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Seeing Space in New Ways: 13 Creative Maps & Navigational Guides

With the advancement of technology, the ways in which we perceive information have become increasingly visual, interactive and all around multi-dimensional - so why shouldn't maps evolve to ...

Terrapattern: Satellite Image Search Engine Matches Similar Places

A powerful tool for artists, designers and researchers, Terrapattern lets users seek out similar-looking locations from an aerial perspective, finding connections and patterns between disparate ...

Wearable Cities: 15 Urban-Patterned Outfits & Accessories

Wear your love for your city on your sleeve - and your t-shirt, tote bag, necklace, cuff bracelet and bandanna. Aerial maps, transit maps, city skylines, notable architecture and even the ...

More Map Art: 27 Cool Cartographic Sculptures & Drawings

Rivers become veins in detailed portraits, mirrored city blocks resemble modernized Persian rugs and urban topographies emerge from rolls of tape in these map-based works of art. Some create the ...

Invisible Cities: Tweets and Photos as Terrain on a Map

What would it look like if you could actually see all of the tweets and Instagram photos from a Beyonce concert in New York City hovering above the skyline in physical form? A project called ...

Virtual LEGO Blocks: Build with Chrome, Set on Google Maps

Build with Chrome is the new, fast and simple model-maker in town, and this one lets you create structures faster than digital SketchUp or physical LEGOs ever could. Of course, this Chrome ...

Extreme Street View: Google Employee Maps Deserted Island

Street View has mapped much more than roads in its, but sending a lone urban explorer through the haunting multistory ruins of a remote island may be one of their riskiest geographic ventures ...

Accidental Art: Apple Maps Glitches Create Surreal Scenes

All of the notorious glitches on Apple's Maps app make it incredibly frustrating to use for practical purposes, but it still has value - as accidental art. When two-dimensional images are ...

Hell is Other People: Avoid Your Friends Using Social Media

Social media was invented to bring people closer, but the more antisocial among us can use it in a different way: to avoid the people we know. 'Hell is Other People' is an interactive smartphone ...

Wiki Your City: Mobile App Lets You Geo-Tag Articles

Wikipedia is making it easier than ever to participate in the aggregation of user-provided knowledge and information with its GeoData extension, a mobile app for iPhones and Androids. This app ...

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