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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
The Unlikely Event, Avi Steinberg | Paris Review
"For those of us who occupy that metaphysical middle ground between the in-flight magazine and the barf bag, there’s the airline safety card." "A [1960s] Air France card directs passengers to the closest axe—no further directions are given." A delightful piece about safety instructions, how they've changed, and their parallels with art.
transport  aeroplanes  design  art  safety  instructions  via:straup  from instapaper
december 2011 by blech
Don’t Zone-1 It When You Can Boris Bike It | Suprageography
"Ever thought what the tube network would look like if you took out the expensive Zone 1? Me neither, until this morning, when I was wondering if it was possible to utilise my current “Boris Bike” bikeshare 24-hour membership to save a bit of money on commuting in to work."
london  bicycle  transport  tube  map  hacks  via:straup 
december 2011 by blech
Institutional memory and reverse smuggling | wrttn
"At the end of the project someone should've been commissioned to write a book, "What This Goddamn Plant Is: And, How It Works". That book is effectively being written now, only by archaeologists."
engineering  documentation  process  archeology  knowledge  via:kellan  via:straup 
december 2011 by blech
She Was A Camera | Rhizome
"Though the golden years of camgirls were brief, they coincided with the rise of the web itself." An interesting look at a neglected (because it was women? the association with sex? because it was largely for free?) part of early-mid period web culture.
web  history  webcam  image  via:straup  via:danhon  from instapaper
november 2011 by blech
DayNotes - Mon 12th Sept, 2011 | Rev Dan Catt's Blog
Dan on the GAE changes. "I am now thinking in terms of running my code on x number of servers, which is totally what I didn’t want to be thinking about."
google  appengine  cloud  sysadmin  via:straup  from delicious
september 2011 by blech
Use historical imagery to see nuclear site | Google Earth Blog
"So what's the purpose of blurring the imagery if it's that easy to obtain clear shots?" On Google Earth, imagery and historic data.
google/earth  satellite  surveillance  nuclear  security  securitytheathre?  via:straup  from delicious
september 2011 by blech
Boston’s photographic colors | Bostonography
"Here’s what we did: grabbed some 50,000 geotagged photos from Flickr, analyzed the pixel colors of each photo, then mapped a grid of the most frequent color hues." "Every dot on this map shows the most common hue of photos around that point." "A notable outcome (drawback, perhaps) is that dark and unsaturated brownish colors, very common in photographs, show up as orange on the map."
boston  photography  flickr  geotagging  colour  visualisation  via:straup  from delicious
september 2011 by blech
Unmanned Systems DC Metro Ads | Northrup Grumman
"The Unmanned Systems ads are located at the Capitol South metro stop in Washington D.C. The ads feature silhouettes of Northrop Grumman’s unmanned systems, including Global Hawk and Fire Scout. Inside each silhouette is an image, a visual example of the system’s capabilities accompanied by simple text describing capabilities and accomplishments."
flickr  advertising  advert  drones  via:straup  newaesthetic  from delicious
august 2011 by blech
London From the Outside In | polis
"A recent trip had me in London for four days, and I thought, [what if] I started from the outside and worked my way in? Since Heathrow is right at the edge of Greater London, it made perfect sense just to land, clear customs, and start walking." Eighteen miles from Heathrow to the City.
london  newyorkcity  travel  flight  walking  via:straup  from delicious
august 2011 by blech
Missing Maps and the Fragility of Digital Information | O'Reilly Radar
"Because it was very difficult to get the big picture on the phone's small screen, I thought to pick up a paper map at a gas station. To my dismay, the spinner racks were empty, with only a few maps of other parts of the state available. I immediately regretted throwing away my paper maps in a cleaning binge a few years back - I can easily imagine futures in which they will be worth their weight in gold."
map  paper  internet  gps  via:straup  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
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
GPS chaos: How a $30 box can jam your life | New Scientist
"Signals from GPS satellites now help you to call your mother, power your home, and even land your plane – but a cheap plastic box can jam it all." It's interesting how quickly GPS has become part of life- and how easy it is to mess up.
