Coach JoePa earns 400 wins

Congrats to JoePa and Penn State.

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.

Penn State - Beaver Stadium tradition - 50 years of history

The Geo-Spatial Revolution - Espisode 1

Most recent release of the Geo-Spatial Revolution project from Penn State. Episode 1 which covers the evolution of geo-spatial technologies and the use of open source mapping in Haitian earthquake relief efforts.

Google's SketchUp 8 - 3D design and CAD-like rendering

The latest from Google's SketchUp 8 - very slick stuff.

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.

Penn State Football 2010 countdown

Let it begin ....

Interactive Street Level Mapping a View of StreetSlide

This is an intriguing evolution of how to interact with street level imagery. Rather than a panoramic experience, this is a bit more like "drive-by window-shopping". Apparently the official term for this is "multi perspective strip panoramas".



A quick "Cut & Paste" Highlight:


" ... Street Slide ... combines the best aspects of the immersive nature of bubbles with the overview provided by multi perspective strip panoramas. ... a seamless transition between bubbles and multi-perspective panoramas. .... As the user slides sideways, the multi-perspective panorama is constructed and rendered dynamically to simulate either a perspective or hyper-perspective view. This provides a strong sense of parallax, which adds to the immersion. ... [f]inally we integrate annotations and a mini-map within the user interface to provide geographic information as well additional affordances for navigation...."

 

Credits:
Full credits to Flowing data for bring this to my attention and StreetSlide for putting the site & technology together.
Johannes Kopf, Billy Chen, Richard Szeliski, Michael F. Cohen  - Microsoft Research

The Geo-Spatial Revolution Project: How "geo" is changing our world - from Penn State

Had to post this one.  My under-grad was from Penn State in broadcasting and my Masters of Science & career work in geo-spatial.  Interesting series on the importance of geo-spatial - a new series the folks at Penn State Public Broadcasting.