Well, this is going to be a 2 for 1 post:

MapHub.org is an interactive mapping website sponsored by CMU and a number of city organizations. Hubs are interactive groups of objects and users illustrated on maps. Users can add sounds, text, video and images can be added to any public map hubs.

For example, I registered with the site and started a Hub called Karaoke Pittsburgh. If you dig Karaoke, please register for the site, and add more spots … we can make a definite map of Karaoke sites in the ‘burgh. Rock!

You can use other Public Hubs to find free wi-fi spots, bike info, real estate listings, and audio snippets from Pittsburgh neighborhoods.

AND THERE’S MORE.

MapHub is offering free public workshops at the Carnegie Science Center as part of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Day. GIS is a mapping software that organizations from private companies to police departments use to spatially show information and data. (As a map nerd, I can’t even handle the fact that we have GIS Day in Pittsburgh. Yes!)

At 10:30am and 2:30pm on Wednesday and Friday, November 16th and 18th and 12:00pm on Saturday, November 19th, representatives from the project will give one-hour workshops on using MapHub.org in the classroom. These workshops will be at the Carnegie Science Center on the North Side.

For more information, contact:
Links:
MapHub: http://www.maphub.org
STUDIO for Creative Inquiry: http://www.cmu.edu/studio/

Interview Contact:
Nathan Martin, Co-Creative Director, MapHub Project
Research Fellow, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University
Cell: 412 726 2338
Email: nmm@andrew.cmu.edu

Carl DiSalvo, Co-Creative Director, MapHub Project
Research Fellow, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University
Cell: 412 414 2518
Email: cdisalvo@andrew.cmu.edu