Bradford Mapping Game

Another technology we recently learned about was GPS data loggers and other hardware and software we can use to track our journeys and plot photographs on a map. To help us understand how this works we were asked to plan a mapping 'game', which wasn't place specific so it could be played anywhere. My group came up with an idea for a game which involves four people. Each person was to go either North, East, South or West and photograph things which began with each letter of the place name that they are in. Our game was to be played in Bradford so each player had to find things that began with the letters 'B', 'R', 'A', 'F', 'O', 'R' and 'D'. I'll post the the groups photographs here when I get them. Hopefully they will be put on flicker to make it easier.

The game I was given to play in Bradford involved a mapped out route from the media museum to the interchange and a list of things to find each with a certain amount of points. The aim of the game is to find as many of the things on the list, photograph them and get the most points.Below is a picture of the list in organised columns of objects worth 10, 50 and 100 points.

I uploaded all my photographs onto Flickr. You can connect your blog to your Flickr account and upload things to your blog straight from Flickr. I haven't tried this yet but I did test it as you can see above-and it actually works! I didn't think blogging could be this technical, but I think it's great how all these websites like Flickr, Blogger, Facebook, Tumblr etc can be connected making it easier to transfer things from one to another and make all your accounts more manageable. 

Below is a slideshow from Flickr that I embedded into this post. It took me forever to figure out how to do this as it wouldn't copy the whole code and I know it might seem obvious to most but I figured out you have to switch to HTML mode to put the whole code in-thats just another small thing I've learnt whilst using Blogger which will be very useful for future reference.

You can also use Flickr to plot your photographs on a map which is called geotagging. Still not totally sure what the point of this is but I did it anyway-the link to my map is below 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31484451@N08/map?&fLat=53.7919&fLon=-1.7562&zl=3&order_by=recent