Maps, navigation, GIS, exploring!

Collection of Articles, Links, and Resources about Maps, Online Maps, Spatial relationships, Locations, Apps-that-are-Mobile, charting the world . . .

By Ivan Nieves

Ivan Nieves
Mobile Technology
Army photogrammetry technique makes 3D aerial maps in minutes
TechCrunch - Devin Coldewey
Aerial imagery is a common asset in military matters, but 3D maps can be difficult to collect on short notice without specialized equipment. This new photogrammetry technique from the Army Corps of Engineers,
4 days ago
Ivan Nieves
Tokyo
This guy walks around Tokyo with a GoPro strapped on
boingboing.net - Mark Frauenfelder
One of my family's favorite things to do is wander the neighborhoods of Tokyo. The narrow streets, filled with colorful visual, olfactory, and aural …
November 11
Ivan Nieves
How to fully disable Google location tracking on your smartphone
androidpolice.com - Ambariish Sridhar
With a new data breach or tech scandal seemingly every other week, it's easy to get disillusioned by the cavalier mishandling of user data by …
October 9
Ivan Nieves
Google Maps Incognito Mode is here and this is how to turn it on
Daily Dot - Mikael Thalen
Google’s Incognito Mode has been a popular part of the company’s Chrome browser since 2008, allowing users to keep their browsing history from being …
October 4
Ivan Nieves
How the Generational Need for Inexpensive Orderly Convenience Led to Manhattan's Iconic Grid
laughingsquid.com - Lori Dorn
In a geometric episode of Vox Almanac Road Trip Edition, host Phil Edwards explains how the city of Manhattan wound up with its now-iconic grid, a …
August 6
Ivan Nieves
Gary Burrell, Who Helped People Find Their Way (With GPS), Dies at 81
The New York Times - By SAM ROBERTS
Gary Burrell, who with a fellow engineer founded Garmin, the navigational device company whose products can direct pilots in fog, prevent hikers from getting lost and help insomniacs track their sleep,
June 20
Ivan Nieves
Maps
44 Google Maps Tricks You Need to Try
PCMag - Rob Marvin
Google Maps is a Swiss Army Knife chock-full of hidden navigation, geospatial search, and customization tools. Here's how to unlock your map app's …
June 9
Ivan Nieves
Europe
A Detailed Map of Medieval Trade Routes in Europe, Asia, and Africa
kottke.org - posted by Jason Kottke Feb 19, 2019
Grad student Martin Jan Månsson has created this incredibly detailed map of trade route networks in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the 11th and 12th …
February 21
Ivan Nieves
Why America’s New Apartment Buildings All Look the Same
Bloomberg - Justin Fox
These buildings are in almost every U.S. city. They range from three to seven stories tall and can stretch for blocks. They’re usually full of rental …
February 13
Ivan Nieves
An architecture expert reveals 19 of the ugliest McMansions in America - Business Insider
Business Insider - Sarah Jacobs
The American McMansion is officially a dying breed of architectural design, which is good news for those who consider the unnecessarily massive and disproportionate homes an eyesore. The blog Worst of
April 2
Ivan Nieves
'Underground' Digs Up The Secrets Of Hidden Communities Around The World
NPR - Dave Davies
Most New Yorkers walk by sewer grates or subway entrances and think nothing of it, but not journalist Will Hunt. Hunt is fascinated with the world below us. "There's just so much beneath the streets of
January 28
Ivan Nieves
The Best Places to Eat and Shop Local in San Juan, Puerto Rico
AFAR Media - Lyndsey Matthews
When Lin-Manuel Miranda flew into Puerto Rico about a month after Hurricane Maria hit in 2017, he arrived to an island without leaves. “I never …
January 14
Ivan Nieves
SoundtrackMap, An Interactive Visualization Showing the Musical Connections Between Film and Television
laughingsquid.com - Lori Dorn
Juan David Gómez of Flavour Machine has created the SoundtrackMap, a really cool interactive visualization that shows the musical connection between …
Dec 5, 2018
Ivan Nieves
River Basins of the World Brightly Color Coded in Gorgeously Lush Maps
laughingsquid.com - Lori Dorn
Hungarian cartographer Robert Szucs has created a beautiful line of downloadable, high-resolution maps that feature brightly colored river basins of …
Nov 8, 2016
Ivan Nieves
