Saturday, June 27, 2020

Mapping 1984 Inwards London


It is oft said that inwards London you lot are never to a greater extent than than 10 feet from a rat. The same could likely hold upward said of surveillance cams. In the UK of Britain in addition to Northern Republic of Ireland at that spot is one surveillance photographic television set camera for every xi people. Which way that inwards heavily populated areas such every bit London it is likely prophylactic to assume that most of the fourth dimension you lot are beingness watched yesteryear at to the lowest degree 1 CCTV camera.

On Thursday, 30th Oct 2014 James Bridle laid upward out to walk the perimeter of the London Congestion Charge Zone. While on the walk James planned to get got photos of all the surveillance cameras decorating the route. Unfortunately James was non able to consummate the total circuit of the Congestion Charge Zone. During his walk he was placed nether citizen arrest yesteryear safety guards of the Grosvenor House Hotel in addition to and thence after questioned yesteryear the police clit for the suspicious lead of carrying a photographic television set camera inwards London.

James did create create to consummate only about one-half of his planned road in addition to was able to get got 427 photos of the surveillance cameras. You tin thought the location in addition to photos of all the surveillance cameras that James documented on this Paranoid Cartography map. The map includes an animated heat-map layer which is drawn on the map. At the same fourth dimension every bit the heat-map layer is beingness drawn a slide-show of all James' photos plays out on the map.

You tin read to a greater extent than close the walk in addition to the projection on the Short Term Memory Loss website.

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