Hear This: UK SoundMap Creates Audio Landscape

Back when Greg J. Smith and Max Ritts launched their Toronto Sound Ecology project, for which they hiked the city and recorded its sounds for an interactive map, we asked if anyone had heard of any other similar audio tours.

Turns out, Google had. Its Google Maps partly powers the UK SoundMap, a crowdsourced survey of the acoustic landscape of Britain. Users can register for free via AudioBoo (it's easiest to register with your Twitter account) then submit sound files to the UK SoundMap...