gps  satellite  space  navigation  radio  via:straup  from delicious
march 2011 by blech
Help Forum Activity | Flickr
From Martin Heimberger: "I ran a fairly detailed analysis on Flickr's help forum earlier this month. The data set covers the entire English language help forum from 2004-2011. This chart shows monthly posting and thread creation activity over time in the center panel, indicating some of the general themes being discussed at various times."
flickr  discussion  graph  infographics  via:straup  from delicious
march 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
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
Home-grown and Delicious | Adactio: Journal
"The Delicious API makes it quite easy to post links so I’ve added that into my own bookmarking code. Whenever I post a link here, it will also show up on my Delicious account. If you’re subscribed to my Delicious links, you should notice no change whatsoever." When both Les Orchard and Jeremy Keith are saying something similar, I listen.
delicious  yahoo  api  data  personalarchive  syndication  re:adactio  via:straup  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
Let a million bookmarks bloom | 0xDECAFBAD
"TL;DR: Don’t depend on Delicious; host your own, pay for it elsewhere, or hope for the best. Use real-time feeds to stitch the bookmarking diaspora back together into topical aggregate indexes." When both Les Orchard and Jeremy Keith are saying something similar, I listen.
delicious  yahoo  aggregation  tags  via:straup  re:deusx  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
We can save Delicious | unique hazards may exist
"Delicious may or may not have a future as a service, but regardless we can still 'save it' by extracting and preserving its collective memories." A call to export the public delicious data corpus to the Library of Congress, or similar.
delicious  yahoo  archive  preservation  via:straup  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
Delicious Closing Leaves a Bad Taste | Going To Be Big
Charlie O'Donnell on the Delicious fallout: "[It's] unfortunate because it really hurts Yahoo!’s ability to make purchases in the future.  To shut off such an important asset in the history of Web 2.0 really means they’ll pull the plug on anything.  I certainly wouldn’t want anything I built winding up there (unless they were the only bidder on the face of the earth), given how well they’ve proven to be able to take care of things.  And they wonder why they couldn’t get deals done for Facebook, Groupon or Foursquare."
delicious  yahoo  comment  acquisition  via:straup  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
Clasmic | kewlchops
"There's an unsurprising tension between corporations and perpetuity, so [in an alternate future where I didn't lose my job and Yahoo! created a new priority for itself as a corporation] we've decided to create The Flickr Foundation*, a DotORG to make new methods of protection, partnership and proliferation to conserve the world's digital commons."
flickr  archive  georgeoates  commons  preservation  via:straup  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
The Channel API (Python) | Google App Engine
New in 1.4.0: "The Channel API creates a persistent connection between your application and Google servers, allowing your application to send messages to JavaScript clients in real time without the use of polling. This is useful for applications that are designed to update the user about new information immediately or where user input is immediately broadcast to other users."
google  appengine  javascript  push  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
Call for participation for PDA 2011 | Personal Archiving
"Relevant themes include but are not limited to family photographs and home movies; personal health and financial data; interface design for archives; scrap booking; social network data; institutional practices; genealogy; email, blogs and other correspondence; and funding models."
archive  photography  memory  conference  via:straup  from delicious
november 2010 by blech
From a rock to an old place | BBC- Nick Booth's blog
"Websites like Flickr are not just collections of pictures. They are places where people forge links which are strong enough to change the places we care about."
flickr  community  geography  photography  bbc  @podnosh  via:straup  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Update Twitter with a HTTP Post | Machine Tweets
Looks like a useful service if you want to shortcut authentication (although Twitter already make it fairly easily by having a page that shows you an auth token for your account only). I wonder how well (or indeed if) it reports errors usefully, but even so, worth a go, perhaps.
twitter  authentication  http  scripting  oauth  webservice  via:straup  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
Are the best pictures on Facebook or Flickr? | The Observer
"Among Facebook's 15bn photographs there are, no doubt, some memorable and beautiful images, but to date I haven't seen any. That's not true of Flickr, which continues to be one of the wonders of the world and hosts hundreds of thousands of terrific pictures."
flickr  facebook  photography  johnnaughton  observer  aesthetics  via:straup  via:preoccupations  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
So I made a magazine | john poisson
"I was also aware that dumping them en masse into Flickr wasn’t going to be an interesting way of conveying what I was up to all summer. So I published a magazine instead." This is something I need to do.
