The Piri Reis Map from 16th-century
by admin on February 4th, 2007
The story of the Piri Reis map is the story of how a perfectly innocent 16th-century navigational chart can end up, through no fault of its own, at the centre of a crackpot theory about our planet’s ancient history.
Story about this map begins in 1929, when the new republican government of Turkey was converting the […]
Downtown Development Map Now Online
by admin on October 31st, 2006
It’s fun every once in a while when a work project intersects with what I’m interested in Downtown. Working at Cartifact, where we do plenty of Downtown maps, that happens more often than it might in a lot of other contexts.
Several weeks ago a new map we did started running in the weekly issues of the Downtown News. A special map for the recent Development Issue highlighted all the projects going on Downtown. As of a few days ago you can now find that Downtown Development Map online and follow along with the grid coordinates given in the development listings. It’s not a full interactive like the Downtown Los Angeles Interactive Map we did with DCBID, but I think it’s a cool way to make the map useful online.
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from blogdowntown: Life in Downtown Los Angeles
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Large bits of Berlin in 3D
by admin on October 26th, 2006
The site is in German and a bit clunky, so follow along: Once the map loads, find a bit you like using the navigation icons (though be aware that you can’t zoom out more than you already are).
When you want to export your view as KML, click on the gray button with a downwards-facing arrow. Choose the default, dargestellter Kartenausschnitt, to export your entire view. (Select Abgrenzung in der Karte angeben to make a selection inside the map, or choose the last option to search for individual landmarks.)
Next, select KMZ as your export format. Voila:
Of course, getting Google to serve Berlin in 3D via the default 3D Buildings layer would be even cooler. As would be textures.
And while we’re on the topic of real estate, check out John Jason Fallow’s latest flight of fancy: In Arizona, property plot polygon heights as a function of their sale value, all linked to the timeline.
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from Ogle Earth
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by Radoya
on Oct 27, 2006, 2:04AM
Panamap
by admin on October 23rd, 2006
Urban Mapping produces multi-layered tourist maps called Panamap. These maps aim at improving the tourist navigation in a urban space by viewing only relevant information.
Images are interlaced by alternating horizontal strips from each. The resulting compound image is calibrated to a specially designed polymer lens substrate. By rotating the map, the angle of viewing is changed and one of the resulting three layers can be viewed
Relation to my thesis: I am wondering in what ways this layered view improves the spatial navigation. This is a good inspiration for an experiment that would display uncertainty (quality/timeliness) of the location data in a layered manner and evaluated if it improves the awareness or the navigation.
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from 7.5th Floor
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on Oct 19, 2006, 1:32AM
Apropos of Nothing, Cool c. 1940 NYC Map
by admin on September 24th, 2006
For zoom-in fun in a time before Robert Moses the early Moses years, click on through.
· Panoramic Map of New York [Eightface]
UPDATE: Notes a commenter, “My favorite thing about this map is that the Lower East Side is labeled ‘Ghetto’.” Christ, how did we miss that?
Originally from Apropos of Nothing, Cool c. 1940 NYC Map