IM: Soundscape map? Some more research.

After some googling, the obvious first port of call, I found a few soundscape maps:
http://www.soundaroundyou.com/#3

This one is the entire globe, it seems like a lovely idea, and very similar to what we are doing but the subject area appears to be way to big, so the ammount of actual sounds are very limited, far less are scattered across the world map than we hope to put on just our Bristol map!

(A much more successful version of the map abouve) http://www.soundcities.com/

Based around specific cities, but only based on their ambient noises (as far as I have seen so far) so in Bristol it is mainly just traffic noise and the hustle and bustle of people talking. Again just the same old boring google maps map, but on a giant world map it makes more sense that way as it would be difficult to cover the entire world in such detail by hand.

http://www.hasa.org/soundscape/map/
This one is based around one city, Baltimore. With much more sound clips, this appears to be a lot more like what we are aiming to create, but the map is the same old google map and the interface dosen't seem to actually allow me to listen to the sound, although I do like the short description of the sound in each area as well as the decibells. The sound "markers" also are far too large on the zoomed out map, causing a mess of markers meaning the map is barely visible underneith anyway when zoomed out!

http://soundsofmycity.tumblr.com/map

This map Lara found is the closest to the map we're hoping to make, and it's based on Tumblr, something we can easily replicate, and it's made with this application (which is also free and easy to use! YAY). As well as the map being an individual, visually new and interesting map, the points do not disturb from it until you choose to click them, the sounds included may mostly be ambient but there are also sounds of "the game" in a stadium and "buskers" on a street, so it is moving towards what we hope to acheive!

Just to look at map styles, here's a map of London based around purely the Thames. It tells you about where fm radios around the city can be heard. The simplicity of the map yet recognisableness of the Thames still is lovely, it really shows that the radio stations are the importance, not the buildings and landscape but the points specifically drawn up for your interest.