Field mission · Basel · about 5 minutes
Secret
Pigeon
You are Agent Coo, a carrier pigeon with a radio. Fly over Basel, collect parts and put together a working LoRaWAN network, one level at a time.
Simple volumes at the heights and outlines the zoning plans allow, not the architects’ designs: the Areal Wolf (to be built 2027–2033) and the hospital’s Klinikum 2 site after its stage 2 (2035–2042; stage 1 in use 2033).
The city is real: swisstopo’s 3D model of every building, the aerial photo underneath and Basel’s register of public trees. The radio network is made up for the game.
RFC 1149 · IP over Avian Carriers · 1 April 1990
- W / S
- climb / dive
- A / D
- turn left / right
- Space
- flap for a burst of speed
- Esc · M · N
- pause · sound · day or night
Made in Basel by Colomba. We build private LoRaWAN networks for real.
3D buildings (swissBUILDINGS3D) and aerial imagery (SWISSIMAGE) © swisstopo · Landmarks, bridges, the Rhine's banks and course, railways, roads, tram and bus lines and places © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Tram and bus timetable: opentransportdata.swiss · The weather on “Basel now”: measured at Basel-Binningen and St. Chrischona, Source: MeteoSwiss (open data, CC BY 4.0; your browser reads it from data.geo.admin.ch, without cookies or referrer, at most every ten minutes) · The newer 3D buildings in places (3D-Stadtmodell), trees (Baumkataster), the stairs and ladders down to the Rhine, and the 1615 plan and wall line: Quelle: Geodaten Kanton Basel-Stadt (CC BY 4.0) · The fountains' places and names: IWB's fountain inventory, Quelle: IWB / Geodaten Kanton Basel-Stadt · The statues' places: the canton's collection of art in public space, Quelle: Geodaten Kanton Basel-Stadt (CC BY 4.0), and OpenStreetMap for the Hammering Man · The artworks, shown as simple models after photographs: Jean Tinguely, Fasnachtsbrunnen (1977); Bettina Eichin, Sitzende Helvetia (1980); Carl Nathan Burckhardt, Amazone, Pferd führend (1926); Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Strassburger-Denkmal (1873); Lukas Ferdinand Schlöth, St. Jakobs-Denkmal (1872); Jonathan Borofsky, Hammering Man · The river bridges' piers, measured on the canton's bridge 3D model: Quelle: Geodaten Kanton Basel-Stadt · The hills and mountains on the horizon: produced using Copernicus WorldDEM™-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The organisations in charge of the Copernicus programme by law or by delegation do not incur any liability for any use of the Copernicus WorldDEM™-90.