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Trafficing in Maps

Nathan at FlowingData.com posts a nice collection of traffic mapping examples.

Explorations of real-world traffic

Posted by Nathan on Apr 15,2010 to Mapping / 8 comments

Explorations of real-world traffic

Traffic visualizations,mostly in the form of geographic maps,have been popular lately. Governments and organizations have been releasing lots of GPS data,and as a result,we get to see some impressive animations and explore some slick interactives.

We don't often get to see how cars,trains,subways,airplanes,etc move in physical space,because,well,we're usually in them,so it's always interesting to see the big picture. The activity …[...]

Great —and helpful —interaction between data and newspapers

 We have long been critical of newspapers'failure to marry data with real-time readers'interests. Interests like finding a cab in New York City. It's great to see the gang from the NYTimes doing some innovative mapping to truly present added-value to their product.

Tracking Taxi Flow Across the City

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