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The blog of a team looking into approaches to data visualisation. 

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From Tony HIrst (aka @psychemedia)

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From @rmbyrne

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Awesome location-based music project.

Just start each video playing at random and it all fits together into a wonderful avant garde mix. No 2 passes are ever the same and you get some wonderful serendipitous moments where different pieces come together.

Spine tingling!

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From the Google Maps Mania blog

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Lots of ideas from Richard Byrne on using Google Maps for education.

How-to google maps maps Google

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Mashups comparing where locals take pictures of their home city with what tourists take snaps of. 

These actually look better not zoomed completely in.

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Live air traffic data over the world, mapped.

Click each plane for info on carrier, route, altitude etc...

This was the site that was interesting to look at during last year's ash cloud crisis. Empty skies over Europe for days.

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Live shipping data mapped so you can see all major vessels under way round the world. Click on each one for more info.

Useful if you're the coastguard. Fun for the rest of us.

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

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Matthew Somerville has produced this live map of London Underground trains from data made available from Transport for London.

It's quite hypnotic watching the constant movement of trains across the network. It makes my head hurt thinking about how you manage a system as complex as this.

There's also a link to a rail network version of this.

London map maps data underground travel visualization mashup

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A research and education platform that overlays historical map images onto a Google Earth background. 
The range of cities on display is limited but interesting. New York's a good one to start with.
I came across a few bugs where maps didn't appear or refused to be hidden but otherwise this is fascinating.

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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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A great collation and commentary on how information can be shown on maps. My particular faves are the maps that challenge misconceptions about the world like the proportionate map examples shown here. I'm ashamed to say I had so little idea that Sudan was quite so big.

data stories maps location geography

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Fantastic visualisation of key demographic and environmental statistics. Great for population studies. Stick it on the whiteboard and get students to draw conclusions from what they see.

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One for the geographers and mapaholics. How many other countries could you fit into an area the size of Africa. Turns out it's quite a few, and not the tiddly ones.
The commentary in the link makes reference to the fact that tradition map projections like Mercator might be responsible for our skewed view of the globe. 
I don't like the term "immapancy", but the best I could think of was spatial illiteracy.

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