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Mauro Tirannosauro’s Maps, ep. 4: #iounnescoacaso

Maps

TBT

Grazie alla consulenza di Mauro Tirannosauro, la divisione cartografica di pibinko.org ha prodotto una mappa che riporta delle fasce chilometriche attorno ai borghi, che so tre a caso, Piloni, Tatti, e Torniella. L’ordinanza regionale toscana n. 46 del 29.4 dice:

1.E’ consentito per l’attività motoria svolgere passeggiate all’aria aperta e utilizzare la bicicletta, conpartenza e rientro alla propria abitazione, nell’ambito del comune di residenzain modo individuale,da parte di genitori e figli minori, da parte di accompagnatori di persone non completamenteautosufficienti, o da parte di residenti nella stessa abitazione; 2.nello svolgimento delle attività motorie di cui al punto 1 da parte di genitori e figli minori, daparte di accompagnatori di persone non completamente autosufficienti, o da parte di residenti nella
medesima abitazione non è necessario mantenere le misure di distanziamento sociale di almeno 1,8metri;

Con questa mappa potete prendere le misure rispetto alle vostre capacità motorie, e potremmo magari trovare un punto dove salutarci di passaggio partendo da questi tre punti. Detto questo: la mappa non vuole suggerire alcuna azione specifica. Solo facilitare la lettura di un territorio.

Di peculiare, oltre alla scala e ai confini comunali in rozzo (è Mauro T che cura queste parti), la mappa mostra la toponomastica di comunità raccolta a partire dal 2015, prima in Val di Farma, poi a Tatti, e a a fine febbraio 2020 a Roccastrada, con la Jug Band Colline Metallifere.

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“GeoMay” Day in Torniella-Piloni, Tuscany

Events, Maps

In Italian May is “Maggio”, so “Maggeo” is a sort of fusion between the name of the month and the geo- prefix. Since in 2020 it is not possible to attend May Day celebrations in person, in Italy and many other parts of the world, we try to re-enact some past May Day events by simulating their unfolding with a combination of mapping supports, videos and photos.

Piloni, photo by Pio Spinosi. If you can guess the year please write to micalosapevo@pibinko.org

As a Maggeo prototype we took the 2009 May Day in the Farma Valley, in Tuscany, about 100 km South of Florence. On that occasion, with the BuioMetria Partecipativa project we followed all the celebration. This starts normally at 8.30AM in the Piloni square with a sandwich with marinated anchovies + red wine (or soda if you can’t have wine), and ends around noon at the Torniella football field, after several other stops of this type. At the end of the march, some people possibly end up having too many marinated anchovies, but the spirit of the is May Day is very strong (in all ways).

Along the walk from Piloni to Torniella, we asked to as many people as possible “how dark is the sky above the Farma bridge?” (before posing the question we were giving notions on light pollution and night sky quality measurement, so that our counterpart would not be giving random numbers).

  • The intial zoom level of the map is intentionally set so that people can first understand where the Farma Valley is located on Earth. As Andrea the old bartender used to say: “the problem is not finding the bar in Torniella…the problem is finding Torniella”.
  • In the search window below you can type something, and the system will tell you if in the video there is a matching place. Even a single letter will do.
  • If you click on the name of a place you will be brought to the corresponding section of the “How dark is the sky in Maremma?” video. The video is subtitled in English.
  • We are missing images of a couple of the official “stops”…should you happen to have some footage, please write to micalosapevo@pibinko.org
  • FYI: parts of this video (together with other buiometria partecipativa videos) were used in 2010 in a report by TG2 (one of the national TV news services)

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#IoRestoaCosa

Compositions, Maps

TBT / TBM. To be translated

Mauro Tirannosauro si è unito da poco alla rete pibinko.org e sta suggerendo prospettive inedite per la Fase Bue, su cui si sta documentando. Per esempio, diceva che, anche se ci saranno alcune opzioni in più, sarà importante restare il più possibile a Cosa, e ha lanciato lo hashtag corrispondente. Perplessità sull’uso del camelcase…comunque: si prevede un’escalation di tesi di archeologia nella sessione invernale di lauree di quest’anno. Intanto Mauro T è al lavoro con altre analisi. Estote parati.

