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Site hosting the Oxford Uni Dept for Continuing Education's map resources - mostly based on the Google Maps API. Interesting examples, especially the Viking ones

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Nice global version of the Foursquare check-ins in Manhattan/San Francisco animation which I bookmarked a while back (also in the Geolocation "list")

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An example of how mapping can make data more meaningful. Uses Google Fusion. 

The accompanying article highlights some of the problems with comparing national data on a subject like this; what actually constitutes murder.

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Neat.

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Blog post from Tony Hirst (aka @psychemedia) on how some HEI's a re taking an innovative approach to campus mapping.

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Google taking a similar approach to Openstreetmap here. 
It will interesting to see how the 2 coexist.

US only at the moment.

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This group tracked 881 anonymised iphones during April 2011. These videos show the movements as a sort of glowing heat map.

The sample size is pretty small so I'm not sure what this is supposed to show, but as a an example of geolocated data viz, it's very attractive.

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Via @hblanchett.

Bristol Council have set up "Know Your Place", a digital mapping service that allows users to explore historic Bristol. There's an option for people to contribute to the information layer as well.

bristol mapping location history

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Learning Google Fusion is next on my hit list of things to dabble in. This blog post talks about combining Fusion data with the Geocommons mapping tool.

It seems a little fiddly despite the authors "it's soooo simple" message.

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Great report from Techwatch on Data mash-ups.

Covers the development of the technology, it's uses and other essential stuff.

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It's the bit at the bottom about mobile users exceeding desktop that interests me.

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Guardian Society uses digital mapping and citizen journalism to build up a profile of the impact of public sector cuts in the UK.

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From the Guardian, how councils are using geographic information systems to improve the delivery of services.

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Interesting and depressing Google mash-up on severe road accidents involving cyclists in London 2006-11

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Police.uk crime stats for your Foursquare check-ins.

Interesting mash up of open data and location-based social networking. The raw police data looks only at locations to compare crime rates, but this app takes it from the perspective of the individual who moves between locations. The crime stats for your latest 10 check-in locations are collated to give you a "fear" score - ie, if you spend all your time in crime-ridden locations you'll have a higher score.

This is interesting, but I wonder about the meaningfulness of the data. Also, how productive is it to explicitly link crime figures with fear. It makes for a catchy title but is this giving people something else to be scared of?

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UK Government's open data web site. Great source of info for visualisations and map mash-ups.

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Wide range of sources of data for creating map mash-ups and visualisations.

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Great free tool for creating and sharing map mash ups

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Great map mashup site from UCL

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Using mobiles as a data gathering tool for research on subjective wellbeing.

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