Data Visualization: Trimet Weekday - 4am till Midnight

Very cool video visualization of Portland’s public transit system activity. Kind of looks like a blob of leeches are loose in the city!

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All Streets - Ben Fry

A conceptually related follow up to Fry’s US zipcode map: “26 million individual road segments. No other features (such as outlines or geographic features) have been added to this image, however they emerge as roads avoid mountains, and sparse areas…”

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Driving directions, the Indian way

A post on RouteGuru, an Indian startup that has taken cues from Indian culture and created a landmark-based directions site. “Take the 2nd left turn at the roundabout, pass by the taxi stand on the right.”

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gCensus: Free online GIS

gCensus is an effort to make geographic data freely and easily accessible to the public, without the need for expensive GIS software packages. With Google Earth, you can use this site to visualize a wide variety of data best displayed on a map.

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CmapTools - Concept mapping software

Stand-alone and server hosted concept mapping software! OS X versions, yay! (Website suffers from horribly mystery meat navigation.)

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Recent Earthquakes in California and Nevada - San Francisco

Whoo, felt that one. 3.4 magnitude originating in the East Bay (Orinda)

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Real-time San Francisco Bay wind pattern streaklines

USGS site with applet that displays (slightly delayed) animated wind flow patterns over the SF bay. Just indicates direction, not speed. (They do have a color-coded speed map in knots)

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Mobile Landscape - Graz in real time

MIT Media Lab project creating a city wide map in real time by visualizing anonymous mobile phone data.

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Live updated map of air traffic over the Bay Area and peninsula

10 minutes delayed, oddly enough

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Timo Arnall, interaction designer of London, Oslo, Helsinki

Blog on interaction design, art, architecture, media mapping, space, place, social interaction and more.

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Library of public domain USGS images

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How Google Maps works

Tiled images, transparent pngs, javascript, iframes and xml…

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Mount Maps - awesome 3D pop-up topographic maps

Simple and clever concept. Great idea.

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“Digital Ground” by Malcolm McCullough

“Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing” Read this.

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Jeff Howard, CMU Interaction Design graduate student

Nice looking site and blog. He’s reading Dourish’s “Embodied Interaction” too! He’s working on wayfinding and collaborative mapping.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online

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Publically available coverage map! Finally!

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Setting up a bluetooth phone as a GPRS modem on a Dell Axim

The connectivity piece in my attempt to get google maps on an Axim.

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Mobile version of google maps

This would be so sweet, if only I had a phone that could run it. And reading the FAQ, it sounds like implementing something like this for a variety of phones is a royal pain. Suck!

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