Satellite technology reveals how the network of city streets is being pushed to the edge of capacity. Watch the GPS traces of 380 London taxis over the course of a single day.
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London Cabs – seen from above
January 20, 2009
Category: electronic culture, information design, mapping
Tags: flux, gps, london, map, people
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Air Jelly
Festo’s “Air Jelly”. Imagine this and many other creatures casually and quietly gliding through the air although while communicating with each other like cellular automata, while providing us with services ranging from the banal to the absurd. The creatures should have a way also to sense their environment — perhaps through GPS or other locative technologies such as sonar…etc.
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(via collective creature.)
December 01, 2008
Category: design, electronic culture, robot
Tags: air, cellular automata, communication, geoloc, geolocation, gps, remote controled, sonar, vehicle
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BIGGEST DRAWING IN THE WORLD
May 24, 2008
Category: quick inspiration
Tags: art, drawing, gps, map, suitcase, travelling, world
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Virtual Cable nav system super-imposes route guidance on your windshield in 3D
Virtual Cable nav system superimposes route guidance on your windshield in 3D
We’ve seen quite a few next-gen nav device concepts, but none with as much potential as the Virtual Cable, from a New Jersey company called Making Virtual Solid. The system uses a laser, a set of lenses, and a moving mirror mounted in the dashboard to project a 3D route-guidance line above the road ahead, as though it’s actually out in front of the driver. Besides making driving that much more like a video game, the company says mass-produced versions will cost somewhere around $400 as a factory-installed option, and can be easily interfaced with existing GPS systems. Sadly, there don’t appear to be any live videos of the system in action, but judging from the number of patent applications and incredibly detailed schematics and explanations on the website, the vapor factor seems pretty low. Check the read link for a set of video mockups of the system in action.
(Via Engadget.)
December 18, 2007
Category: Feature, mapping
Tags: 3d, device, embed, geography, gps, guide, mobile, space, vehicle
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So You’ve Been Using Google Earth and Now You Want…
So You’ve Been Using Google Earth and Now You Want…: “So You’ve Been Using Google Earth and Now You Want Do More
Sure, Google Earth is really cool. Fun, easy to use, easy to pick up and show your friends, you can use your Mac or your Windows machine. But it’s a really limited tool for representing geospatial data that YOU created. If you want to show some points on a map that’s fine and that’s easily done with the Google Earth Plus version, but if you want to make the size of the points change for a certain attribute, you need a more robust tool and GIS software may be your answer.At Vassar, we have a couple of computer lab locations that have the GIS software ESRI’s ArcGIS installed on the machines, the GIS lab in Ely Hall and the Scientific Visualization Lab in Mudd Chemistry. ArcGIS is only available for Windows machines. We do not have a site license for this software, but that should not limit your access to using this geospatial tool too much.
We also have the advanced Google Earth Pro available only in the GIS lab. This is discussed in more detail below.
Geocoding for Free and Viewing in Google Earth
Batch Geocode is terrific, easy to use and free. Geocoding in ArcGIS is not pleasant. Success rates hit a high of about 70 percent, in my experience. Batch Geocode is highly accurate and pretty fast.Your address file must be in tab-delimited text format.
Though Batch Geocode is freely available, if you find yourself using this great tool, please contribute.
Because Batch Geocode gives you a longitude and latitude, you can easily bring your new table back into ArcMap.
Exporting Shapefiles From ArcGIS to KML Format
Using ESRI’s ArcGIS , again in specialized computer labs around campus, you can export a shapefile and bring it into Google Earth.
Here’s the ESRI link to the that nice ArcScript for ArcMap 9.x. You can export a shapefile into a KML file for Google Earth viewing right from ArcMap. I’m giving the ESRI link so they can keep track of the downloads. They like that.
The icon in ArcGIS loks like a little Google Earth icon, shpown below a little larger than in reality.With Google Earth Pro You Can Pretend to Have a GISYou can import a variety of data files into Google Earth Pro that makes it seem a little GIS-like. But don’t be fooled. Our GIS lab in Ely Hall has Google Earth Pro loaded on all the machines.
Here’s what you can import or open in Google Earth Pro:
What is the Difference Between Google Earth free, Google Earth Plus and Google Earth Pro?This is puled right from the Google Earth web pages. Google Earth for All ‘combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips.’ FLY! SEARCH! TILT! ROTATE!
Google Earth Plus is $20 ad with it you can ‘intensify your Google Earth experience with these added features:
- Enhanced network access for faster performance
- Real-time GPS tracking and track/waypoint import — for upload of data from select GPS devices (Verified support for Magellan and Garmin devices only and Does not support export of tracks or waypoints to a GPS )
- Greater-than-screen-resolution printing – for impressive hardcopies
- Customer support via email
- Spreadsheet importer – to import locations from .CSV files
- Import 2,500 locations by address or geospatial coordinates from a spreadsheet.
