Pinboard (jm)

A treasury of Zork maps

jm — 2024-08-22T10:10:40+00:00

Some of this are really amazing, and would make great wall art -- particularly the cart00nlion one, which is available on Redbubble

The Many Lives of Null Island

jm — 2024-07-24T10:47:09+00:00

Stamen Design talk about "Null Island", the easter egg they've added to their maps over the years at longitude 0º, latitude 0º, in the Gulf of Guinea, in the Atlantic Ocean. I love that they chose the shape of the island from Myst :) Here it is: https://maps.stamen.com/toner/#18/0/0

Ordnance Survey Maps Six-Inch Ireland, 1829-1969

jm — 2024-05-13T13:41:54+00:00

The National Library of Scotland have done a great job displaying these historical OS maps of Ireland as a zoomable overlay layer on modern maps

Protomaps

jm — 2023-10-24T08:38:29+00:00

A very cool hack -- its PMTiles format allows serving map tiles using HTTP range requests, allowing the entire world to fit in a single CDN-compatible file of 107GB, but with easy incremental zooming from the javascript viewer app

Polynesian Stick Charts

jm — 2023-08-29T08:53:32+00:00

Fascinating:

The Polynesians, scattered as they were over 1,000 islands across the central and southern Pacific Ocean, were master navigators who tracked their way over a huge expanses of ocean without any of the complex mechanical aids we associate with sea fairing. They didn’t have the astrolabe or the sextant, the compass or the chronometer. They did however have aids of a sort, which though seemingly humble, were in fact the repositories of an extremely complex kind of knowledge. Called Rebbelibs, Medos. and Mattangs, today we call them simply “Stick Charts.”

Mobile 3G / 4G / 5G coverage in Ireland - nPerf.com

jm — 2022-08-23T16:52:20+00:00

crowdsourced data of mobile 3G/4G/5G network coverage across the country, with zoomable map of measurement points; great for figuring out options for rural internet access

Ireland by land quality

jm — 2022-05-03T14:29:38+00:00

aka. "Classification of Ireland’s land area into four categories in relation to availability for forestry expansion and the area of productive and marginal agricultural land with most potential for forestry expansion" -- good way to identify regions with poor agricultural land, ie. a better probability of rewilding

A detailed shaded relief map of San Francisco California rendered from LIDAR data

jm — 2022-03-24T10:06:49+00:00

Very pleasant rendering of LIDAR data for SF (via Nelson)

Komoot

jm — 2022-03-22T10:28:02+00:00

"Find, plan and share your adventures" -- good for sharing hiking trails, cycle routes, and walks

National Townland and Historical Map Viewer

jm — 2021-11-19T16:54:58+00:00

Nifty tool from the Ordnance Survey Ireland -- compare historical maps of Ireland against their modern day equivalent, with a "swipe tool" to swipe back and forth between them

How We Turn Satellite Imagery Into Wall Art

jm — 2021-08-30T09:26:30+00:00

very nice

Medieval Archaeology of Ireland – Google My Maps

jm — 2021-04-28T11:19:06+00:00

An exhaustive copy of the official Sites and Monuments Record annotated on Google Maps (via ITS Slack)

🛰️ See A Satellite Tonight

jm — 2021-04-05T21:33:28+00:00

Fantastic little site which gives you an idea of what a future satellite overfly will look like from your location, using Google Street View (via:lemonodor)

Peak map

jm — 2021-03-18T15:53:17+00:00

Lovely little service to draw a map with ridgelines, Joy Division "Unknown Pleasures" style (via Nelson)

I made a fully playable Map of Europe in Minecraft, 1:230 scale, using NASA and ESA satellite data

jm — 2020-11-19T10:13:44+00:00

This is _incredible_.

To make this fully playable Minecraft map of Europe I used the program QGIS to analyze and adapt the NASA Elevation data, GEBCO Bathymetry data, ESA Land Cover data and WWF HydroSHEDS River data. The layers were then exported and worked on in the program WorldPainter to make the Minecraft world. The whole process took me 1 month, but this was the result of years of researching and mapmaking.

