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April 2008 – BuioMetria Partecipativa mentioned for the Seconda Luna Prize
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[Apr. 25, 2020, revision with additional soundtrack: Just Dropped In]
…i..e. how to tell the right story in the wrong way..
At that time I was operating as the communications manager for the M(‘)appare Milano campaign, during my period with GFOSS.it, the Italian OSGEO Chapter. So I had to contact the author of this article to highlight a major omission, and a somewhat imbalanced presentation of the project actors. With all this said: forever kudos to EdoM. Namely:
Since all the information about the rationale and the development of the project were published through the GFOSS.it institutional site, it would not have been difficult to obtain additional information.
The author of the article was contacted about these issues. At the time she refused to consider the possibility of providing some sort of follow-up to give a more balanced picture. As a somewhat partial compensation to this partial representation, we ended up having the final campaign event hosted by Politecnico di Milano (July 2, 2008). Still, the story of mis-aligned perceptions related to m(‘)appare was far from being resolved. Several other months of interesting interactions followed (and, to som extent, are still ongoing).
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Listen to the interview (in Italian)
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(MP3) , 7’53”, 7 Mb
Written with Sergio Loddo (Regione Sardegna).
As far as I recall this was one of the first multi-language web GIS applications in Italy (pulished in 2000). The aim of the project was to provide a site selection interface to promote the transfer of parcels being freed by declinining heavy industries to small and medium enterprises.
For the techies
Developed in PHP, the Jshape applet for mapping (no longer available), and an Oracle back-end. Before the web version, between 1997 and 1998 I designed and deployed a desktop version. This was based on ArcView 3.2 and MS Access. A feature of interest: the APR files for the fifteen industrial parks were generated via Avenue scripting with style parameters retrieved from a database so as to simplify the generation of subsequent versions of the interface.
The system also included a geographic web log mining component (explained in the article).
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