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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… »
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…. »
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,… »
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… »
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:… »
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…. »
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… »
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…. »
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… »
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… »
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… »
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… »
Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 4:28 PM
Categories: Cities, 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…. »
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… »
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:… »
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…. »
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)…. »
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… »
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,… »
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… »
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… »
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… »
Posted on Monday, July 3, 2006 at 8:36 PM
Categories: Libraries, Video

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