135635767270
Tracing You (2015) – by Benjamin Grosser
Tracing You presents a website’s best attempt to see the world from its visitors’ viewpoints. By cross referencing visitor IP addresses with available online data sources, the system traces each visitor back through the network to its possible origin. The end of that trace is the closest available image that potentially shows the visitor’s physical environment. Sometimes what this image shows is eerily accurate; other times it is wildly dislocated. What can a computational system know of our environment based on the traces we leave behind? Why might it want to see where we are? How accurate are the system’s data sources and when might they improve? Finally, what does this site’s attempt to trace its visitors reveal about who (or what) is reading the web?
Date liked: 2015/12/22 00:12:01
59 Tumblr notes
Liked from: The New Aesthetic
Originally posted from: tracingyou.bengrosser.com
Post tagged:
No tags
Automatically generated tags:cityscape 353
urban landscape 244
collage 134
travel 91
geography 76
satellite view 20
street view 9
different cities 1
map views 1
world locations 1