It appears that Google Maps has been using open source DIY maps to improve their own site. We recently noticed that our balloon map of Kukuiula, HI was up on the Google site- it turns out we’re not the only ones. In a recent article by the Atlantic Cities, it is clear that balloon maps …
Think you are paying too much for your favorite brew? Or finding a great deal? American Public Media’s Marketplace recently launched Pub Crawl, an open source map that collects data on the price of pints internationally. Find good deals in your area or enter your own data on the site.
We posted these maps before but they are just too cool. Stamen Design posted this tile set using Open Street Map data a few weeks ago. The tiles use a water color style and is one of the first truly artistic styles of interactive street maps that we have seen. Kudos to Stamen and their innovative …
For the past few months we have been attending the New York City GIS/Cartography Meetup and we wanted to share some of the great projects and groups we got to see at this most recent meetup. PDX Bike Share A team from Open Plans developed this community driven map that allows residents in …
Zuccotti Park has been all over the news the past few weeks due to the many people living there as part of the Occupy Wall Street Movement. And it would make sense that many would assume that this park is one of the many public parks in New York City, but in this instance that …
With the announcement of the iPhone 5 today and the people who will surely line up to buy one, the ever growing market for Android devices, and the explosion in the desire for user generated ratings and rankings it shouldn’t be a surprise that geolocation services of all types are on the rise, and it …
My Block NYC is a crowd sourced video map that allows users to upload videos and geo-tag them bringing the videos into an interactive map environment. And can we say it is one of the coolest interactive crowd sourced projects we have seen. The map (built in Flash), which hit the web on Tuesday, …
The recent tragedy in Japan has shed light on an area of mapping that has been developing rapidly within the past two years. Its practical implications are astounding and it seems to be a creation of the open sourced data evolution that will impact a significant number of lives. That area is crisis mapping. …
