artists track San Francisco cabs live via GPS
Apr 15, 2006 gps navigation, gps software, misc news
cabspotting
This web-based tool/art project created by Peter Richards and Susan Schwartzenberg traces San Francisco cabs as they travel throughout the bay area. The project launch was last week and the site seems to be functioning great so far.
Yellow Cab is one of a number of taxi companies which uses GPS technology to track the locations of their taxis as they drive around the city. Once every minute or so, each cab reports it’s location to the central dispatch. As orders for pick ups come in over the phone, these addresses are automatically passed to drivers, depending on how close they are. This location data is usually discarded after being reported – but Yellow Cab has generously allowed us to capture this information over time, allowing the generation of the maps you see on this site.
The project was done by Exploratorium and they encourage other artist to join and build upon the idea to create projects that reveal larger projects, such as Tomas Apodaca’s Fly Cab, and Amy Balkin’s In Transit.
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