31 January 2006

Yahoo! Local Maps BETA : http://maps.yahoo.com/beta/index.php is now including live traffic reports designed to let you know where congestion, construction, and accidents are slowing things down on your commute. (To display traffic reports, just click on the “Live Traffic” checkbox on top of the map next to the “Send to Phone” link. ) Via : http://www.lifehacker.com/software/maps/index.php

Client applications can use the JSAPI in several ways to control navigation and display of maps in custom ways. CWC2 http://chameleon.maptools.org/index.phtml?page=CWC2JavascriptAPI.html provides the capability to create very complex applications using just templates and existing widgets.

THREE DIMENSIONAL INTERACTIVE PICTORIAL MAPS : https://txspace.tamu.edu/bitstream/1969.1/1571/1/etd-tamu-2004C-VIZA-Naz.pdf

Map of Beijing, China http://www.mapmatrix.com/asia/02101.pdf showing the locations of the International airport and the 2008 Beijing Olympic games site. Via http://www.mapmatrix.com/tmhtm/htmtm/02101.html

Thinking Maps Workshop : http://capital.osd.wednet.edu/information/technology/tm

'using maps for site navigation' : http://www.technorati.com/search/using%20maps%20for%20site%20navigation?start=20 (was # 40 / 1,168 posts)

Seattle911Map : http://www.seattle911.com/ Automatically refreshes every 2-3 minutes. (Real time ambulance chasing).

Most Popular blogs : http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/

Method of exercising a cat , United States Patent 5443036 : http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5443036.html (God help us, every one. Western creativity is now focussed on writing patent applications, rather than inventing something innovative?) Via : http://www.patenthawk.com/blog/archives/2005/12/patent_ignoranc.html Another insane example : http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6368227.html

"When I had mapped the pond ... I laid a rule on the map lengthwise, and then breadthwise, and found, to my surprise, that the line of greatest length intersected the line of greatest breadth exactly at the point of greatest depth." - Henry David Thoreau Send this E-Quote to a friend!Buy books by Henry David Thoreau
"Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. "- Mouere
"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur." (Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound).
"My work here is done." - Rick, on causing nausea
"Focusing upon the end result, simply doing what they can, with what they've got, from where they are, will always be enough to move heaven and earth." - TU
"While I am reading, my mind adds to my Thinking Maps all by itself, and suddenly I know more than I knew!" - 1st grade student (http://www.mapthemind.com/research/pdf/new_language.pdf )

30 January 2006

GoogeEarth Tools : http://www.earthtools.org/ (Place Finder, Sunrise/Sunset , Local Time , Elevation/Height ) Via http://typolis.net/tags/maps

Prophecy and History Maps : http://www.teachinghearts.org/dre00maps.html

Experiments with Territories : Post Cartographic Map Design : http://makingmaps.owu.edu/postcarto-aag06.html

SPATIAL ORIENTATION, WAYFINDING, AND REPRESENTATION : http://vehand.engr.ucf.edu/handbook/Chapters/Chapter28/Chapter28.html

Who Maps the Mapmakers? : http://igargoyle.com/archives/2004/07/who_maps_the_ma.html

Stereograms : http://nowscape.com/stereogr.htm (are a type of random dot image that tricks the eye so that it sees a 3D image).

MAPPING GIS AND DIGITAL ELEVATION DATA : http://www.american.edu/radiowave/mapping.htm

A Condensed Digital Travelers Guide: http://www.theprimemeridian.com/collectorguide.htm Web Resources for Map Collectors & Enthusiasts

The Maps from the Japanese Historical Map Collection may be viewed in two Insight® formats : http://www.davidrumsey.com/japan/view.html The Insight® Browser and Java client software are products of Luna Imaging, Inc. The GIS Browser was developed by Telemorphic, Inc. using their Java-based Maplicity(tm) software products.

ClanMap : http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/ANCR/Southeast/TlingitMap/Kooyu.html

Yahoo! unveils top websites of 2005 : http://www.netimperative.com/2006/01/26/Yahoo_top_websites

Cubist Style Rendering : http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/597220.html Via http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/context/168170/0

Elephant Paths : http://www.elephantpaths.net/ is a project that explores a geographical and social space using GPS –mapping devices, video, and stories from the people walking the paths.

Growth of tag use : http://www.technorati.com/weblog/2005/08/37.html

"Before this it was thought that the sea had no end or limit, that at its other end was darkness. Now they have seen that this sea is girded by a coast, because it is like a lake, they have called it Ovo Sano." - From the text on the mysterious Piri Re'is Map (http://www.sacred-texts.com/piri/pirikey.htm )

"Neither the historian nor the cartographer can ever reproduce the reality they are trying to communicate to the reader of books or maps; they can but give a plan, a series of indications, of this reality. There are contrasting schemes for choosing from enormous numbers of geographic details. You may have a map in which every feature that can be named, every hill, brook, crossroads, is crowded in; or you may have a map in which many details are omitted in the effort to show the reader the lay of the land, the shape of the mountain systems, the relations of drainage, relief, communications, and so on. Both kinds are useful, depending on the needs of the user." - Crane Brinton Send this E-Quote to a friend!Buy books by Crane Brinton

"I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it." - Frank A. Clark
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell." - Aldous Huxley
"…a name once given (to a clan house) survive(s) the mere structure." - George Emmons, 1916
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist." - Oscar Wilde
"He who never made a mistake never made a discovery." - Samuel Smiles
"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul." - Moshe Dayan
"There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." - Francis Bacon

27 January 2006

'MutantMaps' : http://weblogs.asp.net/nunitaddin/archive/2005/07/26/420587.aspx toolbar for Firefox allows navigation between all of the popular mapping sites while preserving your longitude, latitude and zoom levels. At the moment Google Maps, MSN Virtual Earth, MultiMap, TerraServer and 192.com are supported. There is also support for navigating from Google Maps/MSN Virtual Earth 'mashup' sites (ie the http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/ kind of thing).

"Google is in the process of working on a new version of the API, and it is expected that the way Custom Map Types are implemented will change greatly" - http://mapki.com/index.php?title=Add_Your_Own_Custom_Map (as everyone expects will continue to happen forever?)

"...multiple views to simultaneously display an overview and a detail view." :
http://infovis.cs.vt.edu/papers/HHFE-infovis.pdf Information Visualization

Social Circles intends to partially reveal the social networks that emerge in mailing lists : http://www.marumushi.com/apps/socialcircles/index.cfm The idea was to visualize in near real-time the social hierarchies and the main subjects they address.

