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Created by Xarene Eskandar, a graduate student at UCLA, this HyperCities collection curates the “media history” of the election protests in Iran, beginning on June 13, 2009, and continuing through December. As a series of richly curated maps, the collection geo-locates and chronologically organizes more than 800 YouTube videos, Twitter feeds, Flickr photographs, and other forms of documentation. The result is the largest, day-by-day, hour-by-hour, and sometimes even minute-by-minute web documentation of the election protests in Iran. For an overview of this project, click on the YouTube link below: To view the collection, click on the image below. Depending on your screen width, you may want to “slide” the collection open by dragging the divider between the map and the narrative panel.
Hypercities
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Wheelmap - Rollstuhlgerechte Orte finden
My Block NYC, a new video-mapping website, invites residents, tourists and videographers to upload clips they’ve taken on the streets of New York.: Change Observer: Design Observer
It’s not easy to paint a telling picture of a place as big and as diverse as New York City. Zoom out via satellite for an aerial view, and you sacrifice detail. Zoom in with Google Earth, and you’re stuck with static images. Neither approach captures the shifting, seething, kooky, creative lives of the inhabitants of the five boroughs anyway.
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Most online maps are designed to help you get around in a car. This generally means displaying: roads, businesses, buildings, on-ramps, parks, oceans and traffic congestion. Nothing wrong with that! Designers get handed a tool kit that has as many tools as a good swiss army knife, and the maps reflect these tools. Millions of people use them to make appointments across town, find restaurants, and drive home for the holidays.Wikipedia killed the encyclopedia business, in print and online, as it's hard to make a revenue model work that involves paying people to create content when there are hordes of enthusiastic experts around the world willing to do the job for free. The business of mapping may be similarly doomed, as indicated by PublicEarth, a new wiki-style database of places launching Monday, and by the continued improvement in authoring tools at the crowdsourced mapping service OpenStreetMap. PublicEarth PublicEarth is an open database of places. Michael Rubin, who was an architect of Netflix , wanted to bring the same "element of delight" of connecting people to things they enjoy. Netflix did it for movies, and Public Earth is doing it for locations.
Crowdsourced cartography in PublicEarth, OpenStreetMap | Webware - CNET
(Public) Transport
311 etc
Crisis Mapping
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Dotspotting is the first project Stamen is releasing as part of Citytracking, a project funded by the Knight News Challenge . We're making tools to help people gather data about cities and make that data more legible. The code for Dotspotting is available for download on Github , and licensed for use under the GNU General Public License.
Well, it’s been about a month since we announced maps.stamen.com , and what a month it’s been! The whole team has had tremendous fun listening and watching people enjoying the new maps: Watercolor , Toner and Terrain . Here’s a few snippets of reporting in the news, and a sample of fantastic re-use of the new maps… It was the “Maybe time to contribute?” question that got us excited; that these maps are tempting enough for people to try using them in whatever site they’re building.
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Track where and when people have asthma symptoms and use medications, to quantify the burden of asthma, explore environmental exposures, and identify spatial and temporal patterns of disease.
Asthmapolis | Asthma inhaler tracking
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Welcome to the Bronx River, one of New York City’s natural treasures. The river’s headwaters are located near the Kensico Dam in Valhalla, N.Y, fifteen miles north of the Bronx border. This interactive guide covers the eight-mile stretch flowing through the Bronx and is designed to help paddlers navigate the river safely and enjoy the experience. Also visit our website, bronxriver.org, for more information on the Bronx River Blueway. Creek Speak is an oral history project that uses HabitatMaps to present the stories of people and places near Newtown Creek.
First and foremost, this sensor was a collaboration with Dan Seldon, Dustin Goodwin, Daniel Soto, John Feighery, Joe Saavedra and many more. You guys ROCK! The idea behind the design of this sensor was to create a device that could be installed outside of a CSO (combined sewer overflow), in a publicly accessible place, and would use a variety of different sensing techniques to detect when a sewer overflow happened.
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This study aims to utilize modern non-invasive tools in the search for the tomb of Genghis Khan, thus shedding light on Mongolia's rich historical heritage and enabling conservation and education of this rapidly changing landscape.
Map Explorer | Field Expedition: Mongolia, National Geographic
Global health, local information HealthMap ( healthmap.org ) brings together disparate data sources to achieve a comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases.
Global Health, Local Knowledge
TechTV – Sourcemap
The MIT Sesquicentennial Video Collection offers a look at 150 days of events, symposia, art installations and perfomances that marked the Institute's anniversary.The modern metropolis can often feel like a social archipelago – fragmented islands of social activity separated by large areas dedicated to commercial workplaces, flows of vehicles, residential sprawl or industrial sites. These islands of high density social encounter can be mapped using emerging data from location-based networks such as Foursquare . By visualising the aggregate data produced by these social networks, we can see how social activity in a city is distributed. In these maps, activity on the Foursquare network is aggregated onto a grid of ‘walkable’ cells (each one 400×400 meters in size) represented by dots. The size of each dot corresponds to the level of activity in that cell. By this process we can see social centers emerge in each city.