Datamob: maps

Libre Map Project

Fri, 02 May 2008 12:10:20 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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

Olympic Medal Count Map

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:24:38 -0500

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 -0500

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

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

Walk Score

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:52:21 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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

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

SpotCrime.com

Tue, 13 May 2008 21:38:37 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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