Eye Candy: Brighton Bus Route Activity at Night

by there own words (I know this because I’m copy and pasting it from here) is:”Ito! is a UK registered company providing web-based mapping, movies and data management services for the transport professional and for the transport user.”Which is all great, but it doesn’t sounds like the type of thing that allows them to get away with lovely lovely images like this …I can totally recommend going to have a look at pages 9 and 10 of their gallery.

The one where you’re working on a really fun project, that’s turning out to be very exciting and is exactly about the topic you blog about but, you can’t blog anything because it’s top secret?

Yeah, that! [disclaimer: I work for Flickr]

Google Zeitgeist World Map

They say they used 30 countries, but I’m not quite sure why you’d only use 30 when 40 are available, perhaps there was only 30 at the time.*and when I say ‘created’ I really mean ‘obviously went through a lot of sweat and hard work’ to come up with a great poster. You should really go to the site and see the other images they have of it.The UK as always seems to have been obsessed with Big Brother, see how useful this is!For some unspecified reason, a current interest of mine is this world of “information aesthetics” which this seems to fall into amazingly well and also is why I totally found this link [via: information aesthetics].

Oakland Crimespotting … Sexy map thing

Tom and Mike release Oakland Crimespotting, the rather fancy Virtual Earth map/data/visualising thing that they (Stamen) do so well.What you cant see here is all the useful fade and highlighting effects that take place as you move your cursor around, giving you handy information…. When we’ve all had enough experience with mapping data, which has already been going on forever, then we may know how to ask smarter questions.Example: A few years ago, I may not have thought to ask if the house I was about to buy was on a flood plane.

Eyes on the World, San Francisco: Painted Ladies (Again)

Taken in San Francisco, California by Rev Dan Catt

For I am Lord and Master of all Subtlety, Flickr & geo(in)RSS & KML

However not all photos would have geo information and in some cases none of the last 20 photos would be geotagged at all.Now if you want to do geo stuff based on a subscription to a RSS feed, you can us the geoFeed version and be guaranteed that the photos are geotagged…. Which is slightly and subtly different from an actual geoRSS feed, and I don’t want to cause any confusion by calling our feed a geoRSS feed.Even though nobody will really notice, nor does it really make that much difference.KML:You’ve sort of, kinda, been able to get KML out of the site for a while now.But I think this is bringing is out more front and center to the majority of end users, who …a) don’t want to fuss around with hacking URLs.b) probably don’t know what KML is.That aside, I’m happy to have put a KML link directly onto a ‘Yahoo!’

Galvanic Skin Response, Heart Rates, GPS, Art and You (and TomTom)

In which you wire people up to a combined Galvanic Skin Response sensor, GPS unit and data logger and send them out into the urban wilderness…. The examples in the screengrab below include peaks at “Creepy backally”, “Odeon looking at an ex girlfriend’s house” and “Saw cyclist almost get hit”.

Topoware: mapping out lunch time.

Photo by karakolaTopoware is a tableware collection that questions the landscape of dining. Taking inspiration from the recent popularity of geography as a media of communication (with Google maps) and more specifically with topographic maps, which define heights of a landscape two dimensionally, Topoware in turn, “outlines” the dining experience.

Viewing data on Spinning Globes.

Ok, I admit, I’m a sucker for Virtual Globes.

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