Managing your soundscapes in the web community

This activity is called data description. After being collected, ambient sounds are stored in a MySQL database, visualized on a GIS map, and made publicly available for audio-streaming in the web community as individual soundscapes. In addition, participants can access, manage, and eventually modify their own individual soundscapes, associating to them several descriptors (from color-coded attributes to texts and images). Besides individual soundscapes, both registered and unregistered users are able to visualize and listen to the collective soundscape resulting and growing from the overlap of all individual soundscapes.

Prototypes based on MapServer (left) and Google APIs (right).

The current version based on OpenLayers.

If you have Firefox with the Flash Player installed, click here to listen to the sounds collected in our first trials. But please be patient if you obtain slow responses, there're still performance issues we are working on!