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way cool!
Somebody took the Sanborn insurance atlas of San Francisco from 1905 (before the earthquake and fire) and is mapping it, page by page, onto a contemporary map of the city. It's a big job so they need help. And yes, you can help, too, by going to the website and looking up intersections, then orienting and sizing each page to match map to map.
Can't wait to see the end result!
via Bernice Yeung, an interactive map of how connected via cell phone the US is, by county.
Click on a county to see which other counties it connects with most. Then explore the site to look at the beautiful and cool visuals and vids they made from analyzing aggregated cell phone data.
I'm so glad they got the memo about science can also be beautiful.
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