This snowy image of the UK on 7th January looks amazing:
Photo: NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response. From BBC News
And I love this little story:
Plymouth Ski Centre at Marsh Mills was forced to close on Wednesday due to the icy conditions.
(from bbc news)
What?!
So there are all kinds of rumours flying around today about apple’s immenent release of a tablet type device.
From the geo perspective there is some interesting speculation (initially based on trademarks) on the Vector 1 blog and Geek.com about a new apple mapping application (or platform) coming with it. Do we have another disruptive mapping technology [...]
The Guardian reports:
The government is to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely available online from April…..Gordon Brown announced the change at a joint event in London today…In the new year Brown intends to publish 2,000 sets of data…
Is this too good to be true??? We will have to wait until April to [...]
I have been enjoying exploring the A-Z 1930’s mapping on the A-Z’s site. I love the ‘sepia’ cartographic style and the way the whole page matches the colour! It just goes to show that colour is not everything in cartography.
Thank you Mrs. Pearsall, you have helped me around London countless times.
I have been taking some time to explore there latest spatial thinking and innovations by Yahoo!. Setting aside some of the current business politics, I think Yahoo! are doing some of the most interesting stuff at the moment.
It started a while ago with their Where On Earth (WOE) IDs. Basically these provide a hierarchical [...]
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 [...]
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.
One of my favourite trips in Innsbruck is a trip on the Stubaitalbahn. This is a tram that winds it way out of Innsbruck and into the alpine Stubaital valley and is also a great way of getting into the mountains for some fantastic walking. It is quite intriguing how the tram winds its way [...]
I found this story interesting. Flickr is now using Open Street Map data in areas where there own Yahoo maps are poor. An interesting and sensible approach. Will Yahoo Maps follow suit?
More from Flickr here.
I love this site http://www.handmaps.org For me it is what all maps about – designed for a specific use, person and time. Next step is using MapCruncher…
