Yahoo Maps Launches SmartView
IDG News Service: "The offering lets users view local points of interest such as hotels, restaurants, movie theaters and ATM locations on a map. Users can then click on icons… Read more »
Category: maps & territories
What is Toucan Navigate?
Toucan Navigate is: "the Geographic Information System (GIS) for users of Groove Workspace, the desktop collaboration software. […] Toucan Navigate delivers maps and core GIS functionality to members of Groove… Read more »
How to scale media projects beyond static galleries?
Haiko Hebig: Industrial Night and Magic, where headed? "Now that I took Gigabytes of photos in the abandoned and torn down steel mills and other former sites of heavy industries… Read more »
It’s High Time I Started Knowing About the World
The latest travel meme is something I wanted to visualize for a while, but up to now I didn’t know of any tool to do it easily. Thanks World66. And… Read more »
MapQuest Goes in the Field to Collect Data
Fast Company: How MapQuest Gets You From Here to There "MapQuest uses state-of-the-art satellite images and computer algorithms, but it also relies on actual observations in the field. So it… Read more »
Google, Microsoft Search the Local Web
Microsoft Research: "The WWMX, short for the World-Wide Media eXchange, is an experimental research project run by the Interactive Visual Media Group at Microsoft Research. Our goal is to explore… Read more »
Amazon & Google Visual Search
Not terribly useful, but fun: Anacubis (radial links), Honeycomb (like SmartMoney’s square market map).
Visual Thesaurus
"The Visual Thesaurus is a visual representation of the English Language. To understand the Visual Thesaurus, it is important to think more concretely about how we use language, and especially… Read more »
Dialect Survey Maps
"[D]ialect maps, displaying what terms and pronunciations are used, and where they are used." Fascinating for a foreigner like me. Turns out that you can call sneakers "tennis shoes" (like… Read more »
What is blogchalking?
Blogchalking: "blogChalking is a movement attempting to create a region-sensible blog-search system – descentralized, improvised (influencing existing Internet search engines) and world-wide." This directory in the making requires you to… Read more »