This is an interactive city map that enables users to customize the layout of visuals, texts and sound elements just like thumb-tacking items to a bulletin board. The programs used for the visualization of the cartographic material and the user interfaces make for easy, intuitive, user-friendly access. The intention is to get across the virtual cityscape’s specific quality through the retrievability of individual elements: soundscapes, visualized urban imaginings and text-based metropolitan impressions. The result is a unique, self-contained format for “location-based multimedia storytelling.” Plus, as a web application,WikiMap Linz is simultaneously a module of the web portal of “Hotspot Linz,” the city's wireless LAN initiative.

Konzept: Nicoletta Blacher, Stefan Feldler, Günther Kolar, Helmut Höllerl, Horst Hörtner, Gerfried Stocker
Projektleitung: Stefan Feldler
Development: Friedrich Kirschner, Günther Kolar, Bartosz Polonski, Alexander Seifert
Design: Stefan Eibelwimmer, Nicolas Naveau
Kartenmaterial und Support: Magistrat Linz, Informationstechnogie, Geodaten Management
Webportal Hotspot Linz im Auftrag der Stadt Linz
Realisierung: Ars Electronica Futurelab
The Participation of Bartosz Polonski has been made possible thanks to a residency grant of
KulturKontakt Austria

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