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Data Visualization: U.S. States as N.Y.C. Boroughs
The boroughs of New York City as U.S. states based on their closest population analogues.
Manhattan becomes Idaho, the Bronx becomes Maine, Queens has as many people as New Mexico, Brooklyn as Nevada and Staten Island as many as Wyoming.
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Drawing with OpenStreetMap in 3D
Slovenian blogger and OpenStreetMap contributor Igor Brejc who is also the author of the Kosmos rendering application has described how to turn OpenStreetMap maps into 3D. There is a set of images plus a video (link below) providing a first impression how these maps look like in 3D…
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Data-Visualization: OpenStreetMap London Progress
You might have heard about the “OpenStreetMap” project that creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to everyone. What most users of mapping software and services don’t know – there are often license or technical restrictions how you can use data and maps available commercially or by other providers. That’s what OpenStreetMap is trying to overcome.
Particularly with mapping data from the UK, where the government agency in charge…
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Data-Visualization: The world according to newspapers
We always knew that the press and journalists are selective with what story makes it to the cover pages or even receives a few paragraphs to be mentioned. But nobody has visualized this so far and shown how unbalanced some newspapers are regarding world news.
The two heatmaps below show news coverage by geographical region from the Daily Mail and The Economist during 2007. They are part of a series of heatmaps created within a project by French journalists Nicolas Kayser-Bril and Gilles Bruno. The two are planning to…
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Monaco: The changing size of a country
The “Principality of Monaco” the second smallest state in the world, is continuously demonstrating for the last 100 years how to gain in size without being able to expand into neighboring countries…What the two maps above don’t show is the substantial expansion with the new harbor in recent years as part of a new orientation of Monaco towards a broader spectrum of tourism (see for example this “official press release”). Other countries in Europe that have substantially expanded their terrain in a similar way are…
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NASA: World Wind 1.4 released
NASA has released a new version of their virtual globe software called World Wind. Also called by users of the software the “Google Earth killer”, this release brings many new features that are not available in other globe software packages. Besides being able to fly-over the Moon and Mars, the software also allows to layer additional images from other servers over the surface of the globes. Other new features include a timer to simulate and synchronized the Sun’s position when using Sun Shading, to create time lapsed or reverse running movies, a WMS Importer and an Anaglyph 3D mode to see World Wind in true 3D with Red/Blue-glasses that are often given away for free…
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