We don’t often get to see how cars, trains, airplanes, etc move in physical space, because, well, we’re usually in them.
Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
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Explorations of real-world traffic
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Swing vote effects explored with swingometer
With the 2010 UK elections coming up, the Guardian explores possible outcomes, given…
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Best place to catch a cab? Try Bloomingdale’s
Matthew Bloch, Ford Fessenden, and Shan Carter continue the New York Times geographic…
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Location check-ins during South by Southwest
Location-aware apps are the hot topic nowadays, and with all the tech-oriented people…
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Map and report data with InstantAtlas
As you know, there’s this big wave of transparency going on right now,…
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What burger chain reigns supreme?
In a follow up to his McDonald’s map, Stephen Von Worley of Weather…
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Looking Inside a Bus Routing Algorithm
In an effort to put transit data from the Toronto Transit Committee to…
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Where Bars Trump Grocery Stores
FloatingSheep, a fun geography blog, looks at the beer belly of America. One…
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Sunlight Labs releases mapping framework, ClearMaps
Open data is great, but it’s useless if you don’t know what to…
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OpenStreetMap Edits Towards Haiti Relief
ITO world, who you might remember from a year of OpenStreetMap edits, come…
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Data.gov.uk Gearing Up For Launch, er, Does Launch
Update: I had scheduled this post for next week, but apparently, Data.gov.uk launched…
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The Very First Thematic Maps
I’m admittedly not very good with historical precedent, but I think we can…
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The Geography of Netflix Rentals
Some movies are popular everywhere. Others are popular only in certain regions. The…
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The Universe as We Know It
The Known Universe from the American Museum of Natural History shows a view…
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The Geography of AIDS Around the World
It was World AIDS Day last week and UNAIDS published the latest estimates…
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Can You Guess What These Maps Show?
I’m no doubt still under massive food coma at this time, but in…
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What’s Cooking on Thanksgiving, Mapped and Ranked
Food-wise, Thanksgiving is different across the country. In some places you’re going to…
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Battle of the Coverage Maps: Verizon vs. AT&T
Verizon has been running these ads lately that compare their 3G coverage to…