Designing for the Sandbox : http://www.peterme.com/archives/000522.html

Iditarod Race Map : http://www.navan.org/elizabeth/portfolio/iditarod.html (Alaska).

Gallery of bird's-eye views : http://www.shadedrelief.com/birds_eye/gallery.html and Article about NPS birds-eye views (PDF, 1.4MB)

Experience Design blog : http://blog.vanderbeeken.com/

Process a photograph into a self-tiling map in Photoshop, using Filter > Other > Offset (set to "wrap around") to bring the seams to the center, so you can clone over them. : http://www.3drender.com/light/EqTutorial/tiling.htm

Mind Maps and Causal Models : http://sigchi.org/chi97/proceedings/poster/mil.htm

In Beta at Yahoo!Research : http://next.yahoo.com/

Creating maps for roleplaying games : http://www.brodt.dk/peter/maps.html

PhotoZoom Professional is a digital image editing software that can resize images even to poster size while maintaining good optical quality and definition : http://www.benvista.com/main/content/content.php Could be used with http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/collection/0,collid,1343,00.asp Via http://www.masterviews.com/2006/01/16/resize_and_enlarge_digital_images.htm

The Use of Maps in Contemporary Art : http://www.annao.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/text_dissertation.htm

The Philosopher : http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/cite/staff/philosopher/Philosopher.htm (Virtually the Web's most popular Online Philosophy Magazine)

"The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and execute with vigor; to sketch out a map of possibilities, and then to treat them as probabilities." - Christian Nestell Bovee
"The grill-room clock struck eleven with the respectful unobtrusiveness of one whose mission in life is to be ignored." - Saki ( collection of his stories available through Project Gutenberg )
"A map is not the territory it represents, but if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness." - Alford Korzybski
"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think." - Horace Walpole

26 January 2006

Quintura : http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Quintura-Search-Review-16408.shtml --->

"alpha" quality myGmaps enables? you to create, save and host custom data files and display them with Google Maps : http://mygmaps.com/mygmaps.cgi/

Automated Capture of Thumbnails and Thumbshots for Use by Metadata Aggregation Services : http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january06/foulonneau/01foulonneau.html

"The Social Life of Visualizations" : http://www.peterme.com/archives/000625.html (talk at UC Berkeley).

INFOVIZ ; From Sites to Flows: http://staging.bengler.no/sites2flows.pdf

Example Google Earth (KMZ File) download / link : http://www.jonfry.com/uploaded_files/google_earth/Raikes_Mausoleum.kmz

Standards-Based Web Presentations : http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/s5-intro.html freely use S5 for their own presentations or modify S5 to suit their needs.

The Map That Shouldn't Be : http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_1.htm (Piri Reis Map) Via http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Map-That-Shouldnt-Be&id=128036 Also Catalan Atlas .

'you are here, the journal of creative geography' : http://www.u.arizona.edu/~urhere/

Ninq discussion / update : http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/20/ning-rip/

Six Contemporary Artists Who Use Maps in Their Work : http://www.artjunction.org/articles/mapartists.html

The aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgh Page : http://osteele.com/words/aargh (click on 'Visualize' and move the mouse around on the grid)

"Innovators are those people who can zoom out to see a broader view of the world and see new ideas registering on their Innovation Radar Screens before others even know they exist. They stay aware of what is happening behind, in front of and beside them, knowing that insights can come from any source. Their research antennae are at full mast, looking for signs in the global world of what may be useful in the future." - Elaine Dundon, from 'The Seeds of Innovation'

"The map appears more real to us than the land."- David Herbert Lawrence Send this E-Quote to a friend!Buy books by David Herbert Lawrence
"They laugh at me because I am different, but I laugh at them because they are all the same." - http://www.ahknight.net/archives/2005/11/04/clone-the-google-api/

25 January 2006

FolkMind (Map) : http://folkmind.sourceforge.net/ If the Internet can be considered as the virtual brain that represents the collective intelligence of humanity, then FolkMind is the pictorial representation on the same expressed as a mind map – "Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists" : http://www.hackdiary.com/archives/000070.html Via : http://www.chiramattel.com/george/blog/2005/10/14/folkmind_a_killer_app_for_the_1.html The brain as a better model for describing the Internet...

Hexagonal Coordinate Systems : http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/CVonline/LOCAL_COPIES/AV0405/MARTIN/Hex.pdf and http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1800.asp and http://www.tonypa.pri.ee/tbw/tut01a.html

Package Mapper ( http://packagemapper.com/) shows you a map of your FedEx, USPS, and DHL package routes. Enter a carrier and a tracking number to see your package's progress plotted on the map.

Frappr maps with the most members : http://www.frappr.com/?a=browse&type=member and Most Views , Most Views Today , Recently Changed , Most Shoutouts ...

Have added extensive 6-inch imagery for many parts of the the Google Local database to match the coverage we have in Google Earth, and added two more zoom levels in Google Local's Satellite mode (Now for many areas around the world you can see a lot more detail than you could before, example: see the Statue of Liberty http://local.google.com/local?q=statue+of+liberty&ll=40.689148,-74.044569&spn=0.001688,0.002916&t=k )

NASA Releases Aerial Photography of Area 51 : the Google Maps imagery (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=las+vegas,+nv&btnG=Search&ll=37.249734,-115.824394&spn=0.122979,0.346069&t=h ) that corresponds with the photo shown in the article. Via http://appdomains.slashgeo.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/11/1340218&threshold=-1

A new and improved Toporama is moving to the Atlas of Canada in early 2006 : http://toporama.cits.rncan.gc.ca/toporama_en.html

AlternaTime : http://www2.canisius.edu/~emeryg/time.html (a collection of Timelines on the Web).

'Visual Learning Map' (example) : http://www.pindling.org/Math/College_Algebra/Resource/Reference/Visual_map/Vsual_Learning_Map.html
PULLOUT FROM THE GAZA STRIP (InfoGraphic by the New York Times) : http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/international/2005_GAZAPULLOUT_GRAPHIC/index.html

Fibonacci Flim-Flam : http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm (a sceptic's perspective).

