Allgemeiner und besonders Hamburgischer Contorist, welcher von den Währungen, Münzen, Gewichten, Maae︣n, Wechsel-Arten und Usanzen der vornehmsten in und ausser Europa gelegenen Städte und Länder nicht nur eine umständliche Nachricht ertheilet; sondern auch solche beschriebene Münz-Sorten, Gewigte und Massen zuvörderst gegen die, so zu Hamburg, hiernächst aber, in angegebenen Tabellen, auch gegen die, so an andern Orten gebräuchlich sind, genau vergleichet – Jürgen Elert Kruse

So *potentially* interesting, and yet implemented in such a bizarre way that it becomes completely useless

A beautiful interactive map of every street and park light owned and run by Umeå's municipality

"Nothing happens before 2 AM." Gorgeous. Via Mike Risher.

Via Tom Taylor. A side-by-side-by-side comparison leaves little doubt as to the aesthetic and functional superiority of Google Maps.

Also, this is very nice.

Sha, you are truly a Stamenite now.

Ultramapping! It needs to be one word!

Great resource for the legendary map.

Top-notch work.

"These...logics and relationships...resist conventional forms of representation[,] and to operate within them requires the development of tools of analysis and design that account for the multiplicities of scale and complex logics that are found within the contemporary city."

"[O]fficials are becoming more strategic about providing safe passage to school by keeping tabs on gang and clique activities in real time as their turf wars hopscotch around school catchment areas."

Here's my talk from dConstruct in Brighton a few weeks back. My goodness, I do go on. This is an absolutely sprawling talk! Check the tags for some idea of content.

Even *more* HOOAH.

Very nice. I love that the default tile for my Helsinki neighborhood pinpoints the location of bars.

More Pranav Mistry. This guy's one to watch.

Hmmm. Well, for the most part I approve of Prop 8 backers getting a taste of what hate feels like - after all, they're perfectly happy to legislate it for others. But you know I've gotta draw the line at actionable harassment and intimidation. Anyway, point is: didn't I tell you this was going to happen?

Dennis Crowley (who should know) on Latitude and its weaknesses. For my own part, I'm distressed at its comparative lack of dynamic privacy options; for comparison, look at the loving way this is crafted in Fire Eagle. (I also know that, however hard Tom Coates and his crew worked to get things just right, a gazillion more people will adopt Latitude in its first day of use than will ever hear of Fire Eagle. Mostly Yahoo!-corporate's fault, I'm guessing.)

"New Yorkers living within 1/4 of a Starbucks." Heh.

Via Jones. Superfabulous.

Lost and now found again, all of HKL's vehicles reporting their positions in real time.

Hey, they made good on my old aspiration to redesign the Seoul subway map - and Tokyo and NYC into the bargain!

From http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/07/17/festooning-the-tree-of-life/

The voice, it comes across.

Via Paul Mison's comment on the Speedbird "high density" thread. *Incredible*, visceral "visualizations."

"Oakland Crimespotting is an interactive map of crimes in Oakland and a tool for understanding crime in cities."

Looks a lot like the onset of turbulence, ne?

Needs more Helvetica

Compare to http://thanksgivingisruined.blogspot.com/2006/12/gimme-gimme-chaos-art-is-reinforcement.html

The Sense of the City!

Using online maps to make a pungent (but sadly necessary) political point. Oh, and: fuck Joe Lieberman in the eye.

stamen's triumph!

Gary T. Marx. For Stamen, especially.

About annotating geographical space with metadata

Mapping pedestrian flow, etc.

Maps, cities, fun

I think the moronic bastids simply flipped the image, but the charts are pretty...

Psychogeography application!