Kartograph - Urban Mapping with Mobile Augmented Reality is a conceptual prototype for a mobile application designed to allow users to explore their urban environment and engage in social interaction.

1. KARTOGRAPH
MAPPING THE MOBILE CITY

2. TOC
 INTRODUCTION
- The Emergent City
- Information Urban Networks
- Barthes: Speaking the City
 PROJECT SCOPE and PROJECT PLAN
 PROTOTYPE
 SPEAKING THE CITY - CONCLUSION

3. INTRODUCTION:
THE EMERGENT CITY
The city experience is a web of
connected networks and multi
layered threaded paths that
condition us to the emotional state
of the city space. In essence, the
city fabric is a giant multi user multi
data sphere. To take part you really
have to put something back
in, that's like life. In this case, to
take part you have to input data so
others 'may' see the output of the
data response.
- Fabian Neuhaus,  I‟Park City by UNStudio, Suwon, South Korea
The Emergent City, Urban Tick, 11
May 2010

4. URBAN INFORMATION
NETWORKS
Utopian and radical architects in the
1960s predicted that cities in the
future would not only be made of
brick and mortar, but also defined by
bits and flows of information. The
urban dweller would become a
nomad who inhabits a space in
constant flux, mutating in real time.
Their vision has taken on new
meaning in an age when information
networks rule over many of the city's
functions, and define our
experiences as much as the physical
infrastructures, while mobile
technologies transform our sense of
time and of space.
- HABITAR
Project, aboralcentrodearte.org
 Architectural rendering of Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, designed by Foster +
Partners.

5. Speaking the city: Barthes
Walking in the city, people invent their own
urban idioms, a local language written in the
streets, and read as if out loud. A strange
city, too, can seem like a language you don‟t
know. Gradually, you pick up a few
words, recognize certain expressions, try out
some turn of phrase. Navigating the city, we
compose spatial sentences that begin to
make sense, gradually master the intricate
grammar of the streets. Slowly, we learn to
make the spaces of the city speak.
- Space, the city and social theory: social
relations and urban forms by Fran Tonkiss
Evan Hecox, Kyoto Street, 2004

6. Tracking the movement of a mouse on a screen for 1.9 hours using IOGraphica, flickr.com
PROJECT SCOPE

7. PROJECT SCOPE
Technical Requirements
• Cloud Hosting and server farm
• KML markup language
• Cocoon and Cocoa iPhone development
• Web 2.x application development technologies meeting web standards
and requirements
• Graphical design
• APIs – Google, Twitter, Trendsmap and others
• Ushahidi platform for web client integration and data analysis
End-user Requirements
• A late model iPhone: iPhone 3 or greater
• AT&T provider services
Deliverables
• An iPhone app available from Apple‟s iTunes store
• Web site promoting iPhone application
• Social media integration: partnership with Facebook, for example

8. PROJECT PLAN

9. KARTOGRAPH FEATURES
•Allows users to explore their cities and their
urban environment
•Map their travels in a custom map of visited
locations or desired sites to visit
•Voice-Record narratives as tweets and walking
tours
•Attach geotagged maps, images, and tweets
•Filter views with AR location maps
•Filter on location-based trends sourced from
Brizzly, Foursquare, Trendsmap and Twitter
•Filter on key tags such as News, Traffic, Police
and Fire
•Filter on text and voice tags
•Share locations via social networks and email;
sync with Facebook

10. KARTOGRAPH FEATURES
GPS and
Navigate
Map and
Social
Filter by
Media
Trend
Save
Connect recorded
with others location and
trip history

11. KARTOGRAPH FEATURES
•Allows users to explore their cities and their
urban environment
•Map their travels in a custom map of visited
locations or desired sites to visit
•Voice-Record narratives as tweets and walking
tours
•Attach geotagged maps, images, and tweets
•Filter views with AR location maps
•Filter on location-based trends sourced from
Brizzly, Foursquare, Trendsmap and Twitter
•Filter on key tags such as News, Traffic, Police
and Fire
•Filter on text and voice tags
•Share locations via social networks and email;
sync with Facebook

12. AR VIEWS
Bar Any
Café Lewis Teheranno St.
2 blocks left

13. Speaking the city: Barthes
[Roland Barthes‟] urban semiotics
takes the city not simply as text to be
read, but as a vivid mobile language
to be spoken. Cities are for Barthes
both a kind of writing and the urban
user a „kind of reader‟), and a
manner of speaking. „The city‟, as he
puts it, „speaks to its inhabitants, we
speak our city, the city where we
are, simply by living in it, by
wandering through it‟ (Barthes, 1997:
168).
- Space, the city and social theory: social relations and
urban forms by Fran Tonkiss
Marrakech Souk, Morocco, flickr.com

14. Language students use the mobile phone in their daily
life – both as students and as ordinary citizens (Chen
2007). They use their mobile phones to they take
photos of friends and the places they visit. They send
photos as MMS to their contacts or send them to their
own Internet site. They are able to download and play
media files such as music or short films. They can
access the Internet and check their emails.
Moreover, they can search for a variety of services on
the Internet. If they wish to locate a street, they can, for
example use “Google maps” which can be downloaded
in their phones.
Bo-Kristensen, M, Ankerstjerne, N. O, Wulff, C, and Schelde, H. “Mobile City and Language Guides - New
Links Between Formal and Informal Learning Environments” Electronic Journal of e-Learning Volume 7
Issue 2 2009, (pp85 - 92), available online at www.ejel.org