JULIE MEHRETU: DRAWING INTO PAINTING (http://www.walkerart.org/archive/2/AF7361E991C363206165.htm ) incorporates the dynamic visual vocabulary of maps, urban-planning grids, and architectural forms as it alternates between historical narratives and fictional landscapes "Along the Border Trail" : http://www.sfcg.org/programmes/macedonia/pdf/karavanbody.pdf

Off the Map; A look into backyard paradises created by visionary artists around the world : http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/offthemap/html/backyard_gallery.php 'Vision is the art of seeing things invisible'.

How to get the nickname "Maps" ; http://www.roadfan.com/maps.html

“Youth is a gift, but old age is a work of art.” - Garson Kanin http://www.avam.org/exhibitions/blessings.html "In no other arena is the good news of aging more gleefully pronounced than in the many global manifestations of late-onset creativity generated by visionary artists aged 60, 70, 80, and far beyond."
"I live in my own little world, but it's ok, they know me here." - ?
"In thy face I see the map of honor, truth, and loyalty." - William Shakespeare
“Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy." - C. Darwin, Life and Letters, 1887, (Vol. 2, p. 229)

(Check / forward) http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sll=53.537247,-113.503532&sspn=0.105079,0.234146&hl=en&q=Royal+Glenora+Club,+11160+River+Valley+Rd,+Edmonton,+AB+T5J&btnG=Search&ll=53.534186,-113.527136&spn=0.026272,0.058537&t=h

24 January 2006

Nuclear Explosions Map : http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/bsv/nuclear_explosions.html

Understand how maps scale : http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Web_Languages/JavaScript/Q_21543210.html

The Meaning of Place: technological imagination and human experience : http://www.intel.com/research/exploratory/papr/meaning_of_place-forum.htm#forumagenda including Workshop 4 Artistic Expression

Great Ideas, Works of the Great Thinkers Timeline Index : http://www.timelineindex.com/content/view/1588

"Zooming, Focus + Context, and Distortion" : http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is247/s02/lectures/ZoomingFocusContextDistortion.ppt

Sacred geometry, Metatron's cube and the platonic solids : http://3rddimension.online.fr/metatron_cube.htm Octahedron also fits within Hexagon.

Number 1 in the WORLD for business location maps : http://www.gbmaps.com/buslocator.htm

OpenVlog : http://www.openvlog.com/ is a free web-based service that allows anyone to record, upload, encode, publish and share their video (no software to download or configure )

Input your selected image file URL or location on your hard disk and FavIcon from Pics immediately returns a 32x32 pixels icon version of the same (Free) : http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/

More Domains Pointing To One : http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=19704 (discussion)

To position a background image in the center of a page regardlessof screen resolution;
body {
background-image : url(image.jpg);
background-position : center center;
background-repeat : no-repeat;
}

Fundamentals of Computational Visual Form: http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~levin/courses/dmc/iig_05f/ejercicio.php course.

Hollow Earth Map : http://www.softcom.net/users/vtown/map.html

Lost Souls? Maps : http://www.gmi.org/products/perspect.htm Via http://www.gmi.org/products/oht_sets.htm

(Heavily political) InfoGraphics : http://www.rense.com/wtcsplshpage.htm

"multi-perspective panoramas of city blocks " : http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/cityblock/

Artistic Maps : http://www.jeffwoodbury.com/gall/gal.cfm?pgid=mapprint

"War does not determine who is right, war determines who is left." - Fortune Cookie
" I am complete, but not finished." - Greg Anderson
"Life isn't about finding yourself - Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw
"In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas ... a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed." - William Burroughs Send this E-Quote to a friend!Buy books by William Burroughs
"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well." - Martin Luther King

23 January 2006

Mashup Feed : http://www.mashupfeed.com/ (new mashups directory by John Musser ) features 325 mashups currently,142 APIs documented. Still predominantly mapping ; 70% of the total, 3 of the top 4 APIs are mapping APIs, 55% of the 325 mashups proving that Google is still the dominant API provider. Via http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=98&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

AJAX Tutorial with Prototype : http://www.petefreitag.com/item/515.cfm

Detailed NewsCloud : http://digg.com/diggall/cloud/

The Star Map Crystal : http://www.bathsheba.com/crystal/starmap/ a 3" glass cube laser etched with a 3D map of stars.

U.S. National Hockey Rink Map : http://www.hockeycat.com/reports.html Mapping all the ice hockey rinks in the U.S. (It has started in the Mid-Atlantic and is slowly moving across the Mid-West now). Via : http://mapbuilder.blogspot.com/

City Cartoon Maps : http://www.citycartoonmaps.com/AM/samplemaps.htm Also www.deltacartoonmaps.com/ (Navigation Map on one side combined with Cartoon Map on flip side).

Keyword symbols help add meaning to a (mind) map : http://www.logo.com/cat/view/thinking-pictures.html

MAP TYPOGRAPHY : http://richardphillips.org.uk/maps/type.html including ; Legibility of Type on Maps, Names on City Street Maps, Why is Lower Case Better?, Overview: Searching for Names on Maps

"Galaxy of Knowledge," is Smithsonian Institution Libraries' portal to its collections and to a wide array of exceptional Internet resources : Galaxy of Images (http://www.sil.si.edu/imagegalaxy/) brings together nearly 8,000 images from the Libraries' collections into a single searchable and browseable site. Via : http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january06/01featured-collection.html

We use stories, data, cartography, narrative, documentaries, photographs and hearsay : http://www.localprojects.net/index.html

Modern Medieval Map Myths : http://www.strangehorizons.com/2002/20020610/medieval_maps.shtml

Graffiti Archaeology's timelapse collage (http://www.otherthings.com/grafarc/flash/view.htm made of photos of graffiti taken at the same location by many different photographers over a span of several years) : http://www.otherthings.com/grafarc/about.html

"A land without people for a people without land" : http://civillibertarian.blogspot.com/2006/01/how-west-and-west-bank-were-won.html perspective.

A hexagon http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Hexagon (fit together without any gaps to tile the plane (three hexagons meeting at every vertex), and so are useful for constructing tessellations) Aso known as "sexagon"); is a polygon with six edge s and six vertices .
A tetradecahedron is a polyhedron with fourteen faces : http://search.factbites.com/search.php?kp=tetradecahedron+ can also look like http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~wq6h-tkj/bb/truncated.jpg (as well as comprised of 8 triangles and 6 squares; http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~wq6h-tkj/bb/rainbowcube2.jpg Via http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~wq6h-tkj/bb/col_14_e.htm ).

"Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." - Lauren Becall
"If I have been able to see further than others, It is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." - Sir Isaac Newton

20 January 2006

Assessing InfoViz Projects : http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/courses/is247/f05/lectures/lecture21.ppt

Google Map Pedometer : http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/

How they programmed the Magic Lens : http://www.dohistory.org/diary/exercises/lens/aboutLens.html

WiFiMap : http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6317/1211/320/iSPOTS.jpg features three electronic real-time maps of campus wireless use projected onto large Plexiglas rectangles that appear to float in the room. Via : http://web.mit.edu/museum/exhibitions/main.html#ispots

Girafa Thumbnail Service : http://www.girafa.com Add thumbnail images to your searches, bookmarks and textual URLs.

Using Google Maps to Show Geocaches : http://www.dasnet.org/node/100 (and discussion).

Information Foraging: Why Google Makes People Leave Your Site Faster : http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030630.html

With a frame on the left for contents, one on the right for the body of the site and possibly one across the top for titles and even group headings (see http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,25wx,1,9bae,dcxl,li07,h2fv for advice on how to change both the contents and the main body frames with one click o fa subject header).

Pre-1948 map of Palestine creates controversy : http://arts-of-islam.blogspot.com/2006/01/pre-1948-map-of-palestine-creates.html More on the high political implications of Palestine's maps from pro-Israeli and pro-Palesteninian websites.

"the ultimate activity holiday destination for graffiti writers"; a graffiti artist named Banksy painted nine images http://www.banksy.co.uk/news/index.html on the Palestinian side of the Israeli West Bank barrier : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_West_Bank_barrier (From Wikipedia)

Zoom Art : http://zoom.hwmails.de/zoom.htm Via http://www.moanzoom.com/

Currently on page 17 / 138 chronological pages in last 60 days for 'map' : http://digg.com/search/page17/?search=MAP&area=&type=&age= with 7 diggs.

BodyMap (interactive) : http://thehumanbodyfilm.com/inspiringfacts/inspiringfacts.html

"Think sideways! ", Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. - Edward de Bono
"You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. " - E L Doctorow
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before." - Mae West

19 January 2006

Canadian election predictor map : http://pollstr.ca/

Open Source OGC server implementations ; MapServer (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/) if you're comfortable with PHP ; GeoServer (http://geoserver.org/) if you are more comfortable with Java. If you go with MapServer, ka-map (http://ka-map.maptools.org/) gives you the rich UI. Another solution is to pick up a copy of Pragmatic AJAX (http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ajax/) -- they have a whole chapter, with sample code, on how to roll your own Google Maps implementation from scratch.

Historical Geography in Three Dimensions : http://mcel.pacificu.edu/jahc/JAHCVIII2/benchmarks.htm to add lines to describe paths taken and polygons to delineate regions. Download the "KML Tutorial File" which you can run on Google Earth to see examples. Superimposing historical overlays on Google Earth is another technique.

The Holy Land Experience Theme Park, Orlando : http://www.googleearthhacks.com/dlfile10338/The-Holy-Land-Experience-Theme-Park,-Orlando.htm offers exhibits focusing on Jerusalem between the years 1450 B.C. and A.D. 66.

Triangle Strip Tunneling Algorithm : http://www.cs.queensu.ca/home/jstewart/strips/algorithm/ (Hexagon comprised of triangles).

Investigations into 'Juxtaposition' principles : http://www.thelemming.com/lemming/dissertation-web/home/juxtaposition.html

Rare Documents Going Digital : http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/exlibris/2006/01/msg00153.html Yale May Join Libraries Using Technology Against Theft Of Originals

Postmodern History Map : http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Postmodern_20History_20Map A new way to organize history.

JerusalemWall Map : http://stopthewall.org/maps/1068.shtml

(Proposed) Mash-up Presentation : http://marshallk.com/proposed-mashup-presentation

Dozens of animated GIFs : http://www.artie.com/newgifs.htm

Astrocartography : http://www.astro-cartography.com VS. RELOCATION CHARTS ( to get a sense of what a place might be like for you, even though you may have never been there. This is a great tool if you are planning to move or take a trip).

Treasure Island Map : http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/Navigation/Images/TreasureMapYRBspot.jpg ----->

Creativity locks for the most part are our uncritical cceptance of eight common statements (from 'A Whack on the Side of the Head'):
"Find the right answer."
"That's not logical."
"Follow the rules."
"Be practical."
"Don't be foolish."
"Don't make mistakes."
"That's not my area."
"I'm not creative."

"Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way." - William James
"One must live the way one thinks, or end up thinking the way one has lived." - Paul Bourget
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." - Noam Chomsky

18 January 2006

Geoserver-based ka-map demo (discussion) : http://www.nabble.com/geoserver-based-ka-map-demo-t828171.html#a2177994

The history of Antarctica’s product, Visual Net, attempts to close that gap by providing a browser-based graphical user interface for shared data : http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/bray/index2.html

Best mapping market development strategy : http://newsletter.directionsmag.com/users/link.php?LinkID=27216&UserID=2661&Newsletter=428&List=1&LinkType=Send Although The Map Network (TMN) developed online maps for the prior two Super Bowl events, this year marks the first time the National Football League (NFL) has collaborated with them.

Google Local for Mobile (http://www.google.com/glm/) : Blackberry users around the world can point their device to a URL to perform an over-the-air installation of the free application and start using Google Maps. Via : http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2006/01/google-maps-blog-buzz-blackberry.htmlia

Maps of Abstractions : http://courses.washington.edu/hypertxt/cgi-bin/12.228.185.206/html/maps/maps.html Via : The Semiotic Art of Web Sitemaps : http://courses.washington.edu/hypertxt/cgi-bin/portpan/

PAULA SCHER http://mayastendhalgallery.com/paulaScherPage.html : 'THE MAPS' Big paintings in the form of maps of Europe, North America, Los Angeles and Long Island combine abstraction and eccentric cartography with invigorating, subtly comical verve. Maya Stendhal, http://mayastendhalgallery.com/index.html 545 West 20th Street, (212) 366-1549, through Jan 21. (Johnson) : http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/12/garden/12paula.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1137443054-Guf5C/e8FGa3t133yFGVxw "They are not meant to be reliable as maps, but to convey a sense of place that is mediated, and mangled, by Ms. Scher's imagination and by the overload of media-generated information that feeds it." http://www.apple.com/pro/design/scher/index2.html Giant Atlas : http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1632 Via http://graphicfacilitation.blogs.com/pages/2005/12/paula_schers_gi.html and http://www.alphachimp.com/clients/2005/12/scher-mapping-new-shores_21.html

