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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.
(Source: thisbigcity)
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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.
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Urbanflow Helsinki is a project by Nordkapp and Urbanscale to explore, design and build an operating system for everyday life in cities.
This concept video is the first in a series and explores some use cases for situated interactive displays as part of such a system.
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Cities can be considered “flows of information, vehicles and people” (Sheller, 2007) transported along diverse urban networks. In this Flowprint of London by URBAGRAM, the city’s extensive bus network is used to sketch an animated portrait of the living city.
(Source: humanscalecities)
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Alexander Chen is experimenting with turning the 1972 NY Subway map into an HTML5 musical instrument.
He says “These videos are still in-progress tests. I plan to import an actual subway schedule from the MTA’s subway API and have subway trains triggering the performance. After that, I hope to start on an iPad version that would function more as a user-driven instrument.”