- You get additional measurement tools (square feet, mile, acreage, radius and so on)
- Export high-resolution images up to 11′ x 17′
- You create your own compressed movies of the zooms and virtual tours you take in Google Earth
Google Earth Pro is $400 ‘With Google Earth Pro, it’s easy to research locations and present your discoveries. In just a few clicks, you can import site plans, property lists or client sites and share the view with your client or colleague.’ But what they mean is that you can import shapefiles (i.e., the native files format for ESRI’s GIS software) or .tab files (i.e., native file format for MapInfo GIS files). That’s cool.
What else can you do?“
[tags]google earth, gps, mapping[/tags]
(Via GIS @ Vassar.)
March 14, 2007
Category: mapping
Tags: google earth, gps, mapping
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Geo: All geo coordinates from Wikipedia
Geo: All geo coordinates from Wikipedia
Stefan Kühn, a cartographer at the University Trier, Germany, has extracted all the geo coordinates embedded in articles on [Wikipedia->http://www.wikipedia.com/]. The [WikiProject Geographical coordinates->http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates] is a Wikipedia project for ensuring standardized geocoding of locations in its articles.
Google Earth fans bent on instant gratification can simply download a KMZ file and start surfing. But more importantly, coders and infoviz geeks can get a comma-separated text file (CSV) with coordinates, titles and Wikipedia categories for all points.
Link: [Geocoordinates from Wikipedia for Google Earth->http://www.webkuehn.de/hobbys/wikipedia/geokoordinaten/index_en.htm]
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(via Code & form.)
[tags]data, database, geo, coordinates, geolocation, knowledge, mapping, map, gps, wikipedia[/tags]
December 22, 2006
Category: electronic culture, information design, mapping
Tags: amandine, coordinates, data, database, geo, geolocation, gps, knowledge, map, mapping, wikipedia
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New Google Earth 4 beta – 16-December-2006
New Google Earth 4 beta – 16-December-2006
Google has just released the latest beta for Google Earth 4 today (December 16th). Windows and Linux – version 4.0.2693, Mac – version 4.0.2694. Here are the release notes posted by ‘ink_polaroid’ at the GEC. Note: there are some great improvements in here. Also, the new touring feature mentioned is really cool. It will automatically pop up placemark description bubbles as you tour through each placemark. This gives you an almost script-like presentation capability.
Release notes:
- Progress indicator for loading network links and models
- Real-time GPS tracking using NMEA (Plus, Pro and EC)
- Greatly improved performance for collada models (textured buildings)
- Tours can display balloons (Tools->Options… then “Touring” tab)
- Driving directions and touring allow a greater range for typed values
- Mac movie-maker supports many more compression formats
KML notes:
- Icon palettes are deprecated (no more root:// for the styles)
- Improved performance on network link hierarchies
Major fixes since last beta:
- Improved compatibility on shared memory architecture ATI graphics cards with
older graphics card drivers - Improved success rate of log in over unreliable connections
- Fixed offline mode in Pro
- Numerous GPS fixes (including GPX import)
The bug which affected the Blue Marble Add-on has been fixed. I will be posting a new version which won’t require the little hack I had developed to fix the bug.”
(via Google Earth Blog.)
[tags]google earth, gps,[/tags]
December 22, 2006
Category: mapping, software
Tags: , google earth, gps, material
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WiGLE – Wireless Geographic Logging Engine – Plotting WiFi on Maps
WiGLE – Wireless Geographic Logging Engine – Plotting WiFi on Maps
The wireless world this morning (GMT-6:00).We consolidate location and information of wireless networks world-wide to a central database, and have user-friendly java, windows, and web applications that can map, query and update the database via the web.
[tags]gps, wifi, network, visualization[/tags]
July 12, 2006
Category: electronic culture, information design, technology
Tags: gps, network, visualization, wifi
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GPS Babel / SourceForge.net: Files
As of July, 2006, the OS/X version replaces the MacGPSBabel AppleScript GUI with a new one written by Karl Smith in RealBasic.
screenshot from the former interface (still accessible)(Via GPS Babel, mailinglist.)
[tags]gps, software, mac, osx, mapping, kml, gpx[/tags]
July 06, 2006
Category: information design, interaction design, software
Tags: activism, consciousness, gps, gpx, icon, kml, mac, mapping, osx, software
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bio & emotion mapping
an interesting research project which explores how one can make use of the real-time biological information of the human body. several wearers record their Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) (a simple indicator of emotional arousal) in conjunction with their geographical location. this is used to plot a map that highlights points of high & low arousal, & visualizes where people feel stressed or excited.
the Greenwich Emotion Map project attempts to invent new visualization strategies to represent this data in the context of neighborhoods & communities.
see also bio-responsive server & coca-cola world chill map & gps drawing.
[biomapping.net & emotionmap.net]
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(Via information aesthetics.)
[tags]emotion, map, mapping, visualization, body, sensor, urban, gps[/tags]
July 05, 2006
Category: information design
Tags: ballet, body, emotion, gps, map, mapping, sensor, urbanity, visualization
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