Barry Dalby's maps

jm — 2020-01-13T15:33:58+00:00

I have to get my hands on some of these -- amazingly beautiful and detailed maps of Achill, Clare Island, the Blackstairs, Comeragh, Galtee and Knockmealdown mountains, the Way of the Táin in Louth, and various parts of Wicklow:

Having chosen an area, Barry consults the aerial images taken by companies such as Bluesky Ireland, a commercial survey company providing high quality geographic data. He also studies other existing published sources before setting out himself in search of locals who know most about their native place. The folklore gathered by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s, known as the Schools' Collection, is a particularly useful initial source, he says. On his field trips, Barry relies on a chain of social connections. One person introduces him to another and gradually he builds up his knowledge of the particular area. His informants are often farmers or fishermen, some of whom use local features – a rock, a hill or a cove – as landmarks. Barry then examines as much of the landscape as he can himself with this own eyes and with his GPS device in order to clarify the nature of certain features not easily interpreted from the aerial images alone. Having brought all the data together, Barry has created a remarkable and substantial map of Achill and Clare Island – a scale of 1:25,000 and 1:7,500 respectively. That is, in the case of Achill, one centimetre on the map equates to 250 metres of real area. In the case of Clare Island, the scale is even greater – one centimetre equating to 75 metres.

https://www.eastwestmapping.ie/ is the website -- looks like they sell non-folded, flat versions for framing too....

ecotrip

jm — 2020-01-10T10:54:43+00:00

Figure out how to get from A to B with estimates of CO2 emissions involved -- 'Ecotrip is a platform that offers a solution to planes’ large CO2 emission by showing routes from user’s origin point to their desired destination, suggesting alternative means of transport ordered by their level of sustainability.' works great! Pity it's almost impossible to get anywhere from Ireland without flying :(

City maps from tourists' feelings

jm — 2020-01-06T14:54:03+00:00

This is fascinating, and potentially quite useful -- although the great loft I stayed in in Antwerp is marked in a decidedly yellowish region :) (via Nelson)

The aim of this project is to map tourists’ perceptions of different urban areas through data retrieved from vacation rental platform Airbnb. After their stay, Airbnb guests score their feeling about the neighbourhood using a star-based rating system. The aggregated rating of each Airbnb listing is publicly accessible, and given the widespread expansion of this platform, a large amount of data is available for the most visited cities. When overlaid on a map of the city, the data reveals interesting geographic patterns and exposes subjective perceptions on safety, upkeep or convenience. -- Beñat Arregi

Dublin Street Map, 1939

jm — 2019-05-22T13:22:59+00:00

nice high-res scan

GeoHive

jm — 2019-05-22T13:22:25+00:00

'a new national platform for accessing authoritative geospatial information which provides free, web-based access to authoritative Irish spatial data from multiple providers, including Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) and many more.'

Tim Robinson's townland index for Connemara and the Aran Islands | NUI Galway Digital Collections

jm — 2019-04-30T13:09:07+00:00

Legendary west-of-Ireland mapmaker Tim Robinson has an archive at NUIG -- including the maps themselves.

An extensive card catalogue compiled by Tim Robinson throughout the 1980s and 1990s, drawn from his field notes. The series has been arranged by Robinson into civil parishes, and further divided into townlands. For most of the townlands, there are several record cards that give a detailed description of the local landscape. These describe historical, ecclesiastical, geological, and archaeological features. Anecdotes and local lore also feature in these. Robinson adds the names of people who helped him compile his information, usually local people, and often correspondents who sent him information helping him identify the origins of placenames, or certain landmarks and artefacts. The cards also credit several secondary sources, including the OS maps and corresponding Field Name Books, Hardiman's History of Galway, Alexander Nimmo's map of the bogs in the West of Ireland, and many more. In all cases in this series, the placename Tim Robinson used as his title appears as the title here. Many are in Irish, and some are in English. The corresponding translation is provided in the description.

Mobile Service Coverage Map

jm — 2019-02-22T22:02:47+00:00

Comreg have published an interactive map of 2G/3G/4G coverage across Ireland for the various providers

"Ptolemy's map of Ireland: a modern decoding"

jm — 2019-02-16T14:23:07+00:00

paper by R. Darcy & William Flynn -- mapping the coordinates of Ptolemy's Hibernia to our modern knowledge of geography.

