A total of 488 communities have been erased from the latest version of Georgia's official map, victims of too few people and too many letters of type.
"There's not even a flashing traffic light here," Kelly Wiggins, a 49-year-old mill worker who lives near Chattoogaville, said with a laugh while scratching off lottery tickets at the country store. "The only way people know us is as the last store before the Alabama state line."
Good News for MapKit fans!
Today we launched some major upgrades to our popular MapKit product.
Thanks for all the feedback and ideas, we couldn't have done this without the tremendous support of our members!
From your (new) list of MapKits, click the "Settings" button
Choose the options to "review comments"
Then, when someone leaves a comment on your MapKit,
You will see this
Click the "Pending Comments" button to review them
Click the "Add Places" button from Your (new) list of MapKits
Paste in a feed URL
You will see a list of posts from the feed, click the checkbox to add an address. All info that is in the feed will make it over into the Platial Place, including photos (like from flickr feeds) and videos.
Get an immediate picture of the distribution of daylight in the world from Daylight Map.
Looking at this map makes me want to plan a trip to the Laplands or the Yukon to see the Aurora Borealis.
Flickrist neb has a great cluster of geo related photos from the Venice Biennale centered around this gem showing the relative population density for parts of Barcelona:
Now just imagine that the heights are actually tied to density sensors in the field, so that over the course of the day, the relationships change, the heights shift, the mass of humanity migrating around the city becomes it's own datavizmorph. Then imagine a feedback loop, where each barrio has some kind of beacon that gets brighter with the increase of temporal density, people could 'play' the lights of the city by aggregating themselves into certain hoods.
There is a bug right now in publishing a map full of markers as a MapKit. We apologize sincerely for this glitch. The tool will be back in working order asap.
There is a simple work around while we get this bug fixed. Create a mapkit and find the line in the code that says MapKit.mapId = 123456; Change the number that is there to the map ID number of the map you want to publish. This is the number that is in the url. for example, in this url, http://www.platial.com/tracy_the_astonishing/map/1860#The_Neither_Here_Nor_There_Zone, the map id is 1860.
We apologize for the annoying hang up. It will be fixed very, very soon.
Here are a few new MapKits to check out.
Justin Calvert has a MapKit for visitors to his site.
AccessOweb 2.0, a French blog, put up a MapKit just to test it out.
Albion College published a MapKit on their site to help incoming students get to know each other.
Techmato, a Sacramento blog, has just started a map of emerging businesses. The map doesn't have much on it yet, but it should be interesting to watch it grow.
The Website at the End of the Universe has a really great map of book stores that stock sci-fi in Montreal. I wrote to the owner of this map to see if he'd like to have some locations outside Montreal and he said that he would. So add your favorite sci-fi suppliers now.
A short while ago scootdown got started on a History of Video Games map featuring the fascinating TETRIS story. Today, we caught our design intern Sayumi Abe, slacking off, playing a customized version of the game, that she put together herself.
Feel free to give it a whirl.
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Thanks Sayumi!
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