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ZIPScribble Animated

January 20th, 2008

This is a Google Earth, time animated version of the U.S .ZIP map in my post from a couple of days ago. Based on Robert Kosara’s ZipScribble maps. 
The KML file contains 43,000 lines connecting every ZIP code in the country, TimeStamped in ascending numerical order.  
Just a slight warning: This is a very large and detailed time animation. It runs smoothly on my [...]

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KML ZIP Scribble Map

January 18th, 2008

About a year ago, Robert Kosara at eagereyes.org published a fascinating set of visualizations demonstrating the overall structure of ZIP (and post) codes in various countries, for obvious reasons he called them ZipScribble maps. Robert compiled  PDF maps of the USA,  and a dozen more countries. 
The concept he uses is remarkably straightforward:
 1) Plot the centroid of every ZIP code area onto a map.
 2) Join these [...]

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