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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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deusx : Car Navigation Map in Canvas - "Taking the code made by Jacob on his Mario Kart demo I thought why not give it a try using the tiles of Yahoo or Google maps to create the same effect as in the GPS systems"
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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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43folders : MeetWays - Find a point of interest between two given addresses - Lets Meet! - Clever way to find stuff between two points. This seems super handy for traveling. via Kottke
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4 month ago
philgyford : David Rumsey Collection - Oodles of old maps, vieweable at satisfyingly high resolutions. Mostly 18th/19th century, mostly North/South America but a few others too.
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5 month ago
nelson : Genetic map of Europe - Beautiful visualization of variances in DNA of Europeans
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5 month ago
wearehugh : Official Google Blog: Where is Georgia on Google Maps? - "Data for these countries were never on Google Maps in the first place"
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5 month ago
nelson : Maps of web users - Interesting breakdown of who uses websites by US state
Andy Baio : Google Insights shows state-by-state usage of popular websites - also: the spread Twitter and YouTube over time
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5 month ago
nelson : Google on Street View - Employees have some fun when the camera passes by
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6 month ago
Eric Meyer : Pound the pavement - Finally! Just make sure this gets into the iPhone map application double-time, m'kay?
philgyford : Google LatLong: Pound the pavement - Google Maps can now give you walking directions. A quick couple of comparisons in London showed it doesn't know about as many pedestrian-only alleys etc as WalkIt.com. Yet. (via City of Sound)
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6 month ago
philgyford : Google Maps API Tutorial - Lots of examples for how to do things with Google Maps. (via Tim Brayshaw)
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6 month ago
philgyford : 285 - London’s Lost Rivers « Strange Maps - Idea for public art project: Brass markings on roads, pavements, buildings, etc. that mark the path of the rivers that are now hidden. (via Ted Mills)
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7 month ago
fastclemmy : Free Vector World Maps Collection - Free Vector World Maps Collection by fastclemmy & 2 other(s) Here is a collection of free vector world maps that you can use in your projects. maps carte hotlinks free Copy | React (0)
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7 month ago
nelson : Carolina Bays - interesting geographical formation, as seen via Google Maps
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8 month ago
nelson : Friendly Floatees - Rubber ducks spilled in the ocean, cross through Bering Strait ten years later
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8 month ago
nelson : Street View face blurring - Pretty amazing application of facial recognition technology
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8 month ago
joshua : Yahoo! Internet Location Platform - nice -- yahoo opens the Where On Earth dataset. what's with the goofy url syntax tho?
Andy Baio : Yahoo! opens its geo location database to the world - I'm stunned and thrilled they finally opened it up; this powers Flickr and Upcoming's geo features
Simon Willison : Yahoo! Internet Location Platform - Yahoo! Internet Location Platform. As an ex-Yahoo! this is really exciting—WhereOnEarth (a London company acquired by Yahoo! in 2005) provide the incredibly detailed geographical data used by Flickr, Upcoming and FireEagle—and now it’s available a
nelson : Free geocoding - Yahoo makes their geodatabase available for free, 50,000 queries / day
bmilleare : Yahoo! Internet Location Platform - YDN
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8 month ago
nelson : ph34t the g00gl3 - Italians having none of being filmed on the street
Andy Baio : Italians flee Google Street View cameras on streets of Rome - they assumed the far-right government was trying to film them
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philgyford : Freaky People Productions » Blog Archive » Google Maps causes Safari 1.3.2 to crash - If you use the Google Maps API your Javascript may have recently started crashing Safari 1.3.2. This is how to fix it.
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9 month ago
plasticbag : Stefanie Posavec “On the Map” - Absolutely fascinating book of what appear to be map-like visualisations of literary themes, books, sentence lengths and the like. I'm trying desperately to find out where to get my hands on it. Any ideas?
philgyford : Stefanie Posavec “On the Map” (NOTCOT) - Amazing infographic-like diagrams all based on Kerouac's 'On the Road'. Obsessively beautiful. (via Orlando's Ffffound)
jonhicks : Stefanie Posavec “On the Map” - Stefanie's work is incredible - a must see!
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