After reviewing earlier attempts at reconciling Ptolemy's map with modern ones we adjust Ptolemy's coordinates to modern references with two equations. We find Ptolemy's map is consistent with some intimate Mediterranean knowledge of Ireland, its peoples, coastal features and principal places with their respective locations. We correct some of the modern locations attributed to Ptolemy, offer possible explanations for certain disputed or uncertain locations and offer some external validation to the prehistoric division of Ireland passed down from pre-Patrician sources.
This places Ptolemy's "Eblana" at the modern Loughshinney, in north Co Dublin, where a Roman trading encampment was based.

Daniel Edward Heffernan’s Map of Dublin, 1861

jm — 2019-01-25T12:25:27+00:00

These maps are really remarkable work:

Heffernan’s map of Dublin, published 1 May 1861, is both highly unusual and very fine. No other map of the time gives such a bird’s eye, almost axonometric, view of the city’s edifices. It shows in exceptional elevational detail both a number of the city’s principal public buildings, but also its less vaunted institutions; prisons, hospitals, workhouses etc., all within the municipal boundary set by the two canals.

Every fantasy map / Boing Boing

jm — 2018-10-17T22:18:07+00:00

Every fantasy map, ever

Querying OpenStreetMap Buildings with AWS Athena – door2door Engineering

jm — 2018-10-12T14:27:39+00:00

Well this is damn cool:

AWS not only made OpenStreetMap planet data available on S3, but it also made it query-able with Athena. Pretty cool, no? Now, in theory, you can just construct an SQL query, send it to Athena, and then do whatever you want with the results. No more: Updating OSM planet data yourself; it gets updated on AWS whenever OSM publishes it, once a week. Transforming the data into a query-able format; Athena handles that for you. Query/request frequency limits (it’s still AWS though, so other limitations might apply 💸 💸) At door2door, we had a pretty straight-forward use-case for this: we needed to get buildings in specific regions based only on where they were, and transform those buildings into GeoJSON that we can attach our data to, and visualize on the front-end on top of our base map.

Google Maps’s Moat

jm — 2017-12-20T22:50:43+00:00

pretty cool stuff from Google, has to be said

Download 67,000 Historic Maps (in High Resolution) from the Wonderful David Rumsey Map Collection | Open Culture

jm — 2017-09-08T16:50:51+00:00

You do not need to be a Stanford student or faculty or staff member to access the vast treasures of the Rumsey Map collection, nor do you need to visit the university or its new Center. Since 1996, the Rumsey collection’s online database has been open to all, currently offering anyone with an internet connection access to 67,000 maps from all over the globe, spanning five centuries of cartography.

(via Oisin)

Here’s every total solar eclipse happening in your lifetime

jm — 2017-07-11T11:08:20+00:00

Excellent infographic (sadly, none in Ireland for the rest of my lifetime)

Inuit Cartography

jm — 2017-02-07T12:31:35+00:00

In Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), the Inuit people are known for carving portable maps out of driftwood to be used while navigating coastal waters. These pieces, which are small enough to be carried in a mitten, represent coastlines in a continuous line, up one side of the wood and down the other. The maps are compact, buoyant, and can be read in the dark.

Annie West's walking trail maps

jm — 2016-03-12T12:18:33+00:00

These are really beautiful (and actually quite practical)! Nice one Annie

TeleGeography Submarine Cable Map 2015

jm — 2016-03-07T13:42:57+00:00

Gorgeously-illustrated retro map of modern-day submarine cables. Prints available for $150 (via Conor Delaney)

Roads to Rome

jm — 2015-12-10T12:05:21+00:00

'At least for Europe it is obvious: All roads lead to Rome! You can reach the eternal city on almost 500.000 routes from all across the continent. Which road would you take? To approach one of the biggest unsolved quests of mobility, the first question we asked ourselves was: Where do you start, when you want to know every road to Rome? We aligned starting points in a 26.503.452 km² grid covering all of Europe. Every cell of this grid contains the starting point to one of our journeys to Rome. Now that we have our 486.713 starting points we need to find out how we could reach Rome as our destination. For this we created a algorithm that calculates one route for every trip. The more often a single street segment is used, the stronger it is drawn on the map. The maps as outcome of this project is somewhere between information visualization and data art, unveiling mobility and a very large scale.' Beautiful! Decent-sized prints available for 26 euros too.

