Miles Hitchens - Christopher's younger brother, the VBA Arc-code-writing bandito.

The Corner Corner documents, but cannot truly explain, the hobby of visiting places where three or more states or provinces meet at a point.

[god i love the internet.]

maps and animated visualizations

Highest point on Long Island

"You hike to the top of a mountain or pull off at a scenic overlook. You see mountains in the distance. Which mountains are they? HeyWhatsThat will tell you, providing a 360° panoramic sketch labeled with the names of the peaks you're looking at. From almost anywhere in the world."

Northern Ireland output areas

yahoo has a stupid id system for the geographies. twitter uses it.

Amazing list of work and resources on Wild Bill Bunge, a terrific activist-geographer-cartographer.

"The Land Survey Information System is the official government Web site for the distribution of the Public Land Survey System of the United States. The Bureau of Land Management cadastral survey program is responsible for the official boundary surveys for all federal agencies in the U.S. that together manage over 700 million acres. The Public Land Survey System also called the Rectangular Survey System is the foundation for many survey-based land information systems."
You can "Download PLSS data in NAD 83 shape file format that can be used with GIS applications. & Export Survey points, Points/Lines, and Control Points in kml, gps, list, and GeoRSS formats. "

basic background from the National Atlas

lovely photographs of the Line by Colin Stearns.

"Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software."

What is Long Island?

I may be venturing into the high grasses here: "The Shapefile C Library provides the ability to write simple C programs for reading, writing and updating (to a limited extent) ESRI Shapefiles, and the associated attribute file (.dbf)."

Using Facebook profiles to track connections between cities and propose breaklines for a geographic decomposition of the US.

geodata.gov

Petchenik's "From Space to Place: The Psychological Achievement of Thematic Mapping" (American Cartographer 6, 12, 1979) reviews the English language literature and its attempts to define the "thematic map" and she finds all attempts problematic. She ends up arguing for a distinction "...there is the map whose meaning lies in the human experience of being-in-place" - the reference map. "...its meaning can be considered cognitively less complex." Compare to "the map whose meaning is experienced as knowing-about-space..." the thematic map. "It requires a more advanced stage of cognitive development in the spatial domain."

geodata available from the french geographic institute.

ASCII-formatted list of French Communes, with lat/lon/elev

woooo technology is going to make everything better and interconnected, and you will be able to walk by a bridge. Lots of good tidbits, but a depressingly shallow analysis of what goes into making cities tick. I'm not surprised that a Nokia employee thinks that outfitting cities with a(nother) new electronic infrastructure is a good idea. And getting novel information from unusual sources is undoubtably a Good Thing. But does it make cities more just/sustainable/beautiful?

Transport gets more expensive -> production moves closer to consumption

this is the stuff

Kind of like common census but (a) for SF nabes and (b) with data culled from craiglist (in addition to human input). open source, mebbe i'll set up NYC, Boston, Chicago ones.

"A funny box, four lines and four dots" -> how to draw tennessee

UP: Finnish

USGS Seamless. GIS data and etc.

Using a phase space to group economic outputs.

Social art project to find lat/lon minute intersections in Vienna. Like Mile x Mile crossed with Confluence.

useful project, terrible map using 6 shades of blue. (it's the house colors of the sites, wrong decision)

The Islanders logo excludes Queens and Brooklyn. lame.

Part of the inCUBATE project. Mention of chicagomxm.

"BatchGeocode.com's ability to interact across many domains makes it once of the first true Web 2.0 applications that really works!"

Google Easrth frontend for census data. Looks amazing, I'll probably spend all day tomorrow playing with it. thanks 18b!

source: CIA World Factbook, of course.

matching simulation to photograph

international small town illinois, so close but so far

spying on spies, tracking torture planes, and other art-geography.

"The downloadable file contains a list of all towns, administrative divisions and agglomerations with their current population, their English name (if not equal to the international name) and parent country." 12 MB unzipped

claims power at edges (eg CA) --> decentrlzn, whilst large nation leads to tyranny of central elites (?). PS You forgot China, only 23 net new breakaway states since '46 if you discount decolonialzn, count Yemen & Ger reunifctn (& 15 a

Should be 'geology and the machinery of death.' A death penalty case that hinges on a 1/12 portion of mineral rights.

out of context map fragments, urban pathways and abstractions. Sound familiar, anyone?

Outdoor art shows in Paris by delightful French people. For our purposes, they're doing a roadtrip/serial art installation of emotion-named towns in the US (Hope, AK, Love, MD).

great (caveats: Oberlin is 6 years out of date (no lewis ctr) [at least it's there]. IIT is 180° from vertical. Each image cropped to 3x3km square, which is too small.]

Pangea Ultima? Is it an apocalyptic or cyclical urge that makes us want Pangea to reappear?

GIS & research nonprofit: "objective is to study growing social and economic disparity and inefficient growth patterns ("sprawl") in metropolitan areas"

GIS files for the US of A

via fpo.

artist theorist curator

The 10,000 acre Hobet Mountaintop Removal Complex in Boone County, West Virginia, superimposed over 38 different cities with Google Earth.

"boundary line across South Australia at an approximate rainfall boundary indicating the edge of the area suitable for agriculture."

Presenting good info on global trends (water, tobacco, arms trade). From Princeton. Too bad the design of the infographics is pretty bad!

"A control city is a city or locality posted on a traffic sign indicating forward destinations on a certain route."

Fucking amazing. 20 years of photos of Camden & Richmond CA, w/ maps. via javierarbona.

via pruned via kio

the new what? In this context: driving to your office when it's a mile away & no grocery store nearby. But there is $18 cab sauv & an angelika!

truth in t-shirt form

forgot about this one: "During two months (in 2002) all of Amsterdam's residents are invited to be equipped with a tracer-unit. These tracers' data generate lines forming a (partial) map of Amsterdam in realtime."

mapping affinity zones in usa based on voluntary responses

free on-line utility that creates SVG & JPEG maps and profiles from GPS data

from Micro-Soft, but often better qual than gmaps, if always a terribl' interface

he goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures and stories will then be posted here.

workshops!

50 state centers of pop