Using Sound to Represent Positional Accuracy of Address Locations

This webpage contains example files for the article by Nick Bearman & Andrew Lovett published in The Cartographic Journal, 2010.

Access a copy of the article

The article is avaliable for download from IngentaConnect. If your library / institution does not subscribe to it, email me (n.bearman 'at' uea.ac.uk) and I will happily send you a copy. A Preprint version (671 KB) is also available.

View a demonstraion video of the sonification technique

Below are two videos showing a demonstration of the sonification software. Remember to have either speakers turned on or headphones plugged in! They are with and without narration - the sounification sound may be clearer on the one without narration. Apologies for the poor quality.

Demo of Nick Bearman PhD ArcGIS Sonification Prototype from Nick Bearman on Vimeo.

Demo of Nick Bearman PhD ArcGIS Sonification Prototype (without narration) from Nick Bearman on Vimeo.

Access source code

The extension was written as an ArcScript extension to ArcMap. The source code is avalible to anyone interested - please email me at n.bearman 'at' uea.ac.uk and I will happily send you a copy.