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Here we go with the “In the Heart of Tuscany” survey!

3 March 2024Senza categoriapibinko

The more you review presentations of tourism and culture situations in Tuscany, the more you get the feeling that a very high number of these places is characterised as being “…in the heart of Tuscany”. At this point we would like to better assess what is the perimeter of this heart…

The pibinko.org network, with over thirty years of experience in incredibly strange mapping, welcomes you to a “geo-anatomy” exercise, by helping us to locate the pulse-setting organ in this region.

If you manage a business, or you know somebody who does, and this business is “in the heart of Tuscany”, please let us know at micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228.

For those of you who are more social-network oriented, please see also https://www.facebook.com/groups/intheheartoftuscany/

All of your feedback will be relayed to our mapping department, and they will gradually create a map, which will be published at some point (we will give the survey a couple of months). If you like the initiative and would like to help us keep it alive, please consider supporting the pibinko.org network (https://www.pibinko.org/support/)

Thank you for your attention, and best regards from…the heart of Tuscany!

Who Rules the Waves? (2010)

2 March 2024Stuff-o-thequePresspibinko

195 pages. For more items in the “Stuff-o-theque”: https://www.pibinko.org/stuff-o-teque/

The BuioMetria Partecipativa Map now includes the CNR IBE Research Network

1 March 2024Announcementsbuiometria partecipativapibinko

Thanks to Luciano Massetti of the Italian Research Council Bioeconomy Institute, who is a historical collaborator of the BMP project, we are glad to add to our “classical” measures (i.e. those made with manual measurements by citizens), a new information layer.

This is represented by the location of fixed stations that CNR IBE has been deploying since 2015 to monitor artificial night sky brightness in various parts of Tuscany. The Tuscan network had a recent “spin-off” in the Svalbard Islands, since Luciano was on a mission in February 2024 to install a sensor in that remote location. By clicking on a given station, you may either review publications where the data have been presented, or contact Luciano for more information.

The map is available at: https://www.pibinko.org/buiometriapartecipativa-map/
For more information: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228
If you have date related to night sky quality or light pollution that you would like to share with the BuioMetria Partecipativa project, please contact us.
To supoort data integration activities in the pibinko.org network: https://www.pibinko.org/support

Open Data Day 2024: Merging the pibinko.org network Community Maps

29 February 2024Announcementspibinko

In the framework of the 2024 Open Data Day, we are preparing a simple “alignment” exercise involving various community maps which we created starting from 2013 in collaboration with various characters in the Metalliferous Hills, and beyond. In a few days we will release additional details on this initiative, which will take place between March 4, and March 10, 2024.

In the meantime:

To check what we have been doing with community maps: https://www.pibinko.org/it/?s=mappa+comunit%C3%A0 (this brings to the Italian section of our site).
To see what we do with maps since 1994: https://www.pibinko.org/maps/
To support the project: https://www.pibinko.org/support/
For more information and booking: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228

Cat Training Site along the Citta Brusca Trail

28 February 2024Compositions, Metà-versepibinko

A dog training site becomes a cat training site in the “Metà-verse” with Mauro Tirannosauro e Jennifer the Reindeer from Verona as guides in the Citta Brusca Trail (in Italian).

For support in planning your next hike: micalosapevo@pibinko.org oppure 3317539228.

Visit Leghorn (map)

26 February 2024Maps, Stuff-o-thequePresspibinko

This was when in Livorno there were 14 consulates, and there was not much talk about wine in the area…what year was this? If you have any clues please write to micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228.

For more pibnet maps: https://www.pibinko.org/maps/
For more stuff-o-teque items: https://www.pibinko.org/stuff-o-teque/

Mauro Tirannosauro and Jennifer the Verona Reindeer doing their Press Review

23 February 2024Photospibinko

This was just before the opening of M’illumino di Meno in Scansano, Southern Tuscany

For more information and booking: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228.

The Other Sedicidagosto Festival (documentary)

22 February 2024In the media, nationalThe Metalliferous Hills Jug Bandpibinko

Kudos to Giampiero Mortaro and his crew for inviting us last year, and taking care of a significant documentation work on the festival. For more information: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228.