SecureSmartCam » CameraV (InformaCam Project)

I think you can go pretty crazy in the first pass. Nike is a good starting point for sure. while a map view is a central aspect to the data, it is also the most common place type of data we have. I am more excited about all the surrounding or complementary data to the GPS points.

ideally a can get gps points for cell towers but Bluetooth and WiFi devices may be more vague.

remember will will have multiple snapshots of data at multiple timestamps.

this includes accelerometer and compass data showing facing and tilt etc which are very important to match with the camera viewpoint playback.

I'm going to love how this turns out. There's an amazing amount of data - both at the micro scale (like the accelerometer) and the macro scale (relationship to the landscape). And the time aspect is also fascinating.

Carrie - note that there is unlikely to be person/name information. That's not Spy vs Spy enough for this crowd! It's an MD5 hash!

PS: laughing at how the route image above starts at Blue Smoke...my fave!!!!

Thanks for the reply Nathan.

About how many sets of data will there be at different timestamps? Also, what do the different snapshots represent? Are they the seconds before or after a photo is taken?

It's not quite clear to me, yet, how to handle the multiple snapshots of data. Ideas and are thoughts welcome of course. :) I think the goal of the this view is, really, to give a sense of place. John mentioned this on the call on Tuesday, and it really stuck. I've been looking through that lens when making decisions about how and what info is displayed.

Again, thanks.

it is hard to say really. i think just imagine having multiple compass heading changes over time (I.e. what direction was the person facing while standing at a specific lat, Lon) instead of just one point.

you also have temperature and light. which I think can be represented outside of a specific Geo path. perhaps just having an auxiliary gauge that shows the temp range for the whole data set.

we can also reverse engineer data from time+location, such as speed. this is important to correpsond a video of someone running with the data that matches.

on the point of names, the WiFi ssids and Bluetooth devices are currently shown as human readable names. we have not yet anonymized them and I am not sure we will. it could be good to display then, especially if say, one is named "Starbucks" or "Comcast WiFi" etc. its another way of establishing place.

On the micro vs. macro scale—

I'm using Damascus, Syria (suburb of Jobar) as the sample use case here. See image. Scales will differ a bit depending on the location, but these seem to work as a start—

1000 - 2000 ft mainly shows cell phone towers; Wifi networks and location can also be represented.

100 ft shows location and wifi networks. The blue circle represents the number of surrounding bluetooth devices. It would be scaled based on the number of devices; For example, a small circle for 1 BT device, and a large circle for 20 BT devices. (I'm not completely sold on that idea.)

Note: We won't have long, lat points for the wifi networks, so I'm not quite sure, yet, how they should be represented on the map.

25 ft shows compass direction and the movement of the person before or after the photo is taken. We could also show where other photos were taken along the path (while the camera was open).
The gradient colors are meant to reflect the speed of the person.

Note: This is very close in; Currently on Google maps 100 ft is the closest it scales.

My questions so far:

1. Can we zoom in close enough (to 25 ft) to show a person's movement before or after the photo is taken?

2. Do you have thoughts on how the wifi networks and bluetooth devices should be represented on or off the map?

Also if you have any visual map inspiration, please share.

Another option for visualizing the networks is through charts.

In order for the information to be meaningful, it really needs to be compared to something else—be that a norm number or range, or another piece of data. In these charts, I've used a scale, to give a reference for comparison—

small circle: 1-10 networks
medium circle: 11-20 networks
large circle: 21-30 networks

Questions:
1. Does this kind of representation make sense to you—does it tell you something about the story in a meaningful way?
2. What are your thoughts on showing this info in a chart vs. on the map?

1. Can we zoom in close enough (to 25 ft) to show a person's movement before or after the photo is taken?>

I think we have to have a zoom view w/o map tiles, so we can see small movements. We can choose not to use satellite map tiles, and just show vectors.

2. Do you have thoughts on how the wifi networks and bluetooth devices should be represented on or off the map?

There should be some standard icons we can use, and then figure out how to do density.

As for charts, I think we need to have as many charts as possible, as it is not just geolocation that matters. We want to see trends over time.