Musical Mapping Mayhem

I just love this for its sheer lunacy. Somewhere a guy into maps has created a Google maps type mash up whereby he has turned the 88 counties in Ohio in to a map where each county corresponds to a key on a piano so you can play the county and make tunes.


Called Ohio is a piano it is brilliant and mad.

Appealling to your curiosity in a macabre manner

Being a child of the 70's the cold war is something I grew up with and have always found the imagery and psychology pretty fascinating from when the wind blows to mushroom clouds its pretty iconic stuff



...and having been an army brat and lived in Germany amongst other places videos like this have always been quite interesting


But this google maps application passed through my inbox recently and its quite fascinating and rather depressing. Essentially it allows you to see how a nuclear attack would effect your town or area/country and you can dial up the size of device, see pressure, fall out etc. Clearly all based on modeling etc but another fascinating use of Google maps.



Amazing what people can do online now isn't it.

Banksy & Bristol

Not much to say about htis other than a great real world mash up - Banksy has teamed up with Bristol Museum to add a little flair to the pieces they have on display.

Swine Flu Tracking on the internet

Mash ups for everything and anything

Here you can track Swine Flu on the internet with a lovely if not slightly morbid mash up on google maps


View H1N1 Swine Flu in a larger map

Tracking Santa - Google Nasa Mash Up

I heard about this on the radio and thought it was quite a nice festive development using GPS and Google Maps. The Norad Santa Tracker - Allowing people to track Father Christmas around the globe on the 24th Dec.