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Visualize California Wildfires
I really appreciate journalism that helps me empathize with people affected by tragedy. That’s what caught me when I saw this map from NBC News: I can read “200 square miles” in a news article and that sort of washes over me. But the map makes me stop and consider that this is going from […]
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Google Maps thoughts
After the bajillionth Google Maps site it hit me: Google Maps is at its core a nifty UI widget for a common type of data. The OS doesn’t provide a widget for dealing with location data, and the web browser as a subset of OS widgets certainly doesn’t (hello combo box!). That’s like 10% of […]
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Cool stuff I noticed about Google Maps
If you haven’t been to Google Maps yet, Get yourself some better RSS feeds Go to http://maps.google.com/ Here are some cool things I’ve noticed about Google Maps. I think this is going to be one of those posts I update a lot in a day. The URLs are fairly clean. You can look up an […]