Seero - Steve_McQueen - Bullitt Chase Scene
Watch the best car chase of all time mashed up with a map of San Francisco to create geo-broadcasting. The added context gives an already perfect sequence added zing.
The Wilderness Downtown
A nifty interactive video for Arcade Fire's "We Used To Wait." It claims to be built in HTML5 but actually uses XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.01 doctypes throughout. *sigh*
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Surfacing
An interactive map of the world’s undersea cables, to accompany Nicole Starosielski’s book The Undersea Network.
The Landscape of Music
The geography of musicians.
Our Maps Don’t Know Where You Are – The Markup
I wish more publishers and services took this approach to evaluating technology:
We scrutinize third-party services before including them in our articles or elsewhere on our site. Many include trackers or analytics that would collect data on our readers. These may be standard across much of the web, but we don’t use them.
Mapping a World of Cities
A timeline of city maps, from 1524 to 1930.