stamen OSM display layers

Links to various proposed chicago council maps.

great. Could benefit from scaling geographies by population.

bike share portal. suggest a station for NYC's next transit system.

"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."

Your iOs device has been logging your location. This application creates a map of it.

"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

"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."

"The following document is extracted from Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress: A checklist compiled by the Reference and Bibliography Section, Geography and Map Division. The Preface contains general information on LC's collection and includes a list of other libraries with Sanborn holdings. The Introduction by Walter W. Ristow give an excellent historical perspective on fire insurance maps and the Sanborn Company.

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.

heat maps for NYC based on user-input parameters for a dozen variables.

On the uses of mapping infrastructure and etc. Has been dumbed down for AB, I think, but some good points.

State GIS clearinghouse clearinghouse. "primary purpose is to track the status of GIS in US state and local government to aid the planning and building of Spatial Data Infrastructures. Ramona is designed to work in concert with Geospatial One Stop (www.geodata.gov). "

Official NYC mapping portal. Not super useful, but at least points to the major city DBs.

geodata.gov

finds "safe" bike routes in the five boros. Needs a "sort of safe but still direct" setting, but a useful reference and decent implementation.

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."

Subway time mapping with color overlays. Very well done.

"The Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system is a grid-based method of specifying locations on the surface of the Earth. It is used to identify locations on the earth, but differs from the traditional method of latitude and longitude in several respects.
The UTM system is not a single map projection. The system instead employs a series of sixty zones, each of which is based on a specifically defined secant transverse Mercator projection.
The Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system was developed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in the 1940s.[1] The system was based on an ellipsoidal model of the Earth. For areas within the conterminous United States, the Clarke 1866 ellipsoid was used. For the remaining areas of the Earth, including Hawaii, the International Ellipsoid was used. Currently, the WGS84 ellipsoid is used as the underlying model of the Earth in the UTM coordinate system."

geodata available from the french geographic institute.

CS project on analyzing flickr geotags. Mostly the trace images through NYC and SF are interesting.

frickin sweet google map detournments.

this is the stuff

rural juror

mathematical instructions for some azimuthal projections

mapping from MAPC & TBF

co-creator of the diffusion method for creating cartograms. page has C code implementing the algorithm for shp files.

Bettina Johae's project remaps the five boroughs based on waterfront accessibility inferred from excursions around the perimeter of each. ... gated communities, ship cemeteries, hazardous waste dumps, beach-front property and sleepy neighborhoods, exotici

UN Human Rights group puts refugees on google earth

My georeferencing puts Cypress Tree Island a little to the south.

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.

Arcgis script. "generates non-contiguous cartograms, non-contiguous circular cartograms, and contiguous cartograms. "

google maps bug: type in Florida, Michigan, Maryland or Hawaii, and you get points outside of the state. Gmaps looks for the centroid, but it's outside of those convex shapes

"The Berkeley/Penn Urban and Environmental Modeler’s Datakit consists of a series of ... shapefiles and grids describing many of the physical, administrative, transportation, demographic, economic, land use and land cover, and environmental characterist

rhode island gis

"Paris Meridian Line ... created by François Arago (1786-1853). To commemorate [him], Jan Dibbets, created an 'invisible monument' Consists of 135 bronze medallions, each 12cm in diameter, inlaid into the ground along a 10k stretch of the Paris Meridian

Farthest point in lower 48 from an interstate. (appx 225 miles) (Lake Superior)

mapping tool

redlining maps

Let's name this phenomenon: shamemapping. Slavin was onto something.

Using a phase space to group economic outputs.

gent behind Meta-Markets and Real Time Rome

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

Superimpose outlines of various geographies on the world map.

'Camouflage' population-scaled flag rugs, 3D PVC pipe histograms, UV-fluorescent wall, other good stuff. "Antonio Scarponi develops interdisciplinary research projects using cognitive tools and practices from architecture and design."

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

now with 2006-7

Redistricting sim. See how mapmaking matters [from the USC Annenberg Ctr]

"minimal, extensible, customizable, free display library for interactive maps. ... provides a core set of features in a tight, clean package, with plenty of hooks for additional functionality."

Christian Nold does his biomapping thing in the Mission

"a simple wrapper for Yahoo Japan Geocoder API that is used by the official Yahoo Japan's local search widget. This module converts the coordinate into WGS84 from TOKYO datum which is returned by API server."

"William Carlos Williams' Paterson used as a map to navigate the city Paterson and other territories. The poem, the city, the highway and you shape the impossible object. Special guests. Songs from Paterson. Experiments in psychogeography. Getting lost."

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.

yo! awesome mapping, global social justice art projets. Australian-flavored. thx k. [bc: I'm going to put anything aussie in your for box.]

matching simulation to photograph

mapmaking in tokyo and in general

Great mapping util for NYC and surrounding area

interactive and historical maps, including queens nabes for every census going back 100 yrs.

Original remarks by the Commissioners: "It may to many be a matter of surprise that so few vacant spaces have been left, and those so small, for the benefit of fresh air and consequent preservation of health."

Interactive sound maps of the five points/LES

Collection of good little maps on 30-sec arc grids. Data available, too.