This month, the curatorial collaborative project Drift Station, which I’m a part of along with Angeles Cossio, released an online project titled Empty Apartments. We pulled nearly 125,000 photographs of apartments and houses for rent on Craigslist that were completely empty because of a removal service, and presented them as an interactive online exhibition. The project took nearly two years of work, and much of it was manual (Angeles triple-checking every single image by hand to remove ones that included common spaces or non-apartments), but we also used several automated processes and machine learning to sort the photos.
Light Map of SW United States
SDR Weather Map
A NOAA weather satellite image captured through SDR (via RTL-SDR).
Solar Forecasting Maps Boxed Set
I gave in and bought this amazing box set of solar forecasting maps. Contained in two cases with 18 portfolios in each, they include reproductions of hand-drawn maps from 1957. Amazing attention to detail, superb printing quality, and overall just a beautiful (albeit heavy) object.
Map of Hoboken, Belgium
USGS Topographical Map
Half-3D Map
Weird half-3D map of Minneapolis from Bing Maps.
Triangulation Maps and Trig Points
Triangulation maps, computing distances between known points, were used for ship navigation. Above is a triangulation map of Staten Island, below of the south-east quadrilateral of India (super-high res version here).
Known positions with carefully measured latitude/longitude and altitude are called “trig points”, and are often marked, sometimes with a metal plate or, in the case of this marker in New Zealand, an amazing sculptural tower.
Fallout Estimate Map
Map estimating nuclear fallout from a Soviet attack, prepared by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the mid 1980s, via @wellerstein. Note the weird bent map projection and the great, blobby patches.
Final Fantasy Map
Click image for full-size – well worth scrolling around. Via Final Fantasy Kingdom.