Video

Global Situational Awareness
Google Earth apparently isn’t enough for the military. Defence contractor DRS Technologies was demonstrating this military-grade touchscreen geospatial interface — the correct term is apparently “global situational awareness” — at a recent Navy League conference; this video features engineer Michael Bridges giving a demo. Defense Tech describes it: “[I]t’s…   Read more →
Posted on Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 8:19 AM
Categories: Other Technology, Video
Myriahedral Projections
Bucky Fuller’s Dymaxion projection projects the globe onto an icosahedron (a 20-sided polyhedron) and unfolds it. Take the same principle, but project the globe onto a polyhedron of immense complexity, with a lot more sides, and you get a myriahedral projection, the subject of a recent research paper (PDF) in…   Read more →
Posted on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 8:34 AM
Categories: Map Projections, Video
The Map Reader
The Map Reader is an independent film from New Zealand whose protagonist is an introverted teenager obsessed with cartography: trailer; reviews here and here; IMDB entry….   Read more →
Posted on Friday, February 13, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Categories: Miscellany, Video
‘Data for Decision’: GIS on Punchcards
“Data for Decision” is a 1967 National Film Board of Canada film that explains the work of the Canada Geographic Information System — one of the earliest GISes in history, if not the earliest — in analysing the huge volumes of data from the Canada Land Inventory. It’s been…   Read more →
Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 8:21 AM
Categories: GIS, Video
David Cerny Defends ‘Entropa’
At the beginning of this video, artist David Cerny explains his controversial installation piece, “Entropa,” which just debuted, to no considerable uproar, in the European Council building in Brussels. The video is also an opportunity to get a good look at the piece, how various countries are depicted (what…   Read more →
Posted on Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Categories: Art, Video
Visualizing U.S. Immigration
A visualization of immigration to the U.S. from 1820 to 2007 by Ian Stevenson. Via Andrew Sullivan….   Read more →
Posted on Monday, December 22, 2008 at 8:59 AM
Categories: Demography, Historical Maps, Video
Maps in Movies and TV
A part of the Maps in Literature project, which is interesting enough in itself (in Italian and English), Maps in Movies and TV looks at the use and portrayal of maps in TV programs and movies, focusing on fiction rather than, say, documentaries. Clips on the project’s YouTube channel range…   Read more →
Posted on Sunday, November 30, 2008 at 8:59 PM
Categories: Video
That SNL Weekend Update Map Sketch
Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” segment recently took a swing at the touchscreen interactive electoral maps that have become nearly ubiquitous in U.S. election coverage (i.e., John King on CNN). Here’s the entire segment: Via Very Spatial….   Read more →
Posted on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 12:43 PM
Categories: Electoral Maps, Fun, Video
How Globes Are Made
The Chicago History Museum looks at Chicago globe manufacturer Replogle Globes in this short video: I always wondered why the seam along the equator had to be so big. Via Kottke….   Read more →
Posted on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 9:56 AM
Categories: Globes, Video
London Tube Map Documentary
A 1987 BBC documentary on Beck’s diagrammatic map of the London Underground; it’s nearly 26 minutes long: Via Kottke and MapHist….   Read more →
Posted on Monday, October 20, 2008 at 6:33 AM
Categories: London, Mass Transit, Video
Global Air Traffic Simulation
A simulation of global air traffic over 24 hours: Cooool. Via Gadling and Infonaut. Previously: Flight Patterns….   Read more →
Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 7:42 AM
Categories: Aviation, Video
Britain from Above
Considerable buzz about an upcoming BBC series, Britain from Above. This preview (screen capture above; I wish I could have embedded the video here, it’s pretty good) uses GPS traceroutes to show sea, road and air traffic; it also shows telephone network usage (thanks, Neil). The first episode airs…   Read more →
Posted on Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 9:26 AM
Categories: Satellite & Aerial, Tracerouting, Video
Nokia 6220 Ad Touts Mapping Features
An ad extolling the mapping features of the Nokia 6220. Via Visual Think Map. Nokia Maps 2.0 came out of beta in May, which Mapperz and Engadget covered; I, alas, did not. Previously: Nokia Maps 2.0 Beta; Nokia Maps….   Read more →
Posted on Sunday, August 3, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Categories: Mobile Devices, Video
The Ordnance Survey in 1953
