Humanity's Cultural History Depicted in 5-Minute Video. All roads lead from Rome, according to a visual history of human culture built entirely from the birth and death places of notable people. The 5-minute animation provides a fresh view of the movements of humanity over the last 2,600 years. Maximilian Schich, an art historian at the University of Texas at Dallas, and his colleagues used the Google-owned knowledge base, Freebase, to find 120,000 individuals who were notable enough in their life-times that the dates and locations of their births and deaths were recorded. The list includes people ranging from Solon, the Greek lawmaker and poet, who was born in 637 bc in Athens, and died in 557 bc in Cyprus, to Jett Travolta — son of the actor John Travolta — who was born in 1992 in Los Angeles, California, and died in 2009 in the Bahamas.
The team used those data to create a movie that starts in 600 bc and ends in 2012. Each person’s birth place appears on a map of the world as a blue dot and their death as a red dot. Google Has Better Maps of World Cup Venues Than OpenStreetMap—For Now | Science Blogs. Originally built for the 1950 World Cup, Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro was once the largest in the world. It will host the final of this year's Cup. The OSM view (left) has little detail compared to Google Maps. GEOFABRIK/OSM/GOOGLE Originally built for the 1950 World Cup, Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro was once the largest in the world.
It will host the final of this year's Cup. The OSM view (left) has little detail compared to Google Maps. The area around Maracanã stadium seen in OSM (left) and Google Maps (right). The area around Maracanã stadium seen in OSM (left) and Google Maps (right). The brand new Arena de São Paulo will host the opening match. The brand new Arena de São Paulo will host the opening match. The area around Arena de São Paulo in OSM (left) and Google Maps, which doesn't show the stadium at all at this zoom level. The area around Arena de São Paulo in OSM (left) and Google Maps, which doesn't show the stadium at all at this zoom level. 5 asombrosos videos que usan mapping. El mapping en general es la representación gráfica de la información utilizando las relaciones espaciales.
Últimamente, este concepto se ha utilizado mucho en la tecnología y el mundo digital para crear presentaciones artísticas y demostraciones impresionantes. Afortunadamente, muchas de estas presentaciones han sido grabadas en video y hoy, es fácil encontrarlas en sitios como YouTube y Vimeo. Para lograr crear estos visuales tan estéticos y dinámicos, generalmente se utilizan proyectores normales con un set simple y a veces, se usan máquinas más elaboradas. Aquí les dejamos cinco de los mejores videos con mapping que se han hecho en los últimos años. Pharrell Mashup (Happy Get Lucky) – Pomplamoose Pomplamoose son mejor conocidos por su video del cover para el tema de Angry Birds. Box Este video de “Box” salió en el canal de The Creators project y funciona como un corto de demostración para el primer performance sincronizado con projection-mapping en superficies móviles.
Danza en Japón. Urban Engines launches to use data to make city transportation better. Stanford computer science professor Balaji Prabhakar first became interested in how transportation systems move when, years ago, he got stuck in “the mother of all traffic jams” in India. Now, after two years in stealthy development, Prabhakar and his co-founder, former Google exec Shiva Shivakumar, are launching a startup called Urban Engines that is using data, algorithms and behavioral economics to help make cities less congested and urban transportation operate more efficiently. In an office in downtown San Francisco this week, six stories above the blaring horns of buses and cars running up and down Market Street, Shivakumar and Prabhakar showed me a screen of a train system that could be any big city in the world — Sao Paulo, San Francisco, Bangalore.
Prabhakar clicked the play button and we watched a geometrical visualization of the flow of train commuters moving into stations, getting on trains and getting off at their stops. Some trains were too full, some not full enough. Interactive Game of Thrones Map with Spoilers Control. El mapa de cien años de soledad | Especiales | ELMUNDO.es.
Del espacio público y su significado en la ciudad. La ciudad no es solo un espacio físico, un conjunto de edificios, de estructuras, de sistemas, etc.; es un también un espacio relacional y así, cultural y simbólico. Consiguientemente la esencia de la ciudad es el encuentro entre los diversos y diferentes; las relaciones entre ellos para constituir órdenes nuevos y diferentes, dinámicos. Ordenes que surgen del encuentro y la interacción entre diferentes.
