MetaFilter posts tagged with interactive and map

Surname Surfin' Sur-prises

dgaicun — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:38:44 -0800

World Names Profiler is a pretty amazing Flash tool, that allows you to see where other people with your last name are distributed across the world, in frequency per million, right down to the city and regional level. Fun to pair with the NameVoyager.

"This place is an Uzbek mafia den."

Terminal Verbosity — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:33:40 -0800

Looking to rent or buy? You can check out the schools and inspect the foundation all you want, but only Rotten Neighbor cares to warn you about your potential community. Not moving any time soon but are amused by the trivialities and poor spelling of strangers? Then this site is still perfect for you. [via]

I think I can see my house from here...

oneirodynia — Tue, 29 May 2007 22:19:36 -0800

Trulia Hindsight merges real estate data showing the year properties were built with animated maps (US Only). Search for your town by name; here's mine.

Maps, All Interactive Like

fenriq — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:12:23 -0800

Maps
Looking for Maps? Please click on the country of interest.
• Australia
• Canada
• France
• Ireland
• New Zealand
• United Kingdom
• United States

Found while searching for this thread.

Where in the world is $MefiMember ?

Orange Goblin — Sun, 25 Jan 2004 01:29:31 -0800

Think you're well travelled? Make a map of all the countries you have been to. Here's my non-impressive offering.

JParker — Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:49:37 -0800

History Wired is the new interactive web project from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, that lets you browse the various collections by topic, by timeline, or both. It's based on the SmartMoney "Map of the Market".