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We’ve taken on board a lot of feedback and made lots of fixes and updates to Mapzen which we think will make a significant difference to your editing experience. They’re aimed at helping you map more by providing even greater flexibility within Mapzen...
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There’s been a lot of work going on behind the scenes to make Mapzen, CloudMade’s family of easy to use OpenStreetMap editing tools, even easier, even more useful and even more fun to use. So what’s new?
Mapzen POI Collector 1.1 –...
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Roger Bacon, the Franciscan monk in the 13th century, wrote, “there is no doubt that corporeal roads signify spiritual roads.” Cartographers believed this as well: early maps reveal visual histories, littered with legends, lore and drawings of monsters...
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The Japanese National Tourism Organization co-created a map of Hakone, Japan with Gainax, the creator of Neon Genesis Evangelion a wildly popular 1990s anime which is currently undergoing a resurgence. The JNTO and Hakone area are taking advantage of...
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If you live in the southeast, you should have noticed by now that it has been raining – a lot. Which for me isn’t that big of a deal.
Well – I had my first map delivery in the rain the other day and it turned into a big deal. They couldn’t...
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Called map2, the uniqueness about this map of London is the patented folding technique that allows the viewer to either view a large scale map or to fold out sections to see the zoomed in area. The folding and unfolding reminds me of origami in the demonstration...
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Andy Woodruff of the Cartogrammar blog spent 2009 tracking his movements. Woodruff mapped out his movements on a daily basis and categorized them by type of transport: foot, car, bike, train, and bus. The mapping was restricted to just the Cambridge,...
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With a scale of 1 trillonth, a map of the world was etched on to a corner of an optical silicon chip by the Photonics Research Group of Ghent University-IMEC. Using CMOS fabrication tools, IMEC has reduced the 40-thousand-kilometer circumference at the...
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I have no idea why the New York Times would make a map like this….but you have to love it.
So my first trip to the ESRI Users Conference in Palm Springs I snuck out of the conference and went to a park next to Palm Springs. So I’m out walking...
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The British Geological Survey, Natural Enivornment Research Council is offering GEOSCIENCE, a free service for sharing geospatial information including maps, 3D maps, and photographs. The GEOSCENIC is really cool because it is geological photos from their...
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This has been the year of changes for me. Personal issues and not business unfortunately have dominated my life for the last few months. As a result, I quit watching just about all TV. I still tune into the Simpsons and a few shows but overall TV watching...
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The FlowingData site has a post with instructions from Nathan Yau on how to create “a simple map without all the GIS stuff” of the United States at the county level using free tools. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on umemployment...
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Zachary Forest Johnson provides an overview on Indiemaps.com on the first published instances of each of the six most commonly used thematic mapping techniques: choropleth, proportional symbol, dot density, flow, isarithmic, and cartogram. Each technique’s...
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Cartography 2.0 is a new site with the purpose of providing up-to-date information about web mapping technologies. The site authors seeks to provide an extensive knowledge base that will help answer the question, “What’s the important stuff I need...
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Researchers at European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, and the World Bank have mapped out the world according to its remoteness. Their model looked at how long it would take to travel from any given point in the world to the...