Además y desde otra perspectiva, puede decirse que la ciudad es por un lado un conjunto estructural de grandes estructuras y sistemas, lo supralocal; y que, por otro, estos sistemas se ven reflejados en el espacio de lo micro, de lo local. Así el espacio público es el espacio local donde se plasman y ven reflejadas esas macroestructuras que constituyen las ciudades. Como en la teoría de fractales, se reproduce en el nivel micro lo que aparece en el nivel macro. El espacio público es un “espacio de socialidad problemática donde deben coexistir todo un mundo de extraños” (Lofland 1973). Fourquare: Si no es la tecnología, ¿qué es? | Michael Chambon. El futuro de la herramienta más famosa del mundo basada en geolocalización está en dudas, luego de que un nuevo golpe le haya sido propiciado por Instagram, al anunciar que dejarían de utilizar su tecnología para pasar a usar la de Facebook Places. Esto coloca sobre la mesa una serie de cuestiones a analizar, y como principal, la incógnita sobre el futuro de 4SQ.
Si no es la tecnología, ¿qué es?. Instagram cuenta con 150 millones de usuarios en 4 años de existencia. Si lo colocamos en comparación al crecimiento histórico de Foursquare, la diferencia es notoria. 4SQ cuenta con 45 millones en 5 años, lo cual ha significado limitaciones y ciertas dificultades para afianzarse y despegar como red social principal. A pesar de eso, su desarrollo tecnológico ha sido el gran motor de su supervivencia.
Foto: Mashable Por suerte, no todas son negras para el proyecto liderado por Dennis Crowley. El panorama nos recuerda al que en algún momento no muy lejano padeció Myspace con resultados oscuros. “Your Map is Racist” Here’s How | SociologyInFocus. Can maps be racist? Aren’t maps just a reflection of reality? In this piece Nathan Palmer will show us how maps are actually a social construction and how they can lead us to think that anglo nations are bigger and more central to the world than nations of color. A few years back I had the opportunity of seeing Jane Elliot speak at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln my alma mater. She was one of the boldest speakers I’ve ever heard before or since. She said, “The education system in the U.S. is racist and I’m going to prove it to you.”
Elliot continued, “How many continents are there?” “Wait. Reading this doesn’t do it justice. “I’ve got another question for you.” Elliot then turned to the rest of us. “You people in the front row, where is the crease my assistant just put on the paper?” Before anyone could answer she added, “why would we use this map? “We use this map because it makes the United States and Europe look bigger than they actually are. But this begs the question. Atlas of Prejudice — 20 ways to slice the European continent from Atlas... Die Rache der Wiener Polizei an den deutschen „Krawalltouristen“ Obwohl der Wiener Akademikerball bereits sieben Wochen zurückliegt, beschäftigt er die österreichische Justiz immer noch. Der Ball gilt als Nachfolger des WKR-Balls, und damit als Treffpunkt für die rechtsradikale Szene ganz Europas.
Wie jedes Jahr haben sich auch 2014 hunderte linker Aktivisten aus Österreich und Deutschland versammelt, um dagegen zu protestieren. Unsere Doku „Die Rechten und ihr Ball“ könnt ihr euch hier anschauen. Bei den darauffolgenden Auseinandersetzungen mit der Polizei kam es zu Sachschäden in Höhe von rund einer Million Euro—und die Wiener Behörden brauchten dringend Schuldige.
Gefunden haben sie den Deutschen Josef S., der seit sieben Wochen in Wien in U-Haft sitzt. Die österreichischen Behörden begründen die Länge der Haft mit seiner akuten „Tatbegehungsgefahr“—als ob sie glauben würden, Josef würde bei der nächsten Gelegenheit losrennen und Sparkassenfenster eintreten. Das Foto von Josef aus der Ermittlungsakte Was hat Josef eigentlich getan? Map - Cerca amb Google. Google Launches Maps Gallery To Make Public Data Maps More Discoverable. Google today launched the Google Maps Gallery, an extension of the Google Maps Public Data Program it announced last October. The new gallery is meant to showcase maps from the organizations Google is working with, including the likes of National Geographic, the U.S. Geological Survey and the City of Edmonton, and to make them more discoverable. As Google Maps product manager Jordan Breckenridge told me, the idea behind the Public Data Program is to unlock the maps and geospatial information many organizations already have.
