Congratulations to everyone involved in the Britglyph project for winning a Webby Award for Experimentation and Innovation. HomeMade Digital worked on the project with the teams at Moblog and Shozu to build 'Britglyph' . Special mention should go to our very own Ben Alexander who used his geek-tastic brains to build the site which uses geo-location mobile technology, powered by Shozu, to build a collaborative public art project mapping the world's largest geoglyph : stretching the length and breadth of Great Britain from Aberdeen down to the South coast. We’d also like to say a massive Thank you to Alfie Dennen for getting us involved in the Britglyph project.

'Britglyph' asked participants to travel to certain points across the UK (with the help of directions from a new Flash interface based on Google Maps) to deposit a rock or pebble. Participants then took a photo of themselves and their rock and uploaded it to the 'Britglyph' website. As more and more people contributed their photos a new kind of geoglyph was projected onto the map of Great Britain: its design inspired by John Harrison's Chronometer.

BBC journalist Bill Thompson described the project as a unique piece of artwork ‘in that it occupies that liminal space between the internet and the physical universe’ and an inspiration to those using the web as a medium to communicate as it shows a successful example of ‘how online interaction can successfully make the leap to real world action’.

The project builds on the success of a similar endeavour undertaken by the HomeMade Digital team and Alfie Dennen , founder of Moblog, to raise awareness of "extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis" (XDRTB)as part of the campaign launched by the TED prize winning, acclaimed photojournalist James Nachtwey in 2007. The project supported the campaign by using Nachtwey's photographs as hidden objects across London, which when their locations were collated, photographed and uploaded to the website marked out the XDRTB logo over London.

These projects have given us an exciting insight into the ability of online mapping to enable new forms of creative collaboration: bringing together disparate groups of people via their phones and the web to facilitate new and exciting ways of seeing the world. We look forward to getting an opportunity to work on other similar projects soon!