Mapping the 2012 Election - Win Scenarios by Electoral State

Neat interactive pictorial display of potential scenarios for the 2012 Presidential race.

I particularly like the "rescrambling" of electoral wins to outplay certain voting events...

Full credits to the New York Times Politics e-page for "Electoral Map: Building a Path to Victory".

Mapping your LinkedIn Network

Neat way to understand your porfessional "spheres of connection".
From LinkedIn Labs  - InMaps - Visualize your LinkedIn network.

Mapping Android Usage - Activations by Continent

Interesting given all the recent press around "Apple-nation" - never count "the 'Droid" out.
Still no GSM for Apple iPhone on Verizon (aarrgghh).
Credits to FlowingData for bringing this to my attention.

Mapping Taxi Rates - How much for a cab in Athens, Greece?

My wife is flying to Athens, Greece for work. During the layover she wanted to get some sightseeing in.  This Taxi Cost Calculator site was useful.

I like the map options, and the right-click for "to and from" routing.  I would love to see a better search for "sites of interest".

Mapping the Casualties of War - Battlefield to US Hometown

This is sobering interactive display of war casualties, linking battlefield locations to hometowns. Credit to Flowing Data for bringing this to my attention - a collaboration between CNN and Stamen Design.

Moving out of New York (and into): The Visualization of Where

Found this  - a wonderful interactive visual display of New York migration patterns by zip code.  Really at its base, there are two key bits of information driving this map - where to & from by zip.


Taking a "dot cartogram" approach, I like to the "in-out" color thematics and inter route line connections to origin and destination zip codes.


This was part of 15 data "interpretations" featured on FlowingData and WNYC. Read/view more on the other submission below.

From WNYC.org's Map Your Moves: Data Visualization Challenge Submissions


Full credits to Moritz Stefaner (moritz.stefaner.eu)  - great work! Also thanks to FlowingData Mapping the moves of New York residents for bringing this to my attention.

Mapping Oil Slicks - NY Times interactive visualization of the Gulf oil spill plume

Quick "Cut and Paste" highlights:


" ...The “probable extent” of the oil slick is an estimate by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of where oil is mostly likely to go based on wind and ocean current forecasts, as well as analysis of aerial photography and satellite imagery. The “observed extent” show areas where oil was visible on the surface of the water during aerial surveys of the Gulf. The observed extents are not available every day. The extents may vary widely from day to day because of changes in wind patterns and ocean currents...."

For more on the estimates, see this article.




Map Credits:
By ERIN AIGNER, JOE BURGESS, SHAN CARTER, HAEYOUN PARK and ARCHIE TSE

 Sources: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; U.S. Coast Guard; SkyTruth

Aritcle credits:
By JUSTIN GILLIS - Published: May 13, 2010
A version of this article appeared in print on May 14, 2010, on page A1 of the New York edition.

Bringing Dynamic Content to Aerial Imagery - GeoSemble video demo

While a somewhat dated demo, I found how geoSemble seemlessly overlaps vector and raster based map-data with dynamic news content - all tied to the commonality of geography - really fascinating stuff & worth the review.

Geography & Social Media: FourSquare recap from Amsterdam

Neat update from Four Square - I particularly like the PacMahattan project as the pre-A.I. impetus for "gaming-based" incentives with the intermingling of social media and geography.

How Fast is Your Zoom? Benchmarking zoom redraws vs. Google Maps

While I differ on the idea that this is the first "GIS in the cloud" - as far as
I can tell Alteryx has offered this for nearly a decade ( www.DemographicsNow.com & www.FreeDemographics.com ) - the zoom comparison is both compelling & relevant.




GIS Cloud WebMap Engine vs. Google Maps Engine (Zoom Slider Comparison) from GIS Cloud on Vimeo.

Map of Florida Area Roads and Traffic Growth

Florida Traffic Map  - Map of Florida Area Roads and Traffic Growth

http://floridaroads.org/
Found this site thru one of my GIS blog feeds. I would be curious to disect the data to look at differences in traffic congestion "off-season" and during the "snowbirds's arrival". The site allows for the standard "pan/zoom" or you and select by community/town of interest.
 
From the site:
"The Florida Traffic Growth Map highlights the busiest roads and highways. From 2005-2007, many roads and highways have seen at least a 50% increase in traffic. The map highlights the pace of change and increased utilization of Florida's infrastructure. In some areas the road conditions have changed significantly. The data is derived from the Florida Department of Transportation website. Each icon represents the location of a traffic counter and once clicked shows the annual average daily traffic (AADT) counts...."

Mapping for the Gold - Olympics Style:Vancouver’s Olympic Venues

My family & I have really enjoyed this year's Olympic saga. Having some co-workers from Vancouver and parts of Canada added "a nice flair" to watching the events. My favorites - skeleton, short track & anything freestyle. Seemed appropriate to give the Olympics its credit with a map related post. This was first posted online at the NY Times site.

Credits:
Interactive map from the NY Times by SHAN CARTER, MATTHEW ERICSON and JOE WARD; Additional reporting by Melissa Hoppert .


Sources: Elevation data by Intermap Technologies Inc.; satellite photographs by DigitalGlobe, Province of British Columbia and TerraMetrics via Google Earth

Cool Geo-Pic: A Global Good Mornin' to Ya

This cool Geo-Pic shows "Good Morning" tweets.

Full credits to Jer Thorp : blog.blprnt.com GoodMorning! Full Render #2 from blprnt on Vimeo.




Per the site: " GoodMorning! is a Twitter visualization tool which shows about 11,000 tweets collected over a 24 hour period between August 20th and 21st. The tweets were harvested to find people saying 'good morning' in English as well as several other languages.The tweets appear as blocks and are colour-coded. Green tweets are early in the morning, orange tweets are at about 9am, and red tweets are later in the morning. Black tweets are 'out-of-time' messages (sent at times that aren't in the morning at that location)....."

GoodMorning! Full Render #2 from blprnt on Vimeo.

Mapping "Madoff Crime"- Victim Density for Florida & New York

These snapshots came from the Madoff Victim Map List of Madoff Clients wesite at www.MadoffMap.com I chose two locations, downtown New York and South Florida as examples.

Taken from the Site - "Cut & Paste" Highlights:

"... Each client's location is mapped with an icon showing the density of nearby Madoff clients. The icon colors range from green to red creating a heat map effect across the United States. The density of Madoff clients is greatest in Florida, New York and California. ..."

Bean Counters Drink their Way to Presidency

Also found on DirectionsMag's AllPointBlog - this is a neat marketing-to-map gimic. Given many of us are "caffeine-based life forms", kudos to the latest "morning joe" geo-mash-up.

Geo-Mash up in Florida politics

Here is a nice example of using google mash ups to geo-visually communicate political information. While I have my presidential leanings in this year's election, this is not to sway anyone to toward either candidate - more to highlight the example of the slick technology for purpose (benefit or sly persuasion - you decide) for communicating local legislative issues via the map. My guess is the RNC is as good at it as the DNC. Its a wonderful way to tie regional issues in a "browsable" format.



For the full website - click here

To see Click2Map's google mash-up tool - click here

The Click2Map blog has some interesting posts on GooCar and Geo-Targeting.