Yahoo! Maps Web Services - AJAX API Getting Started Guide : http://developer.yahoo.net/maps/ajax/

SSHRC funds "adventure for the mind" map project : http://www.carleton.ca/duc/newsreleases/2002/cybercart.html $2.6 million in funding to help Canada develop maps that interact with users ... "Just as the paper map was the key to navigation in the age of exploration, the cybermap will be the key to navigation in the information age" - Professor Fraser Taylor at Carleton University http://www.carleton.ca/geography/geography/bios/taylor.html

Icosahedral Pseudoglobes : http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/Normal/ProjPoly/Foldout/Icosahedron/icosahedron.html Polyhedral Maps : http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/Normal/ProjPoly/projPoly.html (
Cuboctahedron = 6 squares, 8 triangles in hexagonal 2 dimensional form). Hands-on model building projects : http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/jbpolyhedra.htm

Cross-Domain Proxy : http://ajaxpatterns.org/Cross-Domain_Proxy How can you augment your application with services available elsewhere on the web?

The four colour theorem : http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/The_four_colour_theorem.html

Custom Maze maker : http://www.mazes.com/asp-maze/Scouts/

"A Whole New Mind" (book) ; The era of "left brain" dominance, and the Information Age that it engendered, are giving way to a new world in which "right brain" qualities-inventiveness, empathy, meaning-predominate. by http://www.danpink.com/

"Did the Socratic method of philosophical inquiry consist of questioning people on the positions they asserted?" - RW
"For seduction to occur an illusion must intervene and mix up the images; a stroke has to bring disconnected things together, as if in a dream, or suddenly disconnect undivided things" - Baudrillard, Seduction 103
"Go some distance away because the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony of proportion is rapidly seen." - Leonardo da Vinci

17 January 2006

Google API : http://www.mapmap.org/googlemaps/examples.html examples and supporting material. http://www.dasnet.org/node/100) talks about one person's adventures with figuring out what the real projections of the GM maps are, and overlaying his own data.

Web2.0 applications and services map (Flickr) : http://webosphere.wordpress.com/2005/12/26/web20-applications-and-services-map/

Using building tops http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5499/752/320/advertising_google_maps1.jpg to advertise on Google Maps : MIT Advertising Lab : http://adverlab.blogspot.com/2005/08/advertising-with-google-maps.html

Star Fold Maps : http://www.oxfordcarto.com/promo/starfold.htm

Maps from all over the world maps, directions, atlases, gazetteers etc : http://advocacy-net.com/mapmks.htm

GoogleEarth 3D data is currently available for 39 US cities provided by Sanborn Citysets : http://www.sanborn.com/products/citysets.htm (displaying grey overlaying "blocky" buildings).

Writing With Images : http://courses.washington.edu/hypertxt/cgi-bin/12.228.185.206/html/tablesall.html for Hypertext Abstract of 'Introduction: Imagetext and Other Mixed Modes' : http://courses.washington.edu/hypertxt/cgi-bin/12.228.185.206/html/wordsimages/wordsimages.html

Using Technorati Tags : http://www.technorati.com/help/tags.html (doesn't work well with Blogger?).

AWStats http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. (This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages.)

Artist Janet Jones : http://www.janetjonesfineart.com./ (Collages, Assemblages, Mixed Media and Prints)

Best statistical graphic ever? drawn : http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters Charles Joseph Minard was in his late 80's when he drew this graph; http://www.idblog.org/archives/000034.html

'holon' ; the idea is that everything is not only a whole, but also part of a larger whole, so a "part/whole" or "hol-on" via http://www.integralworld.net/index.html (sounds fracta-ish?)

"... was tasked with writing a google maps clone ...about a week away from completing mapping - its lovely and draggable and will soon be postcode clickable! Yay! The graphics look lovely all being rendered with Batik :-) : http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.290816

"Select and display art in your home that inspires and uplifts you. This will create desirable yang energy." - Feng Shui
"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake." - Henry David Thoreau
"HERE is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. " - AA Milne, Winnie the Pooh
"Drawing is "going for a walk with a line." - Paul Klee (1879-1940), Swiss painter and graphic artist.

16 January 2006

Online Map Creation : http://www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc/omc_intro.html a PostScript version is drawn first which you can download onto your harddisk after completion.
Edit Google Maps like a wiki (http://www.wikyblog.com/Map/Guest/Home)
Mapping distance by time (cartogram idea) Via : http://www.gismonitor.com/news/newsletter/archive/010506.php

Visualization for Concurrent Temporal and Spatial Analysis : http://www.oculusinfo.com/papers/Oculus%20GeoTime%20Brochure_05_june.pdf "... visualization systems to support decision-making in complex, information-rich environments. More data is used to advantage without overwhelming the decision maker."
Tracking the Navigation Behavior of Web Communities : http://www.teamxweb.com/doc/relatedWork.shtml

Learning adds resolution to what you offer : http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/12/the_hires_user_.html )And the change happens not within the product, but between the user's ears).
Publicly Accessible Video Cameras Via GMaps : http://www.holyfarglesnot.com/gmaps/
Iraq War Casualties Map : http://www.casualty-maps.com/

Discussing map passions : http://vodkapundit.com/archives/007358.php

"Map eating" : http://static.flickr.com/29/35537168_f83f06d5cf_m.jpg originally uploaded by Ti.mo.Map eating
(Hand-drawn) 'Green Point Map" : http://www.greenpt.com/images/Standard/gptmap.gif
"Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance." - William (W.) Clement Stone
"There is only one thing in the world that is worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." - Oscar Wilde
"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight." - From her quote room:
"Truth is not always the best basis for happiness. There are people who perish when their eyes are opened." - Wilhelm Stekel
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." - Vincent Van Gogh
"We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us." - Golda Meir Via http://www.arches.uga.edu/~jpetrie/Miscellaneous_Quotes.html
"When you follow your bliss, doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there would not be a door for anyone else" - Joseph Campbell

13 January 2006

Maps for the Future: A Discussion : http://www.cfm.ohio-state.edu/~raul/Documents/Maps%20for%20the%20Future-A%20Discussion.pdf or View as HTML new visualization alternatives for geographic data such as incorporation of movement (dynamic objects) combined with still objects, incorporation of sound and other multimedia effects, and multi-dimensional representations (including volumetric and time representations).

