Olympics

A Final Post About the Beijing Olympics
Last Olympics post for a while, I promise. This page is a Google Maps mashup that plots all medallists on their hometowns. It’s considerably cruder than the Earthgamz plugin (see previous entry), which also covers all athletes, but is more… »
Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 4:56 PM
Categories: Olympics
Mapping Olympic Athletes
The Earthgamz Summer Olympics Google Earth plugin maps Olympic athletes to their hometowns; it uses the Windows-only embedded Google Earth plugin on the page, but you can also download the (somewhat unwieldy, in my experience) full KML file for use… »
Posted on Friday, August 22, 2008 at 7:28 AM
Categories: Google Earth, Olympics
More Olympics Maps
Heat maps of the Olympic medals, using Google Spreadsheets’s map widget: this one generates a map from a live results feed; Google Maps Mania creates a few using static medal numbers for the top 15, but divides the results by… »
Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 11:08 AM
Categories: Hacks & Mashups, Olympics
Mapping the 2008 Olympics
You may be aware that, in addition to The Map Room, I have another project that I work on during the Olympics: DFL, which chronicles last-place finishes. I’m at it again — this is my third kick at the Olympic… »
Posted on Saturday, August 9, 2008 at 3:20 PM
Categories: Beijing, Google Earth, Olympics, Satellite & Aerial
BBC Olympics Map
I have a professional interest, you might say, in the Olympics. The BBC’s Olympics map maps the 2008 Games’s venues in Beijing (and, in a couple of instances, elsewhere in China). The map was built using Virtual Earth and… »
Posted on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 6:57 PM
Categories: Beijing, Olympics
Mapping the Winter Olympics
I’m not the most consistent of bloggers even at the best of times, but, depending on how things go, over the next two weeks posts to The Map Room might be a bit sporadic due to the demands of one… »
Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 at 9:48 PM
Categories: Cities, Hacks & Mashups, Olympics

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