31 October 2006

Faceted Search (Workshop) : http://www.infospaces.it/wordpress/topics/information-architecture/97 'Facets are not keywords but aspects (or dimensions in a n-space) that have to be exclusive but able to collectively cover and describe a domain of items. ' See The strict faceted classification model (PDF).

Knowledge Mapping : http://ezinearticles.com/?Knowledge-Mapping&id=9077 focuses on the basics of Knowledge Mapping, its importance, principles, and methodologies.

Visualizing Web 2.0 : http://web2.wsj2.com/read/trackback/1491669.htm UNDER DEVELOPMENT Read all about it HERE (pdf)

Origami CD Case : PDF Diagrams, GIF Diagrams; will print them out onto paper that is ready to be folded into the case (script at www.papercdcase.com). Via http://www.merrimack.edu/~thull/index.html

100 Mile Map : http://100milediet.org/map/ (for sourcing locally grown food)

Dynamic Imaging : http://www.scene7.com/solutions/dynamic_imaging.asp includes: Dynamic sizing, editing , Zoom , Texture swatching , 360-degree spin , monogramming, decaling, eVideos , and Integrated viewing.

Example AOL Search Zoom window

The relations between geography and history: work in historical ... : (PDF) Progress Report

Stanford Student Project last fall : http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs147/2005/teams/d3/

Peace Map : http://www.peacemap.org/ Worldwide action toward Israeli-Palestinian peaceful coexistence.

RIM search

'Artists (such as Guillermo Kuitca : http://www.americas.oas.org/jul97_art20.htm ) are once again taking up instruments to invent navigational maps and examine personal cartography, as Antonio Seguí did with great mastery.'

"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.'' - George Burns
"I didn't come half-way across the galaxy to wait for permission to do my job." - Some scientist weenie, Stargate SG-1
"Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality." -Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"It can be important to have waited at least a moment to see what was already there." - Bjørn Hansen

30 October 2006

Downloading map tiles : http://supware.net/?google_mapping

A Comparison of Pan and Zoom and Rubber Sheet Navigation : http://www.cs.ubc.ca/grads/resources/thesis/May06/Nekrasovski_Dmitry.pdf (PDF) - View as HTML

Ontology Driven Visualisation of Maps with SVG : http://www.pms.ifi.lmu.de/publikationen/PMS-FB/PMS-FB-2006-28/iV06_ipfelkofer_lorenz_ohlbach.pdf (PDF) - HTML

Visual/spatial Learning : http://www.studygs.net/visual.htm Learning, for visual-spatial learners, takes place all at once, with large chunks of information grasped in intuitive leaps (rather than in the gradual accretion of isolated facts, small steps or habit patterns gained through practice).

Hexagonal-based collapses and tessellations. : http://www.merrimack.edu/~thull/gallery/geomgallery.html we should be able to fold more than one of them into the same sheet of paper, arranging them properly so that they fit next to one-another exactly.

Icosohedron (20-sided form) overlaid with a 5mm hex grid : http://fitz.jsr.com/roleplay/props/planetary_icosohedron.pdf Via http://fitz.jsr.com/roleplay/props/mapping.html

Digital Library for Earth System Education : http://www.dlese.org/library/index.jsp

Earthquake info on the Internet : REAL-TIME SHOW AND TELLIMAGES, MAPS QUAKE GROUPSGLOSSARIES PAST SHAKES FAST FACTSRESOURCES Via http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/earthquakes/archive/quakelinks.dtl

Collage artist's blog : http://alainvalet.blogspot.com/

Upgrade : http://www.grisoft.com/doc/products-avg-anti-virus-free-edition-free75cnv

Someone from Round Table Pizza, 1320 Willow Pass Rd., Concord, CA ( http://www.roundtablepizza.com/RTP/HI/) specifically searched http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLG%2CGGLG%3A2005-35%2CGGLG%3Aen&q=1-900-870-6235 for 56 hits last Friday afternoon.

"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular." - Oscar Wilde
"The amount of sleep required by the average person is just a few more minutes." - ?
"Wayists don't try to convert people. We simply show them that they're already Wayists.'' - Rev Bem (Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda'', Episode 2 (Premier, pt. 2), An Affirming Flame'' )

27 October 2006

An analysis of the encoding of the tiles used by Google Maps : http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/googlemap.asp

Knowledge Visualization : http://www.bul.unisi.ch/cerca/bul/pubblicazioni/com/pdf/wpca0402.pdf Outlining the Territory (PDF)

Open Source Tools for Online Mapping :
http://maps.unomaha.edu/workshops/OpenSourceToolsWorkshop.htm


3D PHOTO MAKER : http://www.lpi-hk.com/UploadFiles/200621816855770.pdf(PDF) - HTML ( number of lines on the printed photo but you need to place a lenticular lens on it to see 3D effect).

