SHODAN LIVES
Notes and links from @colemanm.
If the Nazis conquered America.
Also see the related Strange Maps post.
A dymaxion projection — a sphere projected on a flattened polyhedron.
Visualizing Washington, DC — circa 1800.
An impressive use of historic maps and data to rebuild the look of the Capital during its early years.
This Tract is a tool created by Michal Migurski to display US Census demographics in your current location by using geolocation support built in to modern browsers. Using geofencing techniques, it’ll show you data about each level of “subdivision” you’re in: census tract, county, state, etc.
He uses a neat combination of Census data, Yahoo’s YQL, Modest Maps, and OpenStreetMap to mash together the results.
Another great example of using cutting-edge mapping tech to make public domain data actually accessible the general public.
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 ::
A Brief Comparison of Google Maps, Bing Maps, & Yahoo! Maps »
“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.
Manhattan taxi pickup locations visualized.
A beautiful example of spatiotemporal mapping.
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.
Introducing Google Maps Labs, your passport to a world of new features »
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
