A9 Maps now combines Amazon's BlockView images in another ajax map interface (with the maps by Mapquest, interestingly). Amazon has been driving around major cities taking photos of each block and now as you browse the map, street-level images come up alongside. The interface isn't quite intuitive, but it is nice to see the
idea coming together.
posted by pithy comment
on May 16, 2006 -
17 comments
Schmap is an online/desktop travel guidebook. They are taking Creative Commons licensed photos from Flickr and using them in their city guides. It is kind of like Google Maps + Flickr + Lonely Planet. [Contains some flash, and to try out the guide you have to install the
Schmap Player.]
posted by pithy comment
on Apr 1, 2006 -
10 comments
If you liked the Craigslist/Google Maps combo, you'll be happy to hear that the boys and girls over at
Engadget have a tutorial on how to make your own annotated multimedia Google map. Pretty sweet!
posted by JPowers
on Apr 10, 2005 -
3 comments
Mapping couplings at a high school Sociologists graphed the romantic and sexual relationships of 80% of an entire high school (832 out of ~1000 students). The research indicates that high schoolers lack sexual alpha-persons resulting in partner maps that are mostly long lines rather than the more hub and spoke like maps common in adult maps.
posted by Mitheral
on Jan 31, 2005 -
47 comments
Mappr demonstrates the potential of open web APIs by plotting recently uploaded
Flickr photos onto their locations using an interactive map of the US.
Map24 mixes Mapquest and
Keyhole (previously discussed
here) by doing realtime zooming on your driving directions; good for not losing context on those tricky merges.
The National Map lets you see overlaid info from the US government's geologic surveys. What are some of the best designed interactive map sites?
posted by acid freaking on the kitty
on Jan 12, 2005 -
19 comments
Map of the USA I found this beautiful map in my parent's house and thought I might share it.It was issued by the Secretary of State and handed out to Germans I believe in the late fifties or early sixties.
posted by ronsens
on Dec 14, 2004 -
79 comments
Election 2004, county by county: For those who just can't get enough political mapping goodness. Here's the 2004 presidential election's Red/Blue divide at the county level, where possible. Lesson: most red states aren't quite as red as they seem, and blue states aren't as blue. Author has 2000 election data plotted as well, which I believe was posted earlier.
posted by mojohand
on Nov 4, 2004 -
53 comments
Piri Reis Map I am a sucker for those books that hypothesize that Earth was visited by extra-terrestrials in the distant pass. One artifact that is brought up in nearly all of them is
The Piri Reis Map, a document that seems to be a map includes parts of the world (such as Antarctica's ice-covered mountains) that were thought to be very recent discoveries. But, are they a
hoax?
posted by synecdoche
on Apr 21, 2004 -
14 comments
Finally... something good has come from a newsfilter post! In a trackback to a recent
post on something-or-other (aren't they all the same?) I discovered a gem of a site dedicated to maps.
posted by silusGROK
on Jul 9, 2003 -
11 comments
The ThreeRing Web Mapping project adds a dot to a blank canvas showing your geographic location (or that of your ISP, as best it can guess based on your IP address). They've also got a code snippet to put on your own site that automagically adds your visitors to the map. The US is already clearly defined, Europe is getting there, and Oceania is coming into view. (They've also got one of them
Tag-Board thingies, which is painful to read for any length of time.)
posted by gleuschk
on Apr 5, 2002 -
26 comments
An
ancient 3,200-year-old papyrus map has led to the discovery of pharoanic gold mines in Egypt's eastern desert that will give Egypt one of the top 10 gold reserves in the world. The original pharaonic map, which is the world’s earliest surviving geological survey, was discovered in Luxor in 1820 and has since been on display in a Turin museum.
posted by stbalbach
on Dec 30, 2001 -
10 comments
NASA creates the most
detailed topographic map of the Earth ever produced. The new map is a result of data gathered on shuttle mission
STS-99 in February 2000.
The catch? DOD doesnt want most of it released. (link via
Wired)
posted by Irontom
on Dec 12, 2001 -
8 comments
Cool high-school science experiment:
Mapping The Homunculus. The 15 year old in me wonders why nipples and other naughty bits aren't mentioned, though. Bet they'd be really big!!!
posted by luser
on Nov 27, 2001 -
8 comments