GoogleMapsHacks : http://dunck.us/collab/GoogleMapsHacks for Google Maps Tiles; Grabbing and Stitching Tiles , Grabbing and Stitching Tiles with PHP ...+

Custom Map Tile Guide (http://open.atlas.free.fr/GMapsTransparenciesImgOver.php) for figuring out where to position your custom map art relative to Google's tile grid. You can load in your own image, scale it, and position it, and this tool will tell you how much to scale it by, how far to indent it from the first tile it is in, and give you the right x,y, and z values for your upper left tile. (It is perfect for use with Automatic Tile Cutter ; a Photoshop script is excellent when you want to Add Your Own Custom Map. It will slice large images at any zoom level you tell it to, making thousands of image tiles and naming them correctly. ) Via http://www.mapki.com/index.php?title=Knowledge_Base

Ambient Findability : http://books.slashdot.org/books/06/01/02/1748219.shtml?tid=192&tid=6 tracks the journey from simply defining what the author means by findability through a history of man's search for location awareness in both the physical environment and in the cyber world.

Building the Memex Sixty Years Later: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/department/publications/reports/docs/CU-CS-997-05.pdf Trends and Directions in Personal Knowledge Bases

(Conceptual Tempo or) Impulsivity/Reflectivity : http://faculty.mdc.edu/jmcnair/Joe13pages/conceptual_tempo_and_learning_di.htm

RunningRoomMap : http://www3.telus.net/public/dfolster/Route%20Maps/16%20KM%20Kinsmen%20Laurier%20RVR.pdf

ClustrMaps+ visualization of site visits : http://clustrmaps.com/counter/maps.php?url=http://clustrmaps.com

Information mapping : http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2003/01/15.html

The Way of Significant Innovation: When Gutenberg Became Nonlinear : http://naweb.unb.ca/proceedings/2001/P9Rueda.htm

Atlas of Nanotechnology: http://nanosense.org/documents/nanoed05/AtlasOfNanotechnology.pdf (is a compilation of six topic maps).

Great "GIS" Intro / Overview : http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/gis_poster/#what

Problems in Navigating Online Help: Clues from User Search Patterns : http://www.winwriters.com/articles/navigation/index.html

How To Become A Hacker : http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

"Not to be used for navigation." Map on Napkin (Wins 3rd Place in Label Contest) : http://www.allpointsblog.com/archives/991-Map-on-Napkin-Wins-3rd-Place-in-Label-Contest.html attempts to show how fear of lawsuits is making for some "wacky" labels.

Large-Scale Historic Photo Murals Custom Project : http://www.tilecanvases.com/bway.htm using 'Tile Canvases' .

How-To: Make your own photo mosaics : http://www.spurl.net/saved/saved_4838_1103417107.htm

"...the principle of collage is the central principle of all art in the 20th century." - Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)
"A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself." - Raymond Inmon

"The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent." - George Orwell
"Form without content is not a hand, just an empty glove full of air." - W.Kandinsky (1866-1944)
"The big ideas almost never seem like big ideas, at first. So be on the lookout for little ideas, that seem kind of ho- hum; ain't no big 'thang', kind of ideas." - The Universe

"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not." - ?
"To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour." - William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence"
"There are very few humans who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment. On a small scale, by successive developments cellularly, like a laborious mosiac." -Anais Nin
"
Images store knowledge. I see what I believe is there." - http://users.rcn.com/napier.interport/barbie/barbie.html

12 January 2006

NESTOR The Web Browser and Cartographer : http://www.gate.cnrs.fr/~zeiliger/nestor.htm promotes "constructivist navigation" by drawing interactive webmaps while you are surfing the Web. The maps provide a visual context so you always know "where you are" and "where you come from" !

S&P500 Map : http://geoindex.nabeelazar.com/index.php The weekly returns of the S&P 500 constituent companies are indicated by an up or down arrow, located at the center of the city in which each company is headquartered.

Map Bureau : http://www.mapbureau.com/ "Mapping for the rest of us ".

LECTURE NOTES FOR VISUAL COMMUNICATION : sense, select, and perceive light and color eye, retina, and the brain visual cues: color, form, depth, and movement visual theories visual persuasion media stereotypes visual analysis perspectives typography graphic design informational graphics cartoons photography motion pictures television and video computers world wide web the more you know; the more you see

COMPARING A TEXTUAL INTERFACE, VIRTUAL PATHS INTERFACE, AND ICONIC : http://orchid.cs.uiuc.edu/~jtbiehl/publications/biehl-masters-04.pdf or View as HTML

The Search for Knowledge (Chapter Eight of 'The Age of Intelligent Machines', : by
Raymond Kurzweil ) : http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0311.html?

"In enterprises, you connect the dots by using a map as an interface to databases and to familiar applications...." : http://www.themanufacturer.com/us/detail.html?contents_id=3835

Knowledge Map (linked) http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/knowledge/knowledge_typology.html -->

ShakeMap : http://earthquake.usgs.gov/shakemap/sc/shake/14204720/intensity.html to see maps for the most recent earthquakes.

Performative mapping : http://blog.ivanpope.com/awol/2004/03/mapping_cardiff.html an exercise in mapping absence of access; reimagine cartographic activity through encounters with artistic and performance based work'.

Don Quixote movie review : http://www.culturevulture.net/Television/DonQuixote.htm

"To replace a map (or a part of the map) that isn't serving you very well, there has to be an interim period where the old map goes into temporary chaos, breaks down, and is then replaced by a new map, one that more accurately reflects reality and more resourcefully allows you to be happy, creative and spiritually connected to other people." - http://www.edgenews.com/issues/2003/08/harris.html

A Picture (links) Story (in words) : http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/eLearning/Images/LightofDay.htm

5,252 Designs about "palestine OR israel OR gaza strip" on 62,431 Products" - http://www.cafepress.com/buy/palestine+OR+israel+OR+gaza+strip?CMP=EMC-thewire011106&att=Palestinian


"If you don't give yourself credit for all that's good in your life, how can you expect yourself to create more? - The Universe
"From a purely semiotic point of view, comic strips constitute one of the most complex and sophisticated areas of drawn communication." - Clive Ashwin
"Make voyages. Attempt them. There is nothing else." -Tennessee Williams
"Some such as David Hockney or Cornell or whoever, can be quite articulate about art theory, theories of approach, what art "is"and "is not"--others such as Picasso didn't discuss their work in any kind of articulate, analytical manner. For all I know Picasso may have had theories about art, but like Van Gogh he just churned out work and followed his gut as far as what he was interested in working on at any given time. " - Chad Henry
"Life rewards effort exponentially (no matter how small the effort, nor how challenging the odds)." - The Universe
"Before we can make poverty history, we need to get the history of poverty right
. It's not about how much wealthy nations can give, so much as how much less they can take." - Vandana Shiva

