PUBLIC MARKS with tag cartographie

Weave (BETA 1.0) is a new web-based visualization platform designed to enable visualization of any available data by anyone for any purpose. Weave is an application development platform supporting multiple levels of user proficiency – novice to advanced – as well as the ability to integrate, disseminate and visualize data at “nested” levels of geography.

Makes feed for OpenStreetMap changesets based on the per-minute replication files. — Read more http://migurski.github.com/Changepipe/

Why Build a Real-Time Geofencing Game? We wanted to create a game that allowed people to physically interact with the real world instead of a computer console like a first person shooter or a real-time strategy game.

Here is the code i used to render the heightfield and generate the pdf.

TileMill is an application for making beautiful maps. Whether you're a journalist, web designer, researcher, or seasoned cartographer, TileMill is the design studio you need to create compelling, interactive maps.

Jacques Bertin a joué un rôle majeur dans l’évolution des conceptions graphiques et cartographiques. Sémiologie graphique est l’un de ses ouvrages incontournables, plusieurs fois réédité et traduit en anglais. Cette nouvelle édition propose une carte hors texte offrant une vision saisissante du relief de la France. Elle comporte également des mises au point originales de Jacques Bertin et constitue une synthèse de ses démarches. Sémiologie graphique apporte une réponse objective aux deux questions suivantes : dans quel cas faut-il faire un dessin ? Quel dessin faut-il faire ? La sémiologie graphique remplace l’inventaire classique des formules graphiques par une analyse des moyens et des buts et par un ensemble de règles impératives qui commandent la rédaction graphique, c’est-à-dire le choix des correspondances entre les sensibilités visuelles disponibles et les éléments de l’information.

This is the alpha (prototype) launch of Pastmapper, a new platform for describing the world of the past.

New York City's subway system didn't always have a Massimo Vignelli-designed map (published by the MTA between 1974 and 1979), and the ones that came before it were surprisingly just as gorgeous (well, if you avoid the late '60s). You can revisit a massive collection of subway system maps right here—and click through for some of our favorites, dating back to the beginning, 1904. (h/t to Brooklyn Based, for Tweeting this 1955 map)

There are various ways to visualize connections, but one of the most intuitive and straightforward ways is to actually connect entities or objects with lines. And when it comes to geographic connections, great circles are a nice way to do this.

Comment une dispute entre une application iPhone et la RATP a donné lieu a une centaine de cartes qui redessinent le métro parisien, comme un moyen de forcer les données à s'ouvrir.

mental maps, the idea to ask a person to draw a map from memory, to get an insight of the person’s perception of the world.

Map Projections

One of the great things about Open Data and OpenStreetMap is that you can control what the map looks like. You are not limited to just what the data looks like and you can customise it yourself. I have made a custom Mapnik style file that's optimized for Amazon Kindle display.

Wax is your gateway into putting maps on the web. It makes it easier to use APIs like Modest Maps, and documents, from the very start, the basics of web maps.

the heaviest (and most expensive?) map of Manhattan.

Birds Eye View Map Of New York

trace all roads and buildings in my square and submit the edit.

OpenStreetMap tutorials, here are the instructions to make your own awesome OSM tiled map “cake”.

Recueil, détails de cartes anciennes qui montrent l'évolution du paysage urbain montréalais. Les meilleurs cartographes: H.W. Hopkins, Charles E. Goad, livrant à travers leurs cartes, un portrait du Montréal au XIXè siècle. Cet album regroupe d'autres cartes plus anciennes des XVIIIè et XVIIè siècles.

CityTraces, a project experimenting with some collaborative uses of GPS mapping technology to explore how creative industry workers use the city.

Soft-Maps are quilted maps of cities and neighborhoods that represent someone's unique place in the world, and are tactile keepsakes meant to last generations. Wrap your children in them, have a picnic, pull them close during the next Nor'easter.