Datamob: maps

California VoterConnect Geographic Political Data Repository

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:43:22 -0400

Access KML files of State Senate, Assembly and Congressional Districts, as well as individual precincts, for all of California. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

url: http://cavoterconnect.com/pub/kml/

Libre Map Project

Fri, 02 May 2008 12:10:20 -0400

Free U.S. digital maps and geographic information system (GIS) data. Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.0 license.

url: http://libremap.org/

DIMES Project Data

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:25:27 -0400

Data from the DIMES Project, a distributed scientific research project aiming to study and map the structure and topology of the internet. CSV format.

url: http://www.netdimes.org/DIMESControlCenter/MonthlyData.jsp

Open Street Map

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:23:38 -0400

Free editable map of the earth, exportable in XML. Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 2.0 license.

url: http://openstreetmap.org/

GeoNames Geographical Database

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:58:44 -0400

Comprehensive geographical name database. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. Tab-delimited text format.

url: http://www.geonames.org/about.html

U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line Data

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:23:03 -0400

Data files for the U.S. Census Bureau's experiment in web-based mapping: the Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) system. Shapefile format.

url: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/

Zillow U.S. Neighborhood Boundary Data

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:55:49 -0400

Data on the boundaries of 7,000 U.S. urban neighborhoods. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license. Arc Shapefile format.

url: http://www.zillow.com/labs/NeighborhoodBoundaries.htm

Navajo Nation Water Quality Project

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:42:52 -0500

The Navajo Nation Water Quality Project makes Navajo Nation water quality information available for the first time online.

Many parts of the Navajo Indian reservation in the southwestern U.S. are contaminated with radioactive debris left over from Cold War uranium mining. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency did extensive water sampling in the 1990s to determine which Navajo water sources were contaminated and which were safe to drink from, but this data was never made available to the public in an accessible form. The Navajo Nation Water Quality project seeks to address that.

A joint project of Groundswell Educational Films and the Northwestern University Chemistry Department.

url: http://navajowater.org/

This Tract

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:58:01 -0500

This Tract is a view into U.S. Census data. It allows you to view the details of every tract.

It currently uses 2000 Census data but was built in anticipation of the forthcoming 2010 Census data release.

The source code is available on GitHub.

By Stamen Design's Michal Migurski and Craig Mod.

url: http://thistract.com/

London Underground Live

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:05:07 -0400

Map showing all trains on the London Underground in approximately real time.

By Matthew Somerville, Frances Berriman and James Aylett.

url: http://traintimes.org.uk:81/map/tube/

Ride the City

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:16:48 -0400

Ride the City helps bicyclists find safe bike routes in major cities, including New York City, Chicago, Austin, San Diego, Seattle and Louisville.

Uses LION centerline data from NYC Data Mine.

By Vaidila Kungys and Jordan Anderson.

url: http://www.ridethecity.com/

The Full Wiki Maps

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:15:56 -0500

View all the locations mentioned in any Wikipedia article on a map.

Submitted by Luke Metcalfe

url: http://www.thefullwiki.org

Map of Target Growth

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:39:06 -0400

Animation showing the growth of Target retail stores in the U.S., from 1962-2008. Created with Modest Maps. By Nathan Yau of Flowing Data.

See also: Map of Wal-Mart Growth, the code for which is available under a BSD license.

url: http://projects.flowingdata.com/target/

DC Bikes

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:35:23 -0500

Guide to biking in Washington, D.C. where users can find detailed bike routes, monitor bike theft in real time and use Craigslist to shop for equipment. Uses data from the D.C. Data Catalog, the Mapnik toolkit and more. Built by Development Seed for the Apps for Democracy competition.

url: http://www.outsideindc.com/bikes

NPR Road Trip

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:28:39 -0500

Locate National Public Radio (NPR) radio stations along any driving route in the United States.

url: http://www.nprroadtrip.com/

Olympic Medal Count Map

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:24:38 -0400

Cartogram in which countries are circles sized according to the number of Olympic medals received. Use the slider to view results from past Olympics and click the 'by ranking' tab to sort countries into a list. By Lee Byron, Amanda Cox and Matthew Ericson for The New York Times.

url: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/04/sports/olympics/20080804_MEDALCOUNT_MAP.html

Map of Wal-Mart Growth

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:00:39 -0400

Animation showing the growth of Wal-Mart stores in the United States. Created with Modest Maps. By Nathan Yau of Flowing Data.