photography  flickr  magazine  travel  travelogue  via:straup  magcloud  printing  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Immediate sharing | Paul Hagon
An interesting analysis of upload lag for the Sydney dust storm. I wonder if you'd get different results for, say, Glastonbury, or the Thames tunnel walks? (Now there's a todo. Oops.)
flickr  data  api  analysis  mobile  time  via:straup 
march 2010 by blech
SDK 1.3.1: Major Datastore Improvements | App Engine Blog
New in Google App Engine: "Datastore Query Cursors / No more 1000 result limit / Reduced error rate with Automatic Datastore Retries / AppStats RPC instrumentation library." Good stuff. Should let me fix some things with docent too...
google  appengine  python  datastore  api  statistics  via:jerakeen  via:straup 
february 2010 by blech
Deep city | designswarm thoughts
"instead of doing what a lot of internet-types are doing which is to see the city from above (maps and all) or from below (infrastructure and all) or even the surface of it (advertising and LED walls), I was going to focus on what makes my experience of cities (having lived in large ones like Amsterdam, Paris, London, Milan, Montreal) unique and enjoyable. A user’s experience."
cities  presentation  montage  photography  urbanism  writing  everyoneiknowisdoingawesomeshit  re:alexandrasonsino  via:straup 
january 2010 by blech
flickr.galleries.getList | Flickr API
The first couple of flickr.galleries methods go live. There are more that don't work for external developers yet; I'm looking forward to being able to do a couple of utility scripts when they're released.
flickr  api  galleries  via:straup 
january 2010 by blech
Photos from the "Your Best ... | Twitter/kellan
'Photos from the "Your Best Shot of 2009" group, that are in galleries, a slideshow' Key bits: you can pass a slideshow a Flickr API method, and flickr.photos.search can take an 'in_gallery' argument.
flickr  api  code  kellan  via:straup 
january 2010 by blech
mroth's flickr-wholovesyou at master | GitHub
"A quick and dirty command line tool to see what Flickr members most frequently favorite photos of you (or someone else you know!). This uses the People in Photos feature (API documentation coming soon to Flickr!)" The key bit: person_id in the flickr.photos.search method.
flickr  github  code  api  search  mroth  via:straup 
january 2010 by blech
PST is the new GMT | optional.is/required
The headline isn't actually repeated in the article, which argues that Pacific time might be becoming the new standard timezone (because of the dominance of west coast tech firms). I don't necessarily buy it, especially as outages tend to be given in whichever of PST or PDT is being observed, unlike GMT times (which is not necessarily the same as British local time). Still, food for thought.
time  globalisation  via:straup 
october 2009 by blech
Flickr Photos: Fair Game for Home Printing? | NYTimes.com
Good article. Worrying comments. (One says 'use favourites'. What when a user takes a favourite private? I haven't forgotten it, but I can't find it. flickr-touch makes a copy for the iPhone. Is it terrible of me that I've dug out pictures from that (private) backup?)
flickr  copyright  favourites  via:straup 
june 2009 by blech
Dopplr/Flickr machine-tagging | Magical Nihilism
It's always nice to see machine tags as site joins natively supported. Hurrah for straup, Flickr, and Jones for an excellent documenting screengrab. (Shameless plug: install the GM userscript from snaptrip and you'll see trip tags prettified too.)
dopplr  flickr  machinetags  via:straup  re:blackbeltjones 
june 2009 by blech
Machine tag browsing | Adactio: Journal
A nice way of displaying machine tags, including reclaiming HTML tables (and with a nod to the Flickr machine tag browser; thanks). I'm not sure if I could make this work for the Flickr version; there are possibly too many namespaces. Still, maybe I'll try for the most popular ones.
tags  machinetags  ui  html  css  development  huffduffer  data  via:straup  via:jerakeen 
may 2009 by blech
Manufacturing flic.kr style photo URLs | Flickr API
kellan explains the base 58 encoding used for turning a photo ID into the hash used in the flic.kr/p/hash/ short form URL for a Flickr page (which might, hopefully, see people using Flickr instead of Twitpic when doing short status updates).
