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Leaflet is a modern, lightweight BSD-licensed JavaScript library for making tile-based interactive maps for both desktop and mobile web browsers, developed by CloudMade to form the core of its next generation JavaScript API.

Shows you areas you can reach with public transport in a given time.

To be honest, I don't remember the map being all that confusing when I was there. But what I do remember is that I hated holding that giant map folded up in my back pocket screaming tourist. It would've been great to have that on my mobile.

Yahoo! just recently rolled out Yahoo! Y sketch for iPhone a cool search tool where users simply sketch an area of interest on a map and look for hits of interest returned within the area… very clever!

This map represented the city not as a static network of streets, buildings, and spaces, but as a series of traces that aggregate over time to represent the city as different people traverse it.

The CloudMade Developer Zone contains all the resources you need to start building interactive web, mobile and desktop applications. From here you can browse documentation, view code samples, file bug reports and request new features.

The Web Maps documentation contains the resources you need to get started on and master developing web applications using Web Maps.

Creating your first map

How to embed a simple map on a web page.

What struck me was that locative media practitioners often refer back to the situationists as some kind of ancestors, as if they’re working in the same vein. …

But that, to me, seems to be where the similarities end. As alive-and-kicking situationist muse Jacqueline de Jong pointed out during the evening, the situationists wanted one thing above all else: to destroy and disrupt our cushy society. They were sick of it, vowing never to work a day in their lives. They probably would have laughed if they had seen that their ideas had been cherry-picked for ripe concepts. The derive, the detournement. All simple concepts that they purposefully packaged in complex and artistc jargon. And we fell for it.