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Making an anchored mediascape into a portable mediascape
There are many mediascapes available on the mscape web site that are fixed to be used in a certain area. If you want to try them out you could go to that area, but if this is far away then it is possible to download the mediascape and adapt it to work in your own area. You could try out a guided tour of Venice in the park behind your apartment for example.
To do this you need to do the following:
Prepare a map file of the locality where you want to try the mediascape out. The park behind your apartment for example. Remember it has to be an image of a map with associated co-ordinates, it is not enough just to use an image of a map with no idea of where it is, (see the section on ‘Building your own mediascape; maps and media’ for more about this).
Download the anchored mediascape you want to shift, and open it up with the mscape maker (see the sections Getting and using your first mediascape and Mediascapes on the mscape website for more on this).
In the left-hand panel of the window you will see the structure of the mediascape with all the objects. Under the ‘Sensors’ group there is a group ‘GPS’ and under this there is the map object.
If you right click on this map object one of the menu options is ‘Replace map’. Select this to start up a dialogue and choose 'From File' to open a new map file.
Select the map of your locality and then the dialogue will ask what you want to do with the position of the objects. You should choose ‘move them’ as you want to shift them to your locality.
The mediascape on display will then change to show the new map with all the regions from the old mediascape on it. They are all kept together but the placement is done automatically based on the boundaries of the two maps in question.
Unfortunately there is as yet no way to select all the regions and shift them together to adjust the mediascape.
There is also a
'How To' for this task, with screen dumps.