TerraForm

jm — 2015-12-07T11:06:21+00:00

nice 3D printed maps from this Irish company

Tesla Autopilot mode is learning

jm — 2015-11-01T10:23:35+00:00

This is really impressive, but also a little scary. Drivers driving the Tesla Model S are "phoning home" training data as they drive:

A Model S owner by the username Khatsalano kept a count of how many times he had to “rescue” (meaning taking control after an alert) his Model S while using the Autopilot on his daily commute. He counted 6 “rescues” on his first day, by the fourth day of using the system on his 23.5 miles commute, he only had to take control over once. Musk said that Model S owners could add ~1 million miles of new data every day, which is helping the company create “high precision maps”.

Wonder if the data protection/privacy implications have been considered for EU use.

England opens up 11TB of LiDAR data covering the entire country as open data

jm — 2015-10-13T13:02:48+00:00

All 11 terabytes of our LIDAR data (that’s roughly equivalent to 2,750,000 MP3 songs) will eventually be available through our new Open LIDAR portal under an Open Government Licence, allowing it to be used for any purpose. We hope that by giving free access to our data businesses and local communities will develop innovative solutions to benefit the environment, grow our thriving rural economy, and boost our world-leading food and farming industry. The possibilities are endless and we hope that making LIDAR data open will be a catalyst for new ideas and innovation.

Are you reading, Ordnance Survey Ireland?

excellent offline mapping app MAPS.ME goes open source

jm — 2015-09-30T15:08:47+00:00

"MAPS.ME is an open source cross-platform offline maps application, built on top of crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data. It was publicly released for iOS and Android."

Geographically-accurate version of the London underground map

jm — 2015-09-20T13:08:46+00:00

as Boing Boing says: 'London's subway system switched early to an abstract map (PDF), and it became a legendary work of design. It just published an internally-used geographic version of map (PDF), however, for the first time in a century—and it's awesome.'

what3emojis?

jm — 2015-09-04T22:31:36+00:00

Is it too late to replace Eircode?

Addresses are hard. Who can remember street addresses or latitude/longitude pairs? You could do much better with three totally random English words, but then there’s that pesky language barrier. No system is perfect, except for emoji.

Code-Point Open

jm — 2015-07-14T09:54:30+00:00

The UK Ordnance Survey's "open data' free product, free for all uses:

Code-Point Open is FREE to view, download and use for commercial, educational and personal purposes.

(via Antoin)

Stairs to nowhere, trap streets, and other Toronto oddities

jm — 2015-03-19T12:11:58+00:00

'There’s a set of stairs on Greenwood Avenue that lead nowhere. At the top, a wooden fence at the end of someone’s back yard blocks any further movement, forcing the climber to turn around and descend back to the street. What’s remarkable about the pointless Greenwood stairs, which were built in 1959 as a shortcut to a now-demolished brickyard, is that someone still routinely maintains them: in winter, some kindly soul deposits a scattering of salt lest one of the stairs’ phantom users slip; in summer someone comes with a broom to sweep away leaves. These urban leftovers are lovingly called “Thomassons” after Gary Thomasson, a former slugger for the San Francisco Giants, Oakland As, Yankees, Dodgers, and, most fatefully, the Yomiuri Giants in Tokyo.'

Google Maps Tenth Anniversary | Re/code

jm — 2015-02-10T22:13:45+00:00

the whole story of GMaps

Aerial Wallpapers

jm — 2014-12-12T22:08:40+00:00

Hello! I love satellite imagery and topographic maps so I made several wallpapers with those gorgeous pictures. All wallpapers are iPhone 6 Plus optimized with 1242×2208 pixels, but you can resize for any device you have. The original sources are listed below.

