MetaFilter posts tagged with map

Nifty how to get from place to place travel site

nickyskye — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:00:25 -0800

Rome2Rio is a handy travel search engine site where you put in the place you want to start and where you want to go. It shows you the map, the cost of the ticket (air, rail, coach, ferry and mass transit routes), duration of the journey, etc.

The Cartography of Bullshit

whyareyouatriangle — Sat, 18 May 2013 09:12:01 -0800

On the 15 May, Max Fisher of the Washington Post penned an article titled A fascinating map of the world’s most and least racially tolerant countries. Fisher surmised that Anglo and Latin American countries are the most tolerant, linking racism to economic freedom based off of a study by two Swedish economists. Siddhartha Mitter responds, who, in The Cartography of Bullshit writes, "Although the results don’t pass the sniff test in the first place, I took a look at the data as well, in an effort to identify the exact problems at play..." "It turns out that the entire exercise is a methodological disaster, with problems in the survey question premise and operationalization, its use by the Swedish economists and by Fisher, and, as an inevitable result, in Fisher’s additional interpretations. The two caveats that Fisher offered in his post – first, that survey respondents might be lying about their racial views, and second, that the survey data are from different years, depending on the country – only scratch the surface of what is basically a crime against social science perpetrated in broad daylight. They certainly weren’t enough to stop Fisher from compiling and posting his map, even though its analytic base is so weak as to render its message fraudulent."

Hate Map

obliquicity — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:20:39 -0800

Researchers at Humboldt State University have mapped hateful tweets. Dr. Monica Stephens, at Humboldt State, has teamed up with undergraduate research assistants to study the geographical distribution of hate speech in tweets. The graphical map breaks down by "genre" of hate (homophobia, racism, disability) as well as by individual words flagged. Far more details are available on floatingsheep.org; the data was provided by the DOLLY Project at the University of Kentucky.

America's 10 Worst Prisons

zarq — Tue, 14 May 2013 09:15:31 -0800

"'If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.' So goes the old saying. Yet conditions in some American facilities are so obscene that they amount to a form of extrajudicial punishment." Mother Jones is profiling "America's 10 Worst Prisons." Facilities were chosen for the list based on "...three years of research, correspondence with prisoners, and interviews with reform advocates." The List 1: ADX (federal supermax: "A federal isolation facility that's "pretty close" to hell.") 2: Allan B. Polunsky Unit (Texas: "'The hardest place to do time in Texas'—and then you die.") 3: Tent City Jail (Phoenix: Feds say notorious facility has a 'pervasive culture of discriminatory bias against Latinos.') 4: Orleans Parish (Louisiana: "'A violent and dangerous institution,' says the Justice Department.") 5: LA County Jail (Los Angeles: "And you thought the Rodney King beating was bad?") 6: Pelican Bay (California: "Where a Christmas card might land you in the hole.") 7: Julia Tutwiler (Alabama: "Prisoners fear 'that it's not safe to take a shower, that it's not safe to go to sleep...that you can be manipulated into sexual favors, it's really horrific.'") 8: Reeves Country Detention Complex (Texas: "An overcrowded, understaffed lockup—with health care bad enough to spark riots.") 9: Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility (Mississippi: "'A picture of such horror as should be unrealized anywhere in the civilized world.'") 10: Riker's Island (New York City: "New York City lockup has a "deeply entrenched" pattern of violence by guards, lawsuit claims.") The piece will conclude tomorrow with a list of "Dishonorable Mentions." Accompanying Articles (Some are older pieces covering the same topic) * Maps: Solitary Confinement, State by State: "An exclusive review of how state prisons use isolation to discipline inmates and weed out gang members." * God's Own Warden: "If you ever find yourself inside Louisiana's Angola prison, Burl Cain will make sure you find Jesus—or regret ever crossing his path." * The Silent Treatment: "Imagine serving decades in prison for a crime your sibling framed you for. Now imagine doing it while profoundly deaf." * Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons: "We throw thousands of men in the hole for the books they read, the company they keep, the beliefs they hold. Here's why." (Previously on Mefi) * Life in the Hole: Inside a Solitary Cell: "A guided tour of the seven-by-eleven-foot space where inmates spend 23 hours a day."

