Movie Mimic
Recreations of movie stills at filming locations around the world (like I did in Sydney for The Matrix). There’s something quite addictive about looking through these.
Tags: location
Creating a Mobile-First Responsive Web Design - HTML5 Rocks
A great step-by-step tutorial from Brad on developing a responsive site with a Content First mindset.
Obscura Day 2012 on April 28th | An International Celebration of Unusual Places
A day devoted to exploring unusual places all over the world. I couldn’t find anything for Brighton but it looks like there will be some stuff happening in London.
ADrink.at
A genuinely useful service for people in different parts of London who want to meet up for a pint.
Localgram
I like this simple idea, nicely executed: see Instagram photos taken near you.
maps.stamen.com
Beautiful new map tiles from Stamen for use with OpenStreetMap data. The “watercolor” tiles are particularly pretty.
Earth Station: The Afterlife of Technology at the End of the World - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
The wonderful story of an odd place:
The Jamesburg Earth Station is a massive satellite receiver in a remote valley in California. It played a central role in satellite communications for three decades, but had been forgotten until the current owner put it up for sale, promoting it as a great place to spend the apocalypse.
ExtendNY - New York City Extended
Sheer brilliance: taking the street grid of Manhattan and extending it to cover the entire world. For the record, I live near the intersection of east 11,303rd avenue and 63,475th street.
How Responsive Web Design becomes Responsive Web Publishing - AQ » Blog
Some interesting questions (and one or two answers) about how responsive design affects publishing on the web.
#rorschmap
Another beautiful piece of work from James: a kaleidoscope made from Google maps.
See something or say something - a set on Flickr
These lovely visualisations of geotagged photos and tweets are almost indistinguishable from aerial views of cities at night.
Dear Photograph
Atemporality can be very moving.
Yes! It is possible to cross Dublin without passing a pub
Testing James Joyce: this is like the Seven Bridges of Königsberg puzzle but with Guinness.
BLDGBLOG: Islands at the Speed of Light
Freaky stuff. If you’ve seen Kevin Slavin or James Bridle talking about the increase in property prices on Wall Street as the buildings get closer to the network hub …that’s nothing—these are the new centres of world power; places where the speed of light interferes least with the speed of transactions.
Tell-all telephone | Data Protection | Digital | ZEIT ONLINE
A dataviz demo of creepiness: displaying the movements of Malte Spitz by correlating her phone activity and web usage.
Safety Maps: A Do Project
A handy papernet tool for emergency situations. “Zombie apocalypse” is not, alas, one of the default options.
a world of tweets
A very pretty visualisation of tweets on a map using canvas.
Constant Setting
This URL displays a picture of a sunset (from Flickr) taken wherever the sun is setting right now.
The Magical Mystical Ley Line Locator « Tom Scott
This was one of my favourite hacks at History Hack Day: enter a location anywhere in England to find out if it’s located on a ley line of mystical magical energy, man!
41Latitude - Google Maps & Label Readability
An examination into the legibility of labels on online mapping services.
thisisntfuckingdalston.co.uk
A low-tech version of Flickr's shapefiles: stopping people and asking "excuse me, what area is this?"
Time Travel Explorer
Now this is how to do a location-based app: overlays of London through time ...in the palm of your hand.
The Wilderness Downtown
A nifty interactive video for Arcade Fire's "We Used To Wait." It claims to be built in HTML5 but actually uses XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.01 doctypes throughout. *sigh*
URBAGRAM
A nifty exploration of architecture and urban planning that describes itself as "a set of interlinked concepts, models, speculations, probings, essays and artefacts based on urban systems."
BBC - Dimensions - Index
New from BERG: superimposing historical events onto familiar landscapes.
prettymaps
Beautiful map visualisations by Aaron Straup-Cope.
Concerning FourSquare · Ben Ward
A great Fisking by Ben of (very silly, IMHO) morally panicked Guardian article on Foursquare.
flickr shapetiles / july 2010
Aaron's lovely visualisation of Flickr's shapetiles.
Historypin | Home
Old photos placed on a map. Quite engrossing.
MiniApps - HTML5 apps for iPhone, iPad, Android & other mobile platforms
A nice collection of free apps for your mobile device. No app store required, thanks to offline storage.
HTML5 Geolocation with Fallback to Google Ajax API: HTML5
An excellent way to do geolocation even in browser that don't support it natively.
Welcome - The Bold Italic - San Francisco
A beautifully designed location-based web magazine.
Cartagen
Lovely representation of OpenStreetMap data using canvas.
HTML5 Demos
Courtesy of Remy. Doesn't he ever sleep?
