Tablet PCs, A History Lesson

I never used a Fujitsu tablet PC but I've had my share of experiences with other Windows OS tablets. Here is a history (of Fujitsu tablets), for those out there who believe that tablets came out of the ground in Steve Job's backyard, Fujitsu Tablets–A Tablet History Lesson…

The image is modified from the Tablet PC blog site's image.

Hurricane Sandy Flood Damage Maps from New York Times

I've been admiring the great work that the New York Times has been doing by not only telling about but showing through map visualizations the extent of damage brought on by Hurricane Sandy. The maps above and below are from Surveying the Destruction Caused by Hurricane Sandy.

When you click on a rectangle on the Flooding in NYC map, you'll get something like above from Brighton Beach NY which shows building footprints colored with the height of the water surge and photos of damages. These maps went live in mid- ot late-November and didn't include damage from New Jersey.

But now you can click on Regional Damage and you have the map above which gives some insight into the extent of damage across NJ and NY. And then below is a zoomed-in look at Long Branch/Monmouth Beach, NJ, showing destroyed and damaged structures and photos of the area.

As always, impressive work and effort by the cartographers of the Times. Here is the most recent article On Ravaged Coastline, It's Rebuild Deliberately vs. Rebuild Now. There was a slick graphic that accompanied the paper article but it seems to not yet be uploaded on to the Times online website.

 

Twitter and Maps

I like Twitter. And I like maps. Here at The One Two Million Tweet Map the two are mashed up. Pretty cool. 

Try showing tweets by a topic or a hastag. One map shows the tweets that use the word "football" in them, as they're happening, around the world. The other shows all tweets as a heat map.

I heard about the site at The Clever Sheep.

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