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“History, like space, is coproduced by us and our technologies: those technologies include satellite mapping, social photo sharing from handheld devices, and fleets of flying death robots. We should engage with them at every level. These are just images of foreign landscapes, still; yet we have got better at immediacy and intimacy online: perhaps we can be better at empathy too.”
Dronestagram by James Bridle posts images from Google Maps Satellite view to Instagram, and syndicates this feed to Tumblr and Twitter, along with short summaries of each site. You can follow Dronestagram at any of these locations.
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“Perhaps the most egregious error is that Apple’s team relied on quality control by algorithm and not a process partially vetted by informed human analysis. You cannot read about the errors in Apple Maps without realizing that these maps were being visually examined and used for the first time by Apple’s customers and not by Apple’s QC teams.”
— Mike Dobson - Google Maps announces a 400 year advantage over Apple Maps
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Geologic Map of the North Side of the Moon by Desiree E. Stuart-Alexander (1978)
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A Year’s Worth of Play All On One Map by Mudlark is an interactive map of London’s Underground showing all of the journeys made through each station in 2011 by people playing Chromaroma in the capital.
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202 Maps. 35,801 Locations. June 2010 to April 2011.
The data in this book was retrieved from the consolidated.db file of James Bridle’s iPhone. This information was recorded anonymously without the user’s knowledge, and represents the device’s own record of its location.
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To provide Londoners with a coherent wayfinding system, the Legible London designers have broken the city down into three key spatial hierarchies:
- Areas: ‘broad areas of the city’ such as the West End;
- Villages: ‘commonly used names’ which Londoners use to quickly connect one part of the city to another;
- Neighbourhoods: there are several neighbourhoods in each village.
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map=yes by MapQuest Open and Stamen Design and using data from the OpenStreetMap project is an exploration of possibilities for online cartography and the mapping of open data.
All the code used to generate these maps is available for download and liberal re-use.
