Maps

The new Bing map is beautiful

Aug 4, 2010 · 
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By Vu Nguyen

I think the guys over at Bing did a great job with this redesign. The map tiles look much cleaner and more aes­thet­i­cally pleas­ing. The only thing that I still miss is the map of bus stops that Google has.

Read the full review at 41Latitude:

…this was not some incre­men­tal improve­ment that Microsoft gave to Bing Maps—no, this was a vast over­haul. In truth, it seems as though Microsoft has left noth­ing unchanged in the “new” Bing Maps. And yet even though the “new” maps are unusu­ally light on detail (espe­cially in how few cities they seem to show), they’re now among the most aes­thet­i­cally pleas­ing maps on the web.

Will Google or Bing try to buy this?

Jul 29, 2010 · 
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By Vu Nguyen

Here is a bit of infor­ma­tion about the project:

Systems such as Google Street View and Bing Maps Streetside enable users to vir­tu­ally visit cities by nav­i­gat­ing between immer­sive 360° panora­mas, or bub­bles. The dis­crete moves from bub­ble to bub­ble enabled in these sys­tems do not pro­vide a good visual sense of a larger aggre­gate such as a whole city block. Multi-perspective “strip” panora­mas can pro­vide a visual sum­mary of a city street but lack the full real­ism of immer­sive 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. We call this form of slid­ing side­ways while look­ing at a street façade a street slide…

Thanks, Tom.

Visualization of the U.S. electric grid

Jun 24, 2010 · 
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By Vu Nguyen

Via NPR:

The U.S. elec­tric grid is a com­plex net­work of inde­pen­dently owned and oper­ated power plants and trans­mis­sion lines. Aging infra­struc­ture, com­bined with a rise in domes­tic elec­tric­ity con­sump­tion, has forced experts to crit­i­cally exam­ine the sta­tus and health of the nation’s elec­tri­cal systems.

U.S. jobs growth forecast interactive from USA Today

Jun 21, 2010 · 
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By Vu Nguyen

USA Today and Moody’s Economy.com work together on this com­pelling graphic that shows the fore­casted jobs growth in the U.S. Here is a bit about this project from the USA Today’s site:

This graphic shows actual job growth through first-quarter 2010 and Moody’s Economy.com’s fore­casted job growth for second-quarter 2010 through first-quarter 2014. It cov­ers every state, the District of Columbia and 384 metro areas, bro­ken down by four­teen indus­try sec­tors. The data are sea­son­ally adjusted.

Click here to view the interactive

US casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq

Jun 2, 2010 · 
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By Vu Nguyen

The pow­er­ful map appli­ca­tion by Stamen design and CNN let you keep track of US and coali­tion casu­al­ties in Iraq and Afghanistan. The appli­ca­tion is a set of two maps that dis­play the same data but are orga­nized in dif­fer­ent ways. The map on the right side shows the loca­tions of the deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan while the map on the left shows where each sol­dier orig­i­nally comes from. I think a sub­tle but very well designed fea­ture of the appli­ca­tion is the syn­chro­niza­tion between the maps. You can mouse over one map to see the cor­re­spond­ing data point high­lighted on the other one. Check the map out to see what I am talk­ing about.

Head over to CNN’s Behind the Scenes blog to read more about the peo­ple involved. Many kudos to every­one work­ing on this project.

via Stamen Design

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