An excerpt from a newsreel about the latest technology used by Ordnance Survey mapmakers — in 1953. “It used to take two men a whole year to do the mapmaking mathematics that these adding machines and electronic computers can do in an afternoon, with a girl to help.” Wait…   Read more →
Posted on Saturday, August 2, 2008 at 8:24 PM
Categories: Surveying, Video
Link Roundup: Mid-July Edition
Facebook app whereyougonnabe? gets an upgrade focusing on integration with other platforms (previously). Diana Eid takes a look at map art, focusing on three artists we’ve seen before: Matthew Cusick, Elisabeth Lecourt and Susan Stockwell (via GeoCarta). On the Google Earth Blog, Frank has a roundup of innovative computer…   Read more →
Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 8:43 AM
Categories: Art, Blogs, Copyright, Facebook, Geolocation Services, Geotagging, Google Earth, Map Projections, Triangulations (Links), Video
The Vacationeers: Google My Maps Gets Spooky
The Vacationeers, they are at it again: Via Cartophilia. Previously: Google Maps Street View Is Right Behind You….   Read more →
Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 9:06 AM
Categories: Fun, Video
Reports from Where 2.0
Beyond the conference blog, several geobloggers are filing reports from Where 2.0. Here’s a sampling: All Points Blog: Getting Warmed Up for Where 2.0; Where 2.0 Monday. Google Earth Blog: Day One. RenaLId: Day 1, Day 2 — Morning Sessions (en français malgré les titres). Video from the conference is…   Read more →
Posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 6:37 PM
Categories: Conferences, Video
The Office
GPS Review has a clip from an episode of (the U.S. version of) The Office that satirizes the news stories about GPS-navigation-related accidents….   Read more →
Posted on Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 2:58 PM
Categories: Driving Directions, Fun, Video
Baltimore Festival of Maps on YouTube
The Baltimore Festival of Maps has a YouTube channel, which has a few short clips (less than two minutes each) about the Walters Art Museum’s keystone exhibition, Maps: Finding Our Place in the World. They’re nicely done; here, for example, is part four: Via You Are Here, Hon….   Read more →
Posted on Monday, April 7, 2008 at 9:54 PM
Categories: Baltimore Festival of Maps, Video
Geography Tutor Videos
Excerpts from TMW Media Group’s Geography Tutor video series have been posted to YouTube; map-related clips include the above video on map projections, this clip on the International Date Line and this clip on the use of colour in maps. The videos have a dated feel to them: they…   Read more →
Posted on Friday, February 29, 2008 at 7:55 PM
Categories: Education, Map Projections, Video
‘You Have No Idea Where China Is, Do You?’
At least a year old, but I only saw this FedEx ad for the first time this morning:…   Read more →
Posted on Sunday, February 3, 2008 at 10:33 AM
Categories: Fun, Video
Google Maps Street View Is Right Behind You
The Vacationeers take Google Maps Street View a little too far: Via Valleywag. Previously: Real-Time Satellite Imagery: EarthNow vs. The Simpsons; The Truth About Google Earth….   Read more →
Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 7:33 PM
Categories: Fun, Video
Arno Peters Documentary
ODT Maps, the publisher (and chief promoter) of the Peters map (and general source of thought provocation about map projections and representationality), has produced a documentary about the map and Arno Peters. From the press release: This fascinating 30-minute documentary explores the history of how the Peters Equal Area World…   Read more →
Posted on Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 12:24 PM
Categories: Map Projections, Video
Miss Teen South Carolina on Geographic Literacy
This is painful to watch: Via Gawker….   Read more →
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Posted on Monday, August 27, 2007 at 5:53 PM
Categories: Video
Two Map Videos
Global Concepts in Maps is an abbreviated excerpt from a longer educational film about map projections; more information here. I want to see the whole thing, but my, that doesn’t mean it’s good. The risible style of 1950s educational films is imitated in “Your Map Collection” (part one, part two)…   Read more →
Posted on Friday, July 13, 2007 at 2:02 PM
Categories: Libraries, Map Projections, Video
KPIX-TV on Geotagging
KPIX-TV, the San Francisco CBS station, has a report on geotagging that covers at least two of the three bases — viz., manually geotagging photos and syncing photos with a GPS data logger — and mentions a couple of geotagging sites. I’m puzzled by the somewhat gratuitous privacy-and-security implications tacked…   Read more →
Posted on Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at 5:10 PM
Categories: Geotagging, Video
Google Maps: Draggable Driving Directions