"The peace making meeting scheduled for today has been canceled due to a conflict." -

11 January 2006

How to build a Maps Mash-up : http://www.theurer.cc/blog/2005/11/03/how-to-build-a-maps-mash-up/

Forthcoming pattern matching technology : http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/faceSamples.php?s=1&u=g0&lang=EN

Map Morphing: Making Sense of Incongruent Maps : http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1006086&type=pdf

Introduction to visual thinking : http://www.squidoo.com/Visualthinking/

ConspiracyMap : http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/images/Conspiracy.jpg Via http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2005/02/the_truth_is_ou.html

Fantastic Google Earth Documentary on Sir Ernest Shackleton : download the Shackleton "documentary" here Via http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2005/11/fantastic_googl.html

Multimedia Rendering of Spiritual Texts : http://www.cdac.in/html/pdf/dkatre2.pdf or View as HTML

Historical perspective on "The Great Books Industry" : http://texts.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft4w10061d&chunk.id=d0e4918 the nearest thing the country had to liberal education for adults.

Tinkering in the lab awhile back ------>
http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/Images/UserInterface.jpg

Conditioned choropleth (CC) maps (http://www.public.iastate.edu/~dicook/scgn/v132.pdf ) is dynamic Java shareware application for exploratory analysis of geospatially-indexed data (stratified comparison of regions such as states or counties). The goals of CCmaps include better-focused hypothesis generation about geospatial patterns and involvement of more people.

A gallery of onscreen help : http://www.g2meyer.com/usablehelp/gallery/index.html

"The World Question Center" : http://www.edge.org/questioncenter.html Big, deep and ambitious questions .... breathtaking in scope. WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?

"...there is a whole world of left credited and coder citizen geographers engaged in the alta technology scene doing open source mapping, mapping hacks, mashups, folksonomies, wifi mapping, pervasive gaming, code repurposers, and such who are challenging by their actions and what they are portraying - issues related to copyright, IP, civic engagement, art, data liberation initiatives, engaging with the build environment, public and private space, debates on open spectrum, psychogeography, creating new communities of practice, and much very interesting and humourous irreverence for establishment." - sent by tracey to geowanking@lists.burri.to

Turn A Photo Into A Sketch For Making Coloring Books : http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/jennifer/photo-to-sketch.html first step is to turn a photo into a sketch.

It would be a shame to win this "Best-Kept-Secret Weblog" award : http://2006.bloggies.com/ (no chance of back-to-back wins).

"I am willing to put myself through anything: temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often-painful process," - Diana Nyad
"Reality is the map I make of the world. It is drawn with symbols, images, words, beliefs and abstractions. It is a thought. It cannot be touched." - Napier
"There's no map, there's no master plan, there's just people." - Author Unknown
"The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something--because it is always before one's eyes.) . . . We fail to be struck by what, once seen, is most striking and most powerful."- Wittgenstein, PI 129:
"Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent." - William James "Will" Durant
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Benjamin Franklin
"All human life is a permanent dance between different orders of abstractions" . - Alfred Korzibsky

09 January 2006

SuperBowlMap : http://map.mapnetwork.com/superbowl/

Visualizing Time-Series on Spirals : http://www.dgm.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/pub/spiral.pdf View as HTML

"I think, therefore I can be mapped " : http://analyticjournalism.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2005/12/27/1523872.html One of the interesting and most challenging aspects of cartography is that of mapping ideas and their ebb and flow in populations.

The Challenge of Preserving Digital Maps : http://liber-maps.kb.nl/articles/13stenvall.html Via http://liber-maps.kb.nl/intro.htm

FrontPageMap : http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/ (newspapers nation-wide)

Visual Thinking: Symbolic Ways Of Representing Ideas : http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/graphic_tools/margulies_3.htm

"Dataland is not a map of the data. It is the data. The nature of the display is "out there," visually self-evident." - Bolt : http://www.w3.org/People/howcome/TEB/www/hwl_th_6.html
Simple steps to designing grid systems : http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/five_simple_steps_to_designing_grid_systems_part_5/
Desktop mapping product AditMap ( http://www.adit.co.uk/html/addingmapstoapps.html ) is not just an interactive program for creating maps from a wide variety of sources but it has a callable interface capable of plotting locations, captions, symbols and data values under the control of external programs.

The Meetup (an informal gathering of geeks, investors, entrepreneurs, hackers or anyone who wants to see or show something interesting, is free and open to anyone) : http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=68412273&url_num=1&url=http://newtech.meetup.com/1/

"a new kind of mosaic, called Jigsaw Image Mosaic (JIM), where image tiles of arbitrary shape are used to compose the final picture" : http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=566654.566633

Latest honour : "Some sites are quietly enthusiastic, some positive in their dedication to their purpose, some quintessentially quirky, and each in its own way exhibits something of that elusive spirit that Bikwil salutes." Via http://www.bikwil.com/LinksScience.html " Stephen Hawking's Interactive Site Map This site will help visitors get an overview of the man and his work. Through its many links it will facilitate further exploration and research. There are lists of published books by and about Stephen Hawking, academic links, physics colloquiums, lectures, a glossary and detailed references to Hawking's own site."

"This is the blog and discussion group for those people passionate about visual thinking" : http://visualthinkingart.blogspot.com/2005/12/join-collective.html

"Men like the internet for the experiences it offers, while women like it for the human connections it promotes." : http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/171/report_display.asp

For http://www.smartgraphics.org/sg04/ I drew this map of the conference -->
Register at http://www.smartgraphics.org/sg06 for the July event. Keywords: augmented reality, animation, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, collaborative environments, computer graphics, fine arts, graphical representation, intelligent virtual environments, smart graphics, vector graphics, virtual reality art.

Creating A Treasure Map : http://innerself.com/Meditation/treasure_11142.htm

Mindmapping software company advertises on blogs : http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=35217

Movies http://www.gregglevoy.com/movies.html for every artist / inventor / entrepreneur.

An iconoplast is a person who fashions images,
as opposed to an iconoclast, who destroys them.

"Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
"I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. " - Thomas Edison
"The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it." - Charles DeLint
"The word is not the thing. The map is not the territory. The symbol is nott he thing symbolized." - S.I. Hayakawa
"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way." - ?
"Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done." - Ben Stein
"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney (Don't just think about what is possible, think about what might seem nearly impossible, that would require you to grow and move beyond who you currently know yourself to be. Think about what you have always wanted to do or have in your life ... those things that your heart speaks of.)
"Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk." - Raymond Inmon
"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." - Benjamin Disraeli

"Borders are scratched across the hearts of men
By strangers with a calm, judicial pen,
And when the borders bleed we watch with dread
The lines of ink across the map turn red." - Marya Mannes, Subverse: Rhymes for Our Times, 1959

06 January 2006

Web-Based SVG Map System : http://www.gisdevelopment.net/technology/gis/techgis_001pf.htm Via http://www.gisdevelopment.net/technology/

"the Information Visualization community platform" : http://www.infovis-wiki.net/index.php/Main_Page

Golden rules for concept mapping : http://www.missouri.edu/~ryh352/gpc/cmap/cmap.htm ..Illustrated !!

"Maps as social constructions: power, communication and visualization " : http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/arn/pihg/2001/00000025/00000002/art00004

What is a Knowledge Representation? : http://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/ftp/psz/k-rep.html Logical, Philosophical, and Computational Foundations; http://www.jfsowa.com/krbook/

"Infographics: What They Are And How To Make Them Effective" : http://www.masterviews.com/2005/12/26/infographics_what_they_are_and.htm

What do Sketches say about Thinking? Pictorial and Verbal Tools : http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~skubic/SketchSem/tversky.ppt (File Format: Microsoft Powerpoint 97) View as HTML

Images of various visualizations built with the prefuse toolkit : http://vw.indiana.edu/ivsi2004/jherr/

Google API tutorial : http://www.daweidesigns.com/map.php

Literature Map : http://literature-map.com/william+shakespeare.html

Make your own digital map online : http://www.planiglobe.com/omc_set.html

The Inglehart Vals Map visualizes the strong correlation of values in different cultures : http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/statistics/some_findings.html

"Navigating time" : http://thinkingandmaking.com/entries/38 (maps make better interfaces?)

Cartographic Curiosities : http://www.barron.co.uk/?pgid=42

The 21ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY : http://lazarus.elte.hu/~zoltorok/ichc/ichc2005.htm Final Report

Why Do You Have So Many Pictures of Road Signs? : http://www.teresco.org/pics/signs/

(The view changes, the facts remain) Palestine: the forgotten reality : http://mondediplo.com/2006/01/02palestine - the core problems remain: the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem are still occupied territories, Israel remains an occupying power, and the creation of a Palestinian state remains the key to peace. (?)

"Turin is to uncover the world's oldest surviving map as part of the rich programme of cultural events accompanying February's Winter Olympics ." : http://ansa.it/main/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2006-01-05_2278607.html

MYSTERY MAP CONTEST example : http://www.3drender.com/jbirn/Invasion/BehindTheScenes.html

The City Tie (designed using accurate plans of the world's most renowned cities) : http://www.citytie.com/ 'gentlemen with discriminating taste will appreciate the subtle urban patterns of this distinguished collection.'

"The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
"Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other." - Mary Caroline Richards
“A man's homeland is where ever he prospers.” - Aristophanes
"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else." - Lawrence J. Peter
"He who cannot draw from 3,000 years is living from hand to mouth." - J.W. v. Goethe (1749-1832)
"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." - T. E. Lawrence in Seven Pillars of Wisdom

05 January 2006

Digital Maps Going Beyond the Roads : http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DIGITIZING_ROADS_II?SITE=KREM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Decode Barcode Map : http://www.turbulence.org/Works/swipe/state_analysis.html 'Roll Your Mouse Over a State or Province' to see lists of information encoded on drivers' licenses (in the US and Canada).

A Global Map of Existing Maps : http://gollumlab.dyndns.org/mapomatix/cgi-bin/mapframe.pl?name=world
(using Adobe SVG Viewer plug-in with IE) Via http://mapomatix.sourceforge.net/


"Visual thinking and spatial reasoning skills are important in creative discovery, and ordinary problem solving." : http://code.arc.cmu.edu/visual/ Via http://code.arc.cmu.edu/lab/html/projects.html#

OceanRaceMap : http://www.volvooceanrace.org/images/downloads/routemap_highres.jpg

"The New Sense of Place" (the convergence of cartography, geography, and digital media) radio show can be streamed or downloaded : http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2006/01/20060103_b_main.asp

PhotoShop 3D Relief Shading Tutorial : http://www.internationalmapping.com/index/_Downloads/Shaded_Relief_Tutorial.pdf

MAP FOLDING TECHNIQUES : http://www.map-reading.com/appendb.php#figb-2 One of the first considerations in the care of maps is its proper folding.

IAN Symbol Libraries contains over 1500 vector symbols in 32 libraries (Illustrator symbol palettes) : http://ian.umces.edu/index.html?http&&&ian.umces.edu/conceptualdiagrams.php

"An opportunity for emerging artists to develop and create new public works in San Francisco that investigate diverse strategies for exploring and mapping public space." : http://v1.soex.org/index.html (in the SoEx OFFSITE section)
THE map interface
http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/eLearning/GreatIdeas/WarPeaceZoom.htm ---->

The (famous) Piri Re'is Map : http://www.vrcurassow.com/2dvrc/maps/pirireis.html

More http://www.amazing-optical-illusions.com/new9.htm

"JOHN SPEED" : http://johnspeedmaps.co.uk/johnspeed.htm Arguably the finest cartographer that Great Britain has ever produced.

A long-lost map of the Middle East belonging to Lawrence'of Arabia' (http://telawrence.net/ ) has been put on exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London. Via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.E._Lawrence

Some one working at Microsoft Corp MSFT One Microsoft Way, Redmond WA 98052 131.107.255.255 likes this map http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/eLearning/LibraryMap.htm

"Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map." - Wayne Calloway, American Businessman, CEO of PepsiCo
"Experiment with alternative belief systems, enter alternative cognitive grids and, as the Zen Master said when asked the way of the Tao, "Move!" via http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5952/mquotes.html
"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
"No less than the tourist, the writer of history profits from maps." - Charles F. Mullett
"He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom. " - J.R.R. Tolkien
"Walk this way. No, _this_ way, with your knees bent. " - Marty Feldman as Igor in Young Frankenstein (movie)