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London Blitz Map | Mapping London
"The image above is a photo of part of a large map of London, created just after the Second World War and showing buildings that were damaged or destroyed in the Blitz. The map is the centrepiece of a small free exhibition at the London Metropolitan Archive in Finsbury." Nice, but a scan online would be nicer (please?)
london  map  maps  worldwartwo  londonmetropolitanarchive  via:straup  blogcomment 
8 weeks ago by blech
How to make custom maps? Learn by doing | Alastair Coote
"Every time I wanted to show the user’s current location this ridiculously bright Google Map showed up and ruined my carefully cultivated style. Something had to be done." Alistair Coote tells you how to do it.
maps  mapping  design  development  from instapaper
february 2012 by blech
Mapping the Age of Humans - Design | The Atlantic Cities
"the impact of humans on the earth since the early 19th century has been so great, and so irreversible, that it has created a new era similar to the Pleistocene or Holocene. Nobel Prize winner Paul J. Crutzen even proposed the name Anthropocene, and it’s begun to catch on."
geography  maps  anthropocene  climatechange  education  from instapaper
december 2011 by blech
Finding a new place for the map | The Independent
"It's a tool that has shaped modern civilisation, but is the map as we know it redundant? Samuel Muston wonders if it's now more valuedfor decoration than for navigation"
independent  geography  maps  art  decoration  shouldcomment  from instapaper
december 2011 by blech
Why illuminating Stonehenge is an unenlightened idea | guardian.co.uk
Ian Vince: "Modern highway building, and its representation on maps, has conspired to make us view landscapes as the interstitial blocks between roads, the white spaces in the road atlas. The dominant feature in the Stonehenge landscape, as revealed by a glance at any route map of the area, is that of a pennant pointing east formed by the A303 and two other major roads; it is only the neolithic and bronze age remains, spattered like grapeshot across the white spaces of an Ordnance Survey sheet, that break this uncompromising geometry."
maps  roads  uk  stonehenge  astronomy  lightpollution  darkskies 
december 2011 by blech
Every death on every road in Great Britain 1999-2010 | BBC News
"A total of 36,371 people were killed on Britain's roads between 1999 and 2010."
uk  transport  traffic  cars  fatalities  bbcnews  roads  death  maps  visualisation  via:preoccupations  via:@joemoransblog 
december 2011 by blech
TileMill 0.4 Released with Easy Installation | Development Seed
"TileMill can now be downloaded as a single-file Mac OS X app that can be dragged into the Applications folder and launched from your dock. Thanks to the packaging wizardry of Dane Springmeyer it is no longer necessary to have Xcode, know how to use a Terminal, or wrangle through dependencies before making your first map."
maps  tilemill  cartography  via:schuyler  from delicious
august 2011 by blech
Mapping the Cityscape exhibit « Spatiality
"One of the main exhibits at the Center, “Mapping the Cityscape”, features a dozen or so wall-mounted 8-foot-high maps of Manhattan — different representations and views from 1609 to the present." Center for Architecture, closes 27th August.
newyork  newyorkcity  exhibition  mapping  maps  todo/done  centerforarchitecture  via:straup  from delicious
july 2011 by blech
Henry Beck Rules, not OK? | Max Roberts
A 27 page PDF by Max Roberts studying how - and how not - to design a diagram of a railway system. Given the "London Tubemap" that's been doing the rounds, tl;dr types should skip to page 14: "The arbitrary breaking of the single-angle rule introduces an disorder into the design with no payback." It also contains some of Beck & Roberts' alternatives, such as the attractive 60 degree version on p12.
london  underground  maps  design  history  tube  pdf  commentary  via:tomc  from delicious
june 2011 by blech
Where the F**k Was I? (A Book) | booktwo.org
"I made another book: an atlas written by robots." James Bridle, being wonderful again.
