I just randomly found this spot off the coast of Baku, Azerbaijan.
The island is called Nargin, and was a former Soviet military installation. You can see the abandoned base facilities and rusting, half-sunk hulks of ships shoved close to shore.
Man v. Nature - The front line
(via raonurcouch)
I wish I knew where this was; the type is too small to read.
Pedestrian patterns on the floor of Ikea.
That place really is a giant maze. At least it’s easy to find a comfortable chair to do some iPhoning in when I get bored.
:: pruned ::
“Herein lies the problem with Yahoo! Maps: the designers focused too much on “decorating” and not enough on “communicating”. For example, it seems that making the highways look attractive was a far greater priority than simply making New York City’s city label legible. Or look at the city “dots” used on Yahoo! Maps: the focus was clearly on making pretty-looking city “dots”, instead of making city “dots” that actually communicate information, such as city population.”
An excellent comparison. This puts into words what most people only feel about the three providers’ map tiles. I could tell you I far prefer Google’s style, but I don’t know that I could articulate exactly why as well as the author.
Colouring Maps - The Beauty of Maps (BBC documentary)
I read something about this program a few days ago and I seriously need to check it out.
After a couple of map related posts, I found this video of the new stuff Microsoft’s doing with Bing Maps. It looks like the Live Labs guys have even integrated Photosynth photos into the Streetside interface. really dig the seamless display of constellations when you pan up to the sky.
The Maps team is on a roll lately. They just opened up Google Maps Labs today, unlocking new features I’ve been wondering about for a long time (drag ‘n zoom!).
There are a couple new “power user” features that’ll be useful to me, like the lat/long display tooltip, aerial oblique imagery, and the lat/long marker drop feature.
Calendria, a place where units of time become sovereignties.
“The Kingdom of March, with the Equinoctial Estuary on its western coast, is situated on a separate land mass to the east of Calendria’s main continent. The Republic of Junistan is in the southeast, an archipelago among which are the Circadian Islands. “
Also see the documented process the designer used to make this gorgeous map.
/via strangemaps
Try to figure out what data each map displays. I got 3 out of 22 correct (they’re not easy).
