Interesting, sort of clumsy, but I guess it was inevitable for someone to try something like this. It's great that Google Maps is set up in such a way that implementing this at least looks like it would be easy.
Theoretician of the synapse, and incredible medical illustrator.
Awesome data dump tracking the locations of the presidential candidates over time.
Not particularly "pan" with only a few major destinations represented. But they sure made the airplane big. via leahb.
For all I know a complete mapping of possible leaf forms. via kottke.
No descriptions attached, meaning that most, if not all of the interpretation is left up to the viewer. Also a shame there's only the one shot of each globe. Totally fascinating nonetheless, and the collection seems to be growing slightly, day to day.
"[The United States] isn't a unified system of territoriality, but a hodgepodge of different attitudes toward the land and its inhabitants. Different areas under U.S. control have very different relationships to government..."
nice one, neil. Interesting way to get a general and coyly incomplete view of the planar shape of a city.
via someone a long time ago. probably neil.
Interesting to watch the subways appear in chronological order.
Interesting look at which regions vote for whom.
Once you get far enough away from the maps - or are looking at them as thumbnails, you can't even really tell how they were made.
this looks like nothing more than some kind of psychedelic flow chart.
via kottke.
