on its own, apart from knowing where she went Irene the fine weather cyclist doesn't give us much information. But combine her tracks with the others in the project, then accumulate them over 40 days and let the most heavily travelled routes become the strongest tracks, and you have an emergent description of the actual city that people live in. Keep an eye on this, there is some interesting stuff to be learned here.