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Hot news this morning is Apple’s departure from Google Maps in iOS 6, instead moving to their own in-house mapping application, created from acquisitions of several mapping companies in recent years. AnyGeo has a great overview, including data partners.
Apple have also now posted a video showing the new maps application in action.

 

Further to this, James Fee from Spatially Adjusted asks “Will Apple maps impact web mapping?” And interesting post worth a read by any GIS developers out there.

 

Google Maps Mania highlight a crowd-sourced map of “the global transition to a new economy.” A new economy is one that "maximizes well-being, operates within environmental limits and is capable of coping and adapting to global environmental change".

 

For any Doctor Who lovers out there, Retronaut has pulled together various historical photographs of the Doctor’s many travels through time and space, and, using StreetView, has placed them in their current context.

 

GIS Lounge have a post all about some of history’s most notable cartographers and their maps. Some truly beautiful maps here.

 

O’Reilly Radar’s visualisation of the week last week was a time-lapse movie map that shows global Bit Torrent usage, made by the creators of the file-transfer protocol. It’s a great example of a way to display time-series data in an attractive and engaging way.

 

LiDAR News has a post talking about the way that LiDAR was used to assess the damage after the Japan earthquake and tsunami. “The idea is that it’s a virtual world you can explore without being physically present in that dangerous environment. You can move through it in the software.”