February 2005
- Route USA 2004
- Macworld has a (mixed) review of Route 66’s Route USA 2004, which, despite this review in a Mac magazine, is cross-platform. The reviewer found it sluggish, among other quirks (the usual trip-generation snafus), but liked the GPS integration. See previous…
- Navigation, Spatial Reasoning, Gender and Homosexuality
- Behavioural psychologists are using navigating techniques as a means of testing whether gay men and women show “cross-sex shifts” in some of their cognitive abilities — i.e., whether gay men think more like straight women and lesbians like straight men….
- HopStop
- HopStop provides directions, by public transit or by foot, for New York City addresses: enter starting point and destination and it provides the route and a small map. Via Kottke….
- Google Maps and Safari
- Attention Mac users: Google Maps now works with Safari. Via TUAW….
- Online Map of Switzerland
- Map.search.ch is an online map of Switzerland; it launched last October. Like Google Maps, it uses the XMLHttpRequest object (a.k.a. “Ajax”) to allow you to zoom and scroll dynamically without reloading the page. Impressive stuff. Via Simon Willison, via Slashdot….
- Question: Appraising a Map’s Value?
- From time to time I get a question from someone who wants to know how much a map they have is worth. I’ve been reluctant to post these questions individually because it could be construed as free advertising; also, the…
- Another Garrett Library Exhibition
- Either there’s an awful lot of map-related activity going on at the University of Texas at Arlington’s Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library (see previous entry), or Google Alerts is particularly good at picking up their stories. Either way, here’s a…
- Broken Links
- I’ve gotten a couple of requests to fix links in older posts. I should say something, for future reference, about what my informal policy is on this subject. Which is, in a nutshell, that I don’t plan to repair dead…
- Question: Map Preservation?
- Lorraine Brace writes, “We have a very old and important cloth map of the Village of Norwood that is very fragile and we need advice as to how to preserve it from any further deterioration.” She’s writing from Norwood, Ontario,…
- Map Sites: Hints, Tips and Observations
- A few random links about map sites this morning. Mapquest hacks, to use or avoid highways or toll routes (via Ask MetaFilter; see also this). In OS X’s Address Book, clicking on the address brings up a contextual menu in…
- Bike Routes of Major Cities
- It seems to be MetaFilter Monday here on The Map Room. MetaFilter’s hidden jewel is Ask MetaFilter, where the MeFi hive mind answers questions posed by its members. Tag support just got added here, and there are already a few…
- Ancient Routes
- Ancient Routes, “[a] site devoted to exploring the ancient trade routes around the Mediterranean,” has a few maps of said trade routes, mostly of the Middle East. Via MetaFilter, again….
- Poyarkov’s Map of Ukraine
- MetaFilter is one of the best-kept secret sources for map links, and now that Matt has added tag support, they’re all the easier to find: just look for the map and maps tags. Of course, tagging is optional, and some…
- GPSNavX
- As you know, I like to keep track of what Mac mapping or GPS software is out there. Here’s another one: GPSNavX, which is boating software — both navigation and GPS — for OS X. The folks behind this one…
- MountMaps
- Have you ever wondered what would happen if a topo map mated with a pop-up book? No, you probably haven’t; you’re not that strange. I don’t know where these guys got the idea to make pop-up topographical maps for…
- Rosenbach Exhibition: You Are Here
- Opening February 24 at the Rosenbach in Philadelphia: an exhibit called You Are Here: Maps and the Invention of Place: Using examples from the Rosenbach’s collection — which spans over 300 years of cartography — the exhibition considers the carefully…
- Mapping the Iraqi Election
- Jonathan Corum is back with Mapping the Iraqi Election. “This set of maps for the provisional results of the Iraqi election allows you to adjust the map style, size, and scale,” he writes….
