457. Orienteering route choice – GIS

Last fall me and my classmates at Stockholm University tried to figure out if it was possible to use GIS to calculate the theoretically best route choices within the sport Orienteering. Since the university is situated just north of Stockholm in the national park Djurgården which area is covered by an orienteering map, we decided to do the experiment ...

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Posted: 2008-03-06
Tags: GIS, mapping, maps, orienteering, projects
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423. Eniro goes Sim City

The other day the swedish mapping and search site eniro.se updated their maps pages with a new feature they call "utsikt" which could be translated to "view". This mode is some kind of perspective arial photographs and the first thing that I though of when I saw it was one of my favourite games Sim City! It's really cool, ...

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Posted: 2007-11-05
Tags: blog, eniro, mapping, maps
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380. Kass vädergrafik!!

De flesta som läser DN kan väl inte ha undgått att tidningen för ett tag sedan bytte grafik på vädersidorna. ...

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Posted: 2007-07-14
Tags: blog, Dagens_Nyheter, design, DN, GIS, maps
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377. oskarlin.com visitors map!

This map is taken from my Google Analytics page showing from ...

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Posted: 2007-07-12
Tags: blog, maps
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343. Blått har blivit rött

Ojojoj, jag älskar kartor, speciellt GIS-kartor, och jag älskar när det är rött ...

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Posted: 2007-05-18
Tags: blog, maps, politics
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277. moscow!

We're here now. It's big. Very big. The maps show where we are staying right now. It's far out, but it's free!

Posted: 2006-08-30
Tags: diary, mapping, maps, Moscow, russia, travel
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267. time travel recognition

Today I had to go and pick up a package from the Post office (well nowadays it's inside the supermarket). I thought it was the book on hiking in Sarek I ordered, but so wrong I was! To a great suprise it was a magazine called MARK, which is about architecture etc by the same people who makes FRAME ...

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Posted: 2006-07-06
Tags: design, mapping, maps, MARK_Magazine, photos, projects
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257. Gmaps Pedometer mashup!!

Today I found the best google maps mashup ever! It's called Gmaps Pedometer and is a ...

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Posted: 2006-05-31
Tags: blog, mapping, maps, orienteering, Stockholm_city_cup
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256. oskarlin as a graph

This is what my website looks like (well until I did this post), visualized by ...

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Posted: 2006-05-31
Tags: blog, design, maps
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251. winter in paradise

Last week I came home from the most amazing ski trip ever. One week of snow, mountains and well beeing. Yes, I haven't felt that relaxed and calm in a very long time. Too bad my two companions couldn't feel the same - Mike's ski trip only lasted one and half day, and Mark had ...

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Posted: 2006-04-27
Tags: diary, helags, hiking, maps, mountains, skiing
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230. Time travel

Map in photo above is a part of one of my final projects I did for my last school, London College of Printing (now London College of Communication). It was an attemt to redesign the London Underground map. In the beginning when I didn't know what to do with the project, I called it "impossible mission". ...

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Posted: 2005-11-29
Tags: design, information_design, maps, projects
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208. never ending drawing #1

Never ending drawing is a project I started in Stockholm five years ago. Inspired by Douglas Coupland's book Microserfs, Paul Auster's New York Trilogy and some drawings made by my sister I started mapping my movements in the city. I downloaded a map over Stockholm and pasted it into Illustrator and drew my movents in ...

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Posted: 2005-10-24
Tags: drawing, maps, never_ending_drawing, projects
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141. swings

wtf??? we ended up in a club with girls in underwear in swings swinging back and forth??? christ! it was scary and sad, all together, so we had to excape manhattan and come home to brooklyn.

Posted: 2005-04-02
Tags: diary, maps, never_ending_drawing, NYC, trip, USA
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140. grand ave – day 2

hi there, it's seven in the evening and i haven't got out yet. woke up around five after a long long night with tom. first a drink with michelle and then dinner with john and kate and then we headed over to the bar royal oak. stayed until closing time and then afterparty in someones house. after that, around seven ...

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Posted: 2005-04-01
Tags: diary, maps, never_ending_drawing, NYC, trip, USA
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139. first night in nyc,

look at me going!

Posted: 2005-03-31
Tags: blog, maps, never_ending_drawing, NYC, trip, USA
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138. SF – the map

as you can see, compared to LA, SF was a smaller and less spread out city with ...

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Posted: 2005-03-31
Tags: maps, never_ending_drawing, projects, S.F., trip, USA
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121. 22nd

Posted: 2005-03-24
Tags: maps, never_ending_drawing, projects, S.F., trip, USA
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119. portfolio

as you can see on my movements below i haven't been out much. that's because i am working on my ...

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Posted: 2005-03-23
Tags: maps, never_ending_drawing, projects, S.F., trip, USA
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118. disco

i am drunk so i will only write one thing: I HATE MASH-UPS (AKA BOOTLEGS, AKA "VS") ps. i love my dictaphone. it's helping me live. i feels like a shot for dudes with diabetes or how the caffeine is for the hooked.

Posted: 2005-03-20
Tags: diary, maps, never_ending_drawing, S.F., trip, USA
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117. 18th

Posted: 2005-03-19
Tags: maps, never_ending_drawing, projects, S.F., trip, USA
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115. map

the first thing i heard when i entered the club was freakin' caesars palace. but it got better. some good ...

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Posted: 2005-03-18
Tags: maps, never_ending_drawing, projects, S.F., trip, USA
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114. 50% + 1

today when i was on my bike heading north i thought about how 50% of the human race (at least in the western world) are putting down 5-10 minutes or so every other day, shaving their legs etc. it's a weird thing, so as a respons to this behaviour i will also do something useless for a few minutes a ...

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Posted: 2005-03-17
Tags: diary, maps, never_ending_drawing, S.F., trip, USA
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111. LA movements

Posted: 2005-03-15
Tags: LA, maps, never_ending_drawing, projects, trip, USA
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101. LA is BIG

holy shit. i was just comparing stockholm and LA for my map project and i realised that ...

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Posted: 2005-03-05
Tags: blog, english, LA, maps, trip, USA
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