I basically go up and down the Bay Corridor for food when I was living in San Francisco. I haven’t explored nearly as much beyond Manhattan and downtown Brooklyn — but hope to change that now that we’re thawing out!
Maps are from http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/ - it’s pretty cool what your iphone is storing.
Bay Citizen has a cool interactive map of not-so-cool bike accidents in SF for the last year. Breakdowns include cause of accident, time and reports. As an aside, this is also a pretty good topographical map that shows the locations of most of the major valleys in SF. Sad but true. I’ve witnessed 7 of these accidents.
These maps show the time it takes to travel from one point in Paris to the rest of the city in bicycle, metro or car. I want one of these maps for every city I visit!
Holy shit 1962 .. before the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963?
From pinktentacle.com:
Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto’s “1945-1998” is an animated map showing the 2,053 nuclear explosions that took place around the world during the 20th century, from the detonations at Alamogordo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to the tests conducted by India and Pakistan in 1998.
Skip to the 12 minute mark for a summary and fallout map.. but the video shows you each month of each year since 1945.
Wee Places has a great visualization of your Foursquare Check-Ins. I love that I can see
- Trends over time
- Directional trends
- Pattern / Size
- Points of interest
On the whole, I can see that my going out behavior in SF is constrained / defined by places accessible to biking — mainly the Market street corridor, places around work, the Mission and Japantown. It tells me what I already know — I don’t like the Marina or the Haight, I’m a creature of habit, etc. But while I already know such things, it’s helpful to be shown the data. It also tells me what I don’t know.. that although I do visit places in the Sunset, Richmond and Golden Gate Park — I’m less likely to check-in to those places.. why?
Could be AT&T’s crappy reception in those areas.
(thanks @timoni!)
The World by Paul Thurlby
proof that we’re just happier on the West Coast :)
How Flickr members (via their cameras) can map the world. Data, engineering and visuals courtesy of Aaron Straup Cope.
Tourists vs Locals.
Blue points on the map are pictures taken by locals (people who have taken pictures in this city dated over a range of a month or more).
Red points are pictures taken by tourists (people who seem to be a local of a different city and who took pictures in this city for less than a month).
United States of Apple. Concentration of Apple owners segmented by metropolitan areas.
Injecting some everyday life — some humaness — into the lat-longs and computerspeak of maps. Bing’s presentation at TED about Flickr photos layered onto their maps. The write-up on spatial search is pretty awesome.
I want more things like Dolores Park, things that embrace the quiet rather than the firehose of ubiquitous broadcasting that is all the rage these days. I want maps like that. I want a map my neighbourhood, or a city I’m visiting, that is just the history of the places the people I know have been.