book  maps  location  data  tracking  iphone  from delicious
june 2011 by blech
The impact of transit maps on path choice | The Transportationist
"the map effect is almost two times more influential than the actual travel time. In other words, underground passengers trust the tube map (two times) more than their own travel experience with the system."
london  transport  underground  maps  diagram  via:straup  from delicious
may 2011 by blech
indiemaps.com/blog » Dymaxion projection in OpenLayers
"I’ve seen a few code implementations of Bucky’s design over the years [but] I hadn’t seen a client-side implementation until I saw this map in the examples section of Jeff Heer and Mike Bostock’s excellent JavaScript visualization framework Protovis. In this post I just show how their JavaScript Dymaxion code can be brought into OpenLayers as a custom projection."
maps  cartography  dymaxion  openlayers  from instapaper
april 2011 by blech
Automatic Generation of Destination Maps | Visualization Lab
" Handdesigned destination maps include only the most important roads in the region and are non-uniformly scaled to ensure that all of the important roads from the highways to the residential streets are visible. We present the first automated system for creating such destination maps based on the design principles used by mapmakers." Interesting, and similar to LineDrive (which I only found out about yesterday).
maps  mapping  directions  design  from delicious
april 2011 by blech
Remembering LineDrive | somethingaboutmaps
"The LineDrive map shows every detail of the whole route at once by distorting scale. It makes the short legs of the trip look longer, and the long legs shorter, so that everything is visible on the same page at once." An interesting (and neglected) approach.
maps  wayfinding  directions  mapping  linedrive  via:mr_stru  from delicious
april 2011 by blech
Data Protection: Betrayed by our own data | Zeit Online
"Malte Spitz from the German Green party decided to publish his own data collected from August 2009 to February 2010. However, to even access the information, he had to file a suit against telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom." "Each of the [35 thousand] rows of the spreadsheet represents an instance when Spitz’s mobile phone transferred information over a half-year period."  "Taken together, they provide what investigators call a profile – a clear picture of a person’s habits and preferences, and indeed, of his or her life." Naturally, it's a German politician - and a Green - who's pushing the envelope on this. (Would any American dare? Or care?)
data  internet  privacy  maps  location  from delicious
march 2011 by blech
Greene St Between Prince St and Spring St | NYC Grid
To do in NYC: visit this street art (literally) version of the NY subway map.
newyork  newyorkcity  subway  maps  art  sculpture  from delicious
march 2011 by blech
Tiny Useful Things: MyTravelMaps | designswarm thoughts
"I’ve been using Google MyMaps for about 4 years now, mapping out the cities I visit and live in with pins that often relate to food and culture. ... They do however feel like the lonely Google project noone cares about. I think there is so much they could do with it if anyone cared about the implications of those maps during a travel experience. They have the data, it’s only a question of layout and a little intelligence. So I thought I’d try designing what clicking “print” should give you." This is good.
maps  google/maps  printing  printondemand  design  everyoneiknowisdoingawesomeshit  from delicious
february 2011 by blech
Words on the street: Stephen Walter's city maps | Art and design | The Guardian
Last October, artist Stephen Walter and I walked from Wedding, Berlin's north-western suburb, to the shores of the Tegeler See
london  berlin  maps  art  walking  geography  culture  from instapaper
february 2011 by blech
Church Farmhouse Museum | diamond geezer
"Nextdoor, in two upper rooms, is the reason you'll probably want to visit soon. The museum is hosting a special exhibition devoted to Harry Beck, designer of the world-famous tube map, who was born down the road in Finchley." You'll also need to visit soon, because Barnet Council want to  close the entire museum. 
london  culture  maps  museum  tube  underground  exhibition  from delicious
february 2011 by blech
Borrow a Map | National Geographic Events
"National Geographic Giant Traveling Maps are oversized vinyl floor maps. They are the largest maps ever produced by National Geographic and require a school gym or large room for use. Each map is accompanied by a set of activities and materials. The map is in one piece, and requires no assembly."