Highway traffic map for cellphones : http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000292.html

Dave's Travel Map: http://www.blogography.com/map.html

Origami math research : http://www.merrimack.edu/~thull/rigid/rigid.html Via http://www.merrimack.edu/~thull/OrigamiMath.html

Using Printer Profiles : http://drycreekphoto.com/icc/using_printer_profiles.htm (assumes a familiarity with how to set up and use Photoshop's color management; the brief tutorial, or extensive articles referenced in list of resources ).

cubism (defined) : http://www.bartleby.com/65/cu/cubism.html (the trompe l’oeil element of collage was also sometimes used).

Political cartoonist's blog : http://drybonesblog.blogspot.com/ Cartoon Archives; Archives at Microsoft , Archives at Gamla

The real world map of Second Life project : http://secondlife.blogs.com/nwn/2005/10/two_worlds_frap.html (died?)

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." - G. K. Chesterton
""What on earth did I ever do to deserve so much?", "Dude, you visualized." - The Universe
"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.' - Chaucer
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.' - W. Somerset Maugham via http://rna.berkeley.edu/~drsteve/quotes.html
"Instead of wondering what it is you might do that you'd be wildly successful at, wonder how you seem to miss that you already are." - TU

26 October 2006

WebSnapr : http://www.websnapr.com/ (visualize any web page before clicking). Check this useful implementation of the WebSnapr service to display a preview bubble on your hyperlinks.

Impulse: Using Knowledge Visualization in Business Process ... (PDF) - View as HTML

The Automated Display of Maps and Images from the Web (online book). Traditional books include Interactive and Animated Cartography (published by Prentice-Hall), Multimedia Cartography (Springer Verlag), Maps and the Internet (Elsevier Press) .

Zoomable flash animations : Zoomquilt and an Escher-style self-portrait Via http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000222.html

China PowerPlant Map via http://www.platts.com/infostore/product_info.php?products_id=152

Tracking New Knowledge-Based Business Models, Investments, and Innovations in the Expanding Global Knowledge Economy : http://www.kikm.org/navigator.html

i-Map: http://www.tate.org.uk/imap/ is an online art resource designed for visually impaired people with a general interest in art.

Comprehensive map-related reading service : http://www.planetgs.com/

Thinking like a Genius via http://www.studygs.net/

Gödel, Escher, Bach (GEB) : http://dev.upian.com/hotlinks/archives/2005/09/15/ Via http://tal.forum2.org/geb

25 Worst Websites : http://vip.itworldcanada.com/t?ctl=A9CA:49B16

Mario Forever: The Lost Map! : http://true-betas.org/board/index.php?download=163 (You need the vitalize! plugin to play this addictive Mario Game, in IE).

cubism (kyoobiz'm), n. A phase of postimpressionism which stresses abstract form at the expense of other pictorial elements, aiming, largely by the use of intersecting, often transparent,cubes, cones, and other geometric solids, to produce a specific aesthetic sensation rather than a representation of nature.cubist(-ist), n. & adj. http://www.usc.edu/dept/architecture/slide/babcock/ Via http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/search.pl?term1=Cubist

Now sidebarred here : http://hipercroquis.wordpress.com/ (under 'crítica y acción')

"The picture-examining eye is the best finder we have of the wholly unanticipated." - John Tuckey, statistician
"...he does smile his face into more lines than is in the new map with the augmentation of the Indies: you have not seen such a thing as 'tis." - Maria (Twelfth Night – Act 3, Scene 2) [surrounding text][citation]
"A good map tells us the truth about its content; but a bad map tells us the truth about its maker." - R.B. Wild (after G. K. Chesterton)
"It is a mistake to let any mechanical object realise that you are in a hurry." - Ralph's Observation (via slashdot)
“Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one.” - A.J. Liebling

25 October 2006

Zoomable user interfaces as a medium for slide show presentations (PDF) View as HTML (knowledge map characteristics on information processing).

United States Population Density Map : http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17439

Mapping the War on Terror Via http://ubikcan.blogspot.com/2006/10/axis-of-evil-projection.html

Firefox 2.0 and Online Maps : http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/2006/10/firefox_20_and_online_maps.phtml (handles Google and Yahoo! Maps well, but runs into a few quirks with Microsoft's Live Local).

Methods of Forming Mental Maps : http://maps.unomaha.edu/workshops/GeographyStandard2.html

Social networking and community-contributed, near-live commuter information : http://bkdelong.livejournal.com/169606.html (ideas/proposal).

"... isn’t it sweet that Google allows us to make Google Maps’s mashups with their copyrighted images and data? Sure. It is all great, until you want to do something outside of their rules" : http://mappinghacks.com/2006/10/03/the-power-of-the-press/

'hex map' definition : http://www.answers.com/topic/hex-map

Professor William Cartwright, Vice-President - International Cartographic Association http://www.gs.rmit.edu.au/people/all_staff.htm#wec

Orbit Trap: http://orbittrap.blogspot.com/2006/10/brush-or-brain.html group blog revolving around Fractal Art with contributors from many different orbits.

