Comments on: Transparent map of London http://www.starchamber.com/2004/10/transparent-map-of-london.html Ned Gulley's Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:41:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Matthew Simoneau http://www.starchamber.com/2004/10/transparent-map-of-london.html#comment-590 Matthew Simoneau Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:12:27 +0000 http://starchamber.com/?p=937#comment-590 Yes, this overlay is pretty useless, as slick as it is. I hate "brushing" for the data I need. This mapping site does do some other things better than the ol' standards. The images look much more like real paper maps, and they cull the data better based on zoom. I also like that they give a "permalink" at the bottom of every page. Look, here's my house: <a href="http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=42.3419&lon=-71.0694&scale=5000&icon=x" rel="nofollow">http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=42.3419&lon=-71.0694&scale=5000&icon=x</a> Yes, this overlay is pretty useless, as slick as it is. I hate “brushing” for the data I need.

This mapping site does do some other things better than the ol’ standards. The images look much more like real paper maps, and they cull the data better based on zoom. I also like that they give a “permalink” at the bottom of every page. Look, here’s my house:

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=42.3419&lon=-71.0694&scale=5000&icon=x

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