Here in Austria smoking is still alive and well as well as a favourite pastime. Bars still have that wonderful fug of smoke and smoking in offices is still fairly common. So far anti-smoking legislation has been resisted (apart from the odd token gesture).
Seeing this Cincinnati Enquirer (Gannett) web mapping application made me realise how [...]
A cool new book, The Atlas of the Real World by Daniel Dorling, Mark Newman and Anna Barford (published by Thames & Hudson), has a whole new series of cartograms. Although using cartograms for representing demographic (and other) information is nothing new, the visual impact and qulaity of these are awesome. I would love [...]
Multimap have recently released new street level maps for countries in the Middle East. The countries are:
• Bahrain• Kuwait • Oman• Qatar• Saudi Arabia • UAE
We have also added:
Additional zoom levels of maps in Malaysia
Collins Bartholomew Road Atlas maps for Great Britain
Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland maps
Here are some examples:
Middle East (zoom levels 13-18)
Two additional [...]
It is now possible to localise the Multimap API for a specific language. This means that when I am in Austria, I can develop a mapping application using localisation and see the world from German speaking perspective. So at last German speakers no longer need to know that Map = Karte.
To do this I add [...]
The BBC has a slightly more morbid use of maps here.
Thanks to Kev Pridgeon for spotting this.
Update
Jason Lee points out that these maps were originally done by the guys at Sheffield University. They do some other interesting stuff including defining an actual England North/South divide.
Last week Multimap released a new service for small businesses, personal web sites and hobbyists. The service, available for free from www.multimap.com, provides a single line of HTML to cut and paste into a web page, like this:
So basically this allows you to easily embed a map in your website, without having to write any [...]
