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aria-label="visualization (6 items)">visualization</a> </div> </div> <div class="js-ajax-frame"> <section class="post-list"> <h3>Recent posts</h3> <article class="post"> <div class="article-footer"> <time datetime="2014">5 Mar 2014</time> <h4><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2014/03/05/gender-role-literacy-girls-in-science/">Gender role literacy: Girls in science?</a></h4> </div> <p>There are gender wars, and then there are casualties. It wasn’t until 2011 that the behemoth toymaker LEGO acknowledged girls’ desire to build with bricks, even though the company had long before made a seemingly effortless pivot to co-branding, video games, and major motion pictures. So it’s little wonder that girls face all-too-real obstacles when <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2014/03/05/gender-role-literacy-girls-in-science/">[…]</a></p> <a class="more" href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2014/03/05/gender-role-literacy-girls-in-science/">Read more</a> </article> <article class="post"> <div class="article-footer"> <time datetime="2013">9 Dec 2013</time> <h4><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/12/09/challenges-of-crowdsourcing-analysis-of-historypin/">Challenges of crowdsourcing: Analysis of Historypin</a></h4> </div> <p>Crowdsourcing can build virtual community, engage the public, and build large knowledge databases about science and culture. But what does it take, and how fast can you grow? For some insight, we look at a crowdsourced history site: Historypin is an appealing database of historical photos, with dates, locations, captions, and other metadata. It’s called History <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/12/09/challenges-of-crowdsourcing-analysis-of-historypin/">[…]</a></p> <a class="more" href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/12/09/challenges-of-crowdsourcing-analysis-of-historypin/">Read more</a> </article> <article class="post"> <div class="article-footer"> <time datetime="2013">18 Nov 2013</time> <h4><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/11/18/dinovember-creative-literacy-starts-young/">Dinovember: Creative literacy starts young</a></h4> </div> <p>“Uh-oh,” Refe Tuma heard his girls whisper. “Mom and Dad are not going to like this.” It’s Dinovember, and his family’s plastic dinosaurs have been getting into mischief all month. Every year, Tuma and his wife devote the month of November to “convincing our children that, while they sleep, their plastic dinosaur figures come to life. <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/11/18/dinovember-creative-literacy-starts-young/">[…]</a></p> <a class="more" href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/11/18/dinovember-creative-literacy-starts-young/">Read more</a> </article> </section> </div> </div> </div> </div> </header> <main role="main" id="main"><div id="twocolumns" class="full_width"> <div class="container default_page"> <div class="twocolumns-holder"> <section id="content" class="ajax-container"> <div class="title"> <h1>Tag: maps</h1> </div> <div class="post-4375 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-business-management category-strategy tag-community tag-crowdsourcing tag-culture tag-google-street-view tag-history tag-historypin tag-knowledge tag-maps tag-outreach tag-streetview tag-user-interface tag-web-2-0" id="post-4375"> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/12/09/challenges-of-crowdsourcing-analysis-of-historypin/" rel="bookmark">Challenges of crowdsourcing: Analysis of Historypin</a></h2> <p class="info"><strong class="date"><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/12/09/challenges-of-crowdsourcing-analysis-of-historypin/" rel="bookmark">December 9th, 2013</a></strong> by IDEA</p> </div> <div class="content"> <p><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4405" src="http://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Screen-Shot-2013-12-09-at-1.14.21-AM-132x150.png" alt="Historypin globe" width="132" height="150" srcset="https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Screen-Shot-2013-12-09-at-1.14.21-AM-132x150.png 132w, https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Screen-Shot-2013-12-09-at-1.14.21-AM.png 140w" sizes="(max-width: 132px) 100vw, 132px" />Crowdsourcing can build virtual community, engage the public, and build large knowledge databases about science and culture. But what does it take, and how fast can you grow?</p> <p><img class="alignleft wp-image-4388 size-medium" src="http://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Screen-Shot-2013-12-08-at-7.54.05-PM-240x61.png" alt="Historypin logo" width="240" height="61" srcset="https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Screen-Shot-2013-12-08-at-7.54.05-PM-240x61.png 240w, https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Screen-Shot-2013-12-08-at-7.54.05-PM-150x38.png 150w, https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Screen-Shot-2013-12-08-at-7.54.05-PM.png 252w" sizes="(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" />For some insight, we look at a crowdsourced history site: <a href="http://www.historypin.com">Historypin</a> is an appealing database of historical photos, with dates, locations, captions, and other metadata. It’s called History “<strong>pin”</strong> because the photos are pinned on a map. (See recent article about <a title="Changes over time, in photos and maps" href="http://www.idea.org/blog/2013/08/21/changes-over-time-in-photos-and-maps/">Changes over time, in photos and maps</a>.) Some locations have photos from multiple dates, showing how a place has changed over time, or cross-referenced with Google Maps StreetView. Currently, Historypin has 308k items, from 51k users, and 1.4k institutions. This is a graph of pins over the last three years: <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/12/09/challenges-of-crowdsourcing-analysis-of-historypin/#more-4375" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading Challenges of crowdsourcing: Analysis of Historypin">(more…)</span></a></p> </div> <div class="meta"> <ul> <li>Posted in <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/business-management/" rel="category tag">Business</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/strategy/" rel="category tag">Strategy</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/12/09/challenges-of-crowdsourcing-analysis-of-historypin/#comments">1 Comment</a></li> <li>Tags: <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/community/" rel="tag">community</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/crowdsourcing/" rel="tag">Crowdsourcing</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/culture/" rel="tag">culture</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/google-street-view/" rel="tag">Google Street