CABINET // Trap Streets
A fascinating piece by James on trap streets, those fictitious places on maps that have no corresponding territory.
Google Maps’s Moat
A fascinating bit of cartographic reverse engineering, looking at how Google has an incredible level of satellite-delivered building detail that then goes into solving the design problem of marking “commercial corridors” (or Areas Of Interest) on their maps.
Related links
London V2 Rocket Sites...Mapped - Londonist: London News, Food, Arts & Events
Gravity's rainbow on a Google map.
We Tell Stories - 'The 21 Steps', by Charles Cumming
The first of the We Tell Stories series is online. It's a clever piece of storytelling using Google Maps to full effect.
Google Maps
The new "you are here" feature on the mobile version of Google Maps looks, as Matt Jones said, "indistinguishable from magic." But it doesn't work on my phone. Grrr...
Google Maps API Official Blog: KML and GeoRSS Support Added to the Google Maps API
Google gets behind GeoRSS. This is good. Somewhere, Mikel Maron is doing a little dance.
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Choosing a geocoding provider
A did a little experiment to find the right API provider for thesession.org
Progressively enhancing maps
How I switched to high-resolution maps on The Session without degrading performance.
One week of Map Tales
A grab-bag of stories, illustrated with maps.