Downright Useful GPS
The HKL Helsinki’s Public Transit has a moving, real time map of bus locations available via their website. Now that’s what the public wants to know. Where is my bus? Why its right there. That’s what real time GPS reporting…
Category Cartography
Why Space and Time?
Why are we fascinated with the intersection of time and space?? A couple posts this morning caused me to take a step back and consider this larger question. I am fascinated with the visualization of the relationship between time and…
Going Plazes 2.0
One of the more intriguing social networking applications that I have been enjoying over the last year has been Plazes.com. I blogged about my initial experiences with this spatial addition to the social sphere. Plazes uses your cyberspace IP to…
Realtime Mashup
This one could also be called…another great time waster…but it is well done. FlickrVision uses streaming photo posts from Flickr that have locational references. It displays geo-referenced popups of the images as they are posted to Flickr. Hovering over a…
Exhibit Keeps Getting Better
I have mentioned the Exhibit project out of the Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Enviroments (SIMILE) lab at MIT. Their Timeline project was one that I immediately was interested in. It takes and XML of JSON feed…
Something New
Am trying out the Plazes service. I am still plugging away with it, but from what I can share, it has found me and I am here: Download Flash plugin There you go. Have embedded same in my header, but…
A Good Life Metaphor
Johan HolmbergThe Probabilist has a very interesting way of looking at one’s lifepath. He describes a way in which we can
Speaking of Visualisation…
As Google officially released new versions of SketchUp! and SketchUP! Pro, bringing them to a 6.0 release, it reminds me to recommend these to those intrigued by spatial visualisation. I have been using SketchUp for the last few years and…
Pulling Places from the Pages
One of the software engineers at Google Book Search has posted examples from his group’s experience in creating their own mashups. They created mashups from the places mentioned in particular books. As he states, he moved to New York and…
Geotagging Just Keeps on Getting Better
The release of Google Earth 4.0 features the addition of Panoramio to their georeference layer. I was using a competing product for geotagging, but the seamless flow between Google Earth and Panoramio intrigued me. After tagging a few pictures in…
A Fascinating Constellation
This constellation of researchers working in overlapping fields of knowledge, information, software and data visualization is a great jumping off spot.
The Middle East Redrawn
Everybody talks about the great artificiality of the existing borders in the Middle East…remnants of early 20thC colonialism. Now I am not sure that I would expect anything tremendously thoughtful from the US Armed Forces Journal, but there is some…