Entdeckung: Mapping Istanbul

This book presents an initial effort to map the city of Istanbul, a city steeped in complexity. Working collaboratively with Garanti Galerie and architects Superpool, Project Projects established a uniform visual style for the hundreds of maps and information graphics included. The book's design presents this information in an accessible, narrative sequence, creating a valuable resource for architects, planners, and policy-makers invested in the city's future.

London Underground by Mark Noad

London designer Mark Noad redesigned Harry Beck’s famous London Underground topological map.

London underground map by Harry Beck

London underground map by Mark Noad

Earthquake visualization

The simulation, which took 5.3 million processor hours to compute, condenses about four minutes of time after a fault ruptures near Bombay Beach. Most of the energy ripples southward, but unlike in previous earthquake simulations, the team displayed the sporadic movement of simulated pieces of the ground with an exaggerated height.

Video after the jump

Here & There: mapping without horizon

The projection begins with a 3-dimensional representation off the immediate environment. But this you already see in 3D... The plan view has the great advantage to offer me an overview of the surrounding area, but in this projection, i have it only for distant parts.
Short: nice but useless.
Video and more after the jump.

Rorschmap by James Bridle

It is Zürich, isn't it?

When maps become digital, they become something different, something new... Rorschmap is cartographic navel-gazing, a reframing of the map. It will not help you find anything. 

Link 

Splendor by Sebastian Schwinkendorf and Matthias Löwe

Splendor maps the photographs of landmarks in connection to the landmarks itself. As a result, each landmark can be characterized with respect to its "best viewed angle", the distance at which it is typically photographed, etc.

The data are from geotagged photographs on Panoramio and the Landmark-Database Qype

Link

Geotag-Typeface

Not a revolutionary idea but very well executed: URbanized Typeface

Urbanized Typeface : Shibuya08-09 [PV:EN] from yang02 on Vimeo.

iPhone Mapping

Since OpenPaths it is widely known that the iPhone constantly tracks your location. The video by Michael Kreil shows the movements of 880 different iPhones in Europe that have been analyzed for the month of April 2011.

Are you interested in funiculars?

The swiss Funicular Inventory (www.seilbahninventar.ch) lists almost all of the swiss funiculars. From the worldwide first touristic funicular to the underground Skymetro at the airport in zurich. Get very detailed information for all listed funiculars, an interactive map and lots of pictures. Explore them by mouse-click or order the printed brochure via denkmalpflege@bak.admin.ch. 

Mapnificent

Irgend einen Punkt in einer der verfügbaren Städte markieren und sehen, wohin man in der gewünschten Zeit kommt.

Richtig gut wird das ganze, wenn man mehrere Punkte auf die Karte zieht und schaut, wo sich die einzelnen Gebiete überschneiden:

Beispiel: alle hellen Gebiete sind von beiden Punkten aus in 15 Minuten mit öffentlichen VErkehrsmitteln erreichbar.

Mapnificent shows you the area you can reach with public transport from any point in a given time. It is available for major cities in the US and world wide.
Mapnificent was originally inspired by MySociety's Mapumental which is sadly still in private beta.
Mapnificent was created by StefanWehrmeyer.

UUorld: Data Mapping

Schnell mal ein paar Daten mappen?

UUorld ist ein gut gemachtes, sehr einfach zu bedienendes Tool zur 4-dimensionalen Visualisierung von geokodierten Daten.

Beispiel: Militärausgaben afrikanischer Länder

OpenPaths

Lokalisierungsdatendes iphones visualisieren und als CSV exportieren. Arbeiten an einer Lösung, die Daten auch nach dem letzten Update des iPhones noch über TimeMachine-BackUp zu finden

Also los: wenn die Daten schon gesammelt werden, dann macht was damit!

https://openpaths.cc/

speziell gut: man kann seine Daten auch der Forschung zur Verfügung stellen