Stunning dataviz project maps the world's population | Creative Bloq
creativebloq.com - Jim McCauley
At its worst, data visualisation can just be an exercise in dressing up dull statistics in fancy clobber to try to make them look more interesting, …
Dec 12, 2018
Ivan Nieves
MapLab: A Map’s Best Storyteller
CityLab - Laura Bliss
Welcome to the latest edition of MapLab. Sign up to receive this newsletter in your inbox here. Of the handful of writers who treat maps as subjects, it’s not hard to name favorites. Rebecca Solnit’s series
Dec 6, 2018
Ivan Nieves
Colorful Maps Show How We've Transformed Earth's Surface Over the Past 25 Years
Gizmodo - Yessenia Funes
The world’s changed a lot over the last quarter century. In fact, 22 percent of our planet’s livable surface has changed dramatically between the …
Nov 20, 2018
Ivan Nieves
Urban Forestry: Explore 678,632 Street Trees of NYC with Interactive Map
weburbanist.com - Kurt
[ By WebUrbanist in Gaming & Computing & Technology. ]The NYC Parks Department offers an amazing resource in the form of an online map that “includes …
Nov 10, 2018
Ivan Nieves
Create a Heat Map of Your Google Location History With This Tool
Lifehacker - Emily Price
I’m a sucker for anything that takes text data and turns it into something visual. This week I came across Location History Visualizer, a tool that …
Nov 5, 2018
Ivan Nieves
An Animated Mercator Projection That Reveals the Actual Size of Countries Around the World
laughingsquid.com - Lori Dorn
Climate data scientist and interactive mapmaker Neil Kaye has brilliantly animated the difference between the size of countries represented on the …
Nov 1, 2018
Ivan Nieves
Maps
How to stop your Android phone from sharing your location with Google
androidcentral.com - Jerry Hildenbrand
If you carry a cell phone — even a simple flip phone without any sort of real display — someone somewhere is tracking your location. Even if there is …
Aug 14, 2018
Ivan Nieves
This Map Shows Where Your House Was on Pangea
Popular Mechanics - By David Grossman
Earth has changed a lot over millions of years, but real estate is forever. That's the idea behind software engineer Ian Webster's tool which allows users to find where their home address would have been
Jul 6, 2018
Ivan Nieves
Fatmap Is Like Google Earth (on Steroids) for Hikers
Outside Magazine - Nick Heil
Not long ago, my girlfriend and I set out for a 20-mile mountain bike ride in the Gila National Forest, in southern New Mexico. We had plenty of food and water, but we were armed with only vague directions
Jul 1, 2018
Ivan Nieves
How to find your home on Pangea
The Verge - Angela Chen
Before there were the continents, there was Pangea. Two hundred million years ago, the enormous land mass began to break apart and we’ve been separated ever since — but a map tool can help you find where
Jun 17, 2018
Ivan Nieves
What the world would be like if land and sea were inverted
boingboing.net - Rob Beschizza
You've likely seen maps of the earth with land and sea inverted, where Asia becomes the world's greatest ocean and the Pacific a vast, sprawling …
Jun 11, 2018
Ivan Nieves
Website leaked real-time location of most US cell phones to almost anyone
Ars Technica - Dan Goodin
Easily found bug in free demo let visitors track phones from four top US carriers. A little-known service has been leaking the real-time locations of …
May 17, 2018
Ivan Nieves
Fantasmo is a decentralized map for robots and augmented reality
TechCrunch - Josh Constine
“Whether for AR or robots, anytime you have software interacting with the world, it needs a 3D model of the globe. We think that map will look a lot more like the decentralized internet than a version
May 9, 2018
Ivan Nieves
Take Your Mother Out for Some Oysters This Weekend
Eater - Rachel Leah Blumenthal
It’s been an exciting week: more days with patio-friendly weather, some Boston recognition at this year’s Beard awards, and dollar oysters galore. Here’s a look back at the most-read stories of the week:
May 11, 2018
Ivan Nieves
The Ultimate $1 Oyster Guide, Summer 2019
Eater - Rachel Leah Blumenthal
Nothing says warm weather quite like devouring oysters while drinking something refreshing. Updated for summer 2019, here's the Eater Boston guide to dollar oysters. This map is limited to restaurants
May 10, 2017