Too often, though, that data isn’t easily available to the public and when it is, it’s often in the form of an image file or PDF. That’s not what most users expect from an online map today. The maps Google is currently highlighting in the Gallery range from land use zoning in San Jose and a U.S. Participants who applied for the program and were selected by Google received free access to the enterprise version of Google Maps Engine.
Visualizing 15 Years Of Acquisitions By Apple, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, And Facebook. You grow old, you slow down, and you die. That is, unless you can inject some fresh blood. After watching the last generation of tech giants wither or stagnate, today’s juggernauts are relying on acquisitions to keep them young and relevant. Check out the interactive infographic below to compare the size, frequency, and focus of the last 15 years of acquisitions by Apple, Amazon, Google, Yahoo, and Facebook. Business insurance provider Simply Business created this infographic, which is only available here on TechCrunch. Trends crystallized by the Simply Business infographic include: And the biggest acquisitions (with disclosed prices) by the giants were: [Update 5:25pm PST: To put the price of the WhatsApp acquisition and others in context, here’s a chart comparing the acquisition cost per user for most of the major consumer space acquisitions from the past fifteen years.
For more on the acquisition game, read: As Tech Giants Scramble For Talent, It’s Buy Or Die. Mapa dels llocs més fotografiats de Barcelona. E-Diasporas. Quite Possibly the Most Brilliant Thing Ever — A Map of the Internet, Drawn to Scale. O Click on the image above to expand, or click here to see the full-resolution version. From artist Martin Vargic comes this beautiful, ultra-high-resolution fictional map of the internet — scaled using actual from Alexa to rank the top 500 or so websites by traffic in the entire world.
According to Vargic, it took 3 weeks of 10-hour days to create, basing the project off of National Geographic maps. And it's still a work in progress, detailing just a miniscule portion of the entire internet. "The map is divided into 2 distinctive parts; the eastern continent, 'the old world' showcases software companies, gaming companies and some of the more real-life oriented websites. The scale between a website's traffic and its size is not exact, but websites are generally portrayed in ratio relative to it. " The final result is mezmerizing, with entire continents representing sectors of the web. It's a strange and beautiful world, and in some ways, as real as our own. Tom McKay.
Legendary Lands: Umberto Eco on the Greatest Maps of Imaginary Places and Why They Appeal to Us. By Maria Popova “Often the object of a desire, when desire is transformed into hope, becomes more real than reality itself.” Celebrated Italian novelist, philosopher, essayist, literary critic, and list-lover Umberto Eco has had a long fascination with the symbolic and the metaphorical, extending all the way back to his vintage semiotic children’s books. Half a century later, he revisits the mesmerism of the metaphorical and the symbolic in The Book of Legendary Lands (public library) — an illustrated voyage into history’s greatest imaginary places, with all their fanciful inhabitants and odd customs, on scales as large as the mythic continent Atlantis and as small as the fictional location of Sherlock Holmes’s apartment. Eco writes in the introduction: Saint-Sever World Map, from the 'Saint-Sever Beatus' (1086), Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France T and O map, Bartholomaeus Angelicus, 'Le livre des propriétés des choses' (1392) Section of the 'Tabula Peutingeriana' (12th-century copy)
Mapping Conflicts Between Indigenous Peoples and Corporations in Latin America. Dymaxion-map1.jpg 2.048×1.024 píxels. Un madrileño se toma diez años para programar el Google Maps de la Historia - Noticias de Tecnología. El pasado está en las montañas... ¿y el futuro? >> Historia[S] Foto: GETTY Los mares, las cordilleras, un río... las barreras naturales han servido para fijar las fronteras de muchas naciones durante siglos. En otras ocasiones, los límites geográficos los ha trazado caprichosamente una mano desde un despacho (véase el mapa de África).
