September 2007
- NARP Amtrak System Maps
- The National Association of Railroad Passengers, a passenger rail lobby group, has a collection of maps showing the change in Amtrak route coverage since the national rail carrier was created in 1971. The PDF maps are rather basic, and show…
- Custom Icons for Google Maps
- Custom icons for Google Maps. Ostensibly just fun, but this can be quite practical. The standard set of icons is useful but limited: imagine, for example, adding a set of map symbols from another source….
- Mapping the History of the New York Subway
- An animated map depicting the history of the New York subway: “[a]n animated GIF starts with a blank subway map and draws each line in the sequence in which it was built.” For more maps showing the history of New…
- A Map in a Cane
- This is not a proof of concept or an art piece, but a real product: this cane containing a pull-out map of Boston was produced in 1940 for attendees of the American Legion’s National Convention in that city. Via…
- James Turner’s Map of Humanity
- Way back in the early days of this blog, I linked to portions of James Turner’s Map of Humanity, where feelings, beliefs and aspirations are places on an imaginary map. He was kind enough to write back to explain…
- Get Lost
- Get Lost: Artists Map Downtown New York “is a collective portrait of downtown New York. Twenty-one international artists were invited to create a personal view of the city and draw a map of downtown New York, uncovering a territory…
- Yahoo MapMixer
- Also announced last week, a beta release (of course) of Yahoo’s MapMixer tool, which allows you to overlay an image atop of Yahoo’s mapping engine. It seems analagous to Microsoft’s MapCruncher, which was released last year. Yahoo! Local and…
- Google Moon Updated
- One of the most common questions from beginning amateur astronomers is whether you can see the Apollo landing sites on the moon through a telescope. You can’t. You can, however, see detailed layers for the Apollo moon missions on Google…
- Google Maps: 54 Countries Added, How Many Left?
- With detailed map data being added to more and more countries all the time in Google Maps — 54 countries were added last Thursday — the holdout countries are beginning to stick out. Now that much of Latin America and…
- Upcoming Map Fairs
- The Rocky Mountain Map Fair takes place September 14-15 at the Denver Public Library (via GeoCarta); the Paris Map Fair takes place November 10 at the Hotel Ambassador (via Map the Universe)….
- Atlas Stolen in Normandy
- Libraries aren’t the only targets of map thieves. “Please be advised that on 20 August an atlas was stolen from a private premises in Normandy in France,” Béatrice Loeb-Larocque wrote to Map the Universe. “The atlas contains 48 maps by…
- Nokia Maps
- Nokia, as part of its new suite of Internet services, has made a free map application available for a dozen of its smartphones. It seems fairly versatile at first glance (not having a compatible Nokia smartphone myself). It supports built-in…
- Relief Map Carpet
- This astonishing relief map carpet, made from foam bars of different heights and colours, is a product of the Dutch design firm Studio Laurens van Wieringen. Via Boing Boing and Very Spatial….
- 12th Edition of Times Comprehensive Atlas Published
- The Times has an article on the new — 12th — edition of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World, which was released yesterday. The article discusses the changes that had to be made since the previous edition, especially those…
- Historical Hurricane Maps
- NOAA now has an online tool that maps historical hurricane tracks. You can also compare storm tracks against coastal population data. Data are available for storms as far back as the mid-19th century, and they’re exportable: tracks are also downloadable…
- Company Makes Fire Insurance Maps Available to Researchers
- I’m very keen on old fire insurance maps, so this story from the Kitchener-Waterloo Record (no idea how long it’ll be available online) made me smile. Gore Mutual, a Cambridge, Ontario insurance company, has gone to its vaults to reveal…
- Spanish Map Theft Update
- We now have English-language media coverage of the recent map theft from the Spanish National Library: see The Times and The Independent. And we have some more information. The suspect is apparently an Argentine researcher who apparently was authorized by…
