Pages Tagged “Maps”
Reviews
- StreetComplete ★★★★★ StreetComplete is an easy way to contribute to OpenStreetMap on the go, as a beginner, or both from your Android phone.
- Vespucci (App) ★★★★★ Vespucci is a powerful editor for OpenStreetMap on Android that can handle just about anything, though the learning curve is steep.
- Watch Duty ★★★★★ More useful than official alerts or the LA Times fire maps for knowing which parts of a wildfire you need to worry about and how soon.
Blog Posts
- The Omega Block
Went to check the forecast on Weather.com and saw this on the home page: I should’ve realized Darkseid was back. It would explain so much.
- Our Trail is Better With Our Free Ap!
Found a place to hike this morning that was only in the 80s instead of hotter, and was greeted by this sign at the trailhead.
- Coronawhere?
A lot of the maps I see showing coronavirus cases, even from sources like the CDC, have a problem: They’re labeled by country, or by state. It’s too big to be useful. Labeling the number of cases reported in the US doesn’t tell you that they’re mostly in clusters in Washington and California. Labeling the […]
- The Visible Housing Timeline
I saw an article about open space preservation efforts in Newport Beach, and decided to look up the area on maps’ satellite view. Looking around nearby areas in Newport, Laguna Beach, Irvine, Tustin, Orange, etc, I realized: the timeline of residential development in central Orange County is actually visible. Newer neighborhoods have bigger houses than […]
- Google GPS Navigation Needs Traffic Prediction
On a long trip, traffic conditions change. Google Maps uses historic data to show weekday averages, so why not factor it into travel time in navigation?
- GPS Navigation Convert (Sort of)
After avoiding GPS navigation for years, I’ve discovered something I like about it: avoiding traffic congestion.
- Ringworld Manhattan
Nice! Here & There: A horizonless projection in Manhattan – BERG (via Warren Ellis)
- Maps and Music
Leave it to MapQuest to remind you that the nearby railroad actually is the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (and immediately lodge the song into your mind). Actually, I’m also reminded of a Forbidden Broadway bit on a musical version of Anna Karenina, which finished with the parody, “On the Ashkabad, Tblisi and the Kiev […]
- On Google Moon
Google Maps has been extended to the moon, with all the Apollo landing sites marked. Be sure to experiment with zoom for full effect.
- Map Crazy!
OK, one more election-related post. This one comes from The Big Picture, and features links to various maps of election results. Comparisons of state vs. county maps, looks at which candidates were favored by people in other countries, comparisons to past elections and to pre-Civil War America… and of course the comedy (including the redistricted […]
- Purple America
Veeery interesting! By now everyone’s seen maps colored in red/blue by state, which make the vote look very regional (the South and Midwest pull red, and the northeast, the West Coast, and the Great Lakes area pull blue). A map by county makes the country look extremely red, until you realize that many of the […]