Cartography and data analysis nut Brandon M-Anderson put together this impressive zoomable map of the United States with one dot for each of the 308,450,225 people recorded by the 2010 census: oddities revealed include people living in "abandoned" areas or parks. A Redditor stitched the tiles into a huge image. ]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/12/28/census-dotmap-a-dot-for-every.html/feed 40 http://boingboing.net/2012/04/09/xkcds-lakes-and-oceans-c.html http://boingboing.net/2012/04/09/xkcds-lakes-and-oceans-c.html#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:34:02 +0000 Cory Doctorow http://boingboing.net/?p=153726
Randall Munroe's produced another in his series of his spectacular, gigantic charts of unimaginably large and complex things compared and rendered tractable by the human imagination. "Lakes and Oceans" has everything you need to cultivate an appreciation for the vasty depths and the ocean blue. Plus, a snarfworthy punchline at the deepest depths.

Lake and Oceans ]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/04/09/xkcds-lakes-and-oceans-c.html/feed 55 http://boingboing.net/2012/02/29/map-of-a-notional-city-whose-s.html http://boingboing.net/2012/02/29/map-of-a-notional-city-whose-s.html#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:48:27 +0000 Cory Doctorow http://boingboing.net/?p=146492 Song Map is a new litho print by Dorothy. The Map is, as its name suggests, made up entirely from song titles: Highway to Hell stretches past Itchycoo Park, Heartbreak Hotel can be found on Alphabet Street and take a left off Penny Lane to find 22 Acacia Avenue.]]>
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Song Map is a new litho print by Dorothy. The Map is, as its name suggests, made up entirely from song titles: Highway to Hell stretches past Itchycoo Park, Heartbreak Hotel can be found on Alphabet Street and take a left off Penny Lane to find 22 Acacia Avenue. Just like places in our own neighbourhood, some are really good and some are best avoided - remember Love House by Sam Fox? Probably best forgotten.

The print, which was inspired by our own unhealthy obsession with music, is for the ultimate music nerd. It includes an A-Z of all the songs featured on the Map with the names of the artists and bands that sang them. Prints costs £20 each plus P & P and they are available to buy from www.wearedorothy.com/buy

We've set up a Playlist on Spotify to accompany the Map at http://spoti.fi/wzBFnp. This is a list of 353 of the featured songs that are available on Spotify. It's unedited so it includes some classics as well as some horrors! And one of the songs included on the Map is by a band one of us was in, but we’re not saying which one.

Song Map ]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/02/29/map-of-a-notional-city-whose-s.html/feed 14 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/30/kaleidoscopic-maps-rorschmap.html http://boingboing.net/2011/07/30/kaleidoscopic-maps-rorschmap.html#comments Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:57:31 +0000 Cory Doctorow http://boingboing.net/?p=111501
James Bridle created Rorschmap, which kaleidoscopes the satellite views of your favorite spots (shown here, the center of Manhattan).

Rorschmap (via Waxy) ]]> http://boingboing.net/2011/07/30/kaleidoscopic-maps-rorschmap.html/feed 7 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/25/birds-eye-view-of-6000-airports-around-the-world.html http://boingboing.net/2011/07/25/birds-eye-view-of-6000-airports-around-the-world.html#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:01:19 +0000 Xeni Jardin http://boingboing.net/?p=110575 This may be advertorial (and not for Boing Boing, we're not involved)—but it's really good stuff. GE produced a satellite, birds-eye view of the 6,000 most popular airports around the world.]]>

This may be advertorial (and not for Boing Boing, we're not involved)—but it's really good stuff. GE produced a satellite, birds-eye view of the 6,000 most popular airports around the world. Filter by busiest, most scenic, interesting geometry and check out photos tagged to location. (thanks, Colin James Nagy)