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Mapmaker, Artist, or Programmer?
- godisdad 14y agoBtw, the flickr in question: http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/
- noirman 14y agoIt's really beautiful. But it's practically useless.
- enf 14y agoThanks, and sorry the maps aren't useful to you. They're artifacts of the process of trying to understand the world, and maybe someday I'll make it all the way there.
- justinator 14y agoI've registered to this site to let you know that I absolutely adore this work. I've added you as a contact on Flickr to see what else you are able to create.
- primitur 14y agoThe maps are not useless. In fact, they are tremendously valuable. If that is not observable, the fault lies in the observer. I believe LIVE versions of the maps are a tremendous idea .. would you consider building a site replete with such an effort? Live versions of many (if not all) of your maps would make a tremendous contribution to the way our mobs conceive themselves. (Perhaps this is something for ifft&co..)
- enf 14y agoI would love to make live versions of these, but the rate of data coming in is slow enough that they don't work very well in real time—even New York only has one geotagged tweet every 4 seconds, so using it would mostly be sitting and waiting for something to happen. A retrospective of the past day would probably be practical and might be useful, though.
- cpher 14y agoThese are beautiful maps, Eric. I'm a GIS/software developer living in your old haunt (Hyde Park), and I love stuff like this...especially with Chicago data. GIS folks love comparing old maps to new maps. Do you currently make any of your maps available in high-quality print format (e.g. http://store.axismaps.com/ http://store.axismaps.com/)?
- nja 14y agoLike many things, including works of art. But that doesn't mean it's worthless, and we shouldn't treat it as such.
- baddox 14y agoAnything that is beautiful is useful.
- Bootvis 14y agoMaybe for you but these maps can be very useful for urban planners.
- deepGem 14y agoIt may be practically useless today but what if he rendered how people are connected to locations (via geotagged tweets and photos), in realtime, something like that flighttracker.. this has good potential man.
- 001sky 14y agoAre these evergreen? ie, can the data-sets be updated, etc. FWIW, I think they are conceptually intersting. My immediate second thought was, what more could be done? [in a good way]
- enf 14y agoI've tended to make them statically, but I really ought to go back and update some of them with more data.
- C0d3r 14y agoHi, I finaly registered to hacker news only to congratulate you and ask how did you make these? I love Data and love to see new ways of displaying it, this is an awesome idea, I'd like to try and make things like these for a hobbie, care to show me some pointers?
- themanr 14y agoI'd love to see some of the code behind these maps. Are they rendered with mapnik? How practical would it be to make some of them live and interactive? Especially now we have vector graphics in the browser.
- enf 14y agoI really should clean up the source code and release most of it. The toolchain for most of them is kind of ridiculous: giant flat text files feeding through Unix pipelines and Perl scripts into PostScript files and Ghostscript. A lot of them would be better if they were interactive in the browser but I need to do the work to make it happen.
- themanr 14y agoWow, that sounds quite scary. I'd love it if you did release the source though, it'd be a great project for me to build an interactive version. (Whether or not it would get further than any of my other side projects is another matter :) Anyway, my email is in my profile and I'd be very interested if you did release something.
- sgarbi 14y agoprogrammer == artist