8 days 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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3 month ago
nelson : Carolina Bays - interesting geographical formation, as seen via Google Maps
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8 month ago
gleuschk : Photos taken in Syracuse on Flickr! - huh, somehow I missed this. you can subscribe, too.
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16 month ago
adamrg : The Interactive Nolli Map of Rome Website
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16 month ago
gleuschk : You Who Are the Bureaucrats of Empire, Remember Who We Are - Don Mitchell: "Smullen was as mad as I had ever seen anyone and he told me that my remarks were completely inappropriate and had no place in a classroom."
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kellan : Map porn: 5,000 years of conquest in the Middle East. - Map porn: 5,000 years of conquest in the Middle East.. 5,000 years in 90 seconds. [via] #
adamrg : The Conquests of the Middle East - A great animated map that shows the various empires established throughout the history of the middle east.
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18 month ago
Linkorama : Sweet Home Chicago - My question is never why Chicago? But why not? Why not start a business where YOU want to start a business? And if you do want to be in online media — we have a pretty fantastic confluence of journalists, advertising, and new media execs.
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21 month ago
philgyford : World Map - countries of the world - Educational map game (my geography is terrible). (via Haddock)
plasticbag : Identify the countries of the world in a big Flash World Map Game! - I got 36. I can't tell if that's good or not. I suspect it's not the greatest.
jkottke : Test: how well can you pick out countries on a map of the world? - Test yourself: how well can you pick out countries on a map of the world? I got a 59 my first time through...better than I thought I would do. (via plasticbag) [via]
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21 month ago
philgyford : Geosense: an online world geography game - What it says. Good one, you can play against others (or click 'Visit' then 'Play alone'). (via Haddock)
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21 month ago
philgyford : Caledonian Global Challenge - Caledonian Business School - Europe-based map game. I'm embarrassingly poor at even this. (via Haddock)
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21 month ago
philgyford : World Geography Quizzes - Hundreds of Map Games - Loads of very good educational map games for dumbos like me. (via Haddock)
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23 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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23 month ago
plasticbag : Breathing Earth - I'm not normally one for large Flash visualisations, but this representation of people being born, dying and the different countries of the world expelling CO2 is quite extraordinarily beautiful and informative...
jkottke : Breathing Earth is a map of the earth that shows, in realtime, births, deaths, and carbon dioxide consumption of the world's countries - Breathing Earth is a map of the earth that shows, in realtime, births, deaths, and carbon dioxide consumption of the world's countries. Mesmerizing to watch. (via snarkmarket) [via]
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27 month ago
philgyford : Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before - A big collection of world maps with countries resized according to different kinds of statistics. (via Boing Boing)
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29 month ago
Nelson Minar : US religion maps - The maps linked from here are higher quality
Wayne Burkett : Map Gallery of Religion in the United States - "The following series of county-level choropleth maps ... reveals the distribution of the larger and more regionally concentrated church bodies." #
adamrg : Map Gallery of Religion in the United States
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30 month ago
plasticbag : There's an interesting petition on public geographic data in Europe that I think most of you should sign - Free access to geographic data that the tax-payer has already subsidised heavily would create an amazing amount of creativity, and social and economic value. Web of data benefits from it muchly. Obey!
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31 month ago
Simon Willison : London Underground geographic maps - Generated PNG/SVG files under the LGPL; GPS source data is available.
plasticbag : London Underground geographic maps from the Wikimedia Commons also include significant free geo information - If you're looking to do mapping projects around open geo data, then having a significant data source like the location of all London Underground stations has got to be useful...
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41 month ago
jkottke : Google Maps launches in the UK with London Tube stations right on the map - Google, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please do the same for the NYC subway. Please?
plasticbag : Google Maps for the UK - This has to be the most blatantly obvious link of the day really. It's almost ridiculous that I'm referencing it at all...
kayodeok : Google Maps for the UK
Philippe Janvier : Google Maps UK - Google Maps for the UK. A quand Paris ! [via] #
Simon Willison : Google Maps UK! - That didn't take long. I can't wait for them to add satellite photos from Keyhole. (via) [via]
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plasticbag : Gothamist media launches Londonist in ... er ... London - So I don't know what I think about this one. I still think there's enormous scope for a weblog about London, but I don't know if this is the one that's going to make it big. Needs more fire in its belly...
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46 month ago
Andy Baio : Capture the Map - a strategic game using the Google API [via] [via]
plasticbag : Capture the map - A flash-based game based on google search results - This doesn't appear to be working consistently, but when it does it's quite a laugh. You type in search requests and all the results are matched against geographic hoojis and stuff...
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51 month ago
Andy Baio : Geocoder.us, free US geocoder - with a great web services API [via]
Matthew M. Boedicker : find the latitude and longitude of any US address for free
deusx : geocoder.us: a free US address geocoder - "find the latitude & longitude of any US address - for free"
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