What Charles Booth did for London (see previous post), the Justice Mapping Center does for various American cities, regions and states. Except with a much better methodology. And better technology. And more completely.
we make money not art point us to a project on visualizing the spread of the Sony Rootkit (info from Slashdot) using PlanetLab. What for? I'm not sure, but they seem to be finding some strange or unexplained correlations between the servers it attacks and the initial sources. What does it all mean? Apparently, Sony is very secretive about it. Aside from being cool graphics, it might help in exploring what Sony won't say.
An excerpt from MIT's SENSEable City Lab project about the Mobile Landscape:
Today the experience, infrastructure and morphology of the city are more closely related than ever before. The profusion of handheld electronic devices with increasingly powerful networking capabilities offers its users new modes of interaction within the urban environment. It also provides designers, artists, and theoreticians a new means for engaging and understanding the city. Therefore, forget old ways to describe cities!
Because it is possible to simultaneously 'ping' the cell phones of thousands of users - thereby establishing their precise location in space at a given moment in time - these devices can be used as a highly dynamic tracking tool that describes how the city is used and transformed by its citizens.
See users duke it out on Metafilter.
While I still haven't decided upon which application to use (SmugMaps or Geoblogger), I can't help being awestruck at how others use these applications. It is amazing to be able to virtually follow along on another's journey through their photos and georeferences. I wish I had been able to use this as an archiving tool on my last roadtrip a few years back. Maybe my mum would have slept better at night (on second thought, maybe not).
A new Google Maps hack shows the effect of various types of explosive events on your most (or least) favorite location. Shown above: the effect of a 200 kiloton explosion near Urban Cartography headquarters in Sacramento, California.
HYDESim (High-Yield Detonation Effects Simulator) maps overpressure radii generated by a ground-level detonation; these radii are an indicator of structural damage to buildings. No other effects, such as thermal damage or fallout levels, are included in this tool. Note that the displayed rings are "idealized"; that is, no account is taken of terrain, urban density, ground type, weather conditions, and so on.
The data used in HYDESim are based on information found in The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, 3rd Edition, by Samuel Glasstone and Philip J. Dolan.
A research programme at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) is building and testing a 3D tool for community collaborative decision-making. The RMIT research team is building virtual 3D audiovisual models of urban spaces to test their potential to enhance community discussions of future neighbourhood developments. The team started a pilot project in partnership with the Moreland City Council’s urban planners in 2003 and has created an online 3D model of the Jewell Station Neighbourhood (JSN) that allows users to walk and fly through that locale. The JSN model can be screened in community forums to enhance exercises in visualising and discussing urban futures in their locality. The project goal is to make information available online so the team started with a Web site that provides access to tools and background information.
To view the project go to www.c-s3.info.
Or contact William Cartwright at william.cartwright@rmit.edu.au
Boy, has 3D imaging come a long way! Some of you may remember the original 3D technology. Well don't worry, you can throw away those crazy blue and red glasses now. Thanks to a man named Victor Shenkar, we can really understand why our obsession with 3D was justified. His company, GeoSim Systems has used a comprehensive collection of images taken on street and by plane to virtually reconstruct an entire urban environment down to its shrubbery. Virtual Philadelphia is the most detailed and visually stunning urban imaging system I have ever seen. Read about the process in this article from the February 17, 2005 edition of The New York Times.
And, evidently, (is this a surprise to anyone?), Google wants to do the same thing in San Francisco. And after that, Google and GeoSim Systems will have a virtual duel to the death for the rights to all other cities. Anyone want to take bets?
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As I referenced in this Archinect post, landscape ecologists are creating the most advanced visualizations yet of the look and feel of lower 'Mannahatta' pre-"concrete jungle." article, plus video
CmdrTaco reports in Slashdot about a new Symantec Worm Simulator. 
This software autogenerates a global visualization of a computer infection wave and a 3D representation of "an individual network, complete with desktop machines, workgroups, and larger company subnets." Someday in the near future the worm simulation will be used on television news in a similar manner to weather imagery.
Make your own multimedia Google Map using Engadget's tutorial. [via Metafilter]
If Google could attack world hunger with the kind of ferocity that they've invested in their mapping technology, the entire world would be buried in at least a kagillion bazillion acre-feet of food. Congrats to Google for their new satellite image maps.
The Fools' World Map visualizes a world according to the most geographically ignorant among us. And by us, I don't mean me. The author constantly updates and reformats the map based on statements such as "Australia is beside Germany" and "Japan is accessible from Texas by car."
The London tube diagram is one of the single most iconographic maps of the 20th century. Here you can see Simon Clarke's geographically accurate version of the original tube map graphic on top of a NASA satellite image of London. The page also contains links to realtime disruption maps, historical maps (from 1908 to 2016 projections) and various other Underground-related ephemera.
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