maps  education  geography  via:migurski  via:straup  from delicious
february 2011 by blech
Clapham Common, Ground Zero of the Saints | Strange Maps
"This map, dated 1800, depicts the common at what may have been its high society high-water mark. These were the days of the Clapham Saints, a loose association of agenda-setting Anglicans."
london  maps  history  geography  culture  strangemaps  via:kasei  from delicious
february 2011 by blech
On River Maps « somethingaboutmaps
Lately I’ve been working on a series of river maps, done in the style of Harry Beck‘s famous London Underground design.
maps  cartography  geography  rivers  design  via:iamdanw  via:straup  from instapaper
january 2011 by blech
Judith Schalansky: Atlas of Remote Islands | Asylum
"Here is one of those books which defies the current bookworld gloom." This sort of sums up what I'd write about the book.
book  design  geography  cartography  maps  germany  from instapaper
january 2011 by blech
Damon Zucconi, 2010 | Fata Morgana
A very simple, but also very effective, hack using the Google Maps v3 styling options.
maps  google  art  labels  google/maps  styling  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
The Best Google Maps of 2010 | Google Maps Mania
"The BBC Dimensions site is probably my favourite Google Maps project of the year." Crumbs.
google  maps  cartography  berg  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
2010 End-of-the-Year Card | Harry Kao
"The 2010 card is a personalized “physical mashup” that combines maps, photos, and business information" Uses Flickr photos and OpenStreetMap and Yelp data. Lovely.
paper  papernet  personalisation  flickr  maps  openstreetmap  via:migurski  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
Digital cartographer Eric Fischer maps race, crime | SFGate
"Eric Fischer, an Oakland amateur digital cartographer, mines data found online to examine the information that people leave in their wake - anonymously, on sites like Flickr.com, Cabspotting.org and a NextBus.com - to reveal the patterns of a city."
sanfrancisco  geography  interview  maps  sfgate  via:migurski  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
'Infinite City,' by Rebecca Solnit | SFGate
"What makes a place? Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area."
sanfrancisco  book  atlas  maps  review  sfgate  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
Rebecca Solnit's Infinite City | City Lights Books
"What makes a place? Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area." The biggest round of applause of the day? The author's praise for her publisher prioritising local bookshops over Amazon.
sanfrancisco  book  atlas  maps  todo/done  via:straup  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
Where is London? | Suprageography
"It turns out there are a lot of official and unofficial ways to define London’s extent." Oliver O'Brien writes a post I've been meaning to for ages (although he misses some definitions I'd use, or have seen people use: the combined Cities of London and Westminster, the inner London ring road, zone 1, and the old 0(1)71 dialing code area spring to mind). Maybe I still should...
london  maps  definitions  geography  cartography  place  via:straup  from delicious
november 2010 by blech
Home Page | Mapping the Lakes
"'Mapping the Lakes' is a collaborative and explorative research project. Funded by the British Academy, the pilot project tests whether Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology can be used to further the understanding of the literature of place and space."
geography  uk  lakedistrict  literature  maps  research  gis  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Mapping the English Lake District: a literary GIS | Transactions
"Drawing on work carried out as part of an interdisciplinary project, ‘Mapping the Lakes’, the paper focuses on the ways in which GIS can be used to explore the spatial relationships between two textual accounts of tours of the English Lake District: the proto-Picturesque journey undertaken by the poet, Thomas Gray, in the autumn of 1769; and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s self-consciously post-Picturesque ‘circumcursion’ of August 1802." Published in the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
uk  maps  literature  gis  geography  via:@barbarahui  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
In praise of … mapping the nation | The Guardian
""Many excellent books have been written about Lakeland but the best literature of all for the walker has been published by the Director General of the Ordnance Survey," Alfred Wainwright wrote over half a century ago in the introduction to his pictorial guides to the Lake District."
uk  guardian  editorial  maps  ordnancesurvey  lakedistrict  via:cityofsound  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
More Flickr Mapping | floatingsheep
"Building on our visualisation of 34 million geotagged Flickr images, we have decided to map the data normalised by population and area."
