including orientation, cross streets, etc.

Allgemeiner und besonders Hamburgischer Contorist, welcher von den Währungen, Münzen, Gewichten, Maae︣n, Wechsel-Arten und Usanzen der vornehmsten in und ausser Europa gelegenen Städte und Länder nicht nur eine umständliche Nachricht ertheilet; sondern auch solche beschriebene Münz-Sorten, Gewigte und Massen zuvörderst gegen die, so zu Hamburg, hiernächst aber, in angegebenen Tabellen, auch gegen die, so an andern Orten gebräuchlich sind, genau vergleichet – Jürgen Elert Kruse

So *potentially* interesting, and yet implemented in such a bizarre way that it becomes completely useless

A beautiful interactive map of every street and park light owned and run by Umeå's municipality

Anab's great talk from WCIT2010 last week.

Mostly just a note to self to follow up with this poster - it looks like data here to support an assertion I've been making for years, and which is vital to my book. Every extension is also an amputation.

And, completely coincidentally: "Kibera, widely known as Africa's largest slum, remains a blank spot on the map. Without basic knowledge of the geography of Kibera it is impossible to have an informed discussion on how to improve the lives of residents of Kibera. Young Kiberans will create the first public digital map of Kibera." Via Migurski.

Daniela Fabricius on Rio's favela archipelago and the various strategies used to return it to the map. Via Mario.

Includes, inter many alia, notes on OSCAR (Outdoor Site Classification and Audience Research) system (1985) providing "gross audience estimates for individual outdoor poster sites/visibility-adjusted audience estimates for each poster, based on visits to each of the available 67,000 poster sites to record physical characteristics...and vehicle and pedestrian counts at a representative sample of 600 sites."

Well hot damn. This is a very, very visceral thing the Stamens have done. Seriously, MSNBC or some other smart outfit should simply retain them to do all (election, weather event, complex multivariate situation) graphics. It would change the everyday understanding of such events, I'd stake my last euro on it. [See also http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26295161?preferredName=Gustav ]

This is important and, I believe, true - but happily, very far from irreversible.

Complete download of Bill Hillier's odd-ass (excuse me: "idiosyncratic") approach to developing an urban pattern language. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_syntax for more.

Mmmm *mmm*. Via cheathco.

Dan, once again a half-step ahead of me. [Crumples last two weeks of work.]

I read that title a little differently than they do. : . )