Wikipedia Recent Changes Map

codacorolla — Sun, 12 May 2013 15:37:22 -0800

A visualization of Wikipedia edits in real time. A portion of the edits, anyway. From the about section:

When an unregistered user edits Wikipedia, he or she is identified by his or her IP address. These IP addresses are translated to users' approximate geographic location. Unregistered users only make a fraction of total edits -- only 15% of the contributions to English Wikipedia are from unregistered users. Edits by registered users do not have associated IP information, so the map actually represents only a small portion of the total edit activity on Wikipedia.

Stay Dry and See the Future

duien — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:34:54 -0800

Forecast.io is a new global weather data service announced yesterday. It boasts smoothly animating radar maps that predict up to a week in advance, a "time machine" to let you explore past and future weather, and intelligent text summaries. Forecast.io is an evolution of Dark Sky, a Kickstarter project from late 2011 to create an iPhone app for hyperlocal precipitation forecasts. They'll tell you whether you should hop on your bike now to head to lunch before it starts raining harder, or wait another 20 minutes for it to let up. In addition to desktop and mobile web apps, they're releasing a developer API so you can use their data to power your own apps.

Kubrick's condensed NYC

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:53:02 -0800

Follow Tom Cruise as he navigates his way around Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut Greenwich Village set [via]

All this energy calling me, back where it comes from....

zarq — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:42:16 -0800

The Cleveland Memory Project is an archive of photos, postcards, videos, recordings, clippings, ebooks, personal papers, maps and other historical "goodies" about the city. "It's a collaborative endeavor of many local historical societies, public libraries and government agencies who have mounted their own local history." On Flickr. The site contains over 50,000 photos. Print and video interviews with the Project's chair: librarian Bill Barrow.

Knock, knock. Who's there? Banana. Banana who?

jquinby — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:02:50 -0800

"While playing around with the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) we discovered an amazing number of open embedded devices on the Internet. " After completing the scan of roughly one hundred thousand IP addresses, we realized the number of insecure devices must be at least one hundred thousand. Starting with one device and assuming a scan speed of ten IP addresses per second, it should find the next open device within one hour. The scan rate would be doubled if we deployed a scanner to the newly found device. After doubling the scan rate in this way about 16.5 times, all unprotected devices would be found; this would take only 16.5 hours. Additionally, with one hundred thousand devices scanning at ten probes per second we would have a distributed port scanner to port scan the entire IPv4 Internet within one hour. Don't miss the browsable Hilbert map.

Can a porn map be map porn?

jacquilynne — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 07:08:47 -0800

Global Internet Porn Habits: An interactive map that lets you see the most commonly searched porn terms by state or country. No porn images, but obviously porn-related language and the word porn in the URL, so whether it is SFW is up to you.

Civilizations and E-Mail

spaltavian — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:03:31 -0800

A team of computer researchers analyzed ten million Yahoo! e-mails and noticed a phenomenon: "E-mails tend to flow much more frequently between countries with certain economic and cultural similarities". The paper, titled "The Mesh of Civilizations and International Email Flows" was written by researchers at Stanford, Cornell, Yahoo! and Qatar’s Computational Research Institute. It places the research in the context of Samuel Huntington’s much-maligned “Clash of Civilizations" theory: "In this respect we cautiously assign a level of validity to Huntington’s contentions, with a few caveats. The ﬁrst issue was already mentioned – overlap between civilizations and other factors contributing to countries’ level of association. Huntington’s thesis is clearly reﬂected in the graph presented in Figure 3, but some of these civilizational clusters are found to be explained by other factors in Table 5. The second limitation concerns the fact that we investigated a communication network. There is no necessary “clash” between countries that do not communicate, and Huntington’s thesis was concerned primarily with ethnic conﬂict." We see in the study that nations placed into the same "civilization" per Huntington’s definitions do e-mail each other more frequently than nations e-mail nations e-mail outside their civilization. The authors themselves, however, add “the advancement of an explanation is premature.”

Air Pollution in Asia: Real-time Air Quality Index Visual Map

KokuRyu — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:02:43 -0800

Air Pollution in Asia: Real-time Air Quality Index Visual Map Beijing pollution 'worst on record' Some context: Tokyo and Beijing have agreed to promote technical cooperation and explore further measures for dealing with the harmful air pollution drifting to Japan from China, a government official said. At working-level talks in Beijing on Friday, Tokyo expressed eagerness to cooperate on tackling the pollution problem, noting it not only concerns China but also has been affecting people in Japan, the official said. The Chinese government outlined its measures for fighting the pollution and said it will look into how Japan can pitch in, adding it is seeking to commence trilateral cooperation over the matter with South Korea, which has been heavily affected due to its proximity to China. The talks were held at Japan’s urging to consider measures against PM2.5 air pollution, or hazardous particulate matter 2.5 microns — 2.5 thousandths of a millimeter — or less in diameter that can cause severe health problems, after a thick blanket of toxic smog enveloped a large swath of China in January.

