Two Great Mapping Projects for 2011

There have always been good maps associated with the Festivals but this year we see two new exciting projects – one of which uses our API – to help people discover new performances at the Fringe

Giggle Maps from realise.com | www.gigglemaps.co.uk

Sounds of Fringe from SoundCloud | www.soundsoffringe.com

Introducing festivalclock.com

festivalclock.com/

At Culture Hack Scotland, one of the standout projects was the footfall clock where Justin Quillinan which created a dynamic visualisation of the data from the council’s 19 footfall counters across the city.

His project really captured our imagination and we wondered what would happen if we paired him with a world-class infographic designer and let them loose on the festivals’ listings API. So that’s what we did.

We introduced Justin to the brilliant Stef Posavec and this is what came out of it – an amazing dynamic visualisation of the seven summer Edinburgh festivals.

festivalclock.com/

Go have a play.

festivalslab in the news

Despite the shenanigans going on in Westminster today, newspapers aren’t all bad.  And the reason we say that is because they are talking about us!

Two nice press pieces have appeared in the last few days.

Firstly in the Herald on Saturday was the article Digital Future Beckons for the Edinburgh Festivals and then there is this excellent STV piece on #chs11 all-star James Baster and his festafriend project New website could help Fringe fans find love

See…hacking IS good for you.

Special Announcement: Summer festivals API project!

We are delighted to announce that as part of our ongoing programme, the summer festivals will release their live listings data through an API for the first time.

We are currently finalising the timescales and registration processes so please sign up to be the first to know more.

The Fringe data will be available as part of the set too with limited access of up to 25 API keys.  This is a big step for the festivals in exploring open approaches and so we look forward to sharing more after Culture Hack Scotland