PUBLIC MARKS with tag cartographie

The following maps represent the first stage of a project I am embarking on to map out some of the spatial contours of Wikipedia. Data were obtained from the August 2009 Wikipedia geodata dump organised by user Kolossos. The information was then ported over to a GIS. There are almost half a million geotagged Wikipedia articles (i.e. Wikipedia articles about a place or an event that occurred in a distinct place), so the preparation time alone for the files needed to create these maps was almost a week.

Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110m scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.

Vicente reinterprets the city of San Francisco as a grid for drawing pixel art using his bike, a map, and a GPS device.

The short video demos "Walk & Ride" core functionality and makes the case for 'better maps give better apps'. "Walk & Ride" provides always-on pedestrian and public transit navigation, doesn't need (but may use) GPS and comes up with the best map available.

"It's almost what you'd see if you flew around the area," says Hart. See a video of the map, above.

ARMCHAIR explorers who soar over 3D cityscapes on their computer may be used to the idea of maps with an extra dimension. But they are now getting accurate enough to offer much more than a preview of your next holiday destination. Accurate, large-scale 3D maps could soon change the way we design, manage and relate to our urban environments.

Recently I’ve been doing some ‘gardening’. You can see this clearly from these images on NearMap…. What’s really special about NearMap apart from the fact they are updating imagery more often than I am at home is that they have integrated OSM into their viewer and you can use their data to update OSM:

Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, widely known as Africa's largest slum, remains a blank spot on the map. Without basic knowledge of the geography and resources of Kibera it is impossible to have an informed discussion on how to improve the lives of residents. This November, young Kiberans create the first public digital map of their own community.

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MapBox is a suite of open source tools to create beautiful custom maps in Amazon's cloud.

l’espace urbain, à sa représentation, ainsi qu’aux créations et réappropriations de cet espace par les artistes et chercheurs. Il propose ainsi une veille pluridisciplinaire (Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication, Science de l’ingénierie, Ergonomie, Art, Architecture, Urbanisme, Géographie, Sociologie, etc.) sur les innovations technologiques (réalité virtuelle, réalité augmentée, réalité mixte, Internet et mobilité), les pratiques artistiques et les nouveaux usages dans les domaines de l’art, du jeu, du patrimoine et du tourisme.

La série des colloques « HyperUrbain » propose des réflexions sur la conception de la ville « sociale » (sociale ici voudra dire une conception centrée sur l'utilisateur de l'espace urbain) où les modalités de communication, de sociabilité, d'apprentissage, de transaction, de travail, etc. passent par des différentes formes d'(auto)régulation, dont un nombre croissant repose sur les Technologies d'Information et de Communication (TIC).

Theme of the symposium was “la ville cartographiée” (the city map), and to give our contribute to the discussion, we were warmly welcome to the ‘Cité des sciences et de l’industrie‘; built in the 19th arrondissement, just beside Parc de la Villette, ‘La Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie’ is one of the world’s largest and most visited science museums, and looks as an impressive modern site which offers a wide variety of exhibitions and shows.

By removing the unnecessary, this New York City map-cut reveals the “paths, nodes, circles, boulevards, parks and streets” of the greatest city in the world.

Thematic mapping library for Google Maps

This exhibition which caused a great deal of commentary was one of the first manifestations of arte povera, conceptual art and land art in Europe and as such marked an artistic breakthrough for many of the participants. Among the artists are Carl Andre, Giovanni Anselmo, Ben d'Armagnac, Joseph Beuys, Walter de Maria, Jan Dibbets, Barry Flanagan, Jannis Kounellis, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Bob Morris, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Panamarenko, Rob Ryman, Lawrence Weiner, & Gilberto Zorio.

This Timeline of 20th c. Art and New Media was created to include relationships between art, new media art, science, technology, war and media theory.

Sadly, it's at our old location. If only there were some way that people could update our location on a map...