Below the Boat creates awesome bathygraphic maps.
Maps that have been laser carved from wood.
Maps that would look awesome on the walls of the den.
Maps that do sadly not have shipping information beyond Canada yet.
Jan 052013
Aug 142012
Jul 302012
Dorothy, an english design company, has published an absolutely awe-inspiring map.
A fictional map.
A fictional map populated entirely by names of movies, and by names of streets in movies.
I’m sure we have a wall that would be infinitely improved by one such poster.
Nov 162011
ExtendNY stretches the Manhattan grid over the whole world.
Nov 112011
If Seelöwe and the invasion of the new world had succeeded, the map of New York might have taken a whole new turn.
Aug 182011
Google Maps now carries weather data.
Aug 122011
Ser Mountain Goat provides a neat animated visualizer for Westeros.
And his Google Earthization of the world isn’t shabby at all.
Mar 152011
The newest Strange Map is not a map at all, but a Venn diagram.
The clarity and amount of information contained in the multi-level exploration of European organizations and alliances easily excuses the nature of the figure.
Feb 152011
Central Park Nature effectively maps the huge park, but there’s no online version at all. And lugging the five foot long physical copy around in the park to hunt for the different species of trees is on the impractical side.
The map would make a nice keepsake from a hike through the park, but at least the website doesn’t indicate it being available anywhere else but the webstore.
Feb 052011
The Oct 242010
The first foursquare check-in from space. I don’t think the mayorship of the ISS is as easily contested as a generic downtown bar.
Oct 152010
Alphadesigner’s maps on stereotypical views of Europe. Finland comes off as the land of Nokia on most. Except the Vatican’s view.
Oct 052010
Newsweek’s New World Order divides the world into seventeen regions, a couple of standalones and a few city-states (like Paris, Singapore and London).
Finland is slotted in with Germany and the scandinavian countries as the New Hansa. Not a bad place to be, though not as inspiring as “Lucky Countries”.
Sep 082010
Open Buildings is a crowdsourced directory of noteworthy buildings across the world.
Too bad it’s only offered as an iOS application, even though it would work perfectly as yet another mashup.
Aug 232010
howbigreally.com, awe-inspiring geographical visualizations.
Aug 172010
“Read Ayn Rand”.
Still haven’t.
And this display of too much time on somebody’s hands isn’t like to persuade otherwise.
Aug 032010
Instead of spinning on its axis, that is.
Witold Fraczek’s article explains the consequences.
Due to the disappearance of centrifugal force, the oceans would be completely realigned. As gravity would be the only meaningful force, the ellipsoidic “bump” would disappear and the water recede towards the poles.
Finland would be submerged completely, and a globe-spanning mega-continent would connect the existing landmasses around the equator.
Jul 042010
21 Steps, the novel told using Google Maps as the medium, is functional again.
Maybe this time my 21 second attention span is not able to prevent me from finishing it.
Jun 112010
Differentiating where locals and tourists snap pictures.
Red by tourists, blue by locals, yellows by indetrminates.
Pictured: San Francisco, where Golden Gate is entirely tourist-ridden.
May 302010
May 082010
Awesomeness abounds when the quintessential eighties movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is played out across twitter and foursquare.
The obvious finnish candidate for this treatment would be Aki Kaurismäki’s Calamari Union.
May 032010
Gowalla is a location-based social networking game that’s rapidly expanding all over the world.
It resembles waymarking, the cacheless version of geocaching, a lot.
Basically participants use their location-enabled gadgets to log their whereabouts. The social aspect is the effortless ability to let your friends know where you are, the gaming aspect is the potential to visit as many locations as possible. And to create plenty of new locations, since the world is mostly unmarked thus far.
Most of the locations are tagged with a default icon (one per subcategory such as a bar, pharmacy or a park), but the most famous ones get a dedicated symbol. Thus far Finland doesn’t seem to have any, whereas Sweden has accrued already several.
Unlike its slightly more famous counterpart Foursquare, Gowalla works well with the Nokia N900. Originally geolocation had to be enabled with a browser add-on, but these days it works out of the box.
Very much like Foursquare, the Gowalla service rewards progress with badges – testimonials of progress (such as visiting and creating new spots).
Feb 092010
Google’s Streetview has expanded to cover Finland. The image have been taken last summer, so the country is fortunately not seen in its full November glory.
The HQ is visible, without any suspicious activity outside. Quite unlike what happened when Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne’s house was photographed.
Jan 282010
Atlas Obscura, a collection of world’s wonders, curiosities and esoterica.
In other words: a cornucopia of material with which to kill time in boring meetings.
Aug 212009
Brennende Autos documents the arson campaign against luxury cars that seems to be endemic to Berlin.