Great Map

This essay says it all better than I ever could. "This is a rough sketch of a more advanced knowledge map that has never been drawn." - R.B.Wild ("Non-Geo" Graphical Information Systems, with a particular focus on Mapping Knowledge Domains.I'm interested in creating visualizations of 'ideas' that do not necessarily have a geo basis to them). For examples, click on the map sketch above, and here for the whole mapping story. ♫ What's He Building In There? Video "A story about a boy in a wolf costume who sails away and tames ferocious beasts and then returns to learn that the best thing of all is dinner." -----> Best Movie Trailer --> Official Trailer---> Listen to the Score Free ----> ( Buy the Sound ♫ Track )

30 June 2006

Google Maps Deconstructed : http://cfis.savagexi.com/articles/2006/05/03/google-maps-deconstructed Zoom Levels and Tiles (see how many tiles Google has to generate to cover the Earth at different zoom levels : http://cfis.savagexi.com/articles/2006/05/05/google-maps-revisited)

Zoom	Tiles Required
0	1
1	4
2	16
3	64
4	256
5	1,024
6	4,096
7	16,384
8	65,536
9	262,144
10	1,048,576
11	4,194,304
12	16,777,216
13	67,108,864
14	268,435,456
15	1,073,741,824
16	4,294,967,296
17	17,179,869,184
18	68,719,476,736
19	274,877,906,944
20	1,099,511,627,77

(At zoom level 20, it would require over 1 trillion tiles to cover the Earth).

Quikmaps : http://quikmaps.geotripping.com/ Draw pictures and label things on a google map using simple clicks and drags. Via http://ccablog.blogspot.com/2006/06/lazy-persons-google-mashup.html

Great map library resource : http://www.newberry.org/general/generalinfo.html

Mapstraction : http://www.mapstraction.com/ is a library which provides a common API for Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft's javascript mapping APIs to enable switching from one to another as smoothly as possible (to protect companies building commercial products on top of Google Maps from changes to terms and conditions, the introduction of ads, or the emergence of a competing library with better maps, different imagery or preferable licensing terms). Via http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=51

Adding a 3D image to view with Google Earth using http://sketchup.google.com/download.html

Hexfields instead of square grids : http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=8017&start=20&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=&sid=0d1bb5d1690c2fb3644f0b66bf94d5bd (inc. demo src).

Customizing Tag Clouds : http://www.snapshirts.com/review.php?sid=d7b60ddf177f2228022f46001db441c4

Psychogeography vs. Neogeography : http://placekraft.blogspot.com/2006/04/psychogeography-vs-neogeography.html
Via : http://catholicgauze.blogspot.com/2006/04/neogeography-and-catholicgauzes-atlas.html

One of the best map resources : http://www.newberry.org/general/generalinfo.html

Photoshopped Escher Images : http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=3447 (93 entries)

Flooded Earth Map : http://www.deviantart.com/view/5796207/ (?) more persuasive than An Inconvenient Truth movie (summarized at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BjrOi4vF24).

Credited here : http://exploreourpla.net/category/blog/

"It is by intuition that we discover and by logic that we prove." - Henri Poincare
"To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream." - Dr. Hans Selye
"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail." - Isaac Newton
"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart." - Ernst Mach

- posted by Ron Wild @ 6/30/2006 09:25:00 AM

Comments:

I like this map concept. It's a tiny bit hard to read but that's easy to fix.

-E
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