Posts under ‘Maps’

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 denominated accounts are being [...]

I hadn’t heard that there was a special version of Canvas with GIS capabilities (or that Canvas is no longer a Deneba product):

http://www.acdamerica.com/arcnews/default.html

Does anyone know if this software allows you to import a set of vectors from Illustrator CS2 and geo-reference them? Then convert to another projection? Then export back to Illustrator? The site [...]

USGS to Release TerraLook: “The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced today the upcoming release of the TerraLook data product. TerraLook consists of a collection of JPEG images created from ASTER images from the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center and Landsat Orthorectified images from the USGS [...]

Hardly anyone has used the octant map/projection since 1514 or so. At least it is hard to find examples.

So I put it to use in the Art of Geography logo.

Many people have commented on the logo… I thought it would be interesting to delve into this unusual projection/map. The following article explains more [...]

Soviet-Era Topo Maps of Russian Cities: “Paul sends along a link to these scans of topo maps of Russian cities. The Soviet-era maps date from the 1980s, from what I can tell; they’re downloadable as very large TIFF files. Previously: Soviet Mapping Update; Soviet Spies…”
(Via The Map Room.)

Breaking News: Google Earth 4.0: “News from Google’s Geo Developer Day, reported by Google Earth Blog, Ogle Earth and The Unofficial Apple Weblog: Google Earth version 4.0 (beta) is now available, with a new interface for all platforms. I say ‘all platforms,’ because there is…”
(Via The Map Room.)

Manhattan Elsewhere: “Depending on your vantage point, Manhattan seems either very big or very small. On complete map of the New York City area, Manhattan is dwarfed in size by the other four boroughs and surrounding megopolis. But for someone on the ground in Manhattan, the population density, the height of the buildings, the endless [...]