MIT Researchers Map City by Cellphone

MIT Researchers Map City by CellphoneResearchers at MIT may not be able to hear your cellphone call, but they have found a way to see it. They mapped cell phone usage in Austria to show density of usage, and position of users. Very interesting looking map. I wonder how specific it could go though.

Using anonymous cellphone data provided by the leading cellphone operator in Austria, A1/Mobilkom, the researchers developed the Mobile Landscapes project, creating electronic maps of cellphone use in the metropolitan area of Graz, Austria, the country’s second-largest city.

The researchers used three types of data — density of cellphone calls, origins and destinations of the calls, and position of users tracked at regular intervals — to create computer-generated images that can be overlayed with one another and with geographic and street maps of a city to show the peaks and valleys of the landscape as well as peaks in cellphone use.

Read the rest at Physorg

September 16th, 2005 Posted by David in News at 9:14 am Comment Now! »
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