a travelogue
Photos, books, links and writing related to maps
Everything tagged maps
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09/27/08
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GeoDjango Documentation
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02/15/08
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A Data Point on Every Block
This is a fantastic interview with Adrian Holovaty, who’s something of a personal hero. His new venture, a hyper-local news site by the name of EveryBlock, is absolutely stunning in the amount of data to puts at your fingertips. Unfortunately …continue reading »
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12/14/07
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Buried Treasure Mystery: The Money Pit at Oak Island
There’s really nothing that takes you back to childhood like the romance of searching for pirate treasure. Well, maybe that depends on your childhood, but for me that’s what happens when I read about buried treasure, which admittedly isn’t often. …continue reading »
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10/17/07
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Find the Latitude and Longitude of a Point on a Map
Simon Willison got fed up of hunting around for simple latitude/longitude tools when messing around with mapping APIs, so he built his own with a memorable URL. Handy tool if you do a lot of mapping.continue reading »
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09/23/07
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Map of Humanity
The Map of Humanity by Rex Libris and Nil creator James Tuner is a giant atlas listing human emotions, states of mind, characters and such, placing real and fictional locations in their (mostly) appropriate territories. This giant 24x36 Map of …continue reading »
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05/24/07
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Robotic Submarine Reaches New Depths
Fascinating: “A robotic submarine yesterday mapped the bottom of the world’s deepest water-filled sinkhole in Mexico for the first time. Similar autonomous craft could some day be used to explore the oceans of Jupiter’s moon Europa, researchers hope.” “DEPTHX (Deep …continue reading »
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04/30/07
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Flood Maps
Dynamic maps of sea level rise. Ever wondered how much it would affect coastal areas if the sea level were to rise a few meters? Wonder no longer, now there’s a Google maps mashup to visually demonstrate.continue reading »
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08/09/06
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MyApartmentMap Find Apartments And Roomates On A Map
Great little site that brings together apartment listings with google maps. Finally, i’ve only been looking for this for about two months.continue reading »
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07/29/06
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Overplot
Overheard in New York plotted out on google maps. One of the winners of that Google “summer of code” thing. nerd stuff.continue reading »
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05/20/06
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Annals of the Road (from The New Yorker)
“Andrew McNally II, the grandson of the co-founder of Rand McNally Company, chose to spend his honeymoon in Milwaukee.” Full of interesting tidbits but also full of that NEw Yorker sentimentality for things that never happened.continue reading »
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05/21/08
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Mapping America By Roads
A fantastic map showing U.S. geography based solely on the roads in the country. That is, the image above is simply 26 million individual road segments in the U.S, plotted out visually. No other features have been added to the …
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