By revealing the social networks present within the urban environment, Invisible Cities describes a new kind of city—a city of the mind. The movie below by Christian Marc Schmidt displays geocoded activity from online services such as Twitter and Flickr, both in real-time and in aggregate. Real-time activity is represented…
Soul Solutions have announced their project launch for the Azure #newcloudapp international competition. Called Traffic in the Cloud it provides a rich interactive mapping twist on public webcams throughout the world. The interface and fullscreen results are impressive, for those without Silverlight installed we have recorded a quick look movie…
The movie below by Viridian was originally created as a talking point for their own site, the animated maps proved so popular that they have now become a bespoke mapping service for clients’ websites and blogs. We kind of like it – as a small animated map in the corner…
A while ago we posted about ShangHai WangCheng Net Tech Co., Ltd and their maps of cities in China created in a unique ‘sim city esk’ point of view. The company has partnered with YouCity.com to explore the western market and have just announced the launch of their next generation…
Martin Dodge and Rob Kithen’s seminal book ‘The Atlas of Cyberspace’, is now available as a free download. The book was arguably the first mass market publication exploring the spatial and visual nature of cyberspace and its infrastructure. It uses a user-friendly, approachable style to examine why cyberspace is being…
You City: Sample Map of Manhattan from digitalurban on Vimeo.A while ago we posted about ShangHai WangCheng Net Tech Co., Ltd and their maps of cities in China created in a unique ‘sim city esk’ point of view. The company has partnered with YouCity.com to explore the western market and…
Every now and again a web based service comes along that takes our breath away, Bjørn Sandvik’s Thematic Mapping Engine is one of those services. Bjorn is a project manager at United Nations Association (UNA) of Norway who is currently on study leave to undertaking a master’s in Geography Information…
Over the last few weeks Radio 4’s PM show has been carrying out a survey on the UK’s fears on the Credit Crunch. In association with our MapTube site at CASA listeners were asked for the first part of their postcode and to answer the following question: What single factor…
192.com has published the highest resolution imagery of London we have seen. Coming in at a staggering 4cm resolution the imagery is of such quality to pin point individuals and with it come privacy concerns. The Guardian’s Technology section has a full article covering these issues: The map, from 192.com,…
Following our previous post on Digital Maps: Paper Map Companies Folding we thought we would post a quick movie on the move to GPS. Step forward Professor of RVing, Jim Twamley and his test drive of the Mio c520 GPS. We haven’t a clue about the hand puppet raccoon reading…
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