Watch London in real time: tweets, tubes, etc.
What an amazing site to build as a companion to a video game. Can anyone explain if this is somehow integral to the game itself?
So one of the sources listed is http://opencellid.de/ and there are similar services for the other countries tracking mobile phones.
Can anyone familiar with this explain how this type of service is possible?
From my limited understanding, it seems like these services all track / utilize cell phone base stations, which I understand to essentially be the device that connects you to the network. But how do they identify the positions of all of the mobile devices utilizing each station? Is this something that is openly broadcasted by the base stations?
It appears to be broken rather than "amazing" for me in 3 different browsers on 2 OSs.
"click on the map or on a blue symbol ..."
Clicking on the map does nothing and there are no blue symbols shown.
Works fine on Windows 8.1 with Chrome 35.
By far the most interesting thing is the overlay of map with tweets. I'm using a cinema display, so can't say I have problems reading small type. Although the color scheme looks very Blade Runner, it makes overlaying only a few options difficult to grok. Scrolling is slow.
Still impressed this was rolled out for a video game. Have there been any other presentations like this in the past?
Do tweets have location data attached to them?
300% CPU Usage...
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4702MQ CPU @ 2.20GHz
Interesting data aggregation, but impossible to use without a supercomputer.
Loads on an iPad 2 Safari and the crashes the browser shortly after a city is selected.
Is this data gathered by the Watch_Dogs companion app for mobile devices, I wonder?
Amazing, How was this coded?
Why does this eat up all my CPU?
working on something similar for chicago with a bit less load time: citypulse.io
where does the data come from? OpenStreetMap?
pretty amazing
Splash screen, loading screen, Adobe Flash, microscopic typefaces. Feel like I went through a time warp to 2001.
Also does not work at all on Chrome for Mac.
It looks amazing but getting data from a twitter mainstream with geolocalized tweets as other social data as well is not difficult to implement. In my opinion the key is how to create that map from scratch.