El periodista Robert D. Kaplan (Nueva York, 1952), en su libro La venganza de la geografía, traducido recientemente al español por RBA, sostiene que esta disciplina es "el telón de fondo" de la historia de los humanos y de los países. Kaplan lo ha comprobado en primera persona. En la última parte de libro, Kaplan lanza sus previsiones sobre lo que pasará en las principales regiones del globo en un futuro próximo, cómo girará la geopolítica: Europa.
Rusia. El analista Robert D. China. India. Irán. Turquía. Estados Unidos. Watch_Dogs WeAreData. In the video game Watch_Dogs, the city of Chicago is run by a Central Operating System (CTOS). This system uses data to manage the entire city and to solve complex problems,such as traffic,crime, power distribution and more... This is not fiction anymore. Smart cities are real, it’s happening now. Huge amounts of data are collected and managed every day in our modern cities, and this data is available to anyone. Watch_Dogs WeareData is the first website to gather publicly available data about Paris, London and Berlin, in one location. Each of the three towns is recreated on a 3D map, allowing the user to discover the data that organises and runs modern cities today, in real time. What you will discover here are only facts and reality.
Watch_Dogs WeareData gathers available geolocated data in a non-exhaustive way: we only display the information for which we have been given the authorization by the sources. Circular city maps: Archie Archambault designs minimalist city maps printed on a 19th-Century letterpress. Courtesy of Archie's Press Archie Archambault was a philosophy major who moved to Portland, Ore., in 2009 after college and found himself getting lost. For all their practical uses, Google maps didn’t seem to really give him a local’s sense of neighborhoods, or how to navigate the city as a whole, or reflect his perceptions of how long it took to get from point A to point B.
“I was super absorbed in the GPS,” he told me. “But a Google map has a scientific feel. So he drew a circle with a cross hair in it, dividing it into quadrants. “I build a map in my head and then I talk with locals to see if my perception matches up with their experience of a city,” Archambault said, adding that he tries to informally poll the widest range of people possible, including his favorite insider resource: real estate agents.
Archambault started printing maps on a 19th-century letterpress machine in 2011. But Archambault isn't trying to reinterpret reality; he wants to reflect it in a subjective way. Urban Modernity, RIP: Mapping Marshall Berman Mapping Modernism | Musings on Maps. Urban Modernity, RIP: Mapping Marshall Berman Mapping Modernism | Musings on Maps. Google Earth Tour Builder lets you tell stories through maps. Crapmap2.jpg 2.000×2.403 píxels. Tread Lightly to these "Breaking Bad" Filming Locations. Age of Internet Empires: One Map With Each Country's Favorite Website - Robinson Meyer. Out in the Open: The Free Tools That Let You Hack Your Whole Life | Wired Enterprise. So sieht das Internet auf einer Weltkarte aus - Digital.
Un mapa mostra els tuits geolocalitzats durant la Diada. Occupying Wall Street: Places and Spaces of Political Action : Places: Design Observer Mobile. Tomstandage.com. 40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World. Los estereotipos sobre Europa y los europeos en 15 mapas. Data visualizations should be as much about facilitating interaction as conveying information.
Index. BCN Beats - V3.0. 999202_671947162834328_199199876_n.jpg (582×666) ¿Es el mundo tal y como sale en los mapas? El espejismo de Mercator. West Wing - Why are we changing maps? Tupi Vivo. Anatopism. You Won't Believe How Insanely Detailed This Guy's Fictional Maps Are. Seriously. - Wired Science. Geo Graphic | Index Book. OB298 — A Preliminary Atlas of Drone Strike Landscapes. Dronestagram. Washington Post. Atlas Histórico Mundial y Cronologías | Geacron. Idea of the Week: Mapping the Rise of Craft Beer. Historia y Mapas. Mapping the World | English version. Category:T and O map – Wikimedia Commons.
Mapping Racist/Fascist Attacks in Athens |