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3D bird’s eye view imagery from C3

A company called C3 has gotten pretty close to perfected the technology used in created 3D bird’s eye view imagery of cities. Using a special rig and a plane, C3 is able to compile the images it captures so that … Continue reading

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Gallery of Sanborn Fire Insurance covers

Bibliodyssey has a post full of beautiful covers from an old Sanborn Fire Insurance manual/booklet. The book that these were taken from helped give a detail and very specialized view of important maps specific to the fire insurance industry in … Continue reading

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Infographics from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

Comparing Mountains and Rivers, 1854 Public School linked to this wonderful treasure trove of old charts, maps, and infographics from the 1800′s. The ones in this Flickr photoset are taken from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection and each one … Continue reading

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3D holographic prints!

This is seriously one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen! A company called Zebra Imaging has been making 3D holographic prints for the military (and special individuals) that require no eyewear whatsoever in order to get the full 3D … Continue reading

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Gallery of train timetables

Coudal just posted a link to this Flickr photoset of vintage train timetables! One of the timetables even has a cat on it! How cute! The collection is pretty vast and covers several rail systems mostly in the U.S. (but … Continue reading

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Google shows the number of government requests it gets to remove or share information

This is very interesting. Google has just released a Google Maps mashup showing the amount of data requests and removal requests from different countries around the world. The requests are centered around Google and YouTube primarily but also delve into … Continue reading

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