Mapping a City’s Rhythm

Posted by Carol Coletta on March 15, 2009

How cool is this?  Using cell-phone and taxi GPS data, Sense Networks can produce heat maps that show activity at hot spots across a city. Currently, the service, called Citysense, only works in San Francisco, but it will launch in New York in the next few months.

A forthcoming update to Citysense shows not only where people are gathering in real time, but where people with similar behavioral patterns--students, tourists, or businesspeople, for instance--are congregating. 

As I said, how cool is this?

Read more in Technology Review.