This is intriguing: an emotional map of Greenwich (that's London Greenwich). A bunch of volunteers were issued with Biomapping devices, which I guess are like GPSs which measure galvanic skin response. The result could be a really useful planning tool, if you had enough people, but with a small number individual events dominate. Interesting to see a map of where people get agitated, but I can't tell whether they're excited-good or excited-bad.
Cool idea though.
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I've read several science fiction stories where this kind of thing is used by police departments to anticipate crime surges.
I wrote a demonstrator for something very similar, that we wanted to flog to Transport for London - Essentially strap a GPS for a bus, let it drive around - and find out (visually) where all the worst traffic hot-spots were (obviously the drivers know- but having real-time data's much more useful) - It never went anywhere (heh). Pity - the demo looked pretty cool (if I say so, myself) with moving maps and colouratation added to the map info, a bit like above. Tsk, looks like everyone's doing it now.
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