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Here & There

These horizonless projections of New York City by Here & There give you a whole new view of Manhattan. They let you look uptown from 3rd and 7th street, and downtown from 3rd and 35th. Think of a horizonless projection as a much more advanced paper map of the city you might get from a tourist kiosk, the type that shows major landmark.

“Imagine a person standing at a street corner. The projection begins with a three-dimensional representation of the immediate environment,” Jack Schulze says. “Close buildings are represented normally, and the viewer himself is shown in the third person, exactly where she stands."

“As the model bends from sideways to top-down in a smooth join, more distant parts of the city are revealed in plan view. The projection connects the viewer’s local environment to remote destinations normally out of sight.”

Gepost door de Meetman op vr 04/06/10 - 7:47

Metro-visualisatie

Zou het niet handig zijn als er op trams en bussen, in plaats van de huidige netplannen, in real-time weergegeven werd waar men zich bevond? Nooit meer vol spanning uit het raampje turen naar de volgende halte, of moeten rondvragen of we halte zus en zo al voorbij zijn. Ook in de metro zou dit systeem veel voordelen hebben. En met een beetje GPS-tracking is dat toch niet zo moeilijk te realiseren.

Gepost door de Meetman op zo 30/05/10 - 11:15

Open Street Maps 2008

OSM 2008: A Year of Edits from ItoWorld on Vimeo.

An animation showing edits to the OpenStreetMap.org project during 2008. OpenStreetMap is a wiki-style map of the world and this animation displays a white flash each time a way is entered or updated. Some edits are a result of a physical local survey by a contributor with a GPS unit and taking notes, other edits are done remotely using aerial photography or out-of-copyright maps, and some are bulk imports of official data.

OpenStreetMap started in 2004 and the rate of contributions is accelerating with four times as many people contributing to the project in 2008 compared to 2007. During the year, edits were made by some 20,000 individuals and there were bulk imports of data for many places, including the USA, India, Italy and Belarus which are clearly visible in the animation. (wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potential_Datasources)

Gepost door Webber op zo 23/05/10 - 21:27

Olympische Medailles

The NY Times have come up with a fascinating interactive map that you can play with to check out the medal counts by country for every Summer Games since the modern Olympic Games began in 1896.

The size of the bubbles in the geographic view correlate to the number of medals won. Mouse over any bubble and the actual number of golds, silvers and bronzes won is displayed. Dragging the tab through all the years reveals historical blips. The massive Eastern Bloc showings for the 1980 and 1988 Games deflated in 1984 when they boycotted the Los Angeles Games. Also revealed is the emergence of Japan and more recently China in the international sports area over several decades.

Gepost door de Meetman op za 22/05/10 - 13:30

OpenStreetMap - Project Haiti

OpenStreetMap - Project Haiti from ItoWorld on Vimeo.

An animation showing edits to the OpenStreetMap.org project during 2008. OpenStreetMap is a wiki-style map of the world and this animation displays a white flash each time a way is entered or updated. Some edits are a result of a physical local survey by a contributor with a GPS unit and taking notes, other edits are done remotely using aerial photography or out-of-copyright maps, and some are bulk imports of official data.

OpenStreetMap started in 2004 and the rate of contributions is accelerating with four times as many people contributing to the project in 2008 compared to 2007. During the year, edits were made by some 20,000 individuals and there were bulk imports of data for many places, including the USA, India, Italy and Belarus which are clearly visible in the animation. (wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potential_Datasources)

Gepost door de Meetman op ma 10/05/10 - 7:32

Airspace Rebooted

Airspace Rebooted from ItoWorld on Vimeo.

Dit filmje geeft weer hoe het vliegverkeer in Europa terug op gang kwam na de uitbarsting van de vulkaan Eyjafjallajökull.

Gepost door de Meetman op wo 05/05/10 - 8:10

Vliegtuigloze hemel geeft glasheldere radarbeelden

 

bron: www.kmi.be
Met een weerradar is het mogelijk neerslagzones op te sporen, en hun intensiteit in te schatten. De radar zendt hiervoor een elektromagnetische puls uit, en luistert naar het signaal dat gereflecteerd wordt door de regendruppels. De aanwezigheid van vliegtuigen in de atmosfeer verstoort deze radarmetingen, maar deze storingen zijn beperkt tot één "radarpixel", en bijgevolg worden deze storingen vrij gemakkelijk gecorrigeerd. Met de sluiting van het luchtruim boven België viel deze storing weg, en dit gaf aanleiding tot glasheldere radarbeelden. 


Het eerste beeld hieronder geeft het ongecorrigeerde, zgn. "MAX" radarbeeld weer van de ochtend van donderdag 15 april, toen het luchtruim boven België en de buurlanden nog geopend was (11u04 lokale tijd). De storingen rondom de radar (<30 km van Wideumont) worden veroorzaakt door grondecho's die afkomstig zijn van hoger gelegen gebieden (zoals de Hoge Venen). Alle andere stipjes worden veroorzaakt door geïsoleerde objecten hoger in de atmosfeer, vliegtuigen dus.

 

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Gepost door de Meetman op za 17/04/10 - 7:47
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