Other Technology

Very Very Small Maps of Hong Kong
How small can a map be and still be legible? ZoomMap.org, a spinoff of the Hong Kong-based Universal Publications Ltd., is publishing some very small maps indeed. Douglas Li of ZoomMap writes: [W]e create and publish miniature maps —… »
Posted on Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 9:06 AM
Categories: Hong Kong, Other Technology
Panamap, Formerly Dynamap, Available Soon
It’s been a long time, but the mapping technology that was first presented under the name Dynamap in 2004 has finally left the realm of vapourware and will very shortly result in a shipping product. Well, two products, but… »
Posted on Monday, August 4, 2008 at 5:07 PM
Categories: Chicago, New York, Other Technology
Haptic Weather Maps
Turkish researchers are applying haptics to weather maps, allowing map users to “feel” climate data represented on the map, the New Scientist reported last March: The system converts climate data into forces that a person can feel using a haptic… »
Posted on Saturday, August 2, 2008 at 9:12 PM
Categories: Other Technology, Weather & Climate
FireEagle
FireEagle is a new Yahoo service. (In beta, of course.) It’s a user-geolocation service with privacy controls that can tie into other applications; think of it as a Twitter for geographic coordinates. It’s one of those things, like RSS, whose… »
Posted on Saturday, March 8, 2008 at 6:29 AM
Categories: Other Technology
Kenwood’s Pen Navigation System
Kenwood announced a pen navigation system at the Tokyo Motor Show: details are sparse (see also Coolest Gadgets and Engadget), but it seems to involve a pen that, when scanned over a paper map, transmits data wirelessly to a… »
Posted on Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at 8:32 AM
Categories: Other Technology
Augmented Maps: Combining Tech and Paper
Brandon writes in about this New Scientist article about “augmented maps,” where real-time information is projected onto paper maps: This was an interesting article on combining multimedia and advanced technologies with hard copy maps for emergency situations. Having been involved… »
Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2005 at 10:28 AM
Categories: Other Technology
Urban Mapping (Was: Dynamap)
John Resig points us to this article in Directions about Urban Mapping’s neato Cracker Jack-box mapping technology — which was covered here a year ago when it was called “Dynamap”. (The old site is completely gone, and they haven’t forwarded… »
Posted on Friday, April 1, 2005 at 12:27 PM
Categories: Other Technology
MountMaps
Have you ever wondered what would happen if a topo map mated with a pop-up book? No, you probably haven’t; you’re not that strange. I don’t know where these guys got the idea to make pop-up topographical maps for… »
Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 at 1:50 PM
Categories: Other Technology, Topo Maps & Trails
The Dynamap
Here’s something neat: Urban Mapping’s “Dynamap” technology, which uses interlaced images to show different maps depending on the angle at which the surface is viewed. In this case, Manhattan’s streets, neighbourhoods and subway systems. There’s an instructive Flash demo. About… »
Posted on Monday, February 9, 2004 at 10:31 AM
Categories: Other Technology

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