100/100 where i live. suck it, boston.
Tag: mapping
UK Flood Mapping
While OSM is a wiki with an archive, it doesn’t really handle change connected to specific moments in time. Roads are flooded for only so long. Here in Brighton, one of the core roads is reduced to one lane for a year while the Victorian Sewer is replaced. The changes need to be marked as impermanent. Also an issue in representing historic maps — I’m interested in producing historical literature maps of London, and that data needs proper tagging to show validity in only certain time slices.
makes the case that some of the flood data should be in the base map.
Devil Maps
It is clear that science is trying to destroy God, but He is greater than any so called theory. Evolutionists want to use Science to tell us how we got to where we are – well I know how we got here, the Lord put us here to do his bidding and to go to the places He wants us to go to. The so-called mapmakers say they want to explore and document His work, that they too want to show us the way! There is only one Way, the Way of the Lord, to follow the Word. We don’t need to understand where we are and less do we need to understand where we are going
anything to piss creationists off. what a nice badge of pride!
Cab Spots
visualizing and analyzing cab patterns with gps and googlemaps and street view
Cultural Survival Nonsense
Most significant were indigenous peoples’ concerns that the results of the Genographic Project would contradict indigenous groups’ traditional understanding of their origins or history.
-1, stupid.
Fossil Rivers
what the Army Corps of Engineers discovered while producing these maps is that the Mississippi River has changed channel completely – and it has done this 100s, even 1000s, of times.
Hill shaded maps
Microsoft released a new map style for 2D maps called “hill shaded”. This helps give the appearance of altitude to flat maps.
endoxon has been doing this for years.
Narrated Animation
The visualizations shown in today’s screencast were done with Many Eyes, which is another very cool piece of software. But what I realized while making them is that narrated animation is really the secret sauce. Analytical software, whether it’s Excel or GapMinder or Many Eyes or something else, is necessary but not sufficient. The stories that people will understand, and remember, are the ones that have been performed well. Now I’m no Hans Rosling, and you certainly won’t see me swallow a sword at the end of this screencast — as he amazingly does at the end of this video. But I will be trying to emulate his example when I tell stories with data. And I’m struck, once again, by the way in which screencasting can bring software interaction to life.
from data to understanding, perhaps?
real-time Train map
train nut meets sensorweb
Atlas of the Human Journey
wow. this is very very cool.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 