MetaFilter posts tagged with mapping

City of Women

ATXile — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:21:47 -0800

Women are finally putting Rio's favelas on the map. They're competing for a journalism scholarship by loading the most data from their GPS-enabled phones to Wikimapa (a name easily confused with Wikimapia). The data, including addresses, photos, and business details are not likely to be collected by Navteq's and Google's high-tech vans anytime soon due to the notorious danger. FYI, the quality of the GPS data they're getting with the phones may not be usable for much, but it's still a great idea and could be the start of something useful.

internet mapping

nickyskye — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:55:12 -0800

Internet Mapping Project l slide-showl more about it here. Please draw a map of the internet, as you see it. Indicate your "home". You can download a blank PDF here and email it to [Kevin Kelly] when done. In posting the images on Flickr I suggested that they would make great fodder for a creative scholar. Much to my surprise two days later, a professor in Argentina wrote the first paper with a first attempt to classify this initial set of maps. Other innovative mapping of the internet: The xkcd internet and online communities map. Data-Visualization maps. The Dmoz tree map of the whole internet. The DIMES map and related site. Mapping movements/feelings within the internet.

mapping snoops annotate North Korea

nickyskye — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:51:49 -0800

North Korea has a reputation as one of the most secretive, authoritarian, repressive countries in the world. But that doesn't stop Curtis Melvin, a PhD student at George Mason University, from trying to shine some light into the country's dark corners l His North Korea Economy Watch site, which includes The most authoritative map of North Korea on Google Earth l Gulags, Nukes and a Water Slide: Citizen Spies Lift North Korea's Veil.

We might've done this before, but better.

Jeff_Larson — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:28:52 -0800

Mapping with Isotype: A collection of examples of Otto Neurath, Gerd Arntz, and Marie Reidemeister’s cartographic language, isotype. (Still influential today).

Interactive 18th century Rome

peacay — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:21:59 -0800

Imago Urbis: Giuseppe Vasi’s Grand Tour of Rome is a rich and innovative geographic database that projects Vasi's 18th century engravings of Roman architecture onto the contemporary map of Giambattista Nolli [previously] with supplementary modern satellite, photographic and mapping overlays together with copious background detail. The work was undertaken by researchers at the University of Oregon (announcement) [via]

What is not a map?

peacay — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:43:19 -0800

Ruminations on the Borderlands of Cartography, or: What is not a map? "..as far as animals with map-like blotches on them, they don't get in the tent as family, but we might consider letting them in as entertainers." [via]

Mostly blue

Artw — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:20:36 -0800

Google to map the oceans.

Maps revolutionize study of carbon dioxide emissions

desjardins — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:03:40 -0800

New maps show US fossil fuel emissions aren't where we thought they were. The Vulcan Project collects more accurate data at a higher resolution than previous studies. Explanatory video. via Other visualizations of CO2 emissions include NASA forecasts and plots, CARMA, which monitors power plant emissions, and the European Space Agency, which uses high resolution spectrometer data (video download). This Australian PSA offers an entirely different kind of visualization.

Just what it says...Map My Run

konolia — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:37:17 -0800

MapMyRun.com

Interactive 3D concept mapping...does your brain work like this?

Miko — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:04:06 -0800

Family Tree of the Greek Gods is a site using a visual organizer (now in beta) called Spicy Nodes. They call it a "natural and inviting" way to present information in "nuggets" that move in virtual space as you view them one by one. Another example: Daylight Savings Time.