- British Railways, Past and Present
- Before and After the Beeching Axe: in 1963 the Beeching Report recommended the closure of a number of rail services in the UK. This page at Joyce’s World of Transport Eclectica has maps related to that report, showing the state…
- Japanese Rail and Subway Maps
- Nicolas Jasson has submitted a frighteningly impressive number of links to Japanese rail and transit maps. His e-mail, which I’ve edited to incorporate links into the text, is as follows: I am very interested in railways and transit and Japanese…
- MICRODEM
- Waban_star writes in with a link to MICRODEM, “a microcomputer mapping program written by Professor Peter Guth of the Oceanography Department, U.S. Naval Academy.” It’s available for free, apparently, from the site. Waban says, “This is a good program, if…
- Question: Tools for the Beginning Cartographer?
- Skip Armstrong works for an adventure travel company in Costa Rica, and would like to make a map. But he’s not sure where to start: I would like to create a map of the rivers of Costa Rica and would…
- Links 4 Maps
- Jim Weber writes to inform us about a non-commercial project he’s started: Links 4 Maps is a links directory for maps and cartography. It’s already got a number of good links already….
- Oslo and Tokyo Subway Maps
- Ben Tesch has posted subway maps for Oslo and Tokyo on Flickr, which is handy….
- More Google Maps Bits
- For those interested in web geekery, Joel Webber looks at the HTML, graphics and XML behind Google Maps. Via Boing Boing. Newsfactor’s Business Report has a short article on Google Maps that looks at it from, naturally, the business angle,…
- Google Maps’s MapPoint Moment
- Google Maps is on crack, uploaded by gillicious. It was only a matter of time before Google Maps (see previous entry) spat out some crazy, non-linear directions for getting from point A to B like the well-publicized Norwegian MapPoint…
- SF Bay Topo Maps
- UC Berkeley has scanned and put online about a hundred years’ worth of USGS topographic maps of the San Francisco Bay area. Via Plep….
- Map Thief Jailed
- (I was going through my e-mail and stumbled across a link that Huw had submitted in late December and that, probably because of the holidays-induced chaos, I simply forgot to post. Anyway, here it is now.) Last December, the BBC…
- Google Maps
- Stop the presses! Google Maps has just been launched. (Via MetaFilter.) First impressions. This is frigging amazing, with smooth scrolling and zooming: you’re not constantly reloading pages like in MapQuest. Huge mapping surface. And drop shadows. No Safari support yet,…
- Dubai Aerial Photography
- Aerial photography of Dubai, which is apparently in the midst of a beggar-the-imagination construction boom. Via Things Magazine; see MetaFilter (1, 2) for background….
- The John Smith Project
- In 1608, Capt. John Smith explored the Chesapeake Bay area, and in 1612 a map of his travels was printed. Now, nearly 400 years later, in an attempt to prove that Smith visited the site of the present-day town of…
- Question: Maps of Landforms to 100,000 Years Ago?
- Dave Van Epps writes, “I am trying to locate maps that together will give me information at approximately 10,000-year intervals, back to 100,000 years ago, of coastlines, glaciers, continents, major rivers and seas.” Presumably he’s looking for the changes wrought…
- Question: How Do I Map My Property?
- Jason Endres is trying to survey his property. I recently purchased 50 acres of rolling forest land and I am trying to find the best means to create a fairly precise topographic map of the area. In addition to the…
- The Map Ladies
- Here come the Map Ladies: Susan Pietrantoni and Kathleen Cote are the “Map Ladies” who travel to schools throughout the surrounding communities including Tewksbury and introduce the art of cartography. They have developed a two day program about maps, why…
- La Worldmap
- Found at Flickr: la worldmap, a collection of photos by Bertrand Eberhard of people interacting with what appears to be a large world map on the floor of the Beaubourg museum in Paris….
- Transport for London Maps and Directions
- Transport for London (London’s transit agency) has a journey planner that I would try if I knew anything about the city; alas, I’ve never been. (Many of my readers have, though, so let me know if it’s any good.) Their…
- Megan’s Law Maps
- California’s Megan’s Law web site uses maps to list registered sex offenders. After clicking through the disclaimer, the user selects a county, which brings up a map on which each dot represents a registered offender. Clicking on one of the…
