FlowingData explores how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists are using data to understand ourselves better – mainly through data visualization. Money spent, reps at the gym, time you waste, and personal information you enter online are all forms of data. How can we understand these data flows? Data visualization lets non-experts make sense of it all.

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CellGuided is a modern version of traditional treasure hunts. Use a mobile phone to receive directions and solve clues. Any mobile phone will work! No need to fiddle with GPS, SMS, installing applications, etc.

With CellGuided you can create routes, share them with your friends or publish them for all to enjoy.

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The concept is pretty simple. Just like MapQuest, Google, Microsoft, and other mapping programs, Ride the City finds the shortest distance between two points. But there are two major differences. First, RTC excludes roads that aren’t meant for biking, like the BQE and the Queens Midtown tunnel. Second, RTC tries to locate routes that maximize the use of bike lanes and greenways.

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Walk Score launched in July of 2007 and over 100,000 people visited the site on launch day. Since then, almost 6 million addresses have been served and Walk Score has been featured in over 500 newspaper articles and 50 TV segments.

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GeoCommons delivers visual analytics through maps: enabling non-technical professionals to view multiple databases, draw conclusions, make decisions and solve problems without traditional GIS overhead.

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The original idea was to build a web service designed to serve isochrone and isodistance polygons. The final purpose of the application, which is an implementation of the web service, is to display bakeries locations within isochrone (or isodistance) polygons, centered around a user-defined point. Users can then get the shortest path to one of the bakeries.

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With HoudahGeo you may “pin” photos to locations where they were taken.

Just like an expensive GPS camera, HoudahGeo may store latitude, longitude and altitude information right within the image file – invisibly with no loss of quality. HoudahGeo writes EXIF, XMP and IPTC tags.

HoudahGeo also lets you to share your geotagged photos in Google Earth or publish them to Flickr.

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The Next Generation Web, also referred to as the GeoSpatial Web, will closely integrate the ‘physical world’ with the ‘online web’ based on the easy availability of the underlying ‘geographic’ data. This aspect of the Next generation web has started to impact everything from consumer devices, network infrastructure to end-user applications. Abaqus aims to provide the users with an easy-to-use MyGeoDiary service to manage their lives on this GeoSpatial web.

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360 Cities is dedicated to promoting geo-mapped, VR panorama photography and VR photographers around the world. We are a unique global network of members who are specialists in VR photography and our platform is a highly developed, feature-rich system designed to display the finest quality panoramas to an audience of casual internet browsers, photography enthusiasts, tourists, and those involved in the tourist industry.

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For a long time, that’s been a tough question to answer. In dense, bustling cities like Chicago, New York and San Francisco, the number of daily media reports, government proceedings and local Internet conversations is staggering. Every day, a wealth of local information is created — officials inspect restaurants, journalists cover fires and Web users post photographs — but who has time to sort through all of that?

Our mission at EveryBlock is to solve that problem. We aim to collect all of the news and civic goings-on that have happened recently in your city, and make it simple for you to keep track of news in particular areas. We’re a geographic filter — a “news feed” for your neighborhood, or, yes, even your block.

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