This Big City have a post on “how citizen mapmakers are changing the story of our cities”. It’s a good read that talks of some of the new web- and smartphone-based mapping technologies have engaged people to create spatial information, and how that information is shaping culture.
Aerometrex have put up some satellite images of the floods that are underway in northern NSW and western Queensland right now.
Fast Company have a post that talks of the way that geospatial predictive analysis is helping to predict the location of meth labs before they even open.
Google Maps Mania tells us of the Royal Geographic Society’s Hidden Journeys Project, which selects some of the worlds best in-air journeys and invites people to explore the people, places and environments that they fly over. You can alternatively just view the flight paths on a Google Map and read about it.
Google Earth Blog draw our attention to a recent map made by Fathom Information Design that shows every road in the US and nothing else. It’s a really amazing product that actually highlights most of the terrain. It’s well worth taking a look.
Another post from Google Maps Mania shows off a great (although not very practical) way to show any location on earth as if it were made from cubes. The effect is sort of like an old 8-bit video game (or MineCraft). You will probably need to use the Chrome browser to make it work, as it uses canvas and WebGL to render.
And, for anyone running or interested in 3D models, Spatial Sustain have a post outlining Bangkok’s new publicly accessible 3D city model, complete with traffic routes and infrastructure systems. It’s still a WIP, however, with only 990 of the estimated 1.4 million buildings in Bangkok, but it’s a start.
