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Aaron went to the opening of Talk to Me at MoMA last night, and sent back some lovely photosynths autostitches and photos of the event. I’ve been back here in San Francisco working on the exhibition website and other things so wasn’t able to attend the opening, but I’m looking forward to seeing it when...

There are three basic parts to working with online representations of urban civic data in Dotspotting: coallating the data, manipulating it, and then sharing and publishing it. Up until now we’ve been focused on the first two, which makes sense: obviously you need to be able to gather and work with the data before you...

One of the great things about Eric Fischer’s map experiments on Flickr is that he actually takes the time to geolocate everything. So if he’s making, say, a map of where people tweet vs where they upload photos in Montreal, the photo will tell you that it was taken in Montreal. Or if it’s he’s...

We’re pleased to be featured in a second design exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Talk To Me, curated by Paola Antonelli and opening to the press tonight. Our team have two pieces in the exhibit: prettymaps, the open data yellow-and-green smorgasbord that we accounced last year, and Walking Papers,...

Most online maps are designed to help you get around in a car. This generally means displaying: roads, businesses, buildings, on-ramps, parks, oceans and traffic congestion. Nothing wrong with that! Designers get handed a tool kit that has as many tools as a good swiss army knife, and the maps reflect these tools. Millions of...