Posts in category ”Digital maps”

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Anthony Bourdain travel map

Anthony Bourdain travel map

I was a bit surprised to discover that a new season of Parts Unknown will start this weekend. Since, you know, the leading man Anthony Bourdain is unfortunately not with us anymore.

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3D cities in your browser

3D cities in your browser

Google Street View and similar techniques are mainstream by now, and recently the Swedish site hitta.se was extended with a 3D view. By running a simple Java applet in your browser, you can zoom, pan and rotate the city while exploring street turns and roof constellations.

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Street view of Stockholm

Street view of Stockholm

A few years ago I wrote about how some guys drove around in San Francisco, shooting millions of street-level photos with geo-locations. With a bit of Ajax you could explore the city online and maybe even do some window-shopping.

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Google Street View

Google Street View

Google has recently updated Google Maps with a street view mode. Just drag a little yellow icon along the streets and there will be street-level photographs for that spot. I just checked a few of my favorite restaurants in San Francisco, and they’re still there.

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The world of digital map mashups

The world of digital map mashups

The world of mashups didn’t stop at the infamous projects HousingMaps or Chicago crime map. It goes on and on with stuff such as Weatherbonk and the Where to go travel map.

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Manhattan elsewhere

Manhattan elsewhere

For all of you who share my love for both Manhattan and digital maps, I want direct your attention to Jason Kottke’s latest project called Manhattan Elsewhere.

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Atlas demo with Europe map

Atlas demo with Europe map

I’ve been playing around a bit with the April CTP release of Atlas, Microsoft’s upcoming framework for Ajax applications. I’ve done a small live demonstration with ASP.NET 2.0 which show a basic map display with pinpointed locations.

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Google Maps versus Virtual Earth

Google Maps versus Virtual Earth

The map war between Google and Microsoft has recently gone full throttle. In response to Google Maps, today Microsoft launched Virtual Earth. In standard software tradition they “happened” to delete the Apple headquarter from the map.

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Google Maps goes photographic

Google Maps goes photographic

Yesterday Google updated their web application Google Maps, now including satellite photos from DigitalGlobe and Earthsat, covering United States and Canada.

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