When you’re picking a hotel to stay at in an area you don’t…
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Find popular places to stay with Google Hotel Finder
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US post offices spreading over time, 1700 to 1900
Using data from the USPS Postmaster Finder and the USGS Geographic Names Information…
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Fly through a survey of the universe
Paul Bourke, a research professor at the University of Western Australia, provides us…
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Digital spotlights on landmarks
Think about when you take a picture of something. It’s kind of like…
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Maps as kaleidoscope in Rorschmap
Maps aren’t just a way to see directions from point A to point…
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If the world lived in a single city
World population is estimated to be 6.9 billion people, and while that is…
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Data reenactment via stolen iPhone
Remember when Joshua Koffman was posting pictures of the guy who had this…
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iPhone fireflies across the Europen sky
A few months ago there was a lot of hoopla around the iPhone…
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Netflix favorites by location
If you have Netflix, you know that there’s a section for local favorites,…
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Geography of Wikipedia edits
A while back we saw the history of the world according to Wikipedia.…
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Community connections via SMS and phone call data
We often think of communities in the framework of government-set boundaries, but relationships…
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Flickr and Twitter mapped together – See Something or Say Something?
For all the maps by Eric Fischer I’ve posted, it’s amazing how little…
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The History of Cartography →
Complete Volume 1 from 1987, available for free
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In pursuit of the American dream (house)
Trulia Insights sure has been having fun lately. In their most recent dig…
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Trulia Crime Map helps you find safe living places
Real estate site Trulia made a great move when they acquired mapping outfit…
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How we describe ourselves, according to online dating profiles
The traditional way to gauge who we are as a country, state, or…
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Find everywhere you can go in 15 minutes or less
A lot of the time when making plans to meet up with friends…
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11.3m player deaths visualized in point cloud
Sometimes visualizing everything can turn out beautiful results. It seems to work especially…