polymaps-based visualisation of wind patterns at various american weather spots via:straup

"It is thus in traders' direct financial interest, they suggest, to install themselves at specific points on the Earth's surface—a kind of light-speed financial acupuncture—to take advantage both of the planet's geometry and of the networks along which trades are ordered and filled. They conclude that "the construction of relativistic statistical arbitrage trading nodes across the Earth’s surface" is thus economically justified, if not required." wild premise, wonder what the reality factor here is

so cool, arbitrary and well-known insane routes (e.g. Cairo to Norway) used as benchmarks for open (OSM) vs. proprietary (google) map routing services

city blocks size ordered, via straup

wall street firms using sattelites for parking lot data (via kevin slavin) :
With a satellite picture, “you don't have to guess based on what a manager is saying from a store or the opinion of a research analyst,” said Tom Diamond, co-founder of Remote Sensing Metrics. “It's a real piece of data you can look at.”

geo annotation of sir mixalot song via kathryn

sick idea for the postal service as location service provider (geo api) via migurski

time adjusted walking perspectives (street view like)

via sarah

google maps india uses contextual clues like "pink building on the right" for driving directions; this is nuts

...and the actual site itself

algorithm for finding all tennis courts on google maps satellite images (via migurski)

"The theory states that at a certain distance from central London, running the length of the border between the 0207 and the 0208 telephone codes, a much higher than average number of nail salons exist." via russell_davies

having real-time traffic and routing information induces inefficient driver behavior

"the geographical point nearest to all the inhabitants of that region, on average"; in South Asia, for the world

editing maps on paper in the real world for inclusion digitally on internet world (Open Street Maps)

proposed brooklyn=>queens=>bronx subway line with accompanying speculative ridership data

good examples of inverted space (via straup)

"The taxicab metric is also known as rectilinear distance, L1 distance or L1 norm (see Lp space), city block distance, Manhattan distance, or Manhattan length, with corresponding variations in the name of the geometry.[1] The last name alludes to the grid layout of most streets on the island of Manhattan, which causes the shortest path a car could take between two points in the city to have length equal to the points' distance in taxicab geometry."

Photo Auto Guide, "Live Map", Navteq and its ilk

"so they're not just tools for locating yourself or your objects, but for locating your memories and exchanging them with others"