Map

This is a map of 2 years running around Washington DC with RunKeeper. I always wanted to make a [heat]map with all my tracks. I finally got some time to play with TileMill and Mapbox to make it. The map above is the result, and these are the steps to make your own: Run a few routes :) Get your data from RunKeeper. Import in TileMill Style at will. Use Mapbox for hosting and base layer. Get your data Click on “export data” link under Settings page in RunKeeper. Select the dates, you might want all your data so just select a wide range. You´ll get the link on your email in a few minutes. ...

[vimeo https://vimeo.com/9182869 w=600] What you see here is the world response to the earthquake humanitarian crisis in Haiti. What you see here, each flash, is someone, somewhere in the world, going into OpenStreetMap.org, looking at aerial/satellites images, identifying features and adding them to the free map. If you want to learn, here I screencasted one of my edits back then as part of the Crisis Camp. After just 12 hours, and over the following days a large number of additions to the map are made with many roads (green primary, red secondary) added. Also many other features were added such as the blue glowing refugee camps that emerge. ...