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Beautiful city map prints by co_opt design
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Awesome, Steve Coast builds opengeocoder.net "What if you threw all that away and just linked the string “london” to a bounding box? Thus opengeocoder. In previews the number one thing asked for was synonym support. That is, “AK” should spit out the same box as “Alaska” without having to add both strings and two bounding boxes. So, you can do that. There is an API which spits out JSON so you can hook your map project up to it."
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GIS nerd in Tyler, TX create apps and data analysis well beyond the city's capacity. Kind of like a GIS Batman / via Ralph twitter.com/...
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Tee Jay I spent some time in Tyler the last time I went home to Louisiana.
Ben Golder wow.
New York's Museum of Modern Art invited five teams of architects, planners, ecologists, engineers, landscape designers, and other specialists in the urban and suburban condition to develop proposals for housing that would open new routes through the mortgage-foreclosure crisis that continues to afflict the United States. Their focus was not the inner city, but rather the suburbs, which are often passed over in the push of development toward an ever-more-distant periphery. / via jen
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Planimator / built in three.js / "Even Westvang's sketchbook of data visualization. After putting the children to bed I sometimes build visualizations to demonstrate the spectacular inner life of public data."
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growth of Ireland on OSM 2006-2009 / click through
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Metrography – London Tube Map to large scale collective mental map / via @binx
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Diane Maurer What is it?
Wade Armstrong Wow, really illustrates the brilliance of the classic map
David Berman Goto I don't get it...
Bruce Tsuji Mental map of The Underground!
Metrography - distorted London
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Diane Maurer Love this. Sharing...
Diane Maurer London
Total Annual Building Energy Consumption for New York City
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Shannon Culbertson Whoa!
Neil Freeman: "This is one of nineteen trillion simple maps of the United States. This page will show a different map the next time loaded. A well-known theorem proves that with only four colors, any simple map of can be drawn so that no color touches itself. The next step is to ask how many ways there are to accomplish this simple task. For the contiguous United States, there are over nineteen trillion different maps that use only four colors. Even the tightest constraints can yield near-infinite variety."
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Peter Buckingham Utah and New Mexico are touching though....
Neil Freeman No, they are not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
Aaron Jones yes. they are. Solution: make NM blue.
Neil Freeman No: "All corners, points that belong to (technically, are in the closure of) three or more countries, must be ignored."
Aaron Jones how conveniently arbitrary - wait are we arguing about maps?! ha ha
The Kuroshio or 'Black Current' in the Pacific Ocean is a strong western boundary current, the equivalent of the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic, which for thousands of years has swept shipwrecked Japanese sailors onto American shores. via smithsonian.com. #Black_Current #Kuroshio #Oceanography #smithsonianmag
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Kera Cabra …and will bring tsunami wreckage to the U.S. West Coast?
Malia It already has. To Alaska, anyhow.
Pamela Steuart I know its an odd thing to say, but this representation of the black current is so beautiful. It could be art.
Gregor Aisch visualizes the digital divide by mapping ip addresses vs places vs population
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Hotel Finder drops the isochrones down / via new-aesthetic
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"BART was built as an imitator of the freeway because it was the easier path to take, and in so doing avoided controversy but left the system uncompetitive with the freeways ringing the Bay."
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carstenbuchholz Fisco! Oh, I miss it!
Ben Golder Were you the one who first told me about this? I have a habit of talking about this when ever BART comes up in conversation.
Sha Hwang @Ben Golder I have that habit too, so maybe :)
Dawn Currin I think this is amusing because as a DC resident we ALL think the DC Metro is the Dumbest Thing Ever.
Cameron Booth's new Beck-style map of the Routes (not Interstates)
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Cameron Booth does the Interstates in the style of Beck
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The design and evolution of Google Maps, by Willem Van Lancker and Jonah Jones
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Incredible video of Jerry Gretzinger and his map, that he's kept up for years and years
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Shanghai 1682.48 sq km population 16 million
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Kim Kiwi http://thisnewurbanity... ^^ thought you might like it :)
Kim Kiwi http://pinterest.com/p... ha oops you already know it haha :D
Morpholio "organizes image collections in a comprehensible and accessible format that makes sharing and presenting work seamless, and infinitely flexible."
