Beautiful data mapping of events that happen in a split second.
http://signal-noise.co.uk/thinking/over-in-less-than-a-second
Daily Archives: June 1, 2017
FollowGOOGLE EARTH VR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCrkZOx5Q1M
Check out this promotional video for Google Earth VR, the next mapping tool from Google’s cartographic tool-kit that I took interest in exploring for today’s final presentation. This video does a great job to act as springboard in generating discussion as well as thought about VR and technology in general toward mapping today and for the future. Worth checking out!
City of Women: what if those streets were named after women?
In complement to Celia’s most recent post, this article explains well how over-representation of men in city street name constitute a privilege for the dominating gender: “I can’t imagine how I might have conceived of myself and my possibilities if, in my formative years, I had moved through a city where most things were named after women and many or most of the monuments were of powerful, successful, honored women.”
A short read, very eye opening.
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/city-of-women
Mapping the Sexism of City Street Names
But there’s a glaring problem with how streets get named: few memorialize women. A new interactive map from Mapbox developer Aruna Sankaranarayanan and her colleagues shows just how scarce female streets are in major cities around the world.
Full Article: http://www.citylab.com/politics/2015/11/mapping-the-sexism-of-city-street-names/414094/
15 Subway Maps Compared to Their Actual Geography [GIF]
This is super interesting. Animated GIFs showing the comparison of subway maps to their actual geography.
Fun to check out here: http://twistedsifter.com/2017/05/subway-maps-compared-to-their-actual-geography/
Austin has the saddest subway line. Just one line.