January 2008

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geoporn

January 10, 2008 in Art, geo, photo by Hugh | Permalink

nice aerial pic of montreal’s north shore:

montreal's north shore

[via spacingmontreal]

toronto’s language quilt

January 9, 2008 in canada, datasets, maps by Hugh | Permalink

The Toronto Star has a big map of languages spoken in Toronto, using 2006 census data.

Bricoleururbanism.org, a wonderful blog, has digested some of the map images for you, and here is one:

toronto quilt

Via: Spacingmontreal.ca

Makes me think of a good question for schools and universities: why aren’t you guys doing this stuff in your classes and publishing it like crazy? Wouldn’t it be nice if a big chunk of school work was designed to be actually useful to the world, and actually was? And was distributed freely on the net?

Data Portability

January 9, 2008 in Access, campaigns, resources by Tracey | Permalink

I dicovered DataPortability.org from some folks who are disturbed that their data stored in a system such as Facebook are not portable to other systems and that those data can disappear all together.

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