Here’s an update from MIT, and The Future of News and Civic Media Conference. I attended the conference to participate in a barcamp session on mapping tools, and how they are can be used for different types of projects. This conference was really intriguing. Coming from a GIS background, I was struck by how often maps and geography are used to tell a story.
(some cool geodata visualizations after the jump)
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PhillyHistory.org’s homepage will be getting a face lift soon, and I’ve turned to Ext.js and their built-in effects library to do some image sliding. The first thing I learned from the documentation was that the Fx methods applied to anything that was could also be an Ext.Element. Neat!
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So why does the International Date Line (IDL) cause so many headaches? It seems like a really simple problem, but it ends up touching a bunch of mapping concepts, none of which are easily dealt with. I ran across this when working on the Sourcemap project, when we wanted to relatively realistic travel paths. When I say “relatively”, I mean, don’t travel from Japan to California via France.
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