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A couple of blogs today (GGW, DCist) featured this fantastic map of DC and environs from Flickr user Eric Fischer. Fischer has a set of similar maps from various cities around the world. Fischer’s methodology takes data from the images and the user accounts to determine the location of the photo (via geotagging), as well as Continue reading DC Photo Map The New York Times continues to update their oil spill map, mentioned before here. The comparison in the legend to the volume of oil from the Exxon Valdez is the scary part. Two great infographics from the New York Times – both related to petroleum. First, a great graph of per capita VMT compared to changes in gas prices: Putting vehicle miles traveled per capita along the x-axis instead of time makes the swings in both price and VMT more obvious. The massive growth of VMT over time despite Continue reading NYT Infographics – VMT and Oil Some cool map-related items: San Francisco’s Parking Census – with one of those ideas that’s so obvious that no one ever thought of it before, San Francisco has completed the first known census of all the publicly available parking spaces in an American city. The census found 441,541 spaces in the city, just 280,000 of which Continue reading Parking, Census, & Maps Two things I like – beer and maps. Maps about booze are even better. Having grown up in the Midwest – born and raised in Minnesota, with lots of family in Wisconsin, as well as living in Madison and Ann Arbor, it’s no surprise to me that people there like to drink. It’s a part of Continue reading Bar Crawl In the same vein as UCLA’s Hypercities maps I’ve discussed previously, I recently ran across some more historical maps from Shannon over at We Love DC. The maps themselves are ok, not nearly as detailed or interesting as the Hypercities maps, taking the historic maps and re-projecting them onto an interactive Google maps interface. More interesting Continue reading Historic DC Maps Something you can do to waste time during the snow day – UCLA has a great website with a series of historical maps scaled and overlaid on a contemporary aerial image for select cities around the world. The closest to DC is New York, but this is still a lot of fun to play around Continue reading Fun with maps A great visual from last week over at Urban Catrography – New York’s daytime and nighttime population: Larger version available here. Not only can you see the obvious employment centers in downtown and midtown Manhattan, but also note the small daytime population along the various waterfronts and dock areas that have no population at night – reminding Continue reading Spiky Maps  |
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