The code for this visualization is now available under a BSD license.

url: http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/

Walk Score

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:52:21 -0400

Ranks U.S. addresses by walkability by means of Walk Scores. By Front Seat civic software.

url: http://www.walkscore.com/

Industry Browser

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:01:06 -0400

Browse industries according to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and view corresponding Freebase company data as filtered through Google Maps, New York Times Topics, related Wikipedia entries, Securities and Exchange Commission data and political campaign contribution data. By Toby Segaran.

url: http://kiwitobes.com/industry_mashup/

CrunchBase Map

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:45:51 -0400

Explore CrunchBase's listing of technology companies by location.

url: http://www.crunchbase.com/maps

2008 Campaign Finance Map

Tue, 20 May 2008 21:11:34 -0400

Interactive map showing U.S. presidential campaign contributions by location of origin and date made. Includes an animation option to view contribution activity over time. By Shan Carter, Aron Pilhofer and Cameron Brown for The New York Times.

url: http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/finances/map/index.html

SparkIP

Tue, 20 May 2008 12:06:06 -0400

U.S. patent search tool with clustering and visualization.

url: http://www.sparkip.com/

SpotCrime.com

Tue, 13 May 2008 21:38:37 -0400

Interactive maps of urban crime in the U.S. Registered users can receive crime alerts via email or SMS.

url: http://spotcrime.com/

FINVIZ.com

Mon, 12 May 2008 21:27:16 -0400

Suite of free financial visualization tools including an interactive treemap visualization of the stock market, stock charts with colored trendlines and more. Many tables can be exported in CSV format.

url: http://finviz.com/

JDLand

Mon, 12 May 2008 19:40:41 -0400

Website chronicling the redevelopment of the "Near Southeast" neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Uses data from Washington, D.C. Citywide Data Warehouse to report recent crime incidents, building permits, public space permits, service requests and real property sales.

url: http://www.jdland.com

CrimeReports.com

Mon, 12 May 2008 19:23:46 -0400

Maps crime data from cities and law enforcement agencies around the U.S. By Public Engines, Inc., a private company that provides web-based products to help government agencies share information directly with local communities.

url: http://www.crimereports.com

Botnet Visualization

Fri, 09 May 2008 23:21:26 -0400

Annotated, interactive map of a botnet. By David Vorel and Scott Berinato for CSO Online.

url: http://www.csoonline.com/article/348317/What_a_Botnet_Looks_Like

Unfluence

Sun, 04 May 2008 22:40:24 -0400

Interactive network maps of U.S. state-level political contribution data.

url: http://unfluence.primate.net/index.html

Ease of Doing Business Map

Sun, 04 May 2008 22:22:15 -0400

Google Map showing the relative ease of doing business in 178 countries according to the World Bank's Doing Business project.

url: http://rru.worldbank.org/businessplanet/

Amazon Book Map

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:58:57 -0400

Dense mosaic of over 700,000 book covers, color coded by book category and grouped together according to similarity. By Chris Harrison.

url: http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/amazonviz/index.html

Internet Map

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:33:48 -0400

Set of visualizations showing how cities around the world are interconnected via internet router configurations. 89,344 connections mapped in all. By Chris Harrison.

url: http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/InternetMap/index.html

DBpedia Mobile

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:05:26 -0400

Based on the current GPS position of a mobile device, DBpedia Mobile renders a map containing information about nearby locations. Supports 14 languages and various filters.

url: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/DBpediaMobile