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Photosynth: 3D Models For Virtual Earth
Today at the Web 2.0 Expo Berlin Blaise, architect of Live Labs, showed off future functionality of Photosynth , their amazing 3d model-generator. The features hints at future Virtual Earth integration. Since Photosynth was first released Live Labs has been putting out collections that they have created. There has been hope that someday people would be able to make their own collections with their own photos or that Photosynth could turn Flickr's photos into a collection of the world.
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.”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. There is now a new site for Map Icons Collection.
maps-icons - Project Hosting on Google Code
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.
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 ).It's another installment of Entropist , a sci-fi culture column by futurist design maven Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDG BLOG . The British branch of Penguin Books recently premiered a new website called - a bit lamely - We Tell Stories . The basic idea is that six authors will tell six stories over a period of six weeks. More interesting, however, is the fact that story #1, " The 21 Steps " by Charles Cumming, was told using Google Maps. So combine this same strategy with today's urban sci-fi, add a few more cities - and you've got a way to map science fiction across the planet. Could there someday be a Google Maps of Sci-Fi?
Entropist: Google Maps of Sci-Fi
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.
Google Maps Now Editable by Anyone - ReadWriteWeb
OpenAerialMap Is Ready For Your Data
OpenAerialMap is a site for collecting, hosting, and mapping freely available aerial imagery. The project comes at a good time. There is increasing interest in DIY aerial imagery. DIY Drones is a community started by Chris Anderson for aerial imagery enthusiasts. Commercial venture Pict'Earth offer aerial imagery systems that includes their custom geopositioning software. And of course Make has had a project for aerial photography via a kite for a while.