Comments on: The Map Metaphor http://www.blogschmog.net/2007/05/21/the-map-metaphor/ We live as if the world were as it should be, to show it what it can be. Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:57:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Web Trend Map : UberNoggin: Big Brains - Big Ideas http://www.blogschmog.net/2007/05/21/the-map-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-31483 Web Trend Map : UberNoggin: Big Brains - Big Ideas Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:08:58 +0000 http://www.blogschmog.net/blog/?p=953#comment-31483 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] you like that one, follow through some of the links at this post. This metaphor has been nicely used in the past to illustrate the process of design and [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> Kramer auto Pingback[...] you like that one, follow through some of the links at this post. This metaphor has been nicely used in the past to illustrate the process of design and [...]

]]> By: New York Subway Map of the Internet on Flickr - Photo Sharing! http://www.blogschmog.net/2007/05/21/the-map-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-31469 New York Subway Map of the Internet on Flickr - Photo Sharing! Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:56:54 +0000 http://www.blogschmog.net/blog/?p=953#comment-31469 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] is a great one. I'm adding it to my list! Posted 5 minutes ago. ( permalink [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> Kramer auto Pingback[...] is a great one. I’m adding it to my list! Posted 5 minutes ago. ( permalink [...]

]]> By: Kevin Makice http://www.blogschmog.net/2007/05/21/the-map-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-31468 Kevin Makice Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:52:17 +0000 http://www.blogschmog.net/blog/?p=953#comment-31468 Here's another great one, posted on <a href="http://go2web2.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-york-subway-map-of-internet.html" target="_new" rel="nofollow">Go2Web2</a>, that shows the Internet services and communities as a New York Subway map. Here’s another great one, posted on Go2Web2, that shows the Internet services and communities as a New York Subway map.

]]> By: Kevin Makice http://www.blogschmog.net/2007/05/21/the-map-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-31307 Kevin Makice Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:34:21 +0000 http://www.blogschmog.net/blog/?p=953#comment-31307 Here's another interesting one ... <a href="http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/religion/adherents.gif" target="_new" rel="nofollow">U.S. Religious Adherents</a> Here’s another interesting one … U.S. Religious Adherents

]]> By: Kevin Makice http://www.blogschmog.net/2007/05/21/the-map-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-31142 Kevin Makice Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:44:08 +0000 http://www.blogschmog.net/blog/?p=953#comment-31142 Another one, courtesy Tyler ... <a href="http://www.doheth.co.uk/funny/misc/US_World.jpg" target="_new" rel="nofollow">The world according to the US</a> Another one, courtesy Tyler …

The world according to the US

]]> By: Kevin Makice http://www.blogschmog.net/2007/05/21/the-map-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-31124 Kevin Makice Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:32:22 +0000 http://www.blogschmog.net/blog/?p=953#comment-31124 yet another one, from a <a href="http://blog.outer-court.com/googleland/" target="_new" rel="nofollow">Google blog</a> yet another one, from a Google blog

]]> By: Kevin Makice http://www.blogschmog.net/2007/05/21/the-map-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-30990 Kevin Makice Wed, 23 May 2007 17:54:46 +0000 http://www.blogschmog.net/blog/?p=953#comment-30990 Here are a few more, courtesy of <a href="http://www.abeautifulwww.com/2007/02/10/35-great-visualizations/" target="_new" rel="nofollow">A Beautiful WWW</a>: <ul> <li><a href="http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/thedumpster/" target="_new" rel="nofollow">The Dumpster</a> - interactive visualization for a year of blog breakups, with two connected forms of navigation in a flash tool</li> <li><a href="http://mardoen.textdriven.com/irc_arcs/" target="_new" rel="nofollow">IRC Arcs</a> - shows nodes in a line with arcs of communication, embedding info for number and length of messages</li> <li><a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Emejn/election/" target="_new" rel="nofollow">2006 Election</a> - red and blue distorted in many ways on a US map to show how people spit their vote</li> <li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/ref/washington/20070123_STATEOFUNION.html" target="_new" rel="nofollow">State of the Union Words</a> - shows how certain keywords have been used more or less over time</li> <li><a href="http://www.girardin.org/fabien/blog/2006/12/13/tracing-the-visitors-eye/" target="_new" rel="nofollow">geotraced maps of Flickr images</a> - paths of photographers overlaid on a real photo map</li> <li><a href="http://wikisky.org/" target="_new" rel="nofollow">Sky map</a> - an interactive map of the sky</li> <li><a href="http://worldprocessor.com/catalog/world/" target="_new" rel="nofollow">Various Globes</a> - many uses of a world globe to highlight certain information or messages</li> <li><a href="http://www.textarc.org/" target="_new" rel="nofollow">TextArc</a> - a way to take entire texts and turn them into visual images of relationships, with an ordered motion of the text, showing paths of related words as it progresses (try it with <a href="http://www.textarc.org/Hamlet2.html" target="_new" rel="nofollow">Hamlet)</a></li> <li><a href="http://jevbratt.com/skr/description_e.html" target="_new" rel="nofollow">The Voice</a> - From the site description: "visualizes the words the users of the Art Council website are searching for on the site and in search engines in order to find the site, and a comparison of these words with the word usage at the office of the Art Council (for example words written in emails and read by the office staff on web pages). The visualization consists of the last two thousand words searched for, displayed in different font sizes/colors, with different border sizes/colors, reflecting how many times it has been searched for, when it was searched for, how much it has been mentioned in the internal communication and how much it is used on the Internet in general. Each word links to the pages on the server that contains the search-word, the visualization thus functions an alternate interface to the Art Council website. The visualization is updated daily and each new "image" is saved in an archive accessible by the user."</li> <li><a href="http://www.turbulence.org/spotlight/thinking/chess.html" target="_new" rel="nofollow">Thinking Machine</a> - Play chess with an artificial opponent, where the strategies of potential moved are traced in different colors</li> </ul> Here are a few more, courtesy of A Beautiful WWW:

  • The Dumpster – interactive visualization for a year of blog breakups, with two connected forms of navigation in a flash tool
  • IRC Arcs – shows nodes in a line with arcs of communication, embedding info for number and length of messages
  • 2006 Election – red and blue distorted in many ways on a US map to show how people spit their vote
  • State of the Union Words – shows how certain keywords have been used more or less over time
  • geotraced maps of Flickr images – paths of photographers overlaid on a real photo map
  • Sky map – an interactive map of the sky
  • Various Globes – many uses of a world globe to highlight certain information or messages
  • TextArc – a way to take entire texts and turn them into visual images of relationships, with an ordered motion of the text, showing paths of related words as it progresses (try it with Hamlet)
  • The Voice – From the site description: “visualizes the words the users of the Art Council website are searching for on the site and in search engines in order to find the site, and a comparison of these words with the word usage at the office of the Art Council (for example words written in emails and read by the office staff on web pages). The visualization consists of the last two thousand words searched for, displayed in different font sizes/colors, with different border sizes/colors, reflecting how many times it has been searched for, when it was searched for, how much it has been mentioned in the internal communication and how much it is used on the Internet in general. Each word links to the pages on the server that contains the search-word, the visualization thus functions an alternate interface to the Art Council website. The visualization is updated daily and each new “image” is saved in an archive accessible by the user.”
  • Thinking Machine – Play chess with an artificial opponent, where the strategies of potential moved are traced in different colors
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