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« Visionscarto » est un lieu où doivent se sentir à l’aise toutes les personnes qui souhaitent réfléchir sur des concepts originaux de cartographie — comme la cartographie participative, la cartographie radicale ou la cartographie narrative – et de tenter d’en enrichir le champ.

Due to the amount of features and level of abstraction, I knew that creating this map would be a great test of my proficiency with Mapbox Studio, as well as Studio's own limits. By diving into the deep end, I learned some useful strategies.

GameSetMap is a blog about maps and tennis. In this blog I visually explore and spatially analyze tennis match data to better understand the results and actions during tennis matches. Spatial analytics is reasonably new to tennis, and I hope this blog encourages more when and where statistics about the great game of tennis!

The missing link between spreadsheets and vector graphics.

Traditionally, maps have been expensive and time-consuming to make, but that’s changing fast. High-quality maps are easier to make every day thanks to OpenStreetMap and modern computer graphics capabilities, and we feel they can be pushed even further with ideas and techniques from 3D animation, video games, and other visual disciplines. To test this theory, the Mapzen graphics team has been working on a mapping library called Tangram.

Climate change threatens the birds we see every day. I pledge to help build a brighter future for the 314 birds at risk.

If you have been following the development of Google Maps over the years, you are probably familiar with the Trekker, the backpack that includes a complete Street View camera setup for mapping anything from hikes into the Grand Canyon to walks through penguin colonies in Antarctica. Today, a new backpack is joining Google’s mapping tools: the Cartographer for indoor mapping.

Google Maps Nutzungsgrenzen

The curtain slips a bit in the Camera in the Mirror, a new Tumblr project by the Spanish artist Mario Santamaría that collects accidental self-portraits of Google’s hulking cameras while they go about their work. It turns out that museums have a lot of mirrors, and the cameras often photograph themselves in front of them. +

Rappelez-vous. Vos années collège, les cours de géo, la barbe épaisse de monsieur Brunet. Les ressources agricoles de la Chine ; le Mont Gerbier de Jonc ; la variabilité climatique dans le delta du Nil. Interminable randonnée au pays de l'ennui… ? En 2014, plus aucune raison de bâiller. La géographie est (re)devenue excitante. Vivante ! Inter-active ! Ludique ! En savoir plus sur http://www.telerama.fr/medias/je-bouge-donc-je-suis-bienvenue-dans-l-ere-de-la-geographie-2-0,113754.php#qYRxjskUOpFEVEtD.99

City maps in the style of 1980s video games

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We’re thrilled to announce that Skybox Imaging has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Google! Five years ago, we began the Skybox journey to revolutionize access to information about the changes happening across the surface of the Earth. We’ve made great strides in the pursuit of that vision. We’ve built and launched the world’s smallest high­-resolution imaging satellite, which collects beautiful and useful images and video every day. We have built an incredible team and empowered them to push the state­-of­-the-­art in imaging to new heights. The time is right to join a company who can challenge us to think even bigger and bolder, and who can support us in accelerating our ambitious vision.

MapStylr is a free online tool that helps you create, store and publish unique google map styles.

Google's self-driving cars can tour you around the streets of Mountain View, California.  I know this. I rode in one this week. I saw the car's human operator take his hands from the wheel and the computer assume control. "Autodriving," said a woman's voice, and just like that, the car was operating autonomously, changing lanes, obeying traffic lights, monitoring cyclists and pedestrians, making lefts. Even the way the car accelerated out of turns felt right. 

The light that a city emits is like its glowing fingerprint. From the orderly grid of Manhattan, to the sprawling, snaking streets of Milan, to the bright contrast of Kuwait’s ring-roads, each city leaves its own pattern of tiny glowing dots. See if you can ID these cities based on the way they shine.