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Chat => General Discussion => Topic started by: bear on October 02, 2009, 14:08:01 PM

Title: People powered maps
Post by: bear on October 02, 2009, 14:08:01 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8280657.stm
Title: Re:People powered maps
Post by: Serious on October 02, 2009, 15:29:15 PM
Shows you where all the flab is in the UK, couple of nukes should cure most of the problem ^_^
Title: People powered maps
Post by: knighty on October 02, 2009, 21:40:10 PM
but.... theres a fat bit at the top where it says newcastle...


but Sunderland is much more populated... its the most populated city between Birmingham and Edinburgh iirc... so it should really say Sunderland not Newcastle :p


(even if no-one south of Leeds has ever heard of it)
Title: Re:People powered maps
Post by: Serious on October 03, 2009, 03:25:06 AM
Sunderland? its barely a town, more like a village tbh :mutley:
Title: Re:People powered maps
Post by: zpyder on October 03, 2009, 10:32:27 AM
Meh, tis hardly news. 15 years figuring  out how  to do this? Its  called a  program called Surfer and the process is called a classified post map. If  you gave me a week to get  the  data and  a day to run  the   program it would be doable.

well, the classified map would be well more useful, showing the population etc on geographic boundaries, rather than this kind  of map which offers hardly any useful info.
Title: People powered maps
Post by: Edd on October 03, 2009, 12:09:47 PM
looks cool tho, right? :D
Title: People powered maps
Post by: bear on October 03, 2009, 12:29:24 PM
Like a picture of once body if pictured after how much nerves and feeling each part has, big hands, big tongue etc.
Title: People powered maps
Post by: bear on October 03, 2009, 12:42:33 PM
http://www.worldmapper.org/animations/age_of_death_animation.html

http://www.worldmapper.org/animations/internet_users_animation.html
Title: People powered maps
Post by: bear on October 03, 2009, 16:42:07 PM
http://www.worldmapper.org/atozindex.html
Title: People powered maps
Post by: zpyder on October 03, 2009, 23:23:41 PM
Quote from: Eddlooks cool tho, right? :D

Looks cool but I still cant figure out how the hell it could be of any use. Its something that will fall in the category of unecessary pie charts and line charts which show no useful information. There are much, much better ways of portraying this form of information in an informative and clear manner.