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Participatory Lithology: the Map

Maps

About the project: http://www.pibinko.org/participatorylithology/

  • In the search window below you can type something, and the system will tell you if the project is related to places or people whose names contain what you typed. Even a single character will do.
  • Clicking on the name, or nickname, of a participant, a new window will open with additional information on that person, if available (if not, you will see the main role he/she is covering, either as collector, classifier, entertainer, or sponsor).
  • You too can be part of the project. Check out the roles linked above, and write to introduce yourself.

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Different ways of calling a creek in Tuscany

Compositions, Maps

Analysing the Regione hydrography databases, we note 59 different types (river, creek, stream etc.). There is an interesting pattern showing in relation to fosso (creek), for which different names are used south of Pisa (botro, in green) and in the Florence/Siena area (borro, in red) . For more details: info@pibinko.org.

Five walks around Tatti, Southern Tuscany

Announcements, Maps

In July 2019 we have published some maps with simple walks in the immediate surroundings of Tatti, in the area of Massa Marittima, Southern Tuscany. The walks have been suggested by Auro Luti, a Tatti resident with a deep knowledge of this territory, and are rather short trails (around 5 km).

A peculiarity of these maps is that you will find there also place names which are not part of official cartography. These have been compiled in the past months with interviews and meetings with the Tatti community, as well as the perimeter of the commons (usi civici) related to the village.

The maps are available from Ixtlan Agricamping and Fattoria di Tatti, who sponsored the creation of the maps.

For more information: info@pibinko.org

The CLIWOC database

Announcements, Maps

As a background this calls for the “Southern Cross” by Crosby, Stills e Nash

On the line of promoting lesser known resources in the field of culture, environment, and open innovation, I recently recovered the complete database of the CLIWOC (Climatological Database for the World’s Oceans 1750-1850) project. This was a European-funded project between 2000 and 2003 with the aim of digitizing the logs of ships from some European countries over a period of 100 years, so as to extreact weather observations, which needed to be recorded daily. Data are mostly from Spagna, Great Britain and Holland (with some data from France, Sweden, etc.).

Apart from the climatologic aspects, this exercise interested me because of the spatial analysis implications, and having finally accessed the full database, the annotations which can be found.

Here you see some basic visualizations (each dot is one day from a given ship, with additional data attached to it). Geopolitical analysts will be on the loose on this. During the Summer we will show you more of what’s in the CLIWOC trove.

Spagna
Olanda
Inghilterra

It’s in Florence: returning soon (the Farma Valley Community Map)

Compositions, Maps

TO BE TRANSLATED

Nell’immagine in evidenza sopra, Mario Straccali, con valido supporto morale, completa la campitura artigianale dello scotch di carta usato per spiegare che se la bacheca su cui da un paio di anni spicca la mappa di comunita’ della Val di Farma (anche citata in un rapporto della Banca Mondiale) e’ vuota, c’e’ un motivo utile.

L’evento di presentazione della mappa, nel 2017, dopo tre anni di aperitivi…pardon…lavoro.

La mappa, con una copia stagionata da dieci mesi di esposizione agli elementi naturali, e’ stata infatti staccata per essere riesposta nel micromuseo della Val di Farma & friends che troverete tra venerdi’ 22 e domenica 24 febbraio presso l’Hotel Lombardi di Firenze (in particolare ci sara’ una visita guidata fra le 18 e le 20 di sabato 24).

Per ulteriori informazioni sulla manifestazione, potete leggere la presentazione dell’evento, scrivere a info@pibinko.org oppure chiamare il 3317539228

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