Fluorescent Reef

via: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/12/night-dive-fluorescence/

Transit Visualization

Interesting visualization of transit systems.  Mute the video's, the soundtrack is atrocious. 





Andrew Walker is the programmer behind these visualizations and has dozens and dozens of them for various cities around the world (link) He uses GTFS data (General Transit Feed Specification) as the basis for the plots. 

via: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/11/transit-visualizations/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=wiredscienceclickthru&pid=5563

Vox Populi

Realized I hadn't posted this installation yet... 

vox populi uwsa from Andrew Azzopardi on Vimeo.

It was done by co.labs for the Mayors Celebration of the Arts in Cambridge this summer.  

-G

Transits

How it is done is confusing... but it looks neat!

Thanks to Azzo for the link.

via: http://www.ignant.de/2012/11/26/transits/

uWaterloo Pedestrian Traffic Map

Hi Everyone who goes to uWaterloo, or knows people who do:

I need your help. We are about to begin making a pedestrian traffic map of students on uWaterloo's main campus from Monday November 26 to December 7th.

Seeing how students navigate campus will allow us to make better design decisions and provide us with a valuable tool for planning the design of the new Student Services Building.

We have developed a mobile app to make participation easy. If you are a current UW student, please consider participating. There is up to $10 in compensation for the first 300 students!

If you are not a UW student please consider recommending this to someone who is.

More info: uwaterloo.ca/sso/map

To download app: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=uwaterloo+pedestrian&c=apps

* The iOS app is coming... we are waiting for Apple to put it up (US Thanksgiving).

Thanks, 

Geoff

Britain from Above

Via BBC



"Satellite technology reveals how the network of city streets is being pushed to the edge of capacity. Watch the GPS traces of 380 London taxis over the course of a single day."



"On a typical day, over 400 ships pass through the straits off Dover. This visualisation shows 24 hours worth of shipping recorded as it passes through the Channel."



"Every day, more than 7,500 aircraft crowd into Britain's skies"



"Activity of British Telephone System over the course of one day."

Open Street Map

Watch crowd-sourced cartography fill in environments:

Russia:
Russia: Edits to OpenStreetMap 2007-2012 from ItoWorld on Vimeo.

USA:
US edits to OpenStreetMap 2007-2012 from ItoWorld on Vimeo.