-24 hours of LA traffic (animation)
Posted: March 24, 2011 Filed under: Cars & traffic | Tags: animation, LA, Los Angeles, traffic congestion, Waze Leave a comment
Animation - 24 hours of Los Angeles traffic
This is a recently released animation of 24 hours of traffic in Los Angeles. It’s constructed from reports sent from the smartphones of Waze users. Waze is a “social mobile application providing free turn-by-turn navigation based on the live conditions on the road and driven by users”.
It starts at 4pm but really goes beserk the next day in the AM peak. As far as I can work out, red dots are concentrations of high congestion and green dots are hazards reported by Waze users.
-Sydney buses from the air
Posted: March 4, 2011 Filed under: Public transport | Tags: animation, bus, Flink Labs, GPS, Public transport, real time, Sydney 1 Comment
Melbourne data visualisation company, Flink Labs, has produced another excellent transport animation – this time it’s 24 hours in the life of Sydney buses. Flink Labs prepared it as part of the apps4nsw program.
There’s also an associated real time bus map which uses GPS to show the location of Sydney’s many buses. It’s updated every minute.
Unfortunately it might not work with Internet Explorer (hmmm, Flink Labs must have a very interesting business model – maybe it’s intended solely for smartphones?).
Sure are a lot of buses in Sydney!
Readers might recall Flink Lab’s superb animation of Melbourne’s trains which appeared on these pages in July.
See also these animations of transport in Auckland and Lisbon.
An animated map of Auckland’s public transport network
Posted: February 14, 2011 Filed under: Public transport | Tags: animation, Auckland, Chris McDowell, Flink Labs, Google Transit Feed McDowell, Public transport 2 Comments
Last year I linked to an animation of Melbourne’s trains system developed by Flink Labs. This one (click on map) shows a day in the life of public transport in Auckland and was developed by Chris McDowell. He says:
The animation begins at 3am on a typical Monday morning. A pair of blue squiggles depict the Airport buses shuttling late night travellers between the Downtown Ferry Terminal and Auckland International. From 5am, a skeleton service of local buses begins making trips from the outer suburbs to the inner city and the first ferry departs for Waiheke Island. Over the next few hours the volume and frequency of vehicles steadily increases until we reach peak morning rush hour. By 8am the city’s major transportation corridors are clearly delineated by a stream of buses filled with commuters. After 9am the volume of vehicles drops a little and stays steady until the schools get out and the evening commute begins. The animation ends at midnight with just a few night buses moving passengers away from the central city. Read the rest of this entry »
Could this man rescue Docklands?
Posted: July 14, 2010 Filed under: Architecture & buildings | Tags: animation, Big Bang Big Boom, Blu, Docklands, wall 1 Comment
Click image to play (at Vimeo)
Blu is the Michaelangelo of graffiti. He makes Banksy look like a painter of miniatures. He could work wonders with Docklands, I reckon.
This extraordinary video was created by painting walls innumerable times, photographing each “painting” and combining the images in a stop-motion animation. It took months of work and hundreds of gallons of paint.
Big Bang, Big Boom tackles the big questions – where the universe and life started and where it all might end. From the Big Bang right through to the Big Boom.
The sheer scale of this exercise is overwhelming. I’ve never seen anything like it before. It’s brilliant.
Check out Blu’s other work too.
Watch the growth of Walmart stores from 1962 to 2010
Posted: April 8, 2010 Filed under: Activity centres, Miscellaneous | Tags: 1962, animation, growth, movie, Sam's Club, stores, US, Walmart Leave a commentJust released is an updated version of the now-famous ‘growth of Walmart’ animation which maps out the geography of store openings in the US since the first Walmart opened in 1962. The new version extends the timeline to 2010 and includes data on Walmart’s hardware store, Sam’s Club. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Maps makes an art of traffic
Posted: March 21, 2010 Filed under: Miscellaneous | Tags: animation, car chase, Google Maps, Grand Theft Auto, satellite, traffic Leave a commentGoogle Maps seems to have spawned a new genre of digital art. This one, Satellite Car Chase, joins Google Maps to Grand Theft Auto!
The Melbourne Urbanist 