4 days 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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20 days ago
nelson : Genetic map of Europe - Beautiful visualization of variances in DNA of Europeans
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25 days 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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26 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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1 month ago
nelson : Google on Street View - Employees have some fun when the camera passes by
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2 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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2 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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2 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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3 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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3 month ago
nelson : Carolina Bays - interesting geographical formation, as seen via Google Maps
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4 month ago
nelson : Friendly Floatees - Rubber ducks spilled in the ocean, cross through Bering Strait ten years later
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4 month ago
nelson : Street View face blurring - Pretty amazing application of facial recognition technology
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4 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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4 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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5 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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6 month ago
adamrg : Interesting map of media coverage - Shows growth or contraction as awkwardly shriveled or bloated country maps.
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nelson : Paris by Blizzard - City of Light rendered in a Warcraftish way
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6 month ago
Andy Baio : Simon Willison's Wikinear, Wikipedia pages near your current location - demonstrates Fire Eagle and OAuth, mixed with Wikipedia, GeoNames, and the new Google Maps Static API
Linkorama : wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle - Under the hood the site combines a number of interesting technologies: OAuth, Fire Eagle, GeoNames and the new Google Static Maps API.
factoryjoe : wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle - Brilliant writeup about how Simon implemented wikinear using OAuth, etc. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: oauth, fire eagle, wikinear
Rod Begbie : wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle - Simon Willison knocks out a quick prototype showing Wikipedia articles related to your current location, a masterpiece of mashuppery. #
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6 month ago
nelson : Drug deal on Google Street View - Sure looks like one, at least
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6 month ago
Linkorama : Google Maps Now Editable by Anyone - about time
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