flickr  geography  maps  visualisation  geotagging  via:straup  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Styled Maps Using Google Maps API Version 3 | 41Latitude
"Perhaps the best feature of Google Maps API V3 is that you can now remove select map elements. Why is this API V3’s best feature, you ask? Well, because it allows you to remove map elements that are not particularly relevant to your mashup. " This looks like a very useful guide, with examples.
google/maps  maps  design  google  json  development  api  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Islands in the Storm | The New Yorker
If you liked the idea of the Atlas of Remote Islands, the New Yorker has a slideshow of maps of the islands (including two British territories, Ascension Island and Diego Garcia).
newyorker  books  maps  islands  review  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Atlas of Remote Islands | Head Butler
"Schalansky got interested in maps and atlases for the most personal of reasons. She was born in East Berlin; when she was 10, East and West Germany merged, “and the country I was born in disappeared from the map.” With that, she lost interest in political maps and became fascinated with the basic building blocks of Earth’s land masses: physical topography."
books  review  islands  maps  geography  tobuy  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
that's how the light gets in | this is aaronland
"What happens to a person's experience of prettymaps when the echoes of their own life start to make up the map itself? What happens when the only streets on a map are those you and your friends have traveled? At Flickr we made a few tiny attempts to tackle the problem of slippy-maps and historical tilesets and I get a little misty-eyed and weepy when I think about what we could have done if we'd had tools like TileStache and Polymaps at hand."
maps  personalinformatics  history  data  slippymap  via:infovore  re:straup  from delicious
september 2010 by blech
walking, growing up, maps not iphones | zenw@nk!
"Obligatory note on technology, since I'm supposed to be interested in technology and all that: an Ordnance Survey map and a good compass beat anything you can do with an iphone all to hell."
walking  technology  navigation  maps  via:ohskylab  from delicious
september 2010 by blech
A map for every day | Phil Gyford’s website
"Eighteen months ago I wrote about redesigning my site’s front page and mentioned in passing that I’d also created a page for every day which aggregated many things. I’ve now taken this a step further and added a map for every day which aggregates various pieces of location-based information about me." I've been thinking about doing this, but Phil actually has. Interesting musings about privacy in there, too.
philgyford  map  archive  location  history  data  maps  personalinformatics  from delicious
september 2010 by blech
Archipelago | URBAGRAM
"In these maps, activity on the Foursquare network is aggregated onto a grid of ‘walkable’ cells (each one 400×400 meters in size) represented by dots. The size of each dot corresponds to the level of activity in that cell. By this process we can see social centers emerge in each city." "we can show how Paris contains a much more contiguously walkable structure than both New York and London." Interesting (and pretty) stuff.
foursquare  data  visualisation  maps  cities  urbanism  nightlife  via:blackbeltjones  alsopostedon:ffffound  from delicious
august 2010 by blech
indiemapper makes thematic mapping easy | FlowingData
"Indiemapper is kind of like an Adobe Illustrator for maps online. Load your data, pick the features of focus, and then map it."
maps  tools  visualisation  gis  review  via:mattb  from delicious
august 2010 by blech
An appreciation of MySociety’s MapIt service | Unlock
"I will confess to mild chagrin, because as well as having all these wonderful properties, MapIt does almost everything that Unlock Places does for Boundary-Line and Code-Point."
maps  geography  uk  data  geowanking  review  mapit  mysociety  via:zool  from delicious
july 2010 by blech
Mapping points and postcodes to areas | mySociety
"I’m very pleased to announce that mySociety’s upgraded point and postcode lookup service, MaPit, is public and available to all. It can tell you about administrative areas, such as councils, Welsh Assembly constituencies, or civil parishes, by various different lookups including name, point, or postcode."
