With the latest update to the CDC recommendations for international travel (trdr: don't), I wanted to visualize the stats of different countries. I found this neat little webapp that lets you interactively assign colors, export the data as JSON and then build a static PNG:
Jan 5th: I created a couple of google maps helpers when I was working on personal projects a few years ago, but this tutorial on adding custom tooltips to overlay shapes was super useful.
Transport for London has released 124 axonometric diagrams of underground stations. Looking at stations you've walked through thousands of times is still a little confusing.
Mark Newman at the University of Michigan has put together some nice visualizations of voting patterns in the 2012 US presidential elections, scaled by number of electoral college votes, rather than by land area.
Today's xkcd combines my love of xkcd and slippy maps. And it's a big one. Luckily someone has put together a draggable/zoomable version.
Andrew Godwin has just released an excellent mapping project, visualizing a few London Underground stations, complete with public corridors, escalators, spiral staircases and platforms. The maps are 3D models, which you can pan and zoom inside the browser. Digging into the source is also worth a look, since it uses some nice canvas and three.js guts.
Poking around his other work, the Twin Tubes map is also worth a look - the underground network with each individual track visualized.
A fascinating look at early maps of the world. The relative scales vary wildly.
the process behind stamen's beautiful watercolor map tiles
these maps of sf, adjusted for sea levels rising, are very very awesome. luckily i live upstairs, just off the coast of point hayes
interested in transit mapping? then settle in and read this excellent paper
i love this typographic map of sf. i have a few too many nice maps of SF to warrant hanging this one, but still considering it
the world according to san francisco is pretty accurate
the geography of lost blog have done an excellent hi-res map of the island. it's a big place (but still, why would you not walk the coast? really?)
very nice post on io9 about the various maps of lost island. a couple in there i hadn't seen before
this interactive neighborhood map of nyc is very very well done
the folks at youcity are basically insane geniuses. with a focus on the insane part
this nyc subway ridership map is very very nice. great presentation
some really nice 3D city maps from norway. having that detail and the coverage of google maps would be great
these maps are super beautiful. are they just on show at the moment, or can you buy them?
S&W's horizonless maps of new york are lovely
these election map visualizations are very nicely done. do you think the color-by-population was done by hand or with some fancy software?
reminded again of the plan for canada 2.0. it just makes sense
icaltrain has iphone-specific caltrain timetables. badass! they look great, too. caltrain has some other mobile versions too
maps based storytelling is very awesome [via pep]
looking back for this link i couldn;t find it, so here it is again. a version of the nyc subway map that makes for much easier reading.
best google maps mashup ever [via hammond]
i managed to miss this a year ago - i've had a village named after me
this tube map grid morph is pretty cool - now just need to tween to between that and the geo map for some nice dataporn. my zone one efforts are here (ff 1.5 only)
yahoo maps + ipod = ipod-directions [via dathan]
i thought i'd linked to cabspotting a while ago - maybe not.
this geo news visualization has some nice ideas [via matts]
salti found these excellent old maps and drawings of san francsico (and other places)
james wheare found an excellent hidden resource for the uk mapping crowd - a publically accessible database of all uk bus network geo locations (bus stops, etc) called NapTAN. seems like anyone can sign up and get the data. woo
google maps meets world of warcraft? awesome
map24 is a nice java based mapping app [via george]
not sure if i linked to these yet - matt pointed me to this lovely piece of mapping work, showing the tube map based on time between stations.
omg. this is the best map visualization of public transport in the us i've ever seen. beautiful. via the cameron factor
a nice link from the lul maps pages is this collection of maps including a couple of accurate line maps. niice.
some mapping stuff from matt jones - a list of london underground map resources (including a couple from me) and a map of the uk's motorways visualised in harry beck style. the latter would make a nice poster. time to break out the tabloid color laser at work i suspect.
salty pointed me to the library that underlies the flash nyc subway map. looks pretty cool. would be better if you could somehow pass mouse events through to the browser. can't you send data in that direction from flash?
this nyc subway map is very very cool - google maps plus flash for some nice interactivity.
this guide to embedding google maps in your opwn pages is great. well written and containing everything i wanted to know.
this is fucking awesome - a GPS linkup for google maps that follows the map as you move. fuck yeah
google maps now includes the uk. although the entry url is different, it's the same app. you can scroll left to find america. no satellite photos yet, beyond the whole country. hope they get those online soon.
angermann2 is my new favorite weblog. architecture, cartography and bold design.
george found this awesome app, which uses craigslist and google maps to produces an interactive map of apartments for rent. really fucking amazing. web services rule.
google maps was probably the best thing ever done on the internet - but now they've made it twice as good. fuuuuuck
it didn't take too long - aaron points out the first google maps-based app. firefox only (gah) but still fun. and vancouver-centric.
aaron points out the investigation i would have done had i had the time - google maps would take about 8-11TB to store north america are pre-rendered GIFs. looks like it probably is all pre-pendered. but that's alot of gifs :)
it's been doing the rounds, but perhaps rightly so - a voting breakdown map of the uk.
the newly launched google maps is probably the best dhtml app ever. stunning.
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I give occasional talks, write code and sometimes articles.
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