Walking Papers
This is wonderful: maps that travel from the internet to the papernet and back to the internet again. Print out from OpenStreetMap, annotate in the real world, and scan the annotated map.
Tom Taylor : Projects : Clarke
A sweet little Skyhook/FireEagle desktop app from Tom. It updates your FireEagle location every five minutes by pinging Skyhook's API to triangulate your position. A small piece, loosely joining two small pieces.
Where I’m actually living in augmented reality, Jefferson Airplane and what does this mean for photos. « geobloggers
Rev. Dan Catt's augmented reality future is here; it just isn't evenly distributed yet.
Pulse Laser: Here & There influences
Jack Schulze goes into detail on the genesis of the wonderful Here & There map/visualisation.
http://schulzeandwebb.com/hat/
This is the best location visualisation I have ever seen.
‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers - NYTimes.com
The New York Times covers Everyblock, Outside.in, and their ilk.
EagleTweet
Allow your Twitter location to be automatically updated from FireEagle. The process of connecting you, FireEagle, and Twitter is beautiful: 1 x OpenID + 2 x OAuth.
CloudMade - Make Maps Differently
A set of APIs built on top of OpenStreetMap data.
Making the most of hereish and nowish on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
The Possibility Jelly lives on the hypersurface of the present.
Bruce Lawson’s personal site : Is mobile web development compatible with the One Web?
An excellent write-up by Bruce of a talk he gave at the Betavine birthday party. Down with .mobi! One Web FTW!
London V2 Rocket Sites...Mapped - Londonist: London News, Food, Arts & Events
Gravity's rainbow on a Google map.
MaxMind - GeoIP Javascript Web Service
A JavaScript API that returns location information based on IP.
TURF BOMBING
Turf Bombing is a device-agnostic location-based game. Could be fun. I've already claimed my neighbourhood.
Rate My Area | Review and share your favourite places!
Clearleft worked on this project; information architecture, visual design, and front-end (that was my part: markup, CSS and JavaScript). I'm very, very happy to see that it's finally launched and even happier to see the level of appreciation for g…
Code: Flickr Developer Blog » The Shape of Alpha
Flickr has amassed tons of geotagging data and Aaron has been playing with it.
Flickr Services: Flickr API: flickr.places.placesForUser
This new Flickr API method makes it really easy to get a list of visited places for a Flickr user.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Where do you think you are?
BBC coverage of dConstruct on "The widening web of location-based web services."
Roundabout is London's answer to Silicon Valley | News
The Evening Standard picks up the story of Silicon Roundabout: Last.fm, Dopplr, Schulze and Webb, Moo...
Seero - Steve_McQueen - Bullitt Chase Scene
Watch the best car chase of all time mashed up with a map of San Francisco to create geo-broadcasting. The added context gives an already perfect sequence added zing.
Driven By Boredom 3.0 » Archive » Nascent Sexuality Polaroid Study
Nostalgia and sexual awakening plotted on a Google Map is a voyeuristic thing.
blog.plazes.com » Blog Archive » Plazes adds Fire Eagle Support
A match made in heaven: update your Fire Eagle location from Plazes.
We Tell Stories - 'The 21 Steps', by Charles Cumming
The first of the We Tell Stories series is online. It's a clever piece of storytelling using Google Maps to full effect.
Google Maps
The new "you are here" feature on the mobile version of Google Maps looks, as Matt Jones said, "indistinguishable from magic." But it doesn't work on my phone. Grrr...
Photos taken in Brighton on Flickr!
Flickr Places. This is what George announced at dConstruct. It's enthralling: interestingness mashed up with geotagging.
Get Lat Lon - find the latitude and longitude of a point on a map
A handy tool for grabbing the geocoordinates for a location.
strange maps
This blog devoted entirely to maps is far more interesting than it sounds. It's a treasure trove of weird and wacky stuff. Fascinating... and a complete time sink.
Multimap :: Open API
Multimap's API is now open and free as in beer (as long as the traffic is within reasonable bounds). This is good stuff. And they're all in with the Open Street Map guys too.
Google Maps
This is so so childish but here you go: rude place names on Google Maps.
» Google Earth …
Reality imitating Google Maps in Berlin.
Twitter / Rev Dan Catt: 10,000,059 geotagged photo,...
Via Reverend Dan Catt on Twitter comes word of over 10,100,000 getagged photos. Mazel tov!
If I dig a very deep hole, where I go to stop?
Find the antipodes of your location. Remember, most of the world is ocean.
plazes.beta
Geo-tagging meets social software. I must check this out and investigate the API.