Regular maps of Paris’ large, incredibly intricate subway system can get overwhelming to look at very fast, but a gorgeous, interactive website makes it much easier on your eyes by rendering those maps through stunning 3-D graphics and commuting stats.
(Source: Wired)
(Source: Wired)
The Landsat mission has been taking satellite imagery and data of Earth for 40 years. One of the primary benefits of such a record is the ability to study changing landscapes.
To celebrate the launch of the first Landsat satellite on July 23, 1972, the USGS and NASA asked the public to nominate landscapes that have undergone a lot of environmental change for a closer look. The Landsat team chose these six submissions and created customized chronicles of the change in each area.
Watch the American landscape change - as seen from space! - over at WIRED Science.
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So great – a song map made of 390 song titles, from “Highway to Hell” to “Penny Lane,” by way of “Heartbreak Hotel.”
Couldn’t get any better. Well, maybe if there were cars driving around it, playing songs about cars…
Inside Google’s Fascinating Stash of 10,000 Indoor Maps
When Google announced it had added 20 additional museums to its indoor mapping service Wednesday, the most interesting part of the story was treated as just a throwaway factoid in the company’s blog post: There are now more than 10,000 indoor maps available to Android device users.
(Source: Wired)
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I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that most of us value the maps function of our smartphones as much or more so than the ability to make and receive phone calls. That’s what makes this piece of news from Gadget Lab (via 9to5Mac) so interesting: apparently Apple’s going…
Q: If we dug a hole so deep that we came out the other side of the Earth, where would we be?
A: Wet
Geography, class, and fate: Passengers on the Titanic.
A century ago the Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank. Mapping travelers’ hometowns reveals the immigrant status of most third-class passengers, who also suffered the highest fatality rate.
A very cool interactive “story” map from Esri. Check out: where passengers were from, how many people were on their life boats, if they survived, and more.
![[via @WiredCES]: ‘You can’t miss us, we are in booth 10367.’ Riiiight.
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[via @WiredCES]: ‘You can’t miss us, we are in booth 10367.’ Riiiight.
——> To see where the Wired team ended up, wander over to the Gadget Lab for more CES than you can handle.
