4 days ago
philgyford : ColorBrewer Intro - Selecting Good Color Schemes for Maps - Handy tool for making color ranges for use on maps, via that Oakland Crimespotting heat maps post.
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Simon Willison : Oakland crime maps XI: how close, and how bad? - Oakland crime maps XI: how close, and how bad?. Michal Migurski’s experiments with heat maps for Oakland Crimespotting, using OpenStreetMap data as that allows him to position his heat map layer underneath the street labels, keeping them legible.
philgyford : Oakland crime maps XI: how close, and how bad? (tecznotes) - Thought process on making heat maps out of the Oakland Crimespotting data. (via Simon Willison)
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Andy Baio : Flickr Boundaries, tool to explore Flickr's shapefiles - read Tom Taylor's entry for more information
philgyford : Boundaries - Completely awesome thing from Tom Taylor. Shows the shapes of areas based on how people have tagged their geo-located Flickr photos.
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Richard Rutter : Keyboard-accessible Google Maps - A solution from fellow Britpacker Patrick Lauke, via the Opera Developer Community.
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4 month ago
philgyford : Locating Postboxes - Dracos.co.uk - Matthew Somerville's new thing -- help locate post boxes for OpenStreetMap etc.
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4 month ago
Richard Rutter : Get Lat Lon - Find the latitude and longitude (and local time) of a point on a map..
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6 month ago
Richard Rutter : Bullitt chase scene with accompanying map - Brilliant video + GPS mashup of the best car chase ever.
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10 month ago
Andy Baio : Charles Cumming's The 21 Steps - fiction written and designed for Google Maps, from the creators of Perplex City [via]
Richard Rutter : We Tell Stories – ‘The 21 Steps’, by Charles Cumming - Absolutely fantastic mashup of stories and Google Maps by Penguin. Very very smart. Would be perfect for phones too..
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Richard Rutter : Compound Microformats - Handy examples of combining Microformats, with a particular emphasis on geo.
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13 month ago
plasticbag : Extraordinary pixel-art map of Hong Kong that you can browse and explore just like Google/Yahoo Maps... - It's really beautiful. I've spent at least an hour roaming around it over the last few days.
nelson : Hong Kong, pixelart - Amazing map
Andy Baio : Isometric pixel map of Hong Kong - insanely detailed with some odd photo collage bits; try the highest zoom level [via]
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15 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : Get Lat Lon: Find the latitude and longitude of a point on a map. - Someone please clone a few hundred Simon Willisons. I have a feeling we’ll need their giant brains when the robots attack. ∞
Simon Willison : Get Lat Lon - Get Lat Lon. I finally got fed up of hunting around for simple latitude/longitude tools when messing around with mapping APIs, so I built my own with a memorable URL. I plan to add new features as and when I need them.
philgyford : Get Lat Lon - find the latitude and longitude of a point on a map - Wonderfully simple Google Maps tool by Simon Willison for doing what it says. Very handy for me for Pepys' Diary.
Richard Rutter : Get Lat Lon - Find the latitude and longitude (and local time) of a point on a map..
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15 month ago
nelson : Lunar mapping - Marius Watz discovers some amazing map visualizations
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16 month ago
Richard Rutter : MIMOA - User generated guide to Modern Architecture in Europe.
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16 month ago
plasticbag : Michael Cross talks about the problems getting the Ordnance Survey to open up its data for public use - The Ordnance Survey has a great opportunity to support creative work around geo as well as new business opportunities by more liberal terms for opening up its data, but chooses not to explore them. It is aggravating.
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17 month ago
Richard Rutter : Gmaps Pedometer - My 11 mile lunch time ride route to the Dyke and back.
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17 month ago
Richard Rutter : 25 mile circular route encompassing Ditchling Beacon - .
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17 month ago
nelson : SF real estate map - Good heat map visualization of prices
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19 month ago
Richard Rutter : Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo - Amazing software which stitches together Flickr images to create detailed 3D models.
deusx : TED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo (video) - "breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation"
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21 month ago
Cameron Moll : Map of London created entirely in type - Map of London created entirely in type. (detail)
Richard Rutter : London’s Kerning - Textual poster map of London, with no streets, just road names.
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27 month ago
Simon Willison : New Popular Edition Maps - UK maps from the 1940s. Go add your postcode!
plasticbag : New Popular Edition Maps is using 1940s public domain maps as a foundation to build a free UK Postcode database - All you have to do is go to the site, find the place you grew up in or your current home on the site and then leave a marker complete with your postcode and the dataset builds itself. Totally public domain. Very cool.
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27 month ago
philgyford : Google Maps - Treo - Official Google Maps app for the Treo. Works a treat. All it needs now is walking directions...
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27 month ago
plasticbag : webkuehn.de contains a CSV with the long-lat coordinates for 55,000 Wikipedia articles (along with information about the categories they belong to) - Where to start!? The value of this lot is absolutely extraordinary. You can cut the data by any of the categories allowing you to easily plot the locations of all of Wikipedia's geocoded impact craters or intercontinental ballistic missile sites...
Andy Baio : Geocoordinates from Wikipedia for Google Earth - beyond Google Earth, this CSV of lat-long coordinates for 55,00 Wikipedia articles has tons of potential; thanks, Tom
Nelson Minar : Wikipedia lat/long - Database of spatial coordinates for Wikipedia articles. Cool! (via Waxy)
philgyford : Webkuehn.de - Geocoordinates from Wikipedia for Google Earth - That's a lot of locations. Not sure what I'd do it with it but just in case... (via Plasticbag)
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27 month ago
philgyford : Walk It - A step in the right direction - Fantastic. Gives you walking directions from A to B in central London. Google et al only do driving directions, which are very different. (via Haddock)
Rod Begbie : Walk It - A step in the right direction - Site which gives you walking directions around London. Since most major cities have wacky one-way restrictions, driving directions are rarely handy. I'm surprised Google Maps et al don't support this kind of thing. [via] #
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27 month ago
plasticbag : Geotagging with Zonetag and Bluetooth GPS... - I wrote this piece to explain how you can geotag photos in the wild by connecting your Nokia mobile phone with a cheap Bluetooth GPS device. Hopefully it's clear and detailed enough without being grotesquely over the top.
Rod Begbie : Geotagging with Zonetag and Bluetooth GPS... (plasticbag.org) - Good overview from Tom Coates on how to get your cellphone geotagging and uploading photos automagically. This is the process I use, and I recommend the Nokia 6682 highly. It's a decent-ish camera, and a great phone. #
Simon Willison : Geotagging with Zonetag and Bluetooth GPS - I've been playing with this stuff for a while - it's awesome fun.
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34 month ago
Philippe Janvier : Google Mars - "Some of the most detailed scientific maps of Mars ever made created by Google in collaboration with NASA researchers at Arizona State University." [via] #
plasticbag : Google Mars - It's just beautiful and awesome and fascinating and cool. That's all. Difficult to argue with how neat it is.
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