June 2005
Intermediate to advanced
568 pages
24h 7m
English
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Chapter 9, Mapping with Other People
#93 Node Runner
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Figure 9-1 shows the latest web interface for watching noderunners upload
pictures in real time. The game was recently played again in Paris with PDAs
and local base map data, and it is starting to look very sophisticated. http://
www.noderunner.com is a redeveloped version of the site, containing the full
rules.
A few months later, at the Cartographic Congress in London, we played our
own local version of Node Runner. http://downlode.org/noderunner/ shows
the rules and results for our modified version. We bent the rules a bit to fit
our local situation; as Wi-Fi coverage is not as good in London, we awarded
a point for each scanned node. And in a free-for-all spirit, we allowed more
than two teams to compete. We also required GPS coordinates for each
access point the teams logged on to. One team cheated slightly by photo-
graphing themselves by three access points within 15 meters of each other!
The winner optimized his strategy by charging around a downtown busi-
ness district that wasn’t really on the way from the start to the finish. Used
to sedentary wireless access in coffee shops, you may have more difficulty
negotiating on city streets with a digital camera and a laptop with attached
GPS. Gadgets galore!
Rich person’s location finding. You can use your GPS unit to take latitude and
longitude while you’re taking photographs. Better ...
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