Yet More Accidentally Beautiful Warped iOS Map Glitches
Peder Norrby is at the top of the map glitch-art genre.
Articles tagged "cartography"
Behold, Every One of the 17,000 Libraries in the U.S. Mapped
Not just an excuse to rant about how awesome libraries are.
Is This How We Equalize the United States?
Is this map of 50 new, equally populated states the solution for political gerrymandering?
NASA Flies Mission to Map Ice Cover Across Antarctica, Live-Tweets the Whole Thing
Today, scientists from its IceBridge mission embarked on an 11-hour flight over West Antarctica, and they live-tweeted the whole thing. With pics and a Q+A session to boot.
This Data Visualization of America's Wind Is Beautiful
About a third of the country’s wind is being pulled into a massive whirlpool by Sandy’s force, and it’s all at a pretty high rate of sustained speed.
What Happens When You Delete Your Street from Google Maps?
It's true, guys: We're living in the Golden Age of crowd-sourcing our information. With the recent announcement that the age-old cornerstone of academic fact-finding, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, will "soon be out of print":http://www.reuters.com/ar…
The Pleasure of Looking Down on Earth
For a short moment last November, the web was totally, complete obsessed with one unlikely thing: a series of curiously anonymous satellite images. Jesus Diaz, over at Gizmodo, broke the story last November, asking, ""Why Is China Building These Giga…
Occupy Google Map
Around the world nearly every day, Google's cars roam streets like the surreptitious scouts of an advancing army
A Geospatial Calendar of Human Violence, 3019 BC - 2011 AD
Just how violent has human history been? Well, according to the new interactive timeline over at conflicthistory.com (built by Freebase, “an open, Creative Commons licensed repository of structured data of almost 20 million entities”), there pretty m…
