Mobile phones find another use in Rome aside from making calls and sending text messages.
These phones are being used in the map project, known as Wiki City Rome.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reports:
A futuristic urban map, featuring the dynamics of the Italian capital in real time, made its debut at the weekend.
The map project is continuously fed data through wireless technology such as mobile phones and global positioning systems on city buses and taxis.
Developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the project was launched during Rome’s Notte Bianca (White Night), an all-night festival of 400 events, which drew about 2.5 million people onto Rome’s streets.
This is a good way to check on traffic and perhaps untoward incidents, which can be tracked real time.
