What WMATA is really suggesting (fyi 2008) - Greater Greater Washington
(blue line stop in georgetown?)
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Last month Google dropped Tele Atlas data from its United States maps,choosing to rely instead on government data and other sources, including updates from users.
Faraz Ahmad, a 26-year-old programmer from Pakistan who lives in Glasgow, took one look at the map of India and decided he did not want to see his homeland out-mapped by its traditional rival. When Mr. Ahmad tried to work on the part of Kashmir that is administered by Pakistan, he found that Map Maker wouldn’t allow it. He said his contributions were finally accepted by the Map Maker team, which is led by engineers based in India, but only after a long e-mail exchange. At his request, Google is now preventing further changes to the region, after people in India tried to make it part of their country, Mr. Ahmad said.
A Google spokeswoman, Elaine Filadelfo, said Google sometimes blocked changes to contentious areas “with an eye to avoiding back-and-forth editing.”
Everyman Offers New Directions in Online Maps - NYTimes.com
(The video shows how the map of Bucharest grew quickly from 5 highways to a complete city over a two week period)
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The NYC Subway Ridership Map by Sha Wang is an interactive visualization that shows ridership levels for various subway lines.
Sep 01
Somali pirates’ version of the treasure map
The northern part of Somalia:
it’s actually called Somaliland.
Learn: National Geographic
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kryz:
US States As Countries of Equal Population « Strange Maps
This map shows each US state covered by the flag of a country with a population of comparable size.
The full list is here.
Jun 10
The people at Stamen Design (and others) convinced Yellow Cab to let them scrape/map the GPS data from their cab fleet — over time it forms a living/breathing map of the city. From the Capspotting site:
“Cabspotting traces San Francisco’s taxi cabs as they travel throughout the Bay Area. The patterns traced by each cab create a living and always-changing map of city life. This map hints at economic, social, and cultural trends that are otherwise invisible. The Exploratorium has invited artists and researchers to use this information to reveal these “Invisible Dynamics.”
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