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nelson : Researching your SF building - Great list of resources in San Francisco for researching the history of a building
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nelson : Sanborn Maps for SF - SF Public Library provides access to library card holders; look for the Sanborn link in this page
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nelson : Sanborn Maps - Crazy-detailed maps of cities from 1867-1970
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nelson : My SF to PDX roadtrip - Experiment with Google Maps
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nelson : Marine Traffic - interesting live overlay of cargo ships on a Google map
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nelson : Maps of Tehran - Review of online mapping sites; user contributed data seems to be best
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Simon Willison : Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset 1.0 - Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset 1.0. Another awesome Geo dataset from the Yahoo! stable—this time it’s Flickr releasing shapefiles (geometrical shapes) for hundreds of thousands of places around the world, under the CC0 license which makes them ess
philgyford : Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset 1.0 - I keep seeing cool code stuff whizz by and I'm not making anything with it. May need to ringfence time from other commitments just to *do* something.
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nelson : US electric grid - Great map and interactive visualization
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nelson : Obesity spread - Simple depiction of a health crisis
Jeremy Zawodny : Obesity and Overweight: Trends: U.S. Obesity Trends1985–2007 - Obesity and Overweight: Trends: U.S. Obesity Trends1985–2007: interesting visualization
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Andy Baio : Jack Schulze's incredible 3D horizonless map of Manhattan - currently running as a huge gatefold in Wired UK, prints are available with both directions [via]
philgyford : Here & There — a horizonless projection in Manhattan - I've seen these in the flesh and they are very lovely. And a satisfying size. Well done Jack.
Eric Meyer : Here & There - a horizonless projection in Manhattan - Or, what Manhattan would look like if it were transplanted to an O'Neill habitat.
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philgyford : Visualcomplexity.com | The Remotest place on Earth - Lovely images. I guess it's something like Space Syntax but for the entire planet. (via Matt Jones)
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nelson : Mappy tile editor - Utility for making game maps out of tiles
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nelson : Texas in five states - Breaking up the Lone Star state
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nelson : Palestine archipeligo 2 - Larger version of the map I linked awhile back
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philgyford : London CycleStreets: UK Cycle Journey Planner and Photomap - A new site for planning your cycle journeys, using OpenStreetMap maps. A great start.
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nelson : Palestine archipeligo - Map shows the fractured Palestinian territory as a series of islands
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nelson : maps from scratch - detailed presentation and code for making maps from software on Linux
Simon Willison : maps from scratch - maps from scratch. An idea whose time has come: using EC2 AMIs for tutorial sessions to give everyone a pre-configured environment.
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nelson : Immigration explorer - Fantastic interactive map of immigration data in the US
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Linkorama : The Cellphone, Navigating Our Lives - NYTimes.com - With the dominance of the cellphone, a new metaphor is emerging for how we organize, find and use information. New in one sense, that is. It is also as ancient as humanity itself. That metaphor is the map.
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nelson : Map projections - Nice visualization of some unusual projections
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Douglas Bowman : Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America - Beautiful (and scary at the same time) visualization of the growth of Walmart from 1962 through 2007. It’s like a virus that spreads across our country. Compare the Walmart viz with another Nathan just posted for Target today. From Nathan’s po
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deusx : LARP ALERT - "8 Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania 15212 - Google Maps"
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nelson : OpenStreetMap edits - Timelapse video of where additions were made to the map
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nelson : Von Heimat zu Heimat - Amazing child's map of his journey out of Nazi Germany to a new home in South America
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