It would border on negligence to not share these cozy quilted map blankets from Haptic Lab (via @caterina). While being able to get behind their mnemonic impact (especially if allowed to annotate), there is something a little dangerous about wrapping a child in a soft version of a neighborhood: kindergarten turf wars.
Places are multi-faceted. They can be seen, described, and remembered from many different angles. Communicating this notion was one of the original design challenges for the early platial website. At one point we were experimenting with an animated marker that would spin around, then unfold to show each of the various perspectives.
I just came upon this animation and couldn't help be a little nostalgic for the old designs.
(Via todayandtomorrow .)
First try to guess what this might possibly be a map of, then click the picture to find out.
(Via @anselm.)
This sounds like a great opportunity for many of our readers and members.
You can nominate yourself or someone else.
O'Reilly is going to be publishing a collection of essays entitled Beautiful Mapping. Andrew Turner (@ajturner) and Brady Forrest (@brady) will be editing. We are looking for people to write essays on maps of all sorts.
The goal of the book is to capture and convey the current "state of the art" in geospatial visualization, neocartography, and mapping interfaces through the viewpoints of the industry leaders. Readers should find inspiration on what is possible, and insight into what goes into making these maps, and how mapping illuminates world issues.
This book will be for anyone with an interest in maps and visualization. No coding required - though reference will be made to tools, API's and techniques with reference links for further investigation.
Although the car closure clip is a bit overkill, this map based bag is totally stylin, and the contact paper trick provides some much needed stability and durability to the paper. A bike version, in the form of old dutch panniers, would be right up my alley.
Sonyastyle.com gives detailed instructions on how to make one of these yourself.
(Via sonyastyle.com.)
Long exposure photography of the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner as it drives around, defining the available floor space has been happening around the web. These path traces are essentially maps, but I wonder if the Roomba will ever be position aware enough to take advantage of previously discovered nooks and crannies that may not be easy to find by accident.
English artist Kate MccGwire's process intensive work get geographical with this burned paper rendition of North and South America. The fact that this was created in an edition of 10, along with the delicate precision of the pseudo-topo lines, begs the technical question: exactly how were these made? Regardless, these are impressive!
“Almost Every City in the World”, 2005 by Mike Bouchet. Book and video. A list of almost every city, town, village, or named living location in the world. The list has approximately 2,800,000 entries. The video displays the alphabetically listed names and has a total running time of over 500 hours. The book is a printed version of this list. It has over 30,000 pages.
(Via VVORK.)
Found this amusing image of a tangled knot of highway, and started realizing there is an analogy between current transportation concerns and traditional chinese wellness models. The basic correlation is this: poor flow can lead to seemingly unrelated systemic problems. Therefore, finding, nurturing, and venerating urban flow is critical for sustainable urban viability.
In honor of the notion of urban flow, I present the following brief list of items for your consideration and edification.
Contrails: DIY Bike Paths, automatically drawn with chalk wherever bikes may go.
Speed Levitch and The Cruise: an homage to, and manifesto of, flow improv.
Dérive: Situationist drifting.
This list simply must contain one of the most influential practices of urban flow: Among the various situationist methods is the dérive [literally: 'drifting'], a technique of transient passage through varied ambiances. In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there.
It’s a question every New Yorker wonders – how much are my neighbors paying for their apartments?
Check out the charts of the collected data.
(Via Candy Chang - Public Art.)
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