UW 3-D Buildings (CityEngine)

A new project (still in the works) using ESRI’s CityEngine to create a 3-D model of the UW campus in Seattle

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UW 3-D Campus

Circular City / Neighborhood Maps

Circular maps strive to better capture residents mental map of neighborhoods.

City Maps That Orient You Better Than Google Can – Kristin Hohenadel (Slate)

http://www.archiespress.com/

Pushing the limits (SI map)

WWU alumni complete 4,000 mile human-powered trek from Bellingham to the western Arctic (map by Spatial Institute staff Stefan Freelan)

http://www.windowmagazine.org/window/index.php?section=Stories&id=344

Another Way to Explain Who We Are: The 15 Types of Communities that make up America

Reid Wilson, The Washington Post

Dante Chinni divided the counties of the country into 15 types of community based on the American Communities Project at American University.

http://project.wnyc.org/acp/#4/38.34/-94.66

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/11/12/another-way-to-explain-who-we-are-the-15-types-of-communities-that-make-up-america/?hpid=z4

Crowd-Sourced Oil Spill Data – Salish Sea

Georgia Strait Alliance and Raincoast Conservation Foundation use crowd-sourced data to predict where oil spills might go.

Help Create Maps of a Potential Oil Spill in the Salish Sea

Salish Sea Spill MAP

BBox Finder

A tool (helper page) for finding bounding box coordinate values for use with various web mapping applications, designed by Aaron Racicot.

http://bboxfinder.com/

See also ProjFinder (a similar tool for identifying appropriate projections for different locations throughout the world)

Interactive Map Compares NYC of 1836 to Today

Smithsonian Magazine provides archival maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection overlaid with current aerial photography.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/This_Interactive_Map_Compares_the_New_York_City_of_1836_to_Today.html

See also:

• Chicago before the Great Fire (1868)
• Denver (1879)
• Los Angles (1880)
• San Francisco (1859)
• Washington DC Lincoln Memorial (1851)

Do Our Brains Pay a Price for GPS?

Use of GPS technology may hinder our own ability to form accurate mental maps and actually limit brain development…

Do our brains pay a price for GPS? How a useful technology interferes with our ‘mental mapping’ and what do do about it. Leon Neyfakh

More than half of humanity lives within this circle

http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1dqh7d/after_seeing_a_recent_post_about_the_population/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/07/map-more-than-half-of-humanity-lives-within-this-circle/

http://gizmodo.com/the-most-crowded-part-of-the-whole-world-fits-in-this-o-493138360

Todd Humphreys: How to Fool a GPS (TEDx)

Todd Humphreys (U. of Austin’s Radios Navigation Lab) discusses the future of GPS, tracking and unintended consequences.

http://www.ted.com/talks/todd_humphreys_how_to_fool_a_gps.html 

http://www.ted.com/talks/todd_humphreys_how_to_fool_a_gps.html