Zones of Exclusion. [Image: The charismatic boundaries of an earlier worldview – here, the Hereford Mappa Mundi]. Note: This is a guest post by Nicola Twilley. Another question for the topic of whether or not a “dense assortment of buildings” can ever be a real city: What is London for an eighteen-year old whose entire urban experience is confined to 200-square meters and who has never seen the Thames?
Researchers at the University of Glasgow, sponsored by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, have spent the past two years asking young residents of Bradford, Peterborough, London, Glasgow, Sunderland, and Bristol to draw maps of their own individual urban experience in order to explore micro-territoriality as both a cause and a symptom of social exclusion. You can read the full PDF of their report here. “In Glasgow, Sunderland and Bradford,” they found, “a recognizable territory might be as small as a 200-meter block or segment.”
So what does the anti-territorial city look like? A visual exploration on mapping complex networks. Maps-icons - Project Hosting on Google Code. Map Markers, POI Icons, Placemarks, Free Icons, Map Pins, Points of Interest, Map Symbols, Waypoints, Markers The project has moved. A dedicated website, with new features. Follow this URL : Map Icons Collection is a set of more than 1000 free icons to use as placemarks for your POI (Point of Interests) locations on your maps. You can use them on Google Maps with the "My maps" feature or automatically by using the Google Maps API. Organized into logical color coded categories, for better and quicker overview, you get a complete and diverse collection of unique markers for point of interests, for example cinemas, hotels, banks, restaurants and stores.
All our ICONS described, tagged and organized into categories How to add our icons to your own maps or to Google Earth. Historical listing of all updates This project was created by Nicolas Mollet and is by no means affiliated with Google. Suggestions are always very welcome. Obama | One People. The historic election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States has captivated Americans and foreigners alike. They traveled to Washington, D.C. from near and far in order to witness the inaugural ceremony at midday on January 20, 2009.
According to official estimates from the District of Columbia government, 1.8 million people gathered on the National Mall that day. It is clear from television images and photographs that this momentous event drew a diverse crowd to the Nation's Capital. For President Obama's 100th day in office, the MIT SENSEable City Lab has created visualizations of mobile phone call activity that characterize the inaugural crowd and answer the questions: Who was in Washington, D.C. for President Obama's Inauguration Day? Subway Sparklines. Subway Sparklines Graphs shows the yearly ridership at each station, with the shaded grey area spanning 1952 (same overall ridership level as today) to 1977 (nadir system-wide). Station names appear as map is zoomed in (eg: midtown , wall street , south bronx , williamsburg , park slope ). Overall System Ridership Powered by: OpenLayers , GeoServer , PostGIS | Data from: OpenStreetMap , RPA | Work by: Fruminator Permalink.
Henry Hudson 400 | Amsterdam - New York | April - September 2009. Invincible Cities. Entropist: Google Maps of Sci-Fi. Google Maps Now Editable by Anyone - ReadWriteWeb. In an understated post today to the Google Lat Long blog, a major new wrinkle in online mapping was announced. Google Maps can now be edited by anyone. Once signed in with your Google Account, you can change the details or location of any listing on Google Maps, or delete a location's listing altogether. Recent edits, which you can view through a strange interface here are going to be a nightmare. How will the validity of edits be monitored? I have no idea and the project's FAQ page is a 404, as is the page for business owners. Sure enough, though, I tested the feature and it is live. There is at least some kind of filtering going on - I wasn't allowed to change my local Republican Party office's website to Fleshbot.com.
Hopefully goofing around with the most important map in the world won't imperil your (ok, my) webmail account, but Google's omniscience may be one important deterrent to vandalism. This could be very, very big.