Polymaps
Polymaps is a free, open-source JavaScript library for making dynamic, interactive maps. It is the result of a collaboration between Stamen Design and SimpleGeo. Founded by Erik Rodenbeck, Stamen is...
View ArticleSound Mapping in New York City
New York Mapping by Mark Edward Campos investigates the context around a site. It helps to understand the goings on, in a 24-hour timeframe of an area in New York City. The center of the graphic is...
View ArticleGoogle Zeitgeist 2010
With this years Zeitgeist application, Google captures the spirit of 2010. Billions of search queries are plotted on a map and we can skim through the year using an interactive timeline. Simple...
View ArticleRiver Transit Maps
Daniel Huffman gives us an alternative view on how to look at rivers: Using the analogy of urban transit maps, he achieves a high level of abstraction an thus gives a clear overview over relationships...
View ArticleTravel Time and Housing Prices Map
MIG Inc. teamed up with the folks at Stamen Design for a series of interactive maps for the One Bay Area project. The first map in this series, the Travel Time and Housing Prices map, shows the...
View ArticleTenderNoise
Did you know that noise complaints are the no. 1 quality-of-life issue for city residents? The folks over at Movity.com, before being acquired by Trulia, decided to tackle this issue as a first step in...
View ArticleHow We Visualized 23 Years of Geo Bee Contests
Introduction We were asked by the National Geographic Channel to visualize the history of the National Geographic Bee Contest. They provided us with a dataset containing detailed information about the...
View ArticleWhen Does Crime Happen?
Joe Golike and Sha Hwang of Trulia take a deeper look at when crime typically happens throughout the day in 25 big cities across the United States. The result, When does crime happen? is a set of...
View ArticleNew Maps for the Web by Stamen
I just left the Stamen studio where I had a brief chat with founder and CEO Eric Rodenbeck. He enthusiastically showed me their newest work: maps.stamen.com. As part of the CityTracking project, the...
View ArticleTurn Your Location Into Jewelry With Meshu
Meshu is a way to turn location data into physical objects. Simply map a series of places and the fine folks behind the application turn that into a beautiful piece of custom jewelry. Even easier is to...
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