View</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/history/" rel="tag">history</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/historypin/" rel="tag">Historypin</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/knowledge/" rel="tag">knowledge</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/maps/" rel="tag">maps</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/outreach/" rel="tag">outreach</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/streetview/" rel="tag">StreetView</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/user-interface/" rel="tag">user interface</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/web-2-0/" rel="tag">Web 2.0</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="post-4296 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-interactivity category-learning tag-climate-change tag-data tag-evidence tag-googlestreetview tag-history tag-maps tag-nasa tag-photos tag-pins tag-state-of-flux" id="post-4296"> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/08/21/changes-over-time-in-photos-and-maps/" rel="bookmark">Changes over time, in photos and maps</a></h2> <p class="info"><strong class="date"><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/08/21/changes-over-time-in-photos-and-maps/" rel="bookmark">August 21st, 2013</a></strong> by IDEA</p> </div> <div class="content"> <p><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-4302 alignright" alt="Muir Glacier, Alaska" src="http://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Screen-Shot-2013-08-19-at-5.16.41-PM-150x85.png" width="150" height="85" srcset="https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Screen-Shot-2013-08-19-at-5.16.41-PM-150x85.png 150w, https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Screen-Shot-2013-08-19-at-5.16.41-PM-240x137.png 240w, https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Screen-Shot-2013-08-19-at-5.16.41-PM-545x311.png 545w, https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Screen-Shot-2013-08-19-at-5.16.41-PM.png 942w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />Images gain new meaning when given the context of location or change. Two sites, from NASA and HistoryPin do this to good effect — such as showing the the dramatic <a href="http://climate.nasa.gov/state_of_flux#Icemelt.jpg">melting of the Muir glacier</a> in Alaska, or how a city evolves.</p> <p>Launched in autumn 2011 by a British nonprofit, <a href="http://www.historypin.com/">HistoryPin</a> pins historical items on a map. Their service demonstrates the potential for a global, crowdsourced database of historical media. <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/08/21/changes-over-time-in-photos-and-maps/#more-4296" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading Changes over time, in photos and maps">(more…)</span></a></p> </div> <div class="meta"> <ul> <li>Posted in <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/interactivity/" rel="category tag">Interactive experiences</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/learning/" rel="category tag">Learning & access</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/08/21/changes-over-time-in-photos-and-maps/#comments">2 Comments</a></li> <li>Tags: <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/climate-change/" rel="tag">Climate change</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/data/" rel="tag">Data</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/evidence/" rel="tag">Evidence</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/googlestreetview/" rel="tag">googlestreetview</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/history/" rel="tag">history</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/maps/" rel="tag">maps</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/nasa/" rel="tag">NASA</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/photos/" rel="tag">photos</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/pins/" rel="tag">pins</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/state-of-flux/" rel="tag">State of Flux</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="post-4107 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-interactivity category-learning tag-3d tag-android tag-google tag-maps tag-museum tag-streetview" id="post-4107"> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/01/31/cars-trikes-and-more-create-google-street-view/" rel="bookmark">Cars, trikes, and more create Google Street View</a></h2> <p class="info"><strong class="date"><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/01/31/cars-trikes-and-more-create-google-street-view/" rel="bookmark">January 31st, 2013</a></strong> by IDEA</p> </div> <div class="content"> <p><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4120" alt="Google Maps Street View" src="http://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Screen-Shot-2013-01-31-at-1.33.05-PM-150x70.png" width="150" height="70" srcset="https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Screen-Shot-2013-01-31-at-1.33.05-PM-150x70.png 150w, https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Screen-Shot-2013-01-31-at-1.33.05-PM.png 232w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />The Grand Canyon is yet another place that Google brings to your digital screens, from their <em>Street View</em> family of content. Google has been collecting street-level views of our world at a vast scale possible only because of it’s deep pockets and technical expertise. <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/01/31/cars-trikes-and-more-create-google-street-view/#more-4107" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading Cars, trikes, and more create Google Street View">(more…)</span></a></p> </div> <div class="meta"> <ul> <li>Posted in <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/interactivity/" rel="category tag">Interactive experiences</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/learning/" rel="category tag">Learning & access</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2013/01/31/cars-trikes-and-more-create-google-street-view/#respond">No Comments</a></li> <li>Tags: <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/3d/" rel="tag">3D</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/android/" rel="tag">Android</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/google/" rel="tag">google</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/maps/" rel="tag">maps</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/museum/" rel="tag">museum</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/streetview/" rel="tag">StreetView</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="post-3155 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-business-management tag-access tag-android tag-app-store tag-apple tag-apps tag-appstore tag-audience tag-audio tag-authoring tag-content-management tag-hardware tag-ipad tag-iphone tag-maps tag-mobile tag-mobile-phone tag-museum