Dada Be Rusting Tipi

…and this is downtown But it’s less than the whole truth. It’s a scrap of waiting-to-be-developed land just east of the commercial core. It sets up a great contrast between the aspirational pretension of the Masshouse apartment block and the commercial glitz of Selfridge’s. It represents a different kind of space set into the urban fabric.

Am thinking about devising a map-based survey of derelict places, and am looking for ways for respondents to add points of their own to a web-based map. So I need a survey tool, and a mapping tool. Have looked at Twtpoll as the possible survey tool. Seems friendly enough. But am wondering if I can get Google Docs to do a map-based survey. On my way through the various sites…