(Via This Is Colossal)

GpsMapIreland

jm — 2014-11-19T10:31:00+00:00

This topographic map represents Ireland. It is designed for "hillwalking". The contour lines are extracted from SRTM public data provided by NASA. These files contain a digitized ground represented by points. The sample rate defines a grid resolution for Ireland around 90m in northing and 60m in easting. In major cases, digitized points do not correspond with summits. Carrauntoohil (1039m, the highest summit of Ireland) does not appear in SRTM data. The altitude reaches only 1018m. Data were obtain from space with a radar. Because of the relative position between the radar and the earth, a shadow appears in some conditions (along ridges, behind summits...). This shadow matches with a gap in data (Imagine you with a flashlight in a dark room. It is hard to see what is in shadow). To close these gaps, you need other data or you can do interpolation. The second solution is applied in our case. There is one square degree per SRTM file with a sample rate of 1200x1200 points/square degree at Ireland latitude. [...] All in all you obtain contour lines pretty sufficient for walking.

DublinDashboard

jm — 2014-09-22T09:32:58+00:00

'provides citizens, public sector workers and companies with real-time information, time-series indicator data, and interactive maps about all aspects of the city. It enables users to gain detailed, up to date intelligence about the city that aids everyday decision making and fosters evidence-informed analysis.'

Moominvalley Map Print | Magic Pony

jm — 2014-07-31T15:52:05+00:00

Lovely print! Shipping would be a bit crazy, though. There has to be an english-language print of one of Tove Jansson's maps on sale somewhere in Europe...

Two Maps One Scale

jm — 2014-07-14T11:15:48+00:00

Great map-comparison tool from Jef Poskanzer

OpenPostCode demolishes the planned "Eircode" postcode system

jm — 2014-04-28T21:16:28+00:00

Comprehensively ripped to shreds. Bottom line: 'Postcodes will be largely meaningless to anyone without access to the pay-walled database. It is another tax on business.'

FlightAware MiseryMap

jm — 2014-02-17T23:25:02+00:00

what US airports are causing the most misery? Looks like that old favourite, storms in ORD, right now.... (via Theo Schlossnagle)

Map of Steamship Routes of the World, 1914

jm — 2014-01-14T11:10:14+00:00

massive image. very cool (via burritojustice)

earth wind map

jm — 2014-01-05T21:28:54+00:00

Beautiful d3.js dataviz of wind patterns and forecasts, projected against a vector Earth map

Dublin Cycle Planner needs a health warning - Irish Cycle

jm — 2013-12-27T20:57:31+00:00

An extensive catalogue of shitty routing. Poor...

It’s expected that any new mapping and routing systems will have errors which will need to be ironed out but the level of issues with the NTA Cycle Planner is far beyond what you’d expect in a light and quiet beta launch. It’s beyond acceptable for a public PR launch directing people to a route planner with no clear warnings. It looks like a rush job which allows junior minister Alan Kelly to get his name in another press release before the end of the year.

Soviets map America

jm — 2013-08-13T23:28:11+00:00

An amazing Soviet map of the US economy from 1979. Wonderful piece of cold war memorabilia

There's a map for that

jm — 2013-06-14T08:47:08+00:00

'Not long ago, we began rendering 3D models on GitHub. Today we're excited to announce the latest addition to the visualization family - geographic data. Any .geojson file in a GitHub repository will now be automatically rendered as an interactive, browsable map, annotated with your geodata.' As this HN comment notes, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5875693 -- 'I'd much rather Github cleaned up the UI for existing features than added these little flourishes that I can't imagine even 1% of users use.' Something is seriously wrong in how GitHub decides product direction if this kind of wankology (and that Judy-array crap) is what gets prioritised. :( (via Marc O'Morain)

Leopold’s Day Map

jm — 2013-01-15T17:48:48+00:00

'Bloomsday Map Of Dublin Based On Ulysses'. Beautiful! 'The Leopold’s Day map is a stunning marriage of typography and cartography plotting all the streets alluded to by Joyce in Ulysses which were in existence on June 16th 1904. It is accompanied by a comprehensive and beautifully typeset directory with over 400 entries noting the landmarks, business and people of Dublin that were referenced in the text. The Leopold’s Day map is an exquisitely detailed, limited edition piece. It has an impressive dimension of 1000mm x 700mm which means it can also fit into a ready made frame. Price: €125.00'

A Non-Blocking HashTable by Dr. Cliff Click : programming

jm — 2013-01-08T22:31:34+00:00

Proggit discovers the NonBlockingHashMap. This comment from Boundary's cscotta is particularly interesting: "The code is intricate and curiously-formatted, but NBHM is quite excellent. The majority of our analytics platform is backed by NBHMs updated rapidly in parallel. Cliff's a great, friendly, approachable guy; if you have any specific questions about the approaches or implementation, he may be happy to answer."

