Maps

Thanks to Yola, I’ve just discovered the exact iPhone application that I’ve been looking for! Enter: California Farmers’ Market Finder. It does everything that I want to in a farmers’ market app: sorts by day, locates the markets nearest me, plots them on a map — and it does it for the entire state! Thanks PasoTours! In fact, based on these guys’ blog, it appears that we had the same idea around the same time.

So I have a set of data in a Google Docs spreadsheet of SF Bay Area Farmer’s Markets. Each market has data for the following columns: Day, County, Location, Hours, Months, Intersection, City, State, ZIP, Phone, URL. There are entries for over 100 markets. What I want is a simple web page (ideally iPhone-friendly) that will have a few text input fields: ZIP, City, Day (or even a pull-down menu for each one). Then based on those inputs, the program…

Dear Friends, I’ve been informed that my piece on the recent Where 2.0 conference in San Jose is airing this week on CBC’s Spark! It will be available on CBC Radio 1 at the following times: Wednesdays at 11:30 a.m. (12:00 NT) Saturdays at 4:00 p.m. (4:30 NT) If you find yourself outside the reach of the CBC’s antennae, feel free to listen to it online, here, or of course, via podcast.

I spent a couple hours this weekend making this map based on info collected by Lucy Vanel and by the city of Villeurbanne. Feel free to send me updates, tips, or suggestions!

“[This map uses] a color scale that ranges from red for 70% Republican or more, to blue for 70% Democrat or more. This is sort of practical, since there aren’t many counties outside that range anyway, but to some extent it also obscures the true balance of red and blue. ” By: Mark Newman Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems University of Michigan [via Ethan Zuckerman]

Apparently Kosovo is poised for independence this Sunday. Remember this map, kids: Update: George Kenney points to this recent interview he did with Sir Ivor Roberts, former UK Ambassador to Yugoslavia in the mid-1990s.

Estonia and a whole host of other countries joined the expanded Schengen Zone today! >

No offense to Steve Lohr, but I’m not really sure what the point of his piece in today’s Times “Silicon Valley Shaped by Technology and Traffic” was. As far as I can tell, the main message is “geography matters.” Is this news to anyone, in late 2007? Really? Alan Wiig had a much more interesting comment on it than I ever would: Yeah, there is at a book about this from at least ten years ago. I dislike the analogy…

Paul Boutin astutely observed that the NYT buried the lede when it said that there are no less than 16 American spy agencies. My favorite? The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency — in other words, map spies! Speaking of maps and puzzles, check this: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The only surviving copy of the 500-year-old map that first used the name America goes on permanent display this month at the Library of Congress, but even as it prepares for its debut, the 1507…

My wonderfully food nerdy friends on Chowhound have put together a Google Maps edition of Oakland taco trucks. Oh man, I want a burrito right about now.