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Corning, makers of electronics-ready glass surfaces, has a new video out that displays glass touch-screen and large display surfaces as a vision for the future. The day starts with windows losing their tint to let in sunlight, and with a touchscreen bathroom mirror, refrigerator, and even kitchen counter surface. Woven into this are social connections [...]
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Across the continent there are new and ongoing investments in light and commuter rail lines, including the resurrection of streetcars. The Transport Politic carries a map of all these new construction projects, along with details on individual projects and the expected completion. It’s good to see the broad number of projects underway, many as extensions [...]
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Research at the University of California, San Diego are working on solar mapping and forecasting using a variety of sensors that inform a Sky Imager mapping system with real-time understanding of the impact of cloud cover on solar power generation. The goal of the research is to allow utility operators a better means to plan [...]
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The New York Times has an interesting opinion and review piece today about Bay Area mappers that push the boundaries of conventional mapmaking. There’s reference to the new Infinite City atlas that looks at unusual explorations of San Francisco, such as its original shoreline and the makeup of its citizens, including centenarias. There’s also a [...]
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Mashups have been around a long time, and seem simple enough to those of us in the know, but I was having trouble describing the concept in conversation with my Mom. Maps as a base layer for additional details is part of the equation, but it’s so much more than that. I finally had to [...]
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I splurged on a DNA profile from 23andMe.com this past spring. There was a special deal for both ancestry and health profiles for a deep discount. This web-based testing site was started by the wife of Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google. The company takes your DNA sample and maps and connects it to characteristics in [...]
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The Vancouver Sun has undertaken an impressive investigative reporting effort to raise awareness about traffic safety in the province. The obtained crash data from the Insurance Corp. of B.C. (ICBC) that documents 450,000 crashes over the past five years, of which about 175,000 caused injuries. They took the data from the reports, and created maps [...]
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NPR interviewed Admiral Thad Allen of the Coast Guard about the lessons learned from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. One of the more compelling quotes from this online interview is his assertion that we must do a better job of involving the public “or they will involve themselves.” “Based on my experience with Hurricane Katrina [...]
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The UrbanTick blog has been collecting Twitter data in order to map the social networking ecology of major cities. The detailed maps treat the number of Tweets as topography, with the epicenters of activity renamed as hills and ridges. The above depiction of New York City has some interesting epicenters, which curiously place Central Park [...]
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The class of maps that go beyond navigation to consolidate thought and convey a message belong to the broader class of infographics that aggregate words and numbers in a visual medium. While charts and graphs are often used to show progress to a goal, nothing personalizes the objective like measuring status, and revealing shortcomings, on [...]
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