flickr  api  php  code  url  source  revcanonical  via:kellan  via:straup 
april 2009 by blech
Controlling an EC2 instance with python | SpaziDigitali
"Here I’ll show how to use boto to start a server instance then how to send a file to the instance and execute a command on the remote server, and finally I’ll show how to terminate the instance." Looks like this
amazon  ec2  python  script  work  via:straup 
april 2009 by blech
LookUP | Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
Like Where On Earth, but for space: put in an object and it'll return RA/dec (and a bunch of sources for images of that part of the sky).
astronomy  tools  geowanking  via:straup 
march 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
Satellite Crash Animation | Google Earth Blog
"Thanks to the KML development efforts of James Stafford, you can use Google Earth's time animation feature to see the orbits of the two satellites from the six minutes before the impact until they meet. The file also includes one hour's worth of their orbital paths for some perspective."
google  google/earth  visualisation  space  satellite  collision  via:straup 
february 2009 by blech
Watermarks | BLDGBLOG
"Bodle will be projecting onto the facades of buildings throughout Bristol estimated future high-tide marks should the entire Greenland ice cap melt. The idea is brilliant; I love the idea of mapping the future earth onto the earth of the present, of overlaying onto our present geography the virtual presence of a geography yet to come."
art  climatechange  geography  via:straup 
february 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
Astronomy Photographer of the Year | Astrotags explained
"Astrotags are a new way to label your photos of space – they describe what your photo is of, and where in space that is. With your help, we hope that astrotags will let us build a beautiful montage of your astronomy photos." Push a new one on the todo stack.
flickr  astronomy  metadata  machinetags  astrotags  nmm  todo  via:foe  via:straup 
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
Home | GeoKit for Rails
Looks interesting, although my geo-using projects are in GAE and I've just discovered geopy, which seems to be working. As you'd expect, over in the Rails world there's a bit more magic involved (like "an option to automatically geocode a model's address field on create").
ruby  rails  code  development  geowanking  via:straup 
december 2008 by blech
facetaggr.user.js | gabe at squirrelsoup
"Adds a list of your contacts on the flickr photo page so you can easily machine tag the photo with them." Might be worth a look, next time I'm in Firefox.
flickr  javascript  greasemonkey  machinetags  via:straup 
september 2008 by blech
Lift the download quarantine | The Pug Automatic
A nice little AppleScript folder action which calls xattr to remove that annoying "You've downloaded this, is it safe?" dialog. Trades security for convenience, of course, but if you want it, here it is. (I do.)
macosx  security  securitytheathre?  download  applescript  script  hack  xattr  metadata  via:straup 
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
IMG·2·JSON — An image meta–data to JSON web application
"IMG·2·JSON is a simple Google App Engine python application which extracts metadata from images and returns the results as a JSON string. " Could be handy, perhaps. Impressive use of GAE too.
photography  exif  google  appengine  json  python  via:straup 
august 2008 by blech
Prime Sky | SlideShare
"Over the Air presentation by Tom Hume and Bryan Rieger of Future Platforms about the PrimeSky project they did for the Royal Observatory at Greewich" Looking forward to this launching.
astronomy  api  slides  slideshare  mobile  web  development  via:foe  via:straup 
april 2008 by blech
Add your own buttons to Picasa | Google Code Blog
"If you've ever wanted to make your favorite software or website work with Google's Picasa software, there's a new Picasa Button API that lets you add your own buttons to the desktop interface."
google  api  picasa  photograph  web  development  via:straup 
march 2008 by blech
FlickrTouchr.py | /~colmmacc/
As the bit of the title I truncated says, "keep your flickr album and favourites on an iPod Touch or iPhone". I was thinking about going about this a different way, but the favourites are a nice touch. Interesting Flickr API library commentary too.
flickr  python  api  iphone  photos  blogcomment  via:straup 
january 2008 by blech
POW -- Plain Old Webserver | Firefox Add-ons
"The Plain Old Webserver uses Server-side Javascript (SJS) to run a server inside your browser." Now with Perl and Python as well as JS. Nutty.
extension  mozilla  firefox  browser  server  development  javascript  cgi  via:straup 
january 2008 by blech

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