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<p>We're interested in demonstrating innovation in education, workforce training, healthcare, and other public benefit areas. We'll be prototyping using client-side open web technologies (HTML5, WebGL, WebRTC) and a local private cloud. The types of applications we're talking about include:</p>

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<li>applications that require high bandwidth (100Mbps to 1Gbps)</li>

<li>demonstrations of the above running point-to-point with local anchor institutions (over community fiber or wireless)</li>

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<p>WHO: Nate Hill, Chattanooga Public Library<br />

WHAT: Imagine an immersive, interactive information environment where a map of the city of Chattanooga is projected onto the floor.  Looking and walking around the map, you orient yourself.  First you find the street you live on and step over to it.  You tap your foot twice and zoom in.  Cool!  You scuff your foot to the left and zoom back out.  Next you find the location of the art museum and the piece of public sculpture you love. You tap your foot once on an icon, and another projector lights up the wall with information about this piece of sculpture.  A life size photograph of a Tom Otterness bronze is displayed, along with biographical information about the artist and suggestions of other similar works nearby or in other cities.  Links to resources about Otterness, bronze casting, and public art from the library catalog and across the internet are displayed as well.  The Otterness sculpture is actually a part of a larger exhibition, a tour of public art in Chattanooga.  When you discover this, you tap again and all of the other items on this tour light up on the floor around you.

This is a proposal to create an interactive digital map of the city of Chattanooga that would be projected on the concrete floor of the fourth floor space in the Chattanooga Public Library.  The map would make use of projection mapping technology, gig-speed wireless connectivity, Esri GIS data, and Open Street Maps to create an inverted augmented reality space.  This map would be an exhibition space, an urban planning tool, and an educational asset for Chattanooga.  In addition, the map could link to other gig-speed communities featuring similar compatible geographic interfaces and exhibitions.<br />

NEEDS: Development help.  I'm rallying some folks from the Chattanooga area, but expertise hacking this together would be fantastic.<br />

<br /><br />@Yosun I was trying to tell the story of an inspiring, immersive geographic interface, knowing that it's one implementation of something that could be much bigger.  If you simply wanted to make this interface leverage the gig, you'd have location based videoconferencing.  I step on a point that has an active user, *blip*, I open a live channel with that user.  Done.  Hopefully, this is an idea that I hope has hooks, an idea that is extensible. If you had an immersive location based tool like this, what would you make it do?   

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I can add some specific ideas here soon, but I wanted to get the discussion started and see what you all think.<br /><br />

NEEDS: This is less of an idea and more of a starting point for idea discussion.  It would be great if people more familiar with distributed computing and "big data" can add their thoughts.<br /><br />

DISCUSSION: (your thoughts here...)

·      Enter into “content sharing” arrangements with partners in addition to the sharing of other resources.

·      Assume a leadership position to develop a Community Media Center.

Develop a mobile App that functions as a “content aggregator” for local content produced not only by WTCI but others.  

NEEDS:  Seriously talented coder(s). We have an active volunteer board and  professional staff eager to support this effort in a wide variety of  ways.

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<li>Video can be used to completely document and display the object that they want to sell, including its condition and special features.</li>

<li>The average person can add their commercial for the big companies</li>

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