Mapping Data

kaibutsu — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:41:29 -0800

In December, the Philadelphia police department released a csv database of major crimes (murder, rape, burglary, etc) since 2006. Since then, community software developers have been mapping the data. The community involvement is hoped to spur the future release of large city data sets. The mapping projects: PHL Crime Mapper Philly Crime Map Philly Rap Sheet (Using court data) AXIS Philly: Changes in Crime by Neighborhood Philly Homicides Animation

Douglas?

shakespeherian — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:34:00 -0800

Click that 'hood! is a simple game which tasks you to locate neighborhoods in one of six cities: Chicago, IL; Lexington, KY; Louisville, KY; Oakland, CA; San Francisco, CA; and Seattle, WA. An easy game gives you 20 neighborhoods: A hard game gives you the entire city.

Tweetping, a Twitter map

nickyskye — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 20:19:28 -0800

Tweetping – astounding real-time visualization of tweets around the world. The fascinating tracker is the work of Paris-based developer Franck Ernewein, who launched the site several days ago. Via.

Abortion in America

Artw — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:22:32 -0800

The Geography of Abortion Access - Forty years ago Tuesday, the Supreme Court ushered in legal abortion for American women when it decided in Roe v. Wade. Today, states—particularly in the South and Midwest—are eroding that right by legislating hundreds of provisions intended to impede access with burdensome obstacles. To understand more fully the complex state of access to abortion services in America, The Daily Beast identified and confirmed the location of the country’s remaining 724 clinics and calculated the distance from every part of the country to its closest clinic. (more)

Octopus Maps

Miko — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:07:17 -0800

Need quick visual shorthand for an aggressively encroaching political entity? You want an Cartographic Land Octopus! It's a subcategory of satirical maps. More octopus maps here, here, here.

Trove

misterbee — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:09:23 -0800

Trove, an initiative of the National Library of Australia, is a vast online repository of digitised books, images, historic newspapers, maps and more.

Can you find your dot?

hat_eater — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:20:16 -0800

Census Dotmap is the visual representation of all persons counted in the 2010 US and 2011 Canadian censuses (via).

Rich Blocks, Poor Blocks

EvaDestruction — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:36:27 -0800

See how much money people make in every neighborhood in every city in America with Rich Blocks, Poor Blocks, a map that displays wealth distributions across US cities (and states).

A laconic map

jeather — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:29:08 -0800

Have you ever wondered what the most common word is for any given country's history of wikipedia page? Me neither. But here it is, made into map form. Here is the interesting reader's companion. (It isn't mentioned, but I assume that it is the most common contentful word, or noun, or something, otherwise we'd have a fascinating map showing the shaped to fit different countries.)

Our long international nightmare is over.

panaceanot — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:05:00 -0800

Google Maps App by Google for Apple's iOS is now available. It features turn-by-turn voice navigation and streetview. It's a welcome end to "Map-gate". Recently, an Australian police website posted a cautionary warning about not relying on Apple's mapping service. Hacker news meta discussion. Australia's national broadcaster ABC has also reported concerns by police about Google's mapping system. The good news is that iOS (6) users now have two 'free' turn-by-turn voice navigation apps to use. Redundancy generally being a good thing. (Pre-empting mod intervention... please keep comments constructive please?)

Paleographic Maps

zamboni — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:19:53 -0800

Ron Blakey makes paleogeographic maps of the ancient world.

The paleogeographic maps show the varied landscapes of the ancient Earth through hundreds of millions of years of geologic time, including distribution of ancient shallow seas, deep ocean basins, mountain ranges, coastal plains, and continental interiors. Tectonic features shown include subduction zones, island arcs, mid-ocean ridges and accreting terranes.

Jeffrey Beebe's Refractoria

Egg Shen — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:15:48 -0800

Over the last fifteen years, I have created the world of Refractoria, a comprehensive imagino-ordinary world that is equal parts autobiography and pure fantasy. - Jeffrey Beebe Beebe has also drawn Refractoria's constellations and notable residents.

Most children: 13 - Samwise Gamgee & Rose Cotton

the man of twists and turns — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 01:05:08 -0800

Lord Of The Rings: Statistics (part of LOTRProject)