maps  data  uk  geography  geowanking  service  mysociety  from delicious
july 2010 by blech
woe db
"The woedb is a searchable and linkable index of every single Where On Earth (WOE) ID published. The data is derived from the Creative Commons licensed Yahoo! GeoPlanet data dumps. A page for every WOE ID!" Aaron is being embarrassingly amazing again.
woe  data  geo  geowanking  maps  heirarchy  from delicious
june 2010 by blech
NY Subway System Is Getting a New Map | NYTimes.com
"Next month, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will unveil a resized, recolored and simplified edition of the well-known map, its first overhaul in more than a decade." First reaction: it's a lot less cluttered. Looking back, the MTA's subway map has veered a lot more since '68 than the London diagram, but this is way better than the '79 nadir.
nyc  newyork  mta  subway  underground  maps  diagram  design  transport  information  from delicious
may 2010 by blech
City Railway System | ZEROPERZERO
From the page at the Kemistry Gallery's site: "For South Korean design studio Zero Per Zero’s first exhibition in the UK, Kemistry Gallery presents new versions of their well-known City Railway System series, including LED display panels, hand-drawn maps, paintings, and acrylic pieces."
london  maps  exhibition  art  subway  transport  todo/done  from delicious
may 2010 by blech
Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art | British Library
"Maps can be works of art, propaganda pieces, expressions of local pride, tools of indoctrination… Magnificent Maps brings together 80 of the largest, most impressive and beautiful maps ever made, from 200 AD to the present day." (Meta note: it's interesting how often this is tagged britishmuseum.)
london  maps  exhibition  art  geography  britishlibrary  todo/done  from delicious
may 2010 by blech
Map Art Exhibition: Whose Map Is It? | The Map Room
"Whose Map Is It? is a map art exhibition taking place at Rivington Place in London from June 2 to July 24, 2010. It features work from nine contemporary artists who 'question the underlying structures and hierarchies that inform traditional mapmaking. They provide individual insights that inscribe new, often omitted perspectives onto the map.'"
london  exhibition  maps  todo  via:vicchi  from delicious
may 2010 by blech
With Lasers and Flyovers, a Solar Map of NYC | NYTimes.com
"The early morning flyovers are expected to yield the most detailed three-dimensional picture of New York City to date, with an emphasis on structures, elevations, sun and shade, and nooks and crannies relevant to the city’s emergency response system and its environmental goals."
newyork  maps  survey  sunlight  via:moleitau  from delicious
may 2010 by blech
Embedding an Ordnance Survey Map | Simon Whitehouse
"Lots of us will now have access to embed Ordnance Survey mapping into our blog posts. Just like I’ve done below, with the arrow pointing to Moseley Exchange. And to be honest it wasn’t too difficult to do."
ordnancesurvey  maps  html  howto  embed  wordpress  via:jystewart  from delicious
april 2010 by blech
milkshake whispering | this is aaronland
Aaron continues to be bewlideringly amazing. I have no idea how to summarise this, but you should read it. I read it and I intend to go back tomorrow and read it again.
maps  visualisation  boundaries  photography  justreadit  from delicious
april 2010 by blech
BBC Radio 4 'On the Map' recording | Collins Maps Blog
"Mike Parker, author of Map Addict, will present the ten, 15-minute programmes. They will go out on Radio 4, Monday to Friday at 3.45pm in the weeks beginning 22nd and 29th March. The series looks at maps and map-making since the beginning of the twentieth century and will cover the use of maps for everything from leisure and motoring to propaganda and story-telling."
maps  radio  radio4  bbc  history 
march 2010 by blech
Reportage - The challengers to London’s black cabs | FT.com
On Addison Lee, and minicabs vs taxis. Unfortunately, not enough's made of this introductory piece about GPS data: "The data track the movements of Addison Lee’s [London] cars during a three-year period [and has been used to] create a grid-like model that predicts how long a given journey should take at different times of the day." Still, interesting stuff.
