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Artwork—powered by biking.
Baltimore represent!
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Flickr introduces geofences. Check out the nerdy stuff on their developer’s blog.
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These maps show the time it takes to travel from one point in Paris to the rest of the city in bicycle, metro or car. I want one of these maps for every city I visit!
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How Flickr members (via their cameras) can map the world. Data, engineering and visuals courtesy of Aaron Straup Cope.
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From Gizmodo:
“StreetMuseum makes creative use of Google Maps and geo-tagging to show users how London used to look. You can use it to check out pictures and info about nearby historic locations, which is has more of a straightforward walking tour feel. But the fun starts when you’re actually standing in front of a location in the database.”
London, England
Tourists vs Locals.
Blue points on the map are pictures taken by locals (people who have taken pictures in this city dated over a range of a month or more).
Red points are pictures taken by tourists (people who seem to be a local of a different city and who took pictures in this city for less than a month).
Should Apple build their own map service?
Could be a smart platform play from Apple — that could blow a significant amount of their cash. I do weep a bit for all the geo/location potential that was at Yahoo.
San Francisco now is mapping its ‘urban trees’. Why?
And yet, knowledge of the urban forest — where the trees are, what species are represented, how old and healthy they are, the distribution of trees geographically — has great value for planners, city foresters, ecologists, landscape architects, tree advocacy groups, and residents, too.
Our goal with the Urban Forest Map is to provide a one-stop repository for tree data, welcoming information from any agency or group and enabling and celebrating citizen participation. Together we’ll work toward building a complete, dynamic picture of the urban forest.
Neat. I found 1,699 Japanese cherry trees in the city. About three are on my block. I’m going to go and take some photos of them. And look - shapefiles!
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The World
Injecting some everyday life — some humaness — into the lat-longs and computerspeak of maps. Bing’s presentation at TED about Flickr photos layered onto their maps. The write-up on spatial search is pretty awesome.
“I want more things like Dolores Park, things that embrace the quiet rather than the firehose of ubiquitous broadcasting that is all the rage these days. I want maps like that. I want a map my neighbourhood, or a city I’m visiting, that is just the history of the places the people I know have been.”
