A Road Trip Around Our Tiny Planet via Stereographic Google Street View
The music video for A Ghost Train’s “Chemin Vert,” by Giacomo Miceli, zips across five continents at roughly 1,000 mph.
(via theatlantic)
How many times have you driven yourself mad trying to fold a map along the original creases? How many times have you been tempted to screw it into a ball and stuff it in your pocket or bag? Here is the map you’ve always wanted: it is soft, extra-light, beautiful to look at and doesn’t mind being ill-treated. It is truly indestructible. Thanks to the original graphics, each map makes it possible to easily find your way around the city you are visiting. (via )
- I totally want one of these.\
- I wish there was one for DC (world-class city envy)…
Color-mapping the outcome of every American presidential election ever. Also see 88 years of red-blue divide animated in one minute.
(via ilovecharts)
Here’s an informative map I made for anyone attempting to rent an apartment in Washington, DC.
Real estate agents live in their own universe.
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Google Maps unveiled their April Fool’s Joke a day early this year, and it’s worth a look — welcome to Dragon Warrior, USA! You can now view the world in stunning, lush, low-res 8-bit graphics. This is quite the home run gag, we must say.
Well done Google Maps
(Source: USA Today)
Live Wind Map Shows Flow Patterns
I get kind of giddy whenever I see a tweet from Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas. They rarely tweet, but when they do it’s usually because they’ve released a new project and they always announce it simultaneously. Their latest piece shows live wind patterns, based on data from the National Digital Forecast Database. It’s beautiful to look at.
According to this map of 1877 Washington, published in the Washington Post in 1927, this city used to have neighborhoods with names like Hell’s Bottom, Bloody Hill, Vinegar Hill, Swampoodle and Blood Field. Nearly all of them are gone now.
Where I live was the boringly named “Third Ward.” Today, it’s the 5th Ward.
(From the excellent Greater Greater Washington blog.)
Feel-good story of the day: The man who used Google Earth to find his long-lost family. Saroo Brierley was only 5 when a train zoomed him hundreds of miles from home. It took 25 years and a technological revolution for him to get back.
“I kept in my head the images of the town I grew up in, the streets I used to wander and the faces of my family.” Brierley spent hours on Google Earth zooming around for clues, obsessively looking for something, anything that he recognized. Finally, he identified his hometown: Ganesh Talai.
Crazy story.
Soft Cities Map Blankets & Napkins (via sunfoundation):
San Francisco-based Soft Cities creates blankets and napkins, or Mapkins as they call them, which feature a map with a location of your choice. The company then prints your map with special markers that you’ve chosen (like “I was here” or “Mom’s house”) and prints them locally on a soft fleece for the blankets or 100% Kona cotton for the napkins. They are completely customizable and the options are endless.
I want one.
I’m loving the rounds of “excavated book art” that I’ve been seeing lately, this included.
Maya Lin, Altered Atlas. cjmcc-artistresearch
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In this simple interactive animation by Periscopic, in partnership with UNICEF, we see the changes in urban population from 1950 up to present, through projections for 2050. Circle size represents urban population and color is an indicator for the percentage of people living in cities or towns.
(via thenewrepublic)
The worldwide distribution of heavy metal.
(via Kyle Van Blerk)
Probably very different than the worldwide distribution of heavy metals.
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Really old maps online (via sunfoundation)
Maps have been around for a long time, but you might not know it looking online. It can be hard to find them. Old Maps Online, a project by The Great Britain Historical GIS Project and Klokan Technologies GmbH, Switzerland, is a catalog of just that.
Some great stuff in here.
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Chart: America’s Gardens Are Warmer in 2012
One way to tell that the world (or at this country) is warming is to take a look at the map the USDA puts on the back of seed packets, which shows that winter temperatures have risen pretty much everywhere in the U.S. The Department of Agriculture released an update to the 1990 version of its “Plant Hardiness Zone Map,” which reveals much milder winters than in the past. Read more.
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Chart: America’s Gardens Are Warmer in 2012
One way to tell that the world (or at this country) is warming is to take a look at the map the USDA puts on the back of seed packets, which shows that winter temperatures have risen pretty much everywhere in the U.S. The Department of Agriculture released an update to the 1990 version of its “Plant Hardiness Zone Map,” which reveals much milder winters than in the past. Read more.
[Image: USDA]
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