Here & There. Mapping A Horizonless Manhattan
Posted: May 16th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Visual | Tags: animation, data, illustration, mapping, Visual, visualisation | 1 Comment »London creative design consultants Schulze & Webb wanted to explore the best way to visually navigate through dense cities.
What they came up with is now called “Here & There,” and it lets you simultaneously and seamlessly view a city from the point of view where your are standing and from a bird’s eye view in the sky.
Why? “Because the ability to be in a city and to see through it is a superpower, and it’s how maps should work.”
Here’s the map:
Here’s the visualization:
Here & There in Manhattan 2 from schulze on Vimeo.
This is how GPS should work…
Read more:
Here & There featured in Wired UK — read
Design origins and sources, powers and cities — read
Video of how GPS could work in a bendy Manhattan — read
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That is a super cool map. I agree that that is how it is supposed to work. Now if they overlay the real pictures of the buildings onto it then I doubt anyone would ever get lost. I wonder what the business model would be for a website like that, I bet to recoup to the upfront tech costs they will have to sell a ton of advertising. I like it as a product though.