A map of Dublin from 1686

jm — 2012-12-10T13:43:20+00:00

via Come Here To Me -- 'The whole population of the county at the time was under 60,000. Ringsend, Merrion, Monkstown, Bullock and Dalkey on the Southside and Ballybough, Clontarf, Sutton and Hoath/Howth on the Northside are marked. Taken from the book Dublin: through space and time (2001).'

Massive tracts of land were reclaimed since then, clearly -- the North bay comes all the way in to Ballybough!

The Cake Cafe map of Ireland

jm — 2012-04-12T13:04:26+00:00

'Now that Dublin is in our bag, on our Tea Towel and across our Aprons, The Cake Café is going to create a new map of Ireland. We want to fill this map with all of your favorite places in land. Please send us locations that turn you on, fire your imaginations, or just fulfill your dreams; what ever you think should be included. Please pass the request on to friends in far flung parts of the land so they too can send their suggestions; natural or unnatural, animal or man made, a view, a corner of a field, an island or even a journey or hidden places to enjoy a picnic. -- thecakecafe /at/ gmail.com'. Their map of Dublin is a work of genius -- I love that they include a decent chunk of the Northside, which was a notable failure of the Alljoy Design version. I can't wait to see what they come up with for Ireland.

Apple Map Tiles

jm — 2012-03-09T21:28:53+00:00

I actually really quite like these, particularly how they render parks. Good for leisure use, maybe not so hot for navigation. cute

Welcome, Apple!

jm — 2012-03-09T21:28:00+00:00

'The desktop version of iPhoto, and indeed all of Apple’s iOS apps until now, use Google Maps. The new iPhoto for iOS, however, uses Apple’s own map tiles – made from OpenStreetMap data (outside the US).'

Rectangular subdivisions of the world

jm — 2011-09-25T21:05:13+00:00

'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.' via Nelson

GTA4 Google Map

jm — 2011-06-01T23:34:11+00:00

wow, very impressive -- as far as I can tell, it really _is_ using GMaps infrastructure to some degree

Nelson Minar on map tiles

jm — 2011-04-17T20:11:00+00:00

quite a lot of detail into the prevailing state of the art in how online zoomable maps store their tiles

XKCD's updated map of online communities

jm — 2010-10-06T10:18:26+00:00

Urban Dead is still around?

Designing an Integrated Map for a Visionary Public Transport System for Dublin

jm — 2010-06-17T11:28:37+00:00

excellent work at creating a usable public transport map, and proposing a small, consolidated set of Bus Rapid Transit routes (via Antoin)

UK Met Office: Volcanic Ash Cloud Maps

jm — 2010-05-09T11:33:17+00:00

updated 4 times daily, maps of Europe indicating coverage of the ash cloud. I'm going to be F5'ing this constantly over the next week as I'm supposed to be flying on Sunday :(

Stephen Walter's The Island

jm — 2010-04-30T15:42:01+00:00

truly amazing artwork, as featured in the BBC4 documentary 'Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art' last week. 'The Island satirises the London-centric view of the English capital and its commuter towns as independent from the rest of the country. The artist, a Londoner with a love of his native city, offers up a huge range of local and personal information in words and symbols. Walter speaks in the dialect of today, focusing on what he deems interesting or mundane.'

PeteSearch: How to split up the US

jm — 2010-02-08T15:25:42+00:00

wow. fascinating results from social-network cluster analysis of Facebook, splitting up the entire USA into 7 clusters

Whisky Map of Distilleries in Scotland (Malt Madness Distillery Data)

jm — 2010-01-26T21:49:47+00:00

wow. my new shopping list. also: now do one for Ireland ;)