Posts under ‘Maps’

I’m pleased to announce the availability of a book by James Thayer titled “Portland Forest Hikes: Twenty Close-In Wilderness Walks”. Here are twenty wilderness hikes within twenty miles of downtown Portland, Oregon, less than a half hour’s ride from the city. Adventurers at all skill levels will be surprised by the remoteness and remarkable beauty [...]

Just in time for the first trillium blossoms of spring, the Forest Park map is ready for general use. This map went through several months of development and a couple months of beta testing. The current version of the map is v615 — if you have an older version, make sure to download the latest [...]

“Are you wondering what the photo georeferencing “feature” in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is like? Find a photo that has latitude and longitude already encoded in its EXIF metadata. Open it with the Preview Application, turn on the inspector, and voila, under the “More Info” tab you get the metadata above a small world [...]

Microsoft Virtual Earth adds Birds-Eye View to 3D Globe: “ We all somewhat guess this would be coming around and tonight Microsoft releases Birds-eye View for their 3D Globe. They’ve taken those great Birds-eye View images from the 2D maps and using Photosynth they stiched them all together to create a ‘3D World’. Now of [...]

John Krygier wrote “I sat down one day and made a list of Tufteisms from the book” … leading to “20 Tufteisms from The Visual Display of Quantitative Information” which he then distills down to six commandments. As someone who has three of Tufte’s books, this is quite interesting. Another aspect I liked in the [...]

In my last post, I mentioned how there was one prototype of the glass San Francisco map that used the typeface Klavika, and while it wasn’t chosen for the final product, I was very curious how it would work for a city map. Well the answer can be seen in the Portland map series project [...]

I meant to announce this some time ago when it was unveiled. I’ve gotten quite a few queries regarding aspects of this map, so I’m posting some more info about it. From across the lobby of the San Francisco Business District Hilton, the map looks like it is one giant sheet of glass, twelve feet [...]

Nikolas Schiller: Schiller barely pauses on the way to his computer, which he fires up to reveal hundreds of his map creations. They are places you know — the Mall, Adams Morgan, Georgetown, plus other U.S. cities and war-torn ones abroad. But the streetscapes — photographed from above at a resolution fine enough to just [...]

Flash Earth is an interesting variation on Google Maps and Google Earth. You can flip between eight different aerial photography and satellite views of the earth with the click of a button. Some of the views are not that different; two of them are Microsoft Virtual Earth, one with labels on, one with labels off. [...]

Flood Map Modernization Elevations Inadequate; New Map Using Lidar Proposed: “ The Flood Map Modernization program currently being undertaken by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has inadequate elevation information to map the shape of the land surface in three dimensions, a committee of the National Research Council reported. Such information is critical in determining [...]

The practical impact of the BitPass announcement is that we will not be able to sell maps online anymore unless another similar payment system can be found. This news is certainly a surprise. Apologies to anyone who is inconvenienced.

Received this from BitPass today: “We want to thank you for your past business, however due to circumstances beyond our control, we are discontinuing our operations. We have partnered with Digital River to provide operational support during the period prior to shut down. As of today, January 19, 2007, all Bitpass Buyers with US dollar [...]