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Multimodal Shortest Path Tree of Bay Area (via @graphserver)
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Examples of upcoming indoor Google Maps
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Heather Kennedy I can't help but think this is a bad idea. :|
Kristina Hunter Agreed. Cool, buy way TMI.
9elements makes a live twitter visualization of their img.ly traffic
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Jon Bruner for Forbes maps American Migration on a county level
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Robert Schwenk All roads lead to So CA
extend ny / the manhattan grid extended to cover the entire world / via many people
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The electoral college is a time-honored system that has only produced results in conflict with the popular vote three times in over 200 years. However, it's obvious that reforms are needed. The organization of the states should be altered. This Electoral Reform Map redivides the territory of the United States into 50 bodies of equal size. The 2000 Census records a population of 281,421,906 for the United States. The states ranged in population from 493,782 to 33,871,648.1 In this map, new states have formed, all with equal populations of roughly 5,617,000 / Neil Freeman
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Major road and rail networks in Africa, along with transmission line and underwater cable data. / via @straup
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3d city maps powered by Apple-acquired C3. Super beautiful, seems to get a bit noisy around trees though
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Urban Arteries / Explore your surroundings in three.js, google maps api, etc
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E00 files non-redundantly store all nodes, lines, and polygons that make up a geographic data layer.
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Willamette River, Oregon. Full original: mike.teczno.com/i...
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Harold Cabezas ...So beautiful!!
Lynne Sears Williams Gorgeous!
That’s the contiguous United States, colored at each point by the zoom level of the smallest enclosing Google Maps tile wherein 1,000 or more people live, according to 2010 block-level Census data. Periwinkle represents zoom level 14+, navy blue 13, yellow 12, dark green 11, and so on.
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Tara McClanahan You can totally point out all the major metropolitans.... that's awesome!
ESRI announces Canvas Maps, pared down map styles for overlays / via kelso
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San Francisco address numbers color coded from low to high.
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Ben Golder smooth gradients = planned developments?
Now a group working at Microsoft Research Asia has shown that tracking the location of taxicabs could be a better way to identify the underlying problems with a city's transportation network, helping officials determine how to best ease congestion. The researchers used GPS data from more than 33,000 Beijing taxicabs. That data was collected in 2009 and 2010.
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Eric Fischer maps the world in binary subdivisions. Each bounding box contains an equal number of geotagged tweets. / reminds me of what i wished substrate was
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US Unemployment changes by county, along with how much money was spent per county / by development seed
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mapping simulations of noise around airports based on flight patterns / gregor aisch
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Audioprothese Une jolie sound map !
This fantastic contraption, called the ‘Routefinder’, showed 1920s drivers in the UK the roads they were travelling down, gave them the mileage covered and told them to stop when they came at journey’s end. The technology – a curious cross between the space age and the stone age – consisted of a little map scroll inside a watch, to be ‘scrolled’ (hence the word) as the driver moved along on the map. A multitude of scrolls could be fitted in the watch to suit the particular trip the driver fancied taking.
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Josh Draper this would be utterly perfect for manhattan.
Sheila Karr sweet. where can one buy this?
Cindy Fowler This is so cute. Like a player piano GPS!
Audioprothese Amazing ! A scroll device between the iphone !
The life of John Ogilby (1600-1676) can be qualified without exaggeration as rather eventful. He freed his father from debtors’ prison by buying a winning lottery ticket, founded a dance school in London and later Dublin’s Theatre Royal, got shipwrecked on his return from Ireland, produced a very successful English verse transaltion of Virgil, lost all his property in the Great Fire of London (1666), and towards the end of his life managed to produce the Britannia Atlas (1675), considered to be the first road atlas of Britain. The atlas set the standard for using 1760 yards for the mile, and a scale of one inch to the mile. It contained a large number of strip road maps like these, which proved popular in planning journeys throughout the United Kingdom. The first strip on the left-hand side from this map takes in much of contemporary London, showing (bottom to top, i.e. east to west) part of the City of London (containing Cornhill), Southwark, Westminster, Hide Park, Kensington, Hamersmith, Turnham Green and Smallheere Green. The next strips are labelled A through E (at the bottom) and B through F (at the top), showing the orientation and order in which they should be viewed.
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Amy Martin Oooh! This is my desktop background at work.
Google Earth Puzzle / via the Atlantic (figure out where these places are)
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Trisha & Janet so frikkin cool. could spend a whole day exploring google earth.
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binx wow, hot