london  taxi  transport  data  gps  maps  via:iamdanw 
march 2010 by blech
Legible London | Slate Magazine
Part of Julia Turner's series on signs and wayfinding, subtitled "Can better signs help people understand an extremely disorienting city?" The answer seems to be "yes".
london  wayfinding  geography  maps  legiblelondon  design  slate  via:antimega 
march 2010 by blech
Iran to ban airlines not using 'Persian Gulf' | BBC News
"The Iranian transport minister has given foreign airlines 15 days to change the name to Persian Gulf on their in flight monitors. If they failed, they would be prevented from entering Iranian airspace, he warned." How are they going to know? Still, another interesting example of names being touchy. (I note the BBC's map says 'The Gulf'.)
news  politics  geography  geopolitics  names  transport  airlines  maps  bbc 
february 2010 by blech
Spark it Up | Frumination
Mapping the history of the NY Subway in ridership numbers. Old, but this is the sort of thing it'd be great to get the numbers from TfL for. This article also links to two other versions, the one on diametunim.com being most attractive, I'd say.
maps  visualisation  transport  nyc  sparkines  via:migurski 
july 2009 by blech
Ability to embed map of geo-tagged photos | Flickr Ideas
I've never written a badge before, so I have no idea how to go about this. But it's bound to be possible somehow. See also: threads asking for badges of favourites.
flickr  idea  todo  code  maps 
may 2009 by blech
Mapping the sky with YQL and astrometry.net | Eat your greens!
"Since the YQL query above returns tags containing the celestial coordinates of a flickr photo, those coordinates can be passed to the Google Earth plugin to display the same area of the night sky. Here’s an example for the Horsehead Nebula in Orion." Nice.
flickr  yql  astonomy  astrometry.net  astrophotography  maps  google/earth  machinetags  via:straup 
march 2009 by blech
Bus Tracker | Chicago Transit Authority
Reminiscent of OnABus (RIP), but with the added bonus of having actual buses on it. (Well, not really, because it's a web page. It has representations of buses. Still.)
maps  bus  transport  chicago  us  via:zimpenfish 
february 2009 by blech
Mapping people, money, and land through airports | Quoderat
"These are the absolute busiest hubs, and it takes a rich and populous city or country to support one. Not by accident, fully half of these airports are in the United States."
maps  geo  airport  transport  infrastructure 
january 2009 by blech
Automatic layout of metro maps | Jonathan Stott
A PDF thesis (full title: "Automatic Layout Of Metro Maps Using Multicriteria Optimisation") on using Java and graph theory to lay out rail networks using Beck-esque metro map principles. According to the research, the automatic maps were preferable to geographic and published ones. No London or NY (ie really big) networks, though.
pdf  thesis  maps  graph  graphics  design  java  transport  usability  via:straup 
january 2009 by blech
killer circles threaten America | urban cartography
Damnit, that's the colour I needed in where?what?when?
maps  cartoon  where-what-when  via:antimega 
january 2009 by blech
Homepage | Street Map
Streetmap finally drag themselves into the middle of the decade with slippy maps on their site. Bafflingly, it's not the default option, and it's still laden with ads, but they do have A-Z imagery, which makes a nice change.
maps  london  a-z  advertising  redesign 
january 2009 by blech
My visited cities in western Europe | Flickr
A nice little project from Matt Biddulph that somewhat overlaps with Where? What? When? and my thoughts on the similarities, and a sort of public todo list.
flickr  dopplr  maps  where-what-when  personalinformatics 
january 2009 by blech
Another Look at Flickr Data | Off the Map
I'd love to be able to get Where? What? When? to the point that it looked this pretty, and was this useful to people. Unfortunately that might take more work than I'm willing to put in.
maps  flickr  photography  geowanking  via:straup 
december 2008 by blech
Mapping: Infrastructure and flow | My heart's in Accra
"To build accurate maps, you can’t simply plot the location of an airport once - you’ve got to map each plane that flies during some period of time. Things that don’t stay put aren’t always happy about being mapped."
