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From Time For Public Space
[edit] Welcome to the home of the Time For Public Space project
Time For Public Space is a community project making a list of clocks in public spaces, using web mapping and other web-based collaborative tools. The initial purpose of the project is to locate all the public clocks we can, and "tag" them spatially and with other data using the amazing Tagzania .
From this page you might want to...
- See some great clock maps here
- Take a look at a list of all clocks collected so far
- Log in to Tagzania and add some clocks: How to add clocks using Tagzania
- See the suggested Tag Name Conventions and read the project's boundaries on Is It A Public Clock Or Not
- Take a look at the To Do List
- Join the Mailing List
- Maybe you're wondering What Is The Point Of Making A List Of Public Clocks?, or you have some thoughts on the Future Directions For The Time For Public Space Project
- Read about other clock projects on our links page
[edit] About the project
In the long term, there are technical innovations that could be made: it would be interesting to use data from other projects like Open Street Map (http://www.openstreetmap.org/) so it would be possible to record streets that have been surveyed for clocks, and so way to link photos would be great. From a social/urban/architectural perspective, there's lots that could be done with a directory of public clocks and interesting directions to go with that information. And most importantly, collecting and locating clocks is fun.
So what is this wiki for? Since the actual tagging and geo-locating of clocks is taking place in services like Tagzania, the wiki won't be the storage location for any data. Instead, it will be the location where the project is introduced the project and how to take part is explained. It'll be the place where technically-minded clock collectors thrash out protocols such as how to tag the clocks, discuss ways to incorporate photo data, and nurture all the potential off-shoots that might emerge from gathering this information.
