notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

Left: the Golden Gate Bridge in London, a scale comparison from “Triumphs of Engineering” (posted by WP Wiles).

Right: a screen shot of MapFrappe, a tool by Kelvin Thompson that allows you to place outlines of one feature on another part of the world, showing the Golden Gate Bridge in London.

If MapFrappe had a rotation feature, I’d be able to more exactly match the 1940s illustration, but that’ll have to wait for vector maps, I suppose.

A London taxi and a micro-scale Battersea Power Station (complete with flying pig) made from Lego, from Warren Elsmore’s book Brick City (via buzzfeed).

toffeemilkshake:

At risk of becoming a MapBox fan blog:

Using open data, MapBox is taking on the big players in online maps. Now they want to fix satellite view.

Here’s a nice quote from the article:

The team uses some techniques to ensure that they’re capturing peak growth, which is May/June in the northern hemisphere and December/January in the southern. In addition, because the process favors darker pixels, the first output can seem very dim and underexposed, says Loyd.

“It’s a completely natural product,” says Loyd. “Every pixel is a real pixel captured by an camera in the sky. But it’s also completely synthetic.” The goal for the map is to capture roughly what the naked eye can see from space, but for an idealized cloudless planet trapped in eternal summer.

Pixel Is Data:

What if pixels weren’t necessarily supposed to look like little squares and sit in the so-called “right order”? What if what we call “real” or “true” images were not the only way the World around us can be represented? What if photographic data was just… data? What if it could be reinterpreted?

Free on the App Store. Images from Fast Co Design, via George Oates.

algopop:

You, the hero figurine of your choice. The appearance of various automated online services that will render your face onto an action figure, and 3D print it just for you. They are currently aiming at the geek market, but this will probably be expanded to include Disney princesses, sports teams and celebrity icons. 

I’ve seen an example of Cubify’s products. It’s expensive for now, but no doubt it’ll come with time. (See also makie.me.)

Two adjacent Street View images in Durango, Colorado, taken in winter and summer five years apart (via buchr’s comment that there are night captures somewhere in the town).

Selected cards from General Dynamic’s set of astronautic cards, as posted to Flickr by Unkee E.

Two pamphlets for the Ocean Shore Railroad, a short-lived railway from San Francisco south along the Pacific coast, published by the Western Railroader, as posted at Half Moon Bay Memories.

NYC Foresight signs by chriswoebken.

Images from Goldfinger, taken from Dennis Crompton’s ephemera at the Archigram Archive.