tag-smartphone" id="post-3155"> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/10/27/museum-tour-apps-at-3rd-museums-mobile-conference/" rel="bookmark">Museum tour apps for <$25k at Museums & Mobile conference</a></h2> <p class="info"><strong class="date"><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/10/27/museum-tour-apps-at-3rd-museums-mobile-conference/" rel="bookmark">October 27th, 2011</a></strong> by IDEA</p> </div> <div class="content"> <p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3168" title="Mobile tour" src="http://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Screen-Shot-2011-10-27-at-1.08.54-AM.png" alt="" width="125" height="185" srcset="https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Screen-Shot-2011-10-27-at-1.08.54-AM.png 125w, https://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Screen-Shot-2011-10-27-at-1.08.54-AM-101x150.png 101w" sizes="(max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px" />It is getting easier and cheaper for cultural and scientific organizations make mobile, handheld tours. According to <a href="http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/40-percent-of-u-s-mobile-users-own-smartphones-40-percent-are-android/">Nielsen</a>, 40% of Americans with mobile phones are carrying smartphones; of those 40% run Android, and 28% have an Apple iPhone. This is a huge market, and by 2012, approximately half your audience could use your app from the smartphone in their pocket. Or, you can loan iPod Touches to visitors on site.</p> <p><strong>Keeping it simple</strong></p> <p><strong></strong>Apps just need to be good enough. No need to get too fancy or reinvent the wheel. While custom apps run from $25-100k, many vendors will create an app for you for less than $25k, and some for well under $5k. <img class="alignleft" title="Museums & Mobile" src="http://www.idea.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Screen-Shot-2011-10-27-at-1.11.19-AM.png" alt="" width="165" height="34" />This is a summary of the vendors offering apps for less than $25k at yesterday’s <a href="http://www.museums-mobile.org/virtual-expo/">3rd Museums & Mobile online conference</a>. <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/10/27/museum-tour-apps-at-3rd-museums-mobile-conference/#more-3155" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading Museum tour apps for ">(more…)</span></a></p> </div> <div class="meta"> <ul> <li>Posted in <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/business-management/" rel="category tag">Business</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2011/10/27/museum-tour-apps-at-3rd-museums-mobile-conference/#comments">1 Comment</a></li> <li>Tags: <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/access/" rel="tag">access</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/android/" rel="tag">Android</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/app-store/" rel="tag">app store</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/apple/" rel="tag">Apple</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/apps/" rel="tag">apps</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/appstore/" rel="tag">appstore</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/audience/" rel="tag">Audience</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/audio/" rel="tag">audio</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/authoring/" rel="tag">authoring</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/content-management/" rel="tag">content management</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/hardware/" rel="tag">Hardware</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/ipad/" rel="tag">IPad</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/iphone/" rel="tag">iPhone</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/maps/" rel="tag">maps</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/mobile/" rel="tag">mobile</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/mobile-phone/" rel="tag">mobile phone</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/museum/" rel="tag">museum</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/smartphone/" rel="tag">smartphone</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="post-191 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-interactivity tag-interactivity-2 tag-maps tag-multidimensional tag-user-interface tag-views" id="post-191"> <div class="title"> <h2><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2006/06/01/views-of-data/" rel="bookmark">Views of data</a></h2> <p class="info"><strong class="date"><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2006/06/01/views-of-data/" rel="bookmark">June 1st, 2006</a></strong> by IDEA</p> </div> <div class="content"> <div> <p>Reducing multidimensional data enables visitors to control what they see. <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2006/06/01/views-of-data/#more-191" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading Views of data">(more…)</span></a></div> </div> <div class="meta"> <ul> <li>Posted in <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/category/interactivity/" rel="category tag">Interactive experiences</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/2006/06/01/views-of-data/#respond">No Comments</a></li> <li>Tags: <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/interactivity-2/" rel="tag">interactivity</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/maps/" rel="tag">maps</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/multidimensional/" rel="tag">multidimensional</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/user-interface/" rel="tag">user interface</a>, <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/tag/views/" rel="tag">views</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </section> </div> </div> </div> </main> <footer id="footer"> <div class="container"> <nav class="page-nav"> <ul> <li id="menu-item-4498" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-home menu-item-4498"><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/">Home</a></li> <li id="menu-item-4497" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-4497"><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/about/">Mission & history</a></li> <li id="menu-item-4499" class="popup menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-4499"><a title="popup" class="js-btn-show-popups" href="#wrapper">Browse topics</a></li> <li id="menu-item-4666" class="menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-4666"><a href="https://www.idea.org/blog/contact/">Contact IDEA</a></li> <li>Copyright © 2025 <a href="https://www.idea.org/blog">IDEA</a></li> </ul> </nav> </div> </footer> </div> <script type='text/javascript'> /* <![CDATA[ */ var wpcf7 = {"apiSettings":{"root":"https:\/\/www.idea.org\/blog\/wp-json\/contact-form-7\/v1","namespace":"contact-form-7\/v1"},"cached":"1"}; 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