Archive for the ‘maps’ Category

The NYC Roach Map

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China Launches ‘Mapworld’

It’s a 2D web map with the option to go 3D. From the Ogle Earth summary:A"China’s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping today released their long-anticipated web-based mapping tool, Map World (), Reuters reports. it’s located at tianditu.cn and you can give it a go right now; it’s in Chinese only but the controls are intuitive enough."

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Today in History : The 600 Years

Mapping during 600 years anniversary of the astrological tower clock situated at Old Town Square in center of Prague.

Mapping:
The Macula (themacula.com)
Michal Kotek
Lukas Dubda

Sound:
data-live (data-live.cz)

Production:
Tomato Production (tomatoproduction.cz)

Typographic City Maps

We're pleased to show off a pet project that's been occupying us off and on for nearly two years. After some emotional separation issues, we are declaring finished a few typographic map postersaone of Boston, and color and black and white flavors of Chicago. Everything in these maps is made of type.

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Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline

The "Temple of Time," created in 1846 by the pioneering American girls' educator Emma Willard, draws on the tradition of Renaissance "memory theaters," mnemonic devices that allowed people to memorize information by imagining it as architectural details in a three-dimensional mental space. The vertical columns represent centuries, with those on the right showing names of important figures from the Old World while those on the left show figures from the New World.

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Map of Online Communities 2010

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Haze Over Himalayas

Haze hugged the southern face of the Himalaya in mid-December 2009. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this true-color image on December 14. Credit: NASA/Goddard/MODIS

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The Reverse Geocache Puzzle

Early this summer, the friend who first introduced me toAArduino amazed us with the news that he was moving to France to get married. Once I recovered from the surprise, it occurred to me that putting together some sort of Arduino-based wedding present might be a uniquely fitting thanks for his years of friendship and for helping get me started in this delightful enterprise. And so after weighing several ideas a I didn't fancy adding some ugly techno-junk to the pretty collection of tea cozies and china sets a I finally settled on building the device I describe here: a puzzle box that won't open until it is taken to a certain location.

To better understand my conception, let's fast forward and imagine the gift opening. The new couple, freshly back from their honeymoon, remove the wrapping to reveal a book-sized wooden box elaborately carved with elephant images. (I didn't carve it; I bought it that way atAWorld Market.) Mounted into the lid, perhaps incongruously, are an illuminated button, a small display, and a mysterious module that sharp-eyed readers might recognize as a GPS. There's also some kind of connector tucked away on the box's left side. More about that later.

What do they make of all this? It's hard to guess, but naturally I imagine they might try to open it up and take a look inside. When they do, however, they find the lid stuck tight a it seems to be latched from the inside. Will they push the button? Pretty buttons are awfully hard to resist, so let's assume so.

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Nanoscale Matterhorn

Using a novel nanotip-based patterning technique, IBM scientists have created a 25 nanometer-high replica of the Matterhorn peak, a famous Swiss mountain that soars 4,478 m (14,692 ft) high on a piece of molecular glass, representing a scale of 1:5 billion (1 nanometer corresponds to 57 altitude meters). To create the 3D replica 120 individual layers of materials were removed.

Published in Science and Advanced Materials, IBM scientists have demonstrated a new technique that uses a nanoscale tip with a sharp apex - 1 million times smaller than an ant - to create 2D and 3D patterns and structures as small as 15 nanometers at greatly reduced cost and complexity. This patterning technique opens new prospects for fabricating nanosized electronics and objects in fields ranging from future chip technology to opto-electronics to medicine and life sciences.

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