7 things tagged “maps”

• Sunday December 5, 2010

  Google Maps & Label Readability

  Deconstruction of the subtle methods Google maps uses to make it's maps more readable than Bing or Yahoos.
  • maps
  • usability
  • readability

• Saturday November 13, 2010

  Adam Dant’s Map of Shoreditch | Spitalfields Life

  Stories of Shoreditch, old and new. Told and shown through the ages in honour of and to celebrate the centenary of Anorld Circus bandstand.
  • london
  • maps
  • shoreditch
  • eastlondon
  • history

• Monday September 7, 2009

  City Link location page

  David Singleton posted a photo:

  

  www.city-link.co.uk/our-locations/location/park-royal-nuc...
  
  Really nicely done, easy to scan opening times and contact details, and the photo makes it feel all the more real.
  
  Large corporate-y sites like this can feel so clinical and sterile, it's amazing the difference a local photo makes.
  
  I almost thought it was a well positioned street view embed, that would have been very slick.

  • screenshot
  • maps
  • ui
  • interface

• Thursday March 26, 2009

  Google Street View Time Lapse on Flickr

  Timelapse movie using street view. This was made manually, but an automated version would be relatively easy and pretty awesome.
  • google
  • inspiration
  • maps
  • videos

• Tuesday March 17, 2009

  Harry Beck: The Paris Connection

  Famous for the iconic London tube map, Harry Beck also attempted a map for the Paris Underground, which was rejected. The article covers the history of Beck's mapping work, similar (and potentially pre-dating) designs and the reasons for the French rejection of his work.
  • design
  • london
  • visualization
  • art
  • history
  • transport
  • maps
  • paris
  • underground
  • informationdesign

• Monday March 9, 2009

  Google Maps GPS Mash-up (in 42 lines of python)

  • python
  • programming
  • Maps
  • googlemaps
  • gps

• Monday October 13, 2008

  I need a Mapendar! | FactoryCity

  • maps
  • calendar
  • mapendar