Map Projection Transitions
A lovely way of demonstrating the differences between map projections. Drag for extra fun.
Tags: mapping
Submarine Cable Map
This year’s TeleGeography map of the undersea network looks beautiful—inspired by old maps. I love the way that latency between countries is shown as inset constellations.
Stratocam
Communal satellite eyes. A Mac screensaver is also available.
Mercator Puzzle!
This is fun. Drag the red country outlines around and slot them into place on the map. Sounds easy, right? But the distorting effect of the Mercator projection makes it a lot tougher than it looks.
CABINET // Trap Streets
A fascinating piece by James on trap streets, those fictitious places on maps that have no corresponding territory.
Home - fieldpapers.org
Stamen have extended Walking Papers into Field Papers: a virtuous cycle of mapping in the real world and online.
BibliOdyssey: Channelling Martian Maps
Beautiful 19th century maps of Mars.
#rorschmap
Another beautiful piece of work from James: a kaleidoscope made from Google maps.
Immaterials: Light painting WiFi on Vimeo
Timo Arnall has some fun mapping WiFi signal strength with long exposure photos.
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?"
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*
Polymaps
A JavaScript/SVG library for displaying maps in a variety of interesting ways.
BBC - Dimensions - Index
New from BERG: superimposing historical events onto familiar landscapes.
prettymaps
Beautiful map visualisations by Aaron Straup-Cope.
flickr shapetiles / july 2010
Aaron's lovely visualisation of Flickr's shapetiles.
Historypin | Home
Old photos placed on a map. Quite engrossing.
Google - Москва-Владивосток: виртуальное путешествие на Картах Google
Well: this is an odd one: the entire duration of the trans-siberian railway on video and simultaneous map.
Geonames Maps « optional.is/required
Brian documents his beautiful Geonames SVG maps.
If San Francisco Crime was Elevation | Doug McCune
Beautiful mapping visualisations of crime data.
8-Bit NYC
Nifty old-school 8-bit tiles superimposed on OpenStreetMap data.
The Landscape of Music
The geography of musicians.
Building Rome in a Day
Unbelievable 3D visualisation created by extracting common points from millions of pictures on Flickr of Rome, Venice and Dubrovnik. As Matt Haughey would say, "Holy shitballs!"
Cartagen
Lovely representation of OpenStreetMap data using canvas.
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.
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.
CloudMade - Make Maps Differently
A set of APIs built on top of OpenStreetMap data.
Code: Flickr Developer Blog » The Shape of Alpha
Flickr has amassed tons of geotagging data and Aaron has been playing with it.
LIVE REAL TIME SATELLITE AND SPACE SHUTTLE TRACKING
A real time satellite tracking web application. Over 8000 satellites are tracked and can be displayed on the familiar Google Maps interface.
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 Static Maps API - Google Code
Google Maps now provides static (IMG-based) alternatives to the JavaScript API.
Dopplr Blog » Dopplr Raumzeitgeist 2007: Where we went last year
Gorgeous visualisation from Dopplr of all the places visited in 2007.
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.
MapMSG.com - Statetris
Very very cool and addictive cross between Tetris and geography knowledge. It took me 19:45 to get all of Europe on a medium setting. That's pathetic.
Official Google Maps API Blog: Microformats in Google Maps
W00t! This is a biggie! Google Maps now returns its listing results in hCard. Now you can do one-click export to your address book (or phone).
[this is aaronland] Trying not to cut down the trees for an inability to see the forest
Aaron weighs in with his thoughts on JavaScript, web apps, the iPhone, dashboard, the papernet and more. Oh, and he's built a machine-tag mashup.
ironfeathers.ca » Home
Watch the adventures of Derek and Kathryn Featherstone in the run up to IronMan Lake Placid 2007. Check out the route maps: very slick.
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.
[this is aaronland] Mining for Pynchonite
This is a brilliant idea by Aaron: printing QOOP books of Flickr pics where each picture is accompanied by a map. It's all about the context, baby!
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 API Official Blog: KML and GeoRSS Support Added to the Google Maps API
Google gets behind GeoRSS. This is good. Somewhere, Mikel Maron is doing a little dance.
Google Mars
That partnership between Google and Nasa is beginning to bear some fruit.
dartmaps
Another trains/maps mashup... real time positioning of the Dart in Dublin.
overplot
This is an astoundingly brilliant mashup: Overheard in New York meets Google Maps. It's fan-bloody-tastic and remarkably fast for all the data it contains.
Google Earth for Mac
Google Earth is now available for the Mac. Get downloading.
How to Use Google Maps EZ
A handy guide to using a wrapper for the Google Maps API.
HYDESim: High-Yield Detonation Effects Simulator
This is cool and frightening in equal measures. Eric uses the Google API to demonstrate the effect of nuclear detonations on American cities.
Google Maps API Documentation
Documentation for the new Google Maps API. Unlike most web services, this one is run entirely over JavaScript.