Wooden iPhone (Kyle Bean)
via cielbleu
Android (green, 150M calls) vs. iPhone (red, 100M calls) reverse geocoding calls, January 2011
via GeoNames Blog
the standalone iphone and android heatmaps are also good
tl81:
MapBag
Josh Billions demonstrates the Mapbag at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. It is a bicycle messenger bag with a ring of vibrating motors sewn into its strap, whose positions correspond to compass points. This soft circuit project uses a Lilypad in conjunction with the gps feature in an iPhone, allowing the user to set a destination and be given constant haptic feedback through the fabric in order to stay on course and in the right direction. This acts as an exploratory way finding tool - a fun and useful alternative to a standard turn-by-turn map.
Fab.
Square, the iPhone Credit Card Machine, Goes Mainstream
Alexis Madrigal:
I asked Square to make me a map of their transactions to see where they had users. The map you see shows one hour of transaction volume on a Friday afternoon. The size of the bubble represents the volume of the transactions while the different colors indicate the types of users that Square has….
Just about every major city and plenty of smaller places have someone using the device. I was particularly to see that the whole southeast is blanketed with Square users.
Skin Scan - iPhone app that lets you analyze and monitor moles for abnormal growth, etc, and map “the outlook for moles around the globe”
via Springwise
Junctions - a Google Earth based map of your social activities (Foursquare, tweets, images, etc)
OpenPaths
openpaths is an anonymous, user-contributed database for the personal location data files recorded by iOS devices. You can securely store and manage your personal location data, and grant researchers access to portions of that data as you choose.
works until you install the update blocking access to the stored location data