Mapping Globalization

desjardins — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:11:14 -0800

What does "globalization" look like? Princeton's searchable collection of historical maps and present-day analysis, including Artists' Travels in the Renaissance, an 1891 ethnographic chart, Telegraph Lines in 1869, Global Terrorism c. 1983, Oil reserves vs. consumption, a visualization of world development since 1960. (via)

the peculiarities of journal citation data

zennie — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:25:19 -0800

The scholarly literature forms a vast network of academic papers connected to one another by citations in bibliographies and footnotes. The structure of this network reflects millions of decisions by individual scholars about which papers are important and relevant to their own work. Therefore within the structure of this network is a wealth of information about the relative influence of individual journals, and also about the patterns of relations among academic disciplines. Our aim at eigenfactor.org is develop ways of extracting this information. Borrowing methods from network theory, eigenfactor.org ranks the influence of journals much as Google’s PageRank algorithm ranks the influence of web pages. By this approach, journals are considered to be influential if they are cited often by other influential journals. C.R. Shalizi, care of the the University of Michigan's Center for the Study of Complex Systems, has more on the history of why all this is necessary and how it came to be.

Kadath in the Cold Waste

Artw — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:13:02 -0800

Landsat Image Mosaic Of Antarctica UK and US researchers peice together the most detailed map of Antarctica yet, searching through years of data to find cloud free images.

where

nickyskye — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 08:48:36 -0800

Maps new and old. Music maps - Find out who is listening to what and where l Cool Google Maps - Who knew maps could be fun? l Subway maps on five continents l Free printable world map and blank maps l Free Clustr Maps - Locate all site visitors. l Index of some users of WorldKit - Easy web mapping (including the excellent and previously mentioned, RSOE HAVARIA Emergency and Disaster Information Service) l Number of Inhabitants Per Doctor around the world l And some beautiful antique, old and vintage maps, such as this one of the names of the Mediterranean winds in five languages. Map links previously posted in MetaFilter.

Just like google maps, but more internetty.

signal — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:45:32 -0800

It's a map of the entire Internet. ^via

All browsers spy on Rome

Gyan — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:22:19 -0800

Wiki City Rome - "anyone with an Internet connection will be able to see a unique map of the Italian capital that shows the movements of crowds, event locations, the whereabouts of well-known Roman personalities, and the real-time position of city buses and trains."

Are you gonna eat that pickle? Can I have it?

sudama — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:37:08 -0800

Picnicmob would like to invite you to a picnic and seat you precisely with those most like you.

Mountains Made Of News

jack_mo — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 04:23:33 -0800

The IDIOM Media Watch on Climate Change aggregates web content from 150 sources, accessible in the form of semantic maps, on which the topology of the Earth is redrawn as mountains and valleys according to the density of available information, or a three-dimensional 'knowledge planet' viewable in NASA World Wind. [Via Information Aesthetics.]

data landscapes

nickyskye — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:55:18 -0800

Map of Science. Science is the most interconnected of all human activities and requires a series of maps to chart its changing landscape. Scientific method: relationships among scientific paradigms.

Top 10 Mashups Hispanos de Google Maps

jlori — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:14:29 -0800

Top 10 Spanish Mashups of Google Maps Found on a great blog about maps: Tecnomaps.

You are here.

loquacious — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 21:40:12 -0800

You may have seen this excellent map of the internet from xkcd. Still lost? You are here.

Bio Mapping: Annotating The Environment With Emotional Data

jack_mo — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 06:42:20 -0800

The Bio Mapping tool allows the wearer to record their Galvanic Skin Response, which is a simple indicator of emotional arousal, in conjunction with their geographical location. By sharing this data we can construct maps that visualise where we as a community feel stressed and excited.

A digital atlas of the new towns of Edward I

jack_mo — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 05:35:06 -0800

Mapping Medieval Townscapes: a digital atlas of the new towns of Edward I For each town you will find maps and images, as well as historical interpretation, bibliographical information, and access through to a geographical database. (The fancy interactive maps are especially good.) Warning: you'll have to click to agree to some terms and conditions before you can view the site.

visualizing NYC's changes and layers

nickyskye — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 04:05:38 -0800

Manhattan Timeformations. Mapping Manhattan's skyscraper districts through time. [more]

Mapping wireless technology at MIT

tellurian — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:35:54 -0800

iSPOTS is a project that maps the dynamics of the wireless network on the MIT Campus in real-time. The Intensities map is very nice indeed.