Photomosaic (using MacOSaiX a free software for the Macintosh, displayed using Zoomify ) Via http://punya.educ.msu.edu/PunyaWeb/mosaics/index.html

Flying Volvo : http://www.crackmuffin.com/html/Weird-Car-Crash.html

"One infographic = 300 words" - RW (based on Academic guideline; 8 page article = 6000 words needs 20 graphical images)
"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite" . -G. K. Chesterton
"Welcome, destruction, death, and massacre! I see, as in a map, the end of all." - Queen Elizabeth (Richard III – Act 2, Scene 4 [surrounding text] [citation]
"Does a rich person have to spend all their money to feel rich? No. They don't even have to spend a cent, do they? Oh, you so have it made." - The Universe

24 October 2006

Hackers Tap Into the Functionality and Simplicity of Google Maps (PDF) - HTML driven by the Google Map API.

Evolutionary economics: In defence of ‘vagueness’ includes discussion of a two-dimensional knowledge map...

Darwin online project : http://darwin-online.org.uk/ has digitised some 50,000 pages of text and 40,000 images of original publications - all of it searchable. Via http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6064364.stm

Search? Dirctory? : http://www4.geometry.net/detail/basic_m/middle_east_interactive_maps.html

Direction of Eden : http://sambali.blogspot.com/2006/07/geomancy-architectural-glossary.html

Example of small gif cinema : http://www.kisrael.com/journal.aux/2006.10.23.that00sshow.gif

15 reasons why you need to learn how to convey information through graphics : http://maps.unomaha.edu/workshops/GraphicCommunicatioin.html

Worst Manual Contest : http://www.tecstandards.com./2005winner.htm had these B&W RubikCube Instructions

Now side-barred here : http://lueder.info/cgi-bin/weblog_basic/index.php

Pertinent search : http://www.google.ca/search?q=javascript%20map%20tile%20viewer&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official_s&start=120&sa=N

Blog of creative genius : http://journal.davidbyrne.com/

"Never ascribe to malice what can be adequately attributed to ignorance." - Napoleon
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." - Voltaire
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field." - Niels Bohr
"Lead, follow, or get out of the way." - Thomas Paine (Via http://russp.org/quotes.html )
"Luck can't last a lifetime, unless you die young." - Russell Banks
"The man with a new idea is a crank, until the idea succeeds." - Mark Twain
"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment." - Jim Horning

23 October 2006

Visualization for constructing and sharing geo-scientific concepts : http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/0307755101v1.pdf (PDF)

ka-Map! October 2006 Archives : http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/ka-map-users/2006-October/thread.html#start re; the JavaScript interface for the developement of highly interactive Web mapping applications taking advantage of features available in modern Web browsers.

Color Use Guidelines for Mapping and Visualization : http://www.personal.psu.edu/cab38/ColorSch/SchHome.html Via http://www.infovis.net/printMag.php?num=184&lang=2

We Feel Fine: : http://wefeelfine.org/gallery/index.php blog entries are represented by dots and squares that swarm. When you click a dot, the other dots move away from it (to represent looking at someone apart from the group) and the "feeling" snippet from that blog appears. (Another Jonathon Harris production)

JPEG2000 compression technology : http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/ammem/help/compression.html

Three Things Statistics Textbooks Don't Tell You (PDF) ; "A major reason for graphing one's data [is that a] tiny fraction of one's graphs will suggest new lines of research."

RSS feeds : Home, Earth Imaging & Remote Sensing, Survey & GPS, GIS & Mapping, Natural Resources, Government & Military, Transportation & Civil Engineering, LBS, Utilities & Communications and Business Analytics.

How to participate in the construction of history? : http://www.eastartmap.org/ (of Contemporary Art in Eastern Europe). Via http://clairelight.typepad.com/atlast/2006/10/east_art_map.html

The Mapping Circle : http://platial.typepad.com/news/2006/10/the_mapping_bee.html We had a great time mapping Wednesday night... a few pictures on Platial's Flickr group.

Visual Instruction Plans : http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/columnists/jones/jones024.shtml Using a Compass To Draw a Hexagon

"Did someone mention the hexagonalism movement?" - http://vjfx.com/vjfx_store_sys.php?op=VJFXStoreProd&prod_id=801 (Hex Map, Hex Masks, Hex Elements, Hex Expand, ...)

Imposed patent judgments exceeding $1 billion : http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=91830340&blogID=183498244

Camino Trail Pilgrim Blog : http://www.geocities.com/maxiboyd/followingroots.html

"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose." - William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - Anon.
"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." - Calvin Coolidge
"If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter." - Freeman Dyson
"Wishing without work is like fishing without bait." - Frank Tyger
"If Michelangelo had been concerned about risk, he would have painted the Sistine floor." - Neil Simon
"Scientists discover the world that exists, engineers create the world that never was." - Theodore von Karman
"Wise men learn more from fools than fools from wise men." - Marcus Porcius Cato