Yesterday Hacker Information featured a thread on Sounds of the Forest, an interactive map of sound recordings made in forests world wide. Additionally linked within the Hacker Information thread was the fantastic Radio Aporee, which, like Sounds of the Forest, has featured on Maps Mania earlier than. Additionally talked about within the thread have been two interactive sound maps which I have not seen (or heard) earlier than.
Audiomapa
Audiomapa is a sound map which focuses on sound recordings from South America (though many customers have contributed recordings from elsewhere on this planet). Anybody can add a sound recording to the map just by clicking on a location and importing an MP3 file.
In addition to shopping the submitted recordings by location on the map it is usually doable to filter the sounds by class. This lets you seek for ‘city’ or ‘rural’ recordings, or recordings of ‘birds’, ‘machines’, ‘markets’ or myriad different classes of sound. Simply click on on a marker on the map to take heed to the submitted recording.
Freesound
Freesound, from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, is an interactive map of over half 1,000,000 sound recordings. The map “goals to create an enormous collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, and all kinds of bleeps, … launched underneath Inventive Commons licenses that permit their reuse”.
