Charles Booth Survey of London and the PhoneBooth project
1. Charles Booth Survey of London
http://phone.booth.lse.ac.uk/
• Charles Booth: systematic investigation of living
and working conditions in London, 1886-1903
– Maps, Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-9
– Police notebooks: eye-witness, street-by-street observations
6. PhoneBooth = Booth + smartphones
• Library and Department of Geography
– 2nd/3rd year undergraduate course
• Walks built into app, with podcasts
• What about streets that no longer exist? Need an overlay
• Photos/ sketches available, combine with other resources
• Link to census data (ie animated graphs from the economist)
• Link to crime maps
• Link to Mayhew
• Access handwritten/ transcribed records – issue with legibility, should be able to access both
• Be able to access data in different ways / categorise the contents
• Stations and transport
• Audio quotes of choice passages, to switch to audio as you walk
• Make maps also available on line for those without phone, able to print out etc
• ‘on this day’ quotes
• Street view (where you can hold your phone up and overlay a picture with what is currently there…)
• Alternative to street view, be able to toggle back and forth with google earth – you can easily see what is there now
• Things that still exist as they were in that time – ie pubs –Booth pub crawl
• Alert system that sends you a message when you pass something of interest – tag alerts
• Create your own map and save it, publish it not only to homepage but also facebook, other social media
• Users can interact with each other – can see popularity of certain places or entries, other users comments and the ability to add links and
etc augmenting the info with additional sources
• Second class used the example of YELP, user comments can be pasted, could see level of interest of that particular entry or location
• For comments, should be able to make public or keep private and save them
• Ability to save your maps, journal entries, notes – email to self
• Alternative is to be able to bookmark things via a login process, 2nd class didn’t see either as preferable
http://phone.booth.lse.ac.uk/
9. Index of Multiple Deprivation (2010)
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2010)
Department of Communities and Local Government
Visualisation by Oliver O’Brien
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL
http://phone.booth.lse.ac.uk/