maps  visualisation  transport  data  ubicomp  via:straup 
december 2008 by blech
Nokia Map Loader for Mac | Nokia
Ah, handy. I've been having trouble with the PC map loader; maybe this will be happier. (Edit: it wasn't. Maybe the N73 isn't supported any more?)
nokia  maps  n73  mobile  data  macosx  application  via:antimega 
october 2008 by blech
Storrow Drive Commute | Flickr
'Setting a map "point" for a photo is fine in nearly all cases, but for many or even most videos, the concept doesn't work. ... Flickr should let you should be able to trace a line, set waypoints, or at least set start & end points for video uploads.' Yes, it's a lot of work, but Chris might have a point here.
flickr  video  maps  geowanking  geotagging 
october 2008 by blech
Black and White Maps? | Modest Maps
How to tweak the colour of map tiles when using Modest Maps as a library.
maps  modestmaps  development 
september 2008 by blech
Bus Maps for Kings Cross | National Rail Enquiries
Scroll down and there are strange, but potentially useful, little lines next to each of the bus routes showing (I think) how many buses there are. Needs a bit of work, but not a bad idea. The map at the top of the page is nice too.
london  bus  maps  infographics  information  timeline  via:hublicious 
september 2008 by blech
"Online maps 'wiping out history'" | jerakeen.org
Tom Insam runs with my commentary (why don't the OS get their data onto the Google interface?) and highlights the Google response: the data's there, it's just not displayed. Unfortunately, as he also notes, there's not much of a good UI to display it in the end either.
bbc  news  maps  geography  google  uk  comment  ordnancesurvey  geowanking  jerakeen  tominsam 
august 2008 by blech
Online maps 'wiping out history' | BBC News
The oft-quoted portion seems to be "Projects such as Open Street Map, through which thousands of Britons have contributed their local knowledge to map pubs, landmarks and even post boxes online, are the first step in the fight back against "corporate blankwash". Yes, but...
bbc  news  maps  geography  google  uk  comment  ordnancesurvey  geowanking  via:everyone 
august 2008 by blech
London: cycling and walking route maps | Hublog
I didn't realise TfL had launched shiny new bicycle maps (based on Google Maps) for London. Useful. There's also a good graphical comparison of walking route planning from Google and Walkit; the latter are still way better, for this city anyway.
london  maps  cycling  walking  comparison  via:g 
august 2008 by blech
Create Your Own Feed Maps | Google Maps Mania
"Feed Maps is a new API from Map Channels that lets users create Google Maps mash-ups from a number of different data sources." Aaron implies this might be useful with Flickr feeds. Hm.
google  maps  geowanking  feeds  via:straup  via:jerakeen 
august 2008 by blech
Crime mapping test site | Metropolitan Police Service
As Chris says, not a bad start. Nice use of glomming together wards at different zoom levels.
london  crime  maps  police  via:antimega 
august 2008 by blech
Pound the pavement | Google LatLong
"Starting today, you can tell Google Maps that you want walking directions, and we'll try to find you a route that ... uses pedestrian pathways when we know about them" They failed my Barbican highwalks test, but hopefully the data will come in time.
google  google/maps  maps  navigation  walking  via:cityofsound 
july 2008 by blech
London’s Lost Rivers | Strange Maps
This is doing the rounds, but I agree with the comments: a bit of attribution (for both the text and map) wouldn't have gone amiss. On the other hand, I'm one of the freaks who could name five London rivers anyway, so it's not really for me.
london  maps  geography  history  via:ssp  via:foe 
june 2008 by blech
City Distances | Bestiario
Shows the links between cities as indexed by Google. Certainly very nice to look at and play with.
google  cities  visualisation  maps  interface  via:tomc 
april 2008 by blech
Transport informatics | cityofsound
A nice big dense post of resources about transport information, visualisation and how to increase usage
transport  visualisation  cities  buses  train  walking  london  helsinki  design  maps  blogcomment 
april 2008 by blech
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