https://geodivercity.parisgeo.cnrs.fr/blog/
A wonderful visualization of the active networks for french elections classified by partis:
a terrific tool to give to students, children, citizens of the world….
https://www.ined.fr/en/everything_about_population/interactive_maps/
See the instructions:
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Sound Maps
To make the maps more “real”, add sounds….. In Montreal, they did it.
https://www.montrealsoundmap.com/?lang=en
Also England: https://sounds.bl.uk/uksoundmap/fusionmap.aspx
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Garamond
For the celebration of the 450th anniversary of the death of Claude Garamond
https://www.garamond.culture.fr/en/english
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Citadyne in the Press
The French National Library organizes different virtual exhibitions which are very interested for who wants to learn more about history of books, print and typography. Recently, a new exhibition about the actual creation of new typographies.
https://www.imprimerienationale.fr/expo/
See the parodies:
Of the book:
– Spanish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_uaI28LGJk
– Norvegian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek
Of the Iphone 6 by Anthony Kavanagh (in french canadian)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJovnFcx4DY
Previsions of population growth: a very important topic relayed by many blogs (Urban ticks):
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Twitter City Maps
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Scale of the Universe
Atlas of African cities on Google Earth (of course you must have already downloaded Google Earth):
Click on
Display Africapolis data in Google Earth
and then you access to many information from the “GEOPOLIS” database of François Moriconi
Spatial Search – Draw a Search Area on the Map to Retreive Site Points in Google Earth
A nice and simple method to take into account both weights and dispersion of ties: by Tore Opsal
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Flights in the sky overhead
https://www.flightradar24.com/
It can zoom the map that is displayed and move by clicking on the arrows to bring up a region and a city. We then see all the planes passing overhead.
The map is updated automatically every 10 seconds.
If you click on a plane you see its way and on the left side of the screen, photograph, airports of departure and arrival, his company, speed, altitude, etc …
And if one looks up looking to the sky (if there are no clouds) we see that airplane go in reality!
THE bronze statue of Rocky near the Philadelphia Museum of Art irked Jessie Hemmons. She found the statue too big, too macho and too touristy, so last month Ms. Hemmons, a 24-year-old artist, bombed him. With pinkish yarn.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/fashion/creating-graffiti-with-yarn.html?_r=1
in French: https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2011/06/01/tricote-moi-la-ville
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/technology/05ping.html?_r=2
Grubwithus Organizes Dinners – Social, Minus Media – NYTimes.com, june 4th 2011
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Ants metropolis
if you want your own movement (available on your MAC), download the application