Tag: mapping

map of sf

Manhattan vs Zurich

Having recently come back from Zurich, I was curious how Manhattan and Zurich compare, size-wise. It turns out Manhattan is the same size as Zurich, but has 1.6m inhabitants, while Zurich has 380k.

C++ lands

Internet Mapping Project

various people’s conception of “home” on the internet, and their relation to the wider internet.

Freeway Ramps

No application is really drawing nice ramps yet, but the smarts you can see in Google’s maps show that the data has the potential to support some nice visuals. Having played with doing this sort of thing in an application for work I can tell you that it’s no easy task. The data may be there, but it’s not straightforward. Someday I would imagine that the shapefiles for these highways will be in 3d and it’ll be possible to do a fully dimensioned render and style a 2d view appropriately. Then these things will really look nice. Well before then someone’s going to come out with something that looks really nice in all but the corner cases, though. The programmers working on this stuff are too clever not to.

basically, live maps and yahoo maps are incompetent. funnily, no mention of mapquest, but then their cartography always sucked particularly bad.

Ant head

yes! there is a lot of room at the bottom. I can’t wait for the day when maps cover 40 orders of magnitude. Powers of 10, here we come.

Horizonless Manhattan

this reminds me of the famous new yorker cover: the world, as seen from 8th avenue.

NYC ridership since 1905

too bad openlayers / geoserver / postgis is slow as shit.

Mapping Nonsense

A California lawmaker has introduced a bill that would require all virtual mapping programs to blur out schools, places of worship, government or medical buildings or face hefty fines and possible jail time.

this bill will easily pass because it fights both terrorists and someone thought of the children.

Great Maps UGC

Here are a few delightful maps that users of Google Map Maker created.