October 2009
3 posts
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SMS Visualization in Amsterdam
I just started looking into Processing.org and I found an interview with Aaron Koblin. Koblin made the beautiful images for Flight Patterns. I just found out about his SMS Amsterdam visualization. It’s really beautiful and useful of social analysis. I wish that this could be done for any area in the world with the press of a button!
Looking through all the work at Processing is really...
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Great Introductory GIS Tutorial And Screencast...
I’ve downloaded The Department of Land Affair’s (Eastern Cape, South Africa) tutorial and within a few minutes I felt that it was more clear than GIS for Dummies in terms of explaining the very technical basics of GIS mapping. The tutorial includes worksheets and videos. You can download all the worksheets (pdf or odt) at once also near the bottom of the page.
I’ve also...
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Atlanta Mapathon - Creating the Best Mapped City,...
Wow I just discovered the Open Street Map Project through Mapperz’s post Atlanta being the best mapped city in the world. It would be great to do an social-mapping project in Atlanta!
And I found my field site, Wuha, China, on the OSM map - here is a rudimentary outline of Wuhan to the left! This means that I could consider doing my social mapping project with cressica through OSM! ...