SI25 Urban Small Talk

Urban Small Talk

Description:

Close your eyes, take a breath… the ambience has something to say. URBAN SMALL TALK is a digital archive of field recordings collected around Rotterdam, offering a new perspective into experiencing the city. Take a stroll around the soundmap and reconnect with Rotterdam, whether you are a fresh acquaintance or an old friend.

Cookbook

change of plans

Initial Steps taken

Signed up to UMAP and created a new map
Customized the map, centered it on Rotterdam
Created a csv file on cerealbox, where the data would go
Linked the csv file to the UMAP
Created HTML page on the cerealbox and embeded the map

Version 1

Next Steps:

Scrapped the whole thing, unfortunately. I started from scratch, following this documentation: OpenLayers Simple Example
and then moved on to leafletjs.com

Latest Version

the map on browser v0000

current layout

Eleni used leaflet js library to write a snippet of code and use a .csv file as the database which can be found here: https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Eleni/Special_Issue_25/Soundmap/Data

This is how the code looks like right now:

// setting the center of the maps
    var map = L.map('map').setView([51.924444, 4.469444], 13);
    L.tileLayer('http://{s}.basemaps.cartocdn.com/dark_all/{z}/{x}/{y}.png', {
      minZoom: 11,
	    maxZoom: 22,
      attribution: '&copy; <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright">OpenStreetMap</a>'
  }).addTo(map);

  // Read markers data from data.csv
  $.get('data.csv', function(csvString) {

  // Use PapaParse to convert string to array of objects
  var data = Papa.parse(csvString, {header: true, dynamicTyping: true}).data;

  // For each row in data, create a marker and add it to the map
  // For each row, columns `Latitude`, `Longitude`, and `Title` are required
  for (var i in data) {
    var row = data[i];

    // code from https://gist.github.com/uafrazier/d589caa322f1b1e7c651
    var customPopup = "<h2>"+row.Title+"</h2><p>"+row.Description+"</p>"+"<audio id='player' controls>"+row.URL+"<source src='" + row.URL + "' type='audio/ogg'>";
    
    // specify popup options 
    var customOptions =
        {
        'maxWidth': '250',
        'minWidth':'150',
        'className' : 'custom'
        }
    var marker = L.marker([row.Latitude, row.Longitude], {
      
      opacity: 1,

    // this part is for custom marker icon
    icon: L.icon({
      iconUrl: 'resources/map.png',
      iconSize: [60, 60]
    })
    
    }) .bindPopup(customPopup,customOptions).addTo(map);
  }});

  map.attributionControl.setPrefix(
  'View <a href="https://github.com/HandsOnDataViz/leaflet-map-csv" target="_blank">code on GitHub</a>'
  );

One of the issues Eleni had was that the code wouldn't work even though she had everything right. It was:

  <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js" integrity="sha256-FgpCb/KJQlLNfOu91ta32o/NMZxltwRo8QtmkMRdAu8=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

that was missing from the head.

IRL Map

Imre and Sevgi are working on the map and how we can make it interesting to collect 'sound related memories' during the event.

We are thinking about the physical map, maybe we can use legends as a way to guide the audience into adding their memories to the map.

https://rotterdamkaart.nl/kaart-1936/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plattegrond_van_Rotterdam_in_1940_(2).jpg

Legend

If the city could hear me?

questions;

What would happen if Rotterdam heard you?

Would the city change?

Would your existence in it change?

Does Rotterdam hear you? How can you tell?

If so, where are you heard?

If not, where would you want to be heard?

If you could speak with Rotterdam, how would the conversation go?

Do you make the city yours by recording it?

When have the city recorded you?

If you can't communicate with sound, how else can you?

Does Rotterdam understand you/Where does Rotterdam understand you?

Do you understand Rotterdam/Where do you understand Rotterdam?

How do you defy the city?

How does the city defy you?

Can be connected back to issues of belonging, feeling heard by the city, being used by it, hearing it, using it. Existing in a city is an interactive experience. How have you made the city yours, how did you fail? Have the city made you its own property? Do you feel agency, control over, controlled by? Do you shape how you interact with it, or does the city shape your interactions within it? Can be further tied to mobility, can you move around Rotterdam, do you let the city move within you? Are you yourself in Rotterdam, where exactly, which version of yourself are you? How did you let the city change you?