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William Rankin, After the Map

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Here's what the Mendocino Complex fire looks like overlaid on Los Angeles and New York

The Mendocino Complex fire has burned 300,000 acres. What do 300,000 acres look like?

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Quick way to compare census tracts.

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An Interactive Map of Urban Violence Since 1990

AmericanViolence.org compiles violent-crime data for dozens of cities over the period 1990 to 2017, from the high point of violent crime to the striking decline in it.

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Waste some work hours with this interactive map database

Here’s some data to get lost in.

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World map shows newest and oldest international borders

No international borders, no international order—and yet, most land borders are not very old: more than half were drawn after 1900.

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MAP: The Dakota Access Pipeline’s Current Construction Progress

Using the crowdsourced data visualization tool MapStory, Ames resident Nitin Gadia has put together a detailed map showing the current construction progress of Dakota Access LLC’s Bakken crude oil …

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The New Cloud Atlas – Mapping the Physical Infrastructure of the Internet

Introduction The New Cloud Atlas, (newcloudatlas.org) is a global effort to map each data place that makes up the cloud in an open and accountable way. It’s a project to find and map each war…

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Analysis of OSM Data

Interesting series of visualizations to get at who is working together (albeit mostly inadvertently) to build OpenStreetMap.

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We’ve all done this: you just kinda stare at the subway map while you’re waiting for the train. Just stare. You’ve got time to kill, so you stare. And you think, “Oh, that’s where Jefferson St is”. Or “I wonder what Avenue X looks like?”. Or “There’s two DeKalb Av’s that are nowhere near each other”. Or “If this L train doesn’t show up I could take the 4 or the 5 to the J to A back to the L to get home?”. This staring and pondering is how people learn their subway options.

Now you can do the same with buses in NYC.

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All the toxic sites in two of Brooklyn’s most expensive neighborhoods, mapped

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Why do Pokemon avoid black neighborhoods?

The crowdsourced database that was use to seed locations to catch Pokemon in Pokemon Go came from early augmented reality games that were played by overwhelmingly affluent (and thus, disproportiona…

Who gets to make the data that we are stuck with?

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All Maps Are Biased. Google Maps’ New Redesign Doesn’t Hide It.

On Monday, Google rolled out its new Maps design. You’ve probably already forgotten what the old one looked like, but the new version is cleaner and ma ...

Google Maps adds "areas of interest" in cities.

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How an open data blogger proved the NYPD issued parking tickets in error

When Ben Wellington crunched freely available parking data for New York City, he uncovered thousands of tickets issued to vehicles that were legally parked. Max Galka reports on this and other revealing uses of data in our cities

I'm impressed by the traction still has. The David and Goliath narrative is a tempting one, with open data being the clear winner. But when you consider who wins here--drivers, in a city where enforcement (the NYPD) favors drivers over non-drivers, it just doesn't hold up. Who loses? The handicapped people who would use these ramps? The NYPD gets to look magnanimous without ceding much, and they look good in relation to the (privileged) open data movement.

The original post on iquantny.

Also covered in the Village Voice.

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On July 11, maps broke. In Eastern Spain, a developer raced to fix the social networking app he was working on before his next meeting with potential i ...

On the perils of depending on external services when making anything online, in this case specifically maps.