The Shape of your Notes is a blogpost/project right up my alley. It starts of talking about note taking, but then quickly transforms into a journey into geodata: isolines, GDAL, PostGIS, QGIS, etc. The result is a lovely notebook, with a neat – and correct – print of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull on the cover. The Shape …
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In flight
To mark 100 years of passenger air travel, our stunning interactive uses live data to show every one of the thousands of commercial planes currently in the air, charts the history of aviation since 1914, and asks what comes next for the industry Neat! Pleasant narrative too. In flight: see the planes in the sky …
Planetary.js – Awesome interactive globes for the web
Planetary.js is a JavaScript library for building awesome interactive globes. It is based on D3.js and TopoJSON and has built-in support for zoom, rotation, mouse interaction, and displaying animated “pings” at any coordinate. Via plugins, Planetary.js can be extended to do whatever you want! Planetary.js → Planetary.js Seismic Activity Demo →
If all the ice melted
Photoshop Google Maps Tile Cutter Script Update (Again)
Five days after the previous update PS_BRAMUS.GoogleMapsTileCutter — a Photoshop Script which automatically chops up a large image into tiles for use with Google Maps — has been updated again. With this new version one can now choose to place all tiles into one and the same folder (as it was before), or use subfolders …
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Photoshop Google Maps Tile Cutter Script Update
It’s been 1.5 years already since I created PS_BRAMUS.GoogleMapsTileCutter, a Photoshop Script which automatically chops up a large image into tiles for use with Google Maps. Today a huge update was released. Sparked by an initial pull request by Nick Springer, PS_BRAMUS.GoogleMapsTileCutter now sports a UI dialog in which you can set the options before …
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Buildings in the Netherlands by year of construction
The geography of Tweets
Give every Twitter user a brush and they will paint you the world — if they geotag their Tweets. Plot all geotagged tweets on a white canvas and you get back a view of the world according to Twitter’s users. Note how on the map above maritime traffic also is shown. The geography of Tweets …