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Category Archives: Maps

Radical Cartography

Monday, May 5, 2008

A fantastic map website Radical Cartography has some real gems:

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Inside the Tokyo Traffic Control Center

Thursday, February 7, 2008

 
“Tokyo traffic can be crazy. Perhaps not as crazy as it is frustrating, but it’s certainly a lot easier to get through the mess on a Monkey rather than in a car.
However, despite our gripes about traffic lights that seem very poorly timed, it turns out that the entire system is much more centralized [...]

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Sharpest ever global Earth map

Thursday, May 12, 2005

Press Release

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Google Maps hits the UK

Friday, April 22, 2005

The supremely cool Google maps is now available for the UK. Seems to be missing some of the US functionality (like Satellite map overlays) but it is still in Beta.
http://maps.google.co.uk./

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HOW-TO: Make your own annotated multimedia Google map

Thursday, March 17, 2005

Incredible fun with Google Maps hacking. Pity is US only at present. I particularly love uses like the live Seattle 911 incidents map.
Several years ago after reading about then Mayor Giuliani ’s CompStat crime tracking system, I wanted to plot crime incidents onto a live map of London. The idea was scotched by the non-availability [...]

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Remembering Dresden

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Every year I post bout the firebombing of Dresden and Hamburg. This year is no different, except that at my source is the new English langue version of Der Spiegel launched recently:
VICTOR KLEMPERER’S DRESDEN DIARIES: Surviving the Firestorm

Once, as she was searching, she had wanted to light a cigarette and had had no matches, something [...]

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London Tube Map overlaid onto satelite map

Tuesday, August 17, 2004

From NYCLondon.com:

Click to get huge version (1mb)

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Subway systems of the world, presented on the same scale [maps]

Thursday, March 4, 2004

New York

London

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Superb: Greenwood’s Map of London 1827 [Bath University]

Thursday, December 18, 2003

Must see zoomable map of London.

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