Ridgeway latest

Software and location GPS tests for Creative Wiltshire’s FayGodwin/Ridgeway are under way. As the winter solstice sun rose, a team of walkers gathered at Barbury Castle and then set off for the Sanctuary at Overton along the Ridgeway. The team was drawn from the growing network of digital artists, creatives and walkers supporting the project.

The purpose of the walk was to test a GPS linked app and to define zones for clustering images. The app will ultimately provide an audio experience for those walking this part of the Ridgeway linked to the points in the landscape where the images have been clustered. The clustered images will be curated for display with soundscapes created from location recordings at the forthcoming installation in Trowbridge.

The 3G signal was strong enough to provide accurate GPS along this section of the walk, successfully triggering the audio samples at the key points. The zones for clustering images for this section have been identified. Over the winter holiday producer/curator Richard White has set up a Flickr group to which all are invited to subscribe and contribute images, there is also a wiki providing an ongoing report and resource for the project.

Participate!

Creative Wiltshire is keen to engage a wide community in this project from students and staff to walkers, musicians, artists and experts on the landscape and its history.

Contribute images!

You will need a flickr account, set one up here: http://www.flickr.com/

Check out the Creative Wiltshire photostream here and then set Creative Wiltshire as a contact

Please join the Creative Wiltshire Ridgeway Project group

Once you have an account you can contribute images directly to the group

TAGS and Permissions

To make it easier to find your images, please can you tag them as follows:

creativewiltshireridgeway

Clustering images: we want to cluster images by location tags so please add a tag that will locate it,

use whichever is the nearest (more to follow once we have walked the route)

barbury

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