The Production of Digital Public Places

As OpenStreetMap grows, companies like Mapbox are a threat to the long reign of Google Maps. And that’s a good thing.

The truth is that every map tells a lie, but they don’t all lie about the same thing. For example, Mercator projection maps—one of the most common in use today—exaggerate regions far from the equator. The Goode homolosine projection (pictured below) shows continents that are sized appropriately to one another, but with many interruptions and distortions of distance.

Tips from a geographer who's seen it all.

Potholes in Panama City are tweeting at government officials to fix them, thanks to a project launched by advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather.

The Internet's visual storytelling community. Explore, share, and discuss the best visual stories the Internet has to offer.

“Tapebook”is an exercise in media archaelogy. It involves the conversion of data which are extracted from social networks into audio documents. They are recorded on cassettes. “Tapebook” takes the ...

Picturing Place: From John Snow’s Cholera map to Le Corbusier’s plan for a contemporary city and Moose’s ‘clean graffiti’ – images shape our ideas and precipitate change, for better or worse

Tabletop games offer a face-to-face opportunity to convey a message that the impersonal world of online gaming misses