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Museum of the Phantom City
Museum of the Phantom City is a free iPhone app that catalogs and maps the unrealized grand visions people have had for New York City in the past 100 years. Put another way: Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder designed the Phantom City iPhone app to “transform the city into a living museum of speculative proposals [...]
Tagged Maps, NYCThe Wikipedia of Maps
Openstreetmap.org is an open, user-created map of the world. There are already people competing to make their city the most detailed. My favorite quote from the founder: “With OpenStreetMap it is not a case of whether Jesus did or did not exist. The fact is there are either 25 exits off Highway 101 or there [...]
Tagged Maps, wikipediaOn the way to Ultima Thule
Why can’t they make the maps on the plane interactive? I don’t care about the global view or the temperature and local time where I’m headed: I just want to look at the closest most detailed map they have. Related posts No related posts.
Swinish Fluish
Play along from home (hopefully not while nursing oinky sniffles) with this Google Maps Swine Flu Map. View 2009 Swine Flu (H1N1) Outbreak Map in a larger map Note that for some reason this map defaults to a zoomed Pacific Ocean–click out about halfway to see the map properly. Related posts No related posts.
Looting Magdelen Island
View Larger Map Looters are digging up Magdelen aka Goat Island. But can you camp there? Related posts No related posts.
Sheep from Space
or marshmallows in their native habitat. Related posts No related posts.
Rubbed smooth by mammoths
A Prof Parkman thinks the unique smooth marks on edges of boulders on the Northern California coast were made by mammoths rubbing themselves clean of mud. Also some cool Pleistocene coastline stuff. Related posts No related posts.
Boston, Then and Now: Sheesh!
I’d always heard that a lot of Boston was landfill, but sheesh I didn’t realize how much. Here’s a big Brit map from 1775. And here’s the present-day google map. Barely recognizable. And here’s a little animation showing the progression of the landfill over the years. Related posts No related posts.
Random Childhood Recollection
My grandparents lived on this triangle of land in Stonington, Connecticut. We went there for holidays. I would leave the house and head South into their woods, exploring and playing. Being as it was close to Interstate 95, they were, on several occasions, offered large sums of money by oil companies for the lower half [...]
There’s No Animation Like Space-Based Animation
The National Weather Service kindly put the entire GOES satellite picture archive of the 2008 hurricane season into an animation. It is the prettiest thing you’ll ever see. Here’s a link to the intro page; the animation itself is over 100MB and it wouldn’t be polite to link to it directly (or are we beyond [...]
Election polling maps
RealPolitics has a sort of interactive map of the US with a conglomeration of polls in various states. This is for the presidential race, btw. If you’ve been paying attention at all. I am going to try to not look at this every couple hours to see if new polls have come it. And how [...]
The Border of Ridgewood Queens
The border of Ridgewood has been disputed for decades, if not centuries. The most specific the Queens government gets is this map, which differs from this 1940 map which is based in part on the census. The Southwestern border, these days, is clear, as it is the Queens-Brooklyn line. The Eastern edge is generally considered to [...]
Fire on the Mountain
The Gnarl Ridge Fire has been burning the area around upper Pollalie Creek, Cloud Cap, and Inspiration Point on Mt. Hood. The old Cooper Spur lodge is intact, last I heard, as well as the Cloud Cap Inn. There are downloadable Google Earth file that will show you the extent of the fire. Related posts [...]
Flamingos As Seen From Space
I was reading an article about the flamingo, about how they tend to nest in huge colonies. So it occurred to me: can you see a flamingo colony in a satellite photo? I am geekily happy to report that yes, you can: This is only part of the colony on Lake Nakuru in Kenya. If [...]
The Y-Shaped Bridge of Zanesville
Most people who read this article in the NYTimes will write about the political and racial implications of the water dispute and subsequent lawsuit. That’s all very interesting (no, really, it is) but when I read “Zanesville, mostly distinctive for its Y-shaped bridge, where the Licking River meets the Muskingum…” my attention was grabbed…. Related [...]
Satan’s Sick
View Larger Map Viewed from above, you can see why early settlers nicknamed the craters of the moon national park “the devil’s vomit.” Then again, that phrase was apparently more common then. (More C.O.T.M. maps here.) Related posts No related posts.
Brick Collecting
Seems folks will collect anything. Even bricks. This site specializes in tracking the bricks and brickmakers of the Hudson Valley. During the last Ice Age in the Hudson Valley area, blankets of ice weighing millions of tons crushed the rocks of many mountains into a spectacular deposit of flour-textured, rich blue clay. This came to [...]
role playing reversal
Sort of a belated Gygax-tribute post via spacebarcowboy. Points if you can identify ALL the creatures in last panel. Related posts No related posts.
Our Dumb World
Am I the last person to know that The Onion has a googlemap hack? Related posts No related posts.