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Why Apple Doesn't Need Google Maps Anymore [Apple]





The new version of iPhoto doesn't seem to use Google Maps for the map features in Journals and Slideshows. It's a small departure, sure, but it signals a much bigger play. Because thing is, Apple doesn't r...
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Racial divide mapped with spacial rifts
Jim Vallandingham maps racial divide in major cities using Mike Bostock's implementation of force-directed maps:
Data is from the 2010 Census, at the tract level. The links are hidden, but each tract is connected to each of its neighbors. The lengths of t...
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Intel Buys Mobile Mapping Company for $350 Million [Intel]






Intel's chips are finally going to start showing up in phones next year, and Ultrabooks are due soon, but it looks like the world's top chip maker's making a push in mobile software, too. Intel just bough...
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Here's What Happens When a Roomba Mates With An Air Purifier [Robots]






Moneual took a page from the book of iRobot and created an air purifier that motors around your house, doing its dirty work while you are away. More »






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Rectangular subdivisions of the world
Eric Fischer, who continues his string of mapping fun and doesn't even do it for his day job, maps the world in binary subdivisions. Each bounding box contains an equal number of geotagged tweets.
The best part is that Fischer is actually doing some prob...
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US post offices spreading over time, 1700 to 1900

Using data from the USPS Postmaster Finder and the USGS Geographic Names Information System, geography graduate student Derek Watkins maps the opening of new post offices from 1700 to 1900. As you know, the mail must go through. No matter if it rains or ...
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Google+'s Horowitz Talks About Joining Board of Wordnik, as Online Dictionary Site Garners $8M More in Funding (Video)

Google+ kingpin Bradley Horowitz has joined the board of Wordnik, which has also just raised another round of funding of $8 million.
It’s the first board seat ever for Horowitz, who has been a bit busy of late launching the search giant’s fi...
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Twitter and Flickr Light Up the Planet [Visualizations]






People love visualizing internet usage, mostly because it's very pretty. But photographer and NYT tech editor Eric Fischer's outdone himself with perhaps the prettiest one of all, mesmerizingly mapping Fl...
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AOL Moves the Furniture Around Some More, With Brod to Patch

Here’s an internal memo, titled “Platform for Growth,” just sent out by AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, in which he buries the lede by noting the business partner of content czar Arianna Huffington, Jon Brod, will move to work on its local Patch...
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Lost Mayan City Found Hidden Under the Jungle [History]






Thanks to 3D mapping, archaeologists have found the ancient Mayan city of Holtun, or Head of Stone. It's been long known that something was there but because of centuries of jungle covering the area, it w...
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Create custom maps and save them as PDFs with FIND’s Personalise Your Map
While Google Maps offers its own editing tools for drawing and annotating, they’re not particularly easy to use and the printing options are limited. Stepping in to solve this problem with its own, free solution is FIND, which this week launched Per...
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This Room Is Entirely White [Video]






What's the fastest way to reupholster a couch, paint the walls, and otherwise totally change the look of a living room? Some 3D mapping, two projectors, and a garish color scheme were all it took to give...
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Home Office launches UK crime map, details every crime reported in your area
The Home Office has launched a new crime mapping service in England and Wales, releasing street-by-street information on every crime reported to police.
UK citizens can visit the Home Office’s new website (www.police.uk), enter their postcode or add...
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Lasers Uncover Nottingham's Underground Cave City [Video]






The labyrinthine complex of caves under the town of Nottingham certainly has history, from giving passage to sieging soldiers in the 1300s to housing an underground butcher centuries later. Now it's all b...
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Google Must Publish Italian Street View Car Routes Three Days in Advance [Street View]






Pity the big Goog, who is now legally obligated to publish its Italian Street View car routes in advance in newspapers, radio and on a website. This is a godsend for fame-hungry costume-dressing Street Vi...
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Get Comfortable For This Mesmerizing Skyscraper Light Show [Video]






It takes a lot of effort to map the entire side of a structure as large and complex as Manhattan's IAC building. Turns out, though, it's entirely worth it. At least when the end result is as beautiful as...
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Nokia Developing 3D Rival to Google's Street View [Republished]






Nokia and its mapping division Navteq are developing a rival to Street View, one that offers full three-dimensional computer models of villages, towns and cities, and could one day allow those urban cente...
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The Sonar Image Of The Titanic's Debris Field Is Bigger Than Expected [Titanic]






The first sonar images of the Titanic have been mapped and the ship's debris field is much larger than scientists anticipated. Here's what the dots in the sonar image is actually showing. More &ra...
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GPS Map Made With One Really, Really Long Walk [GPS]






This is a map of The University of Warwick's 700 acre campus. If some of the lines are a little bit squiggly, that's because all 238 miles of them were walked on foot, traced by a GPS satellite. More&n...
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San Francisco crime mapped as elevation
Doug McCune maps San Francisco crime in 2009 as if it were elevation. Peaks and valleys emerge with the rolling terrains of crime. The above is the map for prostitution:
My favorite map is the one for prostitution (maybe “favorite” is the wrong choice of ...
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Poverty in late 19th century London
Alice Rawsthorn for The New York Times reports on Charles Booth's London poverty maps, from the late 1800s, currently on display at the Museum of London. During a time when people saw rich and poor living separately, Booth's map showed the contrary:
Mr. B...
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BP oil spill if it were where you live
If it Was My Home is a simple but effective concept. Enter your location, and the oil spill is overlayed on top. It's gotten to the point where the area the spill covers is greater than the area of some states. Scared? You should be.


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Uber detailed London map satire
Stephen Walter's The Island looks like an ordinary map of London from afar. Just a bunch of scribbles, actually. But zoom in and you get something more.
The Island satirises the London-centric view of the English capital and its commuter towns as independ...
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Scanning New York City With Lasers From 3,500 Feet [Lasers]






Last week, in the early hours of the morning, a crew methodically swept over New York City in a laser-equipped Shrike Commander aircraft. They were busy creating the most accurate, detailed 3D map of the ...
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Google Earth's Photo-Realistic NYC Will Take Your Breath Away [Google Earth]






It was 2008 when we got our first peek of where Google Earth was really going, from a simple topographical mapping service to a full-on 3D world simulator. That update brought us realistic buildings. This...
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Suck It, Street View, Navteq Maps the World in 3D... With Lasers [GPS]
Google's Street View team famously photographs all kinds of weird stuff as they drive the world, but Navteq, who basically invented this stuff, just built a mount with seven cameras and 64 lasers to see everything better, in 3D. Mounted atop a VW Jetta wa...
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Liquid Galaxy: Google Earth's Eight-Screened Flight Simulator [Google Earth]
Google's 20% time policy, source of untold obscure Linux drivers, single-use utilities and ridiculous Gmail features, occasionally spawns something truly amazing—like the eight-screened Liquid Galaxy, which lets you step inside of Google Earth. It's...
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