There Are No Roads in London / / No Comments Streets of London Today’s #30DayMapChallenge is to use OpenStreetMap (OSM) data as your primary source.To meet this challenge I decided to use OpenStreetMap data to explore the toponyms of London’s streets, visualizing how different road types – Streets, Lanes, Alleys, Courts, Yards, and Avenues – are named and distributed across the City of London.One of my favourite quiz questions is – ‘How Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: London, roads, there
Roads, Railways, Runways & Rivers / / No Comments I have been inspired by OpenSkiStats’ Which Way do You Ski to create my own interactive map for visualizing the orientations of roads, railways, runways, and rivers in towns and cities around the world.In Which Way Do You Ski, OpenSkiStats created a series of “compass rose” visualizations that illustrate the strong poleward tendency of ski runs across the globe. These ski slope orientation Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Railways, Rivers, roads, Runways
Your phone can help you map and app your way through Thanksgiving roads … – Minneapolis Star Tribune / / No Comments Your phone can help you map and app your way through Thanksgiving roads …Minneapolis Star TribuneTraveling by plane, train or automobile can be a headache. Mixing in Thanksgiving can make it a throbbing migraine. Technology provides some pain relief in the form of apps to let you know which roads are clogged, what gate your flight leaves from and …and more » map app – Google News… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: help, Minneapolis, phone, roads, star, Thanksgiving, through, Tribune