Heres a guide on how to play custom chambers in Portal 2 (until Valve give us an easier way). I will cover both Single Player and CO OP mode.

MCMap Live is a Minecraft mapper, like Cartograph for Mac OS X. It is a wrapper for mcmap, Zahl's fantastic and fast isometric Minecraft map renderer. What makes MCMap Live special is that it renders maps in pieces and lets you view them right away in an intuitive, minimalist interface. You can scroll and zoom all around your world and as quick as mcmap can render the chunks, you will see them.

How would you improve New York City's public realm? We're gathering up everyone's ideas about how to build a better city, and you can explore, discuss, and debate those ideas right here.

"If there are more than five bikes at one of these bike stations the relevant LED comes on. It's a glanceable guide to which way to walk when we head out."

Destination maps are navigational aids designed to show anyone within a region how to reach a location (the destination). Hand-designed 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.

The Atlas Obscura is a collaborative project with the goal of cataloging all of the singular, eccentric, bizarre, fantastical, and strange out-of-the-way places that get left out of traditional travel guidebooks and are ignored by the average tourist.

At its simplest, OASIS is an online interactive map that visualizes information about open space and land use in New York City. Oasisnyc.net now delivers mapped data about transit, land use, buildings, combined sewer overflows, historical imagery, zoning districts and more.

More NYC 2010 Census maps

Topographies & Tales is about the relationship between people, language, identity and place, revealing personal stories against the larger picture of how our concept of space and environment is shaped by “belonging” and “nationhood”, and how boundaries, barriers and borders come to be formed.

The GMap Image Cutter is an application designed to take any image or digital photo and cut it into tiles which are displayed on a Google Map.

Timeline for visualizing foursquare checkins

Profile of the guy who architects the user experience at Microsoft Bing Maps

The streets of downtown Los Angeles have a different dream. They do not lead to the cardinal points of the compass but to the uncertain spaces in between. Ambiguity is written on our landscape.

Kevin Lynch's work, especially his theory of city form and studies relating to human perceptions of the city and how they should affect city design, was highly influential.

I wanted to generate interesting game maps that weren’t constrained to be realistic, and I wanted to try some techniques I hadn’t tried before. I usually make tile maps but this time I decided to make polygonal maps. Instead of 1,000,000 tiles, what could I do with 1,000 polygons? I think the distinct player-recognizable areas might be useful for gameplay: locations of towns, places to quest, territory to conquer or settle, pathfinding waypoints, difficulty zones, etc.

“Tektonomastics” is a word that we made up by combining “tekto-” (Greek for “building) with “onomastics” (the study of the history and origin of proper names. More established branches of onomatology include toponomastics (the study of place names) and anthroponomastics (the study of personal names). We are creating a new branch - tektonomastics - or, the study of building names.

Currently in development and created by Mothership, Kinetic is a GPS-based tracking and training app for running, cycling, hiking, walking… designed specifically to help you measure, record, store, review and analyse your location based data. Packaged in a beautiful interface with features to amaze and only grow with time, Kinetic is/will be a must for every iPhone. Guys at Mothership sent us an ad-hoc and although I am not a big runner myself, this is an app that I will want to use for all my location based activities and in the future I hope much more…

Because Kinetic is module based, ie your mix and match different modules according to your preference and activity, you are able to build you own perfect tracker. Included are time, distance and location which allows you to keep track of your time and distance covered, and see the route you’re on with live mapping and real-time markers. Speed and pace display average speed and pace, and lets you view live speed history graph to monitor your progress. Also included are altitude and compass which display current altitude and ascent/descent rates over both distance and time as well as an altitude history graph. Things don’t stop here. The team is hard at work to release the 1.0 version and at the same time excited about the endless possibilities that can be included in the future. Some of these will include full on Marathon training packs, audio and customisable training plans as well as ways to output data with all the recorded time and location to use as you like whether this be for art projects or else.

Another feature of Kinetic is the ability to change the app style. Kinetic comes with a number of styles preloaded, including Dashboard – which is designed specifically for night time use and comes in a number of alternative flavours. Of course, the team will add more styles with future app updates.

The app was submitted to the AppStore three days ago and should be available within a week or two. Included also is the lite version, ad supported which allows you to transfer your data to the full version once you are ready to make the jump. The full version will be available for $2.99 (for a limited time).

Mothership was established in 2010 by Stuart Eaton, Nick Hingston and Tim Juby to develop and build intelligently designed software that meets the highest of standards and are enjoyable to use. We care about getting the user experience right. We believe in making software that serves a purpose, making sure that it is as functional, engaging and as simple to use as possible. Creativity and innovation shaped by good design.

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. We source our maps from OpenStreetMap, the community mapping project which is making a free map of the world. Our aim is to continue the democratization of geo data and to expand access to open geo data through a range of simple yet powerful tools and APIs.

Traverse Me is a map drawn by walking across campus with a GPS device to invite the viewer to see a different landscape to that which surrounds them. It questions the possibilities of where they are and inspires a personal reading of their movements and explorations of the campus.

"There was a lot of enthusiasm for our work and for map-making in general, and it was neat to hear all the different projects folks were involved in (sound maps of Chicago neighborhoods, mapping the displacement of poor folk through gentrification, folks from Area Chicago and their web-mapping ideas"

Development Seed is a unique mix of a strategic consultancy and an open source product development company. As you can see from some of our past projects, we specialize in implementing technology projects for large international development organizations and leading open source research and development initiatives.

Mapnik is a Free Toolkit for developing mapping applications.

MapBox is a suite of open source tools for creating custom maps in Amazon's cloud infrastructure.

The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) obtained elevation data on a near-global scale to generate the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of Earth. SRTM consisted of a specially modified radar system that flew onboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour during an 11-day mission in February of 2000.

Geocaching is a high-tech treasure hunting game played throughout the world by adventure seekers equipped with GPS devices. The basic idea is to locate hidden containers, called geocaches, outdoors and then share your experiences online.

The 2010 O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference - Put Location Awareness to Work

Jeremy Hight is a Los Angeles-based scholar, artist and educator. He is the author of numerous essays on locative media, narrative and augmented reality. I responded at length to his recent essay Writing Within the Map and as evidenced by the transcript below, Jeremy and I have been chatting back and forth for the last few weeks. The following conversation touches on space, media and some of Jeremy's earlier projects.

Why not be able to search a place for its stories, its poetry, and its metaphors and why not be able to select what you desire as well as be able to create such things specifically for this place itself?

We launched driving directions for India in April this year. Today we are taking this a step further with the launch of landmarks in driving directions.

CTA/Googlemaps mashup of nearby attractions, resturants, etc

Maps mashup of drink and bar specials in Chicago

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Create your own trip, complete with schedules from participating public transit agencies.

A wrapper around GMapsEZ that will take a XML file and output a map thats easy to embed as well, using this you can create maps with loads of points by just editing the XML

This article shows you how to embed a customized Google Map into your website or blog.

Now it's easy to put a Google map on any web page, without writing a single line of JavaScript

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LinkTrack is a service that allows you to see exactly who clicks on links in your AIM profile