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Games At Work dot Biz

Games At Work dot BizOct 5, 2026

e570 – Tiny Concrete Fish

e570 with Andy and Michael R on stories about AI brain for fish, crowdsourced fishing for map updates, inebriated AI, virtual Brutalism architecture, a Minecraft themed hotel and a whole lot more!

aibrutalist architecture

Diagram ChasingAug 12, 2026

Mapping India's Clouds

A daily updating map of where it's cloudy

leaf litter

leaf litterJul 13, 2026

the world through different lenses

John Beales

John BealesJun 18, 2026

Web Cartography

I've been meaning to read this for years. I finally picked up a copy for a decent price last year, and read it as a refresher before embarking on some map creation. It seems a bit strange, reading a technology-related book from 2014 in 2026, but Ian Muehlenhaus did a good job of keeping most...

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myles braithwaiteMay 7, 2026

Bookmarked The map that keeps Burning Man honest by Amanda Shendruk for Not-Ship.

Mapsthe work that’s done after Burning Man

Nothing's RPG ZoneMar 29, 2026

oops accidentally spent an entire work day's worth of time on remaking the map of the first floor of the glory hole dwarven mine.

Charles HarriesAug 9, 2025

Collaborative mapping

A couple of fun collaborative mapping experiments on the Internet. Who says that it's all just political misinformation out there?

Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet

Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetMay 13, 2025

Wrong Merger, Wrong Direction

How MapQuest, a company innovative enough to kill road atlases in one fell swoop, was turned into an also-ran by a bad merger affected by an even worse one.

Charles HarriesMar 26, 2025

Megalithic Portal

The extremely competent autocomplete machine made me a map of all of the best Rocks in the area. Remind me never to take the extremely competent autocomplete machine for granted again.

Khattamicah - The sourness of study

Khattamicah - The sourness of studyDec 31, 2023

Maps of Hyderabad Cinema History

Reilly Wood

Reilly WoodFeb 3, 2020

Vancouver Mapping Cheat Sheet

Urban PlanningMaps

Khattamicah - The sourness of study

Khattamicah - The sourness of studyDec 31, 2018

Caste and Education Geospatially in Rural Bihar

participatory-researchworkshop-facilitation

Reilly Wood

Reilly WoodJan 21, 2018

Databases as file formats

The .mbtiles way

Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet

Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJan 11, 2018

Your Position, Triangulated

The evolution of the global positioning system, the greatest non-internet idea to come out of the Space Race, and why the military initially hobbled it.

Philihp BusbyMar 4, 2013

Finding the Center of US Counties in SAS

centroiddata step

Anil Dash

Anil DashSep 19, 2012

Who benefits from iOS6's crappy maps?

The classic criticism that thoughtless Apple haters use against the company is that it makes products that are pretty but dumb. Usually those criticisms are by people who don’t understand the value of a comprehensible user experience, frustrated by the reality that many people will eagerly trade…

Alessandro Bahgat

Alessandro BahgatJan 25, 2009

Maps for public transport users

Even if modern trains are getting more and more friendly to passengers, many of them are still terribly lacking if we consider this aspect, at least in Italy. As I’m writing this post I’m travelling t...

Anil Dash

Anil DashOct 16, 2007

Tom Patterson, of the U.S. National Park Service, wrote a great paper five years ago on improved realism in NPS maps. There’s some very insightful analysis that was useful even to a layman like me. He covers a variety of techniques that increase realism, such as aquafication, texture substitution,…

Anil Dash

Anil DashSep 7, 2006

Draw the Map, Draw the World

The Sunday New York Times ran a fantastic article by Alex Mindlin, Win, Lose, Draw: The Great Subway Map Wars that details a battle that has brewed, off and on, for the past 30 years. There are, it seems, at least two distinct systems of belief about what constitutes the proper set of assumptions…

Anil Dash

Anil DashFeb 8, 2005

I quite enjoyed using Google Maps to find TypePad members near New York City. Or, you know, dog lovers near Peoria.

Anil Dash

Anil DashJun 18, 2003

another cool TypePad site

this is a really neat typepad site i just found about the purple line on the DC metro. nice use of the photo albums for maps that relate to the material.

Anil Dash

Anil DashMay 29, 2002

Howdy, neighbors! It’s the NYC bloggers map.

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