A clever use of Open Street Maps data to make custom fleece blankets – or “Mapkins” – of an area that means something to you.
Via Laughing Squid
Stamen’s use of watercolor lends an calming, handmade quality to these data-driven maps of San Francisco. Zoom in for more detail, or order a print for your home!
You may think their time has passed, but what if QR Codes were less ugly and more useful?
Designer Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino set out to improve this troubled medium with Mapcodes, a hyper-linking system that uses fragments of maps — instead of indecipherable blocks — to link to full maps.
http://designswarm.com/blog/2011/09/mapcodes/
Although still in prototype/idea territory, it’s refreshing to see more user-friendly (and beautiful) graphic languages being developed for connecting digital content to physical locations.
Contributed by Ralph Paone
What do you get when you combine the mystical World of Warcraft with Foursquare?
World of Fourcraft uses the Google maps API and Foursquare to transform New York into a huge, WOW-inspired, multi-player strategy game fueled by check-ins. New Yorkers: declare your allegiance to a borough today!
As it’s well-put by Mashable, “the nerdverse might just explode.”
Via Mashable
Pick n’ Play is an interactive OOH game that allows users to play Pong against each other on a digital billboard from their mobile devices. It’s a web-based not application so it doesn’t require a download – hooray for cross platform! It also geo-validates you, providing “winners” with a McDonald’s coupon to redeem.
Contributed by Jeremy Adirim
Wish you could see what you’re flying over while you’re in the air? The site MondoWindow (still in beta) allows you to enter your flight information and access a bunch of data about the place you’re currently flying over.
Via Laughing Squid
With Map Crunch, one click transports you to a random 360° Google street view snapshot of somewhere in the world.
Picture what things would look like if they happened somewhere else on the map with the BBC’s Dimensions.
via flavorwire
Broken Bells and Arcade Fire recently released interactive website experiences as music videos. Arcade Fire’s site is done as a Chrome Experiment showcasing the capabilities of HTML5. Broken Bells use Flash.
