Swisstrains.ch is an impressive Google Maps application, you can follow every single train in Switzerland. It’s not GPS based, but on the punctual timetable, hé it’s Switzerland. You can click on a station to see which trains are leaving soon, but you can also click on a train, a small popup appears where you can click ‘Follow’. Now you’re a virtual bird’s eye view trainride through Switzerland.
For those of you who are wondering what happens with your blog post after you click publish. Well check out this infographic.
Designed by build, but why o why did they do it in flash?
Liberation Army Against Freedom is a Dutch campaign to warn you about the dangers of fireworks. You can watch the videos with English subtitles on their YouTube page.
245 top-level domains mapped with their population size taken in account. Interesting!
You can buy a poster of it here.
Watch and listen: the ‘Simplicity patterns‘ talk by John Maeda at TED.
‘Survival in the City‘, a guide by Anthony Greenbank, 1974.
This graphic is part of a good manners campaign in Japan. There are many like this one in this gallery. It isn’t done by an anti smoking lobby, but by Japan Tobacco.
The English translation sounds odd right, why the past tense?
Yeah, I had to read that twice … That little island is a vulcano point in Crater Lake on Vulcano Island in Lake Taal on Luzon (the Philippines). Here you can see it on Google Maps. You can find more facts about islands and lakes here.
Information Architects Japan released Version 2.0 of their Web Trend Map. They did an amazing job, there is so much info in that map! Go and get one yourself here!
