Following a phone case
A good old-fashioned ridealong through the global supply chain.
The order is placed
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All the Takes You’re About to See on the NYC-Snapchat Map Vandalism
That’s right folks, it happened - an OpenStreetMap vandal made it to prime time
That’s right folks, it happened - an OpenStreetMap vandal made it to prime time: [Read More] -
A true map
The quest for the base unit of Democracy
Many an earnest cartographer/journalist/opinion-holder is currently debating — with varying degrees of condescension — the utility of the @nytimes’ latest map piece: [Read More] -
New Belgium, 1650
When historical maps read like alternate histories
I found an old map of my corner of the world, in Dutch. Made by Nicolaes Visscher I in 1650, this version is held by the Library of Congress. [Read More] -
Imagination vs. the Moat
Some thoughts on Justin O'Beirne's meticulous reverse-engineering of Google's geodata infrastructure
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Bonten Poad
Generating fake Vermont placenames with a neural network
“Yup, take the Pendoil bridge just past Sad Cahue Village, and you’ll be up ta’ Ponkey before ya know it!” [Read More] -
Watching the Desert Bloom
Captivated by timelapses of agriculture in the Sahara.
Landsat 1 launched in 1973, and the world hasn’t been the same since. Nearly 50 years later, Google has provided a way of realizing the promise of such a long transect of data, offering a viewing portal for timelapses anywhere on earth (well, anywhere that the clouds occasionally part). [Read More] -
Drawing the planet in brushstrokes
To take my mind off certain things, I’ve been experimenting with a novel style of cartography: cubism. [Read More]