Tag Archives: Mapping

Walk It – A step in the right direction, I regularly used to walk this journey very fast… in about 27 minutes… with the best walking song ever playing on my iPod.. No One Knows by Queens of the Stone … Continue reading →

..and you get some rum stuff…

Nice use of Google maps to show houses for sale in the UK. Their spread the word page was ever so slightly lame though. I liked it, it seemed like at some point someone had had a good idea and … Continue reading →

A great tube map that shows how long it should take to get from A to B. Except for one thing, it’d be so much better if the stations were listed textually as well as geographically and temporally. Why oh … Continue reading →

Mm?! Whilst this “hyper map” has a lot on it, things you can turn on and off… it somehow feels cluttered. I can’t “read” it. I feel I’d need to know Boston first to make really good use of this. … Continue reading →

Of course there’s a lot more I could do to this (yes please send suggestions to me) but here’s a quick hack I did over lunch of London theatres on a Google map.

This weekend I discovered that a few miles from where I lived as a child there are some standing stones. I never knew. And in fact all around North Yorkshire there are barrows and henges and stones and a whole … Continue reading →

It would seem that the ONLY way we are ever going to get maps we all can use is to do them ourselves because the government/ordanance survey/whoever else is involved can’t work it out.