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Foursquare and Maps

Aug 16, ’10 9:32 PM

Okay, so the folks at FlowingData.com pointed out Weeplaces, which is a Foursquare visualizer. Pretty cool. My map looks like this (zoom out so you at least can see Worcester and Smithfield, otherwise it just pings all over the place off map):

Neil Kelly’s Foursquare by WeePlaces.com.

I also just like looking at all my Foursquare checkins on a map sometimes – if you go to foursquare.com/feeds, you can get a KML version of your checkin locations. Copy that into a Google Maps search box and add “?count=500″ (or adjust it to however many checkins you have) and it’ll display a Google Map with pushpins for each checkin.

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Realization

Mar 8, ’10 10:11 PM

I had a realization the other day. I’ve always thought of myself as a mapgeek and/or roadgeek. However, there’s another aspect of it – location geek. I like knowing where I am and where I was. I take my GPS everytime I’m going someplace new so I can add it to my map (and maybe someday I’ll share that map here). I count counties I’ve visited. I’m playing a game (ownthisworld.com) where you gain territory by going to places. I check in on Gowalla. I once went out to the CT-MA-RI tripoint just because it was there.

Yes, I like knowing “where” of things, especially me. I find it fascinating to know what other strangers have been to the place I’ve been – the way our paths cross without really realizing it (or being able to without them participating in the same way).

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Old T Maps

Oct 4, ’09 7:23 AM

A collection of old Boston transportation maps. This is all kinds of awesome.

(Via The Map Room.)

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Mapping where you think you are

Jul 10, ’06 8:59 PM

CommonCensus Map Project – Maps

An interesting project to show where people think they are (for lack of a better way of putting it). An interesting way to look at the influence of cities.

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Google Maps Hybrid Mode

Jul 22, ’05 9:19 PM

I already admit that I am a Google junkie. I think the company has yet to really fall flat on their face. I’m a full-out Gmail user, I use the personalized home page as my start page at work, and Google Maps is my favorite map site. They just made the maps even better though with a Hybrid Mode that lays a street grid over the satellite imagery. Go check it out. Via The Map Room

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