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Untitled map. Map Radius. Choosing the Paths Less Traveled? There's an App for That - Technology. In his final year at the Design Academy of Eindhoven, Tom Loois received a vague assignment: “Design your personal definition of silence.” Loois, whose training is in product design, had no idea what to do. He found himself, as the deadline approached, wandering around the city searching for inspiration. Then he noticed a little alley near his route home from school. “I stopped my bike,” he says, “and I thought, ‘I’ve passed by here so many times but I’ve never been here.’ I don’t know where it goes, where it might lead.” It was a eureka moment for the Dutch designer. “I found my silence in the places I’d never been.” Loois’s final project ended up being a smartphone app called BlankWays, which charts your progress through the city, noting which paths you’ve come down before and suggesting itineraries to cover new ground.

Loois, who calls himself a translation designer, liked the idea of putting three-dimensional experience onto a map; translating from one medium to another. Locals and Tourists. The Geotaggers' World Atlas. Cycling: 650 Hours, 8100 km. A couple of weeks back, I posted the images I created from the GPS logs of my five years of recumbent cycling. I mentioned then that I was working on an animated version of those images, and I now have those up and working.

I've split them up by year, with and without labels that track time, distance, date, and the bike & GPS models used. I find these animations fun -- they bring back memories of the rides quite sharply. I don't expect others will have a similar reaction, but just in case you're interested, here they are. YouTube has reduced the size of the videos from the original, so the text in the labelled versions isn't always that clear. 2004 - 69hrs, 850km This was my first year with a recumbent, a Rans VRex. 2005 - 76hrs, 823km In my second summer of recumbent riding, I tended to stick to the same trails I'd explored in 2004. 2006 - 89hrs, 1113km Early this year (May 6) was my first major failures. 2007 - 145hrs, 1802km In 2007, the VRex started showing signs of wear. The Whole Thing. JHGRedekop. Maps In Modern Web Design: Showcase and Examples. Advertisement Geo-location was a hot topic in 2009.

With so many applications on GPS-enabled smartphones, more maps than ever were accessible to the average person. But how can Web designers and developers take advantage of an increasingly location-aware user base? This article explores existing trends, conventions and the possible future of interactive maps online. The Fundamentals Of Online Maps When most people think of maps on the Internet, Google, MapQuest and TomTom might come to mind.

This isn’t a lesson in cartography, but understanding the purposes that maps can serve in modern Web design is important. Navigation and directions,Show relationships and trends geographically,Show points of interest. Interactive Maps The expansion of Web technology over the past decade has opened a number of doors to presenting data online. Interactive maps on the Internet present data most effectively when they invite action from the user. Panning and zooming are fundamental to the interactive map. Indiemapper - Free yourself from GIS. The Dark Side of the Moon Ain’t So Dark. In other countries, paper currency is a work of national treasure, and topographical maps are often so beautiful they could hang in a museum. In the good ol’ USA, though, it took more than two centuries before we put more than a smidge of color on the money and even then it was so desaturated Pantone would barely recognize it.

USGS topo maps have all the lyricism of something you’d find on the bottom of your shoe. What wonderful surprise, then, to come across the U.S. Geologic Survey atlas of the moon. Into a world of chamber music screeches Jimi Hendrix –a blast of color, a wave of energy, in-your-face psychedelia that is at last appropriate to subject. Here’s a small gallery from the atlas. Fantasy maps. Top 10 Beautiful Maps and Projects | I’ve always been inspired by beautiful topographic and world maps. I’ve been collecting some of these images for some time, so I thought I should go ahead and put them all together into one mega inspirational post. This is all relative to my tastes, so these are my top 10 picks for beautiful maps and projects.

Enjoy! Classic From left to right: Map of Amsterdam // Map of Scotland from Ministry of Type Unique Map in The Icicle and the Sun Book // Taiwan map from shui wooden map card Modern metro map // hexagrid map Projects Bird from vintage map // Map screen // Butterfly cards // map hearts [ via style me pretty ]

Maps Beautiful Maps. OpenStreetMap. 12 Beautiful Websites with Big Maps. Maps are not only a resource for the contact section, sometimes a well-designed map helps to create beautiful and innovative websites.In the next post we have selected 12 wonderful websites with large maps. Enjoy! Mensages for Japan The Bullitt Agency Ivan Rodic NL Engenharia BlueCadet Keystone Pix FX Porto Alegre Studio Moso Coal Headwear Design Royale World of Merix.

Cartography - Examples of Beautiful Maps. Often times when we make maps it is based on our subjective interpretation of what is aesthetically pleasing. I would like if people posted examples of beautiful maps, displaying any phenomena in any manner. Below I have posted one of my favorite maps. This is an example of a value-by-alpha map recently asked about on the forum, and the picture is taken from the GeoVista website (which has a ton of cool maps and tools to make them.) citation for the maps makers Geovisual analytics to enhance spatial scan statistic interpretation: an analysis of U.S. cervical cancer mortality Jin Chen , Robert E Roth , Adam T Naito , Eugene J Lengerich and Alan M MacEachren International Journal of Health Geographics 2008, 7:57 While I did not stipulate this when I originally asked the question, I think it would be best for the cultivation of knowledge if people would elaborate on why the particular maps they cite are beautiful.

Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River.

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