Maps that visualize the relation between authors, presumably based on people's book-reading habits provided by amazon.com. Also movies and music. Via.
I am fascinated by relieflike graphical maps since childhood, where i saw those Panoramas for the first time during family-holidays in the german alps. No i recovered them, quite a few on one page, via Kartentisch.
Digital elevation models of mountainous areas like the alps rendered out of Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data.
Frightening Map showing the locations of people who have disappeared in the United States since 9/11. Via
Flash Interface for a map of Chicago's gangland from authentic sources: designed to inculcate the most important principles of piety and virtue in young persons, and graphically portray the evils and sin of large cities, 1931. Via the Mapping-Metablog Planet Geospatial
New weblog on urban architecture and mapping. I found this great link to GPS Photo Linking here. Furthermore Mikel Maron from BrainOff has relaunched his worldkit-site.
Cartographic visualization of the origins of Spam, Viruses and Directory Harvest Attacks. The maps are based on IP-Adresses. Go to the web mail filtering service Postini and hit the tab "Maps". Via Future Now
Sony introduced three Linux-based in-car navigation and infotainment devices in Japan. The devices feature 3D map navigation technology, media players, hard drives, GPS, and PC connectivity. The 3D mapping interface shows actual buildings, and knows street addresses.
Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator.
Interesting concept for using the Internet to visualize the psychological distances between countries. Search Terms on different topics are used to create Maps with VPhython.
World as a Blog uses Worldkit to visualize spatial Information grabbed from weblogs.com and geourl.org. This site explains how to add geotags to your website in order to be recognized by geourl.org and other services. For example localfeeds.com which enables you to find geotagged content near you. Maporama offers in-depth worldwide maps as well as longitude and altitude information of a specified address. More Concepts on location aware devices at headmap.org. Blogmaps based on the subwaymaps of a city: Washington, London and Berlin. More on Metadata and the Semantic Web. A good example. Geeky GPS Geosports on geocaching.com.
Researchers used NASA's Landsat satellite to measure and analyze urban growth among a global cross-section of 30 mid-sized cities during the 1990s. Article on the influence of cities on the local and global climates.
A few weeks after the terrorist attacks of September 11 an FBI agent called the Whitney Museum of American Art and asked to see a drawing on exhibit there. The piece was by Mark Lombardi, an artist who had committed suicide the year before. Using a pencil, a hand-written database of 12,000 index cards and a huge sheet of paper, Lombardi had created an complex pattern of curves and arcs to illustrate the links between global finance and international terrorism.
Smart XML/Flash Planetarium.
Gallery of hand-drawn maps. Via Subtraction.