The driving directions feature on Google Maps has just received a major upgrade. Multiple stops and traffic conditions have (apparently) been added, but the big one is that you can now change the route you’re given to your destination by clicking and dragging it to a new highway. (Essentially,…   Read more →
Posted on Thursday, June 28, 2007 at 7:10 PM
Categories: Driving Directions, Online Maps, Video
Google Maps Street View
The big news so far from Where 2.0 is the announcement of Google’s street-level imagery for five U.S. cities — Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, New York and (of course) San Francisco — which, in a fit of originality, they’re calling Street View: Google Earth Blog, Google Lat Long, O’Reilly…   Read more →
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Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 4:28 PM
Categories: Cities, Las Vegas, New York, Online Maps, Roads, San Francisco, Video
Massimo Vignelli Defends His Map
In this four-minute outtake that didn’t make it into the final version of the documentary film Helvetica, designer Massimo Vignelli talks about his 1972 map of the New York subway system — which, you may recall, encountered stout opposition. Vignelli argues that, far from being too abstract, as the…   Read more →
Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 5:46 PM
Categories: Mass Transit, New York, Video
Real-Time Satellite Imagery: EarthNow vs. The Simpsons
Live, accessible satellite imagery is a pipe dream, but EarthNow is probably as close as we’ll ever get: it’s not live, but (updated; see below) it is real-time — just delayed a few hours. It’s essentially a Java applet that displays the feed from the Landsat-5 and Landsat-7 satellites…   Read more →
Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 7:56 PM
Categories: Fun, Satellite & Aerial, Video
Evil Maposaurus!
For the last couple of weeks, Garmin’s blog has been hyping the company’s forthcoming Super Bowl ad, with an extended music video and behind the scenes clips. With the Super Bowl now over, the ad itself is now finally available: I’m not sure how much to read into this ad….   Read more →
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Posted on Monday, February 5, 2007 at 7:14 AM
Categories: GPS, Video
The Truth About Google Earth
A funny little video about Google Earth from Tais Toi Donc: Via Urban Cartography. Previously: Ground-level Google Maps….   Read more →
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Posted on Friday, January 5, 2007 at 8:51 AM
Categories: Google Earth, Video
Flight Patterns
Aaron Koblin took FAA flight data and made some flashy animations out of the flight paths. Via atlas(t)….   Read more →
Posted on Sunday, November 5, 2006 at 7:29 PM
Categories: Art, Aviation, Video
Discriminav
“Discriminav” is a dark bit of humour from Talkshow with Spike Feresten: Via GPS Tracklog. This skit is teh funny, but what it describes is also totally possible: all you’d need to do is mash up census data with driving directions. In the same vein, Charlie White writes on Gizmodo…   Read more →
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 at 12:50 PM
Categories: Driving Directions, Video
Review: Seeing Through Maps
Seeing Through Maps by Denis Wood, Ward L. Kaiser and Bob Abramms ODT, 2006. Softcover, 160 pp. ISBN 1-931057-20-6 It’s really not a difficult concept: there are no “right” and “wrong” cartographic projections. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages, and as such is better for some purposes and less…   Read more →
Posted on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 at 11:25 PM
Categories: Book Reviews, Map Projections, Video
The Impossible Map
Hidden amongst the 50 animated short films put online by Canada’s National Film Board (via Boing Boing) is a 10-minute educational film about cartographic projections from 1947: The Impossible Map. Directed by Evelyn Lambart, the film uses grapefruit peels and turnip skins to make the point that a flat…   Read more →
Posted on Saturday, July 15, 2006 at 3:47 PM
Categories: Map Projections, Video
Caught Mapping (1940)
Caught Mapping is a nine-minute film, made in 1940, about how the road maps of the time were made — and, more importantly, revised, with a fair bit on field surveyors. I was surprised that the film reported that map revisions could be made every few weeks — a…   Read more →
Posted on Tuesday, July 4, 2006 at 10:50 PM
Categories: Roads, Surveying, Video
NYPL Map Room on CBS Sunday Morning
The New York Public Library’s map room — the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, rather — and its chief, Alice Hudson, were apparently on the CBS Sunday Morning show yesterday, according to a posting on MAPS-L. See the recap here (you may have to scroll down if you’re…   Read more →
Posted on Monday, July 3, 2006 at 8:36 PM
Categories: Libraries, Video

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