Tag Archives: mapping

Revealing The Invisible City

Under the name of Invisible Cities, New York-based designers Christian Marc Schmidt and Liangjie Xia started a fascinating information mapping project that reveals the…

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The Grassroots Mapping Community

Since BP’s oil incontinence in the Mexican Gulf the company tries to avoid brand damage by controlling media and by censoring maps and pictures. Photographers are told what…

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The 8-Bit City


Brooklyn-based interaction designer Brett Camper did some great work with these pretty 8-Bit city maps. The maps are designed with 1980s video games…

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The London Underground Live

Birmingham-based webdesigner Matthew Somerville created a great mash-up that provides live insight in locations of all Underground trains in and around London. The yellow…

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Mapping The Neighborhood Aura

How’s the aura of my neighborhood today? How are people around me feeling? Recently launched iPhone app Glow attempts to give an answer to these issues by mapping…

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Pachube And The Internet Of Things

Not so long ago, the Internet of Things sounded like something very abstract. The term ‘Internet of Things’ represents a world in which more and more objects and…

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Opening Supply Chains

Sourcemap is an open source project about where things come from. As you know, plenty of products consist of many, many different components coming from all kinds of…

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The Urban Cursor

Yeah, we’re living in times of increasing interaction between digital and physical worlds. This public space project by Danish designer Sebastian Campion (also known as the owner of…

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Twitter Trends Localized

Twitter introduced a new way of communicating, but what’s more interesting, is its data openness. And it all gets even better when Twitter can be used to map…

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Mapping Distance To The Nearest McDonald’s

The data graphic above illustrates the distance to the nearest McDonald’s restaurant in the United States. In some regions the distance to the nearest McDonald’s is poignant far.…

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PIG 05049: Mapping A Pig’s Life

More news about art and animals! PIG 05049 is a project by Rotterdam-based artist Christien Meindertsma. She has spent three years on mapping one single pig, with…

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The Origin Of Our Food

UK-based designer James Reynolds recently came up with a brilliant idea to make consumers aware of the origin of their supermarket food by letting them directly…

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Exploring Copenhagen’s Radiant Future

Could you influence the future of your city by creating a constructive website with your ideas pinned on a Google map? This is what the guys behind Radiant

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Open Source Urbanism With LimeWire Creator


LimeWire founder Mark Gorton has recently announced to launch an application for open source urbanism, inspired by the peer-to-peer principle. Gorton’s goal is to stimulate “crowdsourced development, freely-accessible…

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Acoustic Ecology: Endangered Soundscapes

Under the name of ‘Save Our Sounds’, the BBC is currently building a huge digital user generated collection of sounds and soundscapes of the world. All…

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