Updating the SFO Museum Wayfinding Service - Publications
Custom publications are a first attempt at designing and producing artifacts which can be thought to “follow a visitor out of the building” (or the museum (which also happens to be the airport)). Think of them as training wheels towards acheiving that goal. We believe that the objects and public art works on display at SFO Museum and SFO are worth seeing in person but that doesn’t, and shouldn’t, preclude the ability to enjoy these things when you are not at SFO.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on June 12, 2023 and tagged wayfinding, golang and publications.
Updating the SFO Museum Wayfinding Service - Galleries, Public Art, Flights and Barcodes
Not enough museums follow their visitors “out of the building” or offer them the means to continue to think about what they’ve seen after the fact. This remains the great untapped opportunity for all museums but especially a museum in an airport since, in many ways, “leaving the building” is what an airport is all about.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on May 08, 2023 and tagged wayfinding and rustlang.
Browsing the SFO Museum Aviation Collection Through Real Time Flight Data
We’ve created a map-based interface that shows real time (or more specifically real time -ish since there is a delay) flights as they are traveling to and from SFO, inside North America. For each of those flights we know the airline servicing the flight, and both its origin and destination airport. As a flight is updated we plot its location on a map and display a popup with a random object, for each facet, from the SFO Museum Aviation Collection. When you click on an object its dedicated web page on the collection.sfomuseum.org website will be opened in a new tab.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on March 23, 2023 and tagged whosonfirst, flightdata, golang, webassembly and wasm.
Using WebAssembly to parse EDTF date strings using a Go library in Python
This ability to share code across languages using the WebAssembly binary format is novel because it embodies both the theory and the practice of “small focused tools”, by and for the cultural heritage sector.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on February 16, 2023 and tagged python, golang, edtf and webassembly.
The Airport is the Museum - An Experimental Wayfinding Service for SFO Museum
Today we are releasing an experimental web-based wayfinding service for SFO Museum. Using this service you can ask for directions between two “waypoints” at SFO.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on February 14, 2023 and tagged whosonfirst and wayfinding.
A global point-in-polygon service using a static 8GB data file
A global point-in-polygon service that returns Who’s On First records and costs a few dollars a month to run.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on December 19, 2022 and tagged pointinpolygon, protomaps and golang.
Presenting the SkyTerrace Interactive Map at NACIS 2022
The good news is that, when the airport and the museum began to resume on-site operations in earnest, the application I’d developed had been running unattended and attached to a big honking monitor for 18 months and everything still worked. The bad news was that no one wanted to touch any kind of public surface anymore.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on October 28, 2022 and tagged skyterrace, nacis, maps and ios.
Map updates, August 2022
On a personal note I am especially excited about the 2022 aerial imagery because it appears to have captured the aircraft I call “Cake Plane” visiting SFO.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on August 08, 2022 and tagged maps.
The Case of the Missing (Istanbul) Airport
On the surface this is a blog post documenting the steps to add a new record (an airport) to a catalog of geographic places (the sfomuseum-data-whosonfirst GitHub repository). Scratching the surface, though, it’s really a blog post about how SFO Museum supplements and extends the Who’s On First to meet the needs of our online efforts.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on August 01, 2022 and tagged whosonfirst and golang.