Paul Mison blech

Just your BBC spinny globe, circa 1985. (TODO: add reversed antipodes as bg layer.)

Dopplr Tour, but as a map with great circles.

A command line script to convert the locations in a Twitter archive download to GeoJSON.

A small script for fetching trendsetters based on their last.fm listening habits.

If you've used mbostock's gist to pull all the gists you own into a folder, then this ridiculously hackish bit of shell will update them all.

If, unlike me, you actually have git up working properly, you'll be able to remove the - in line 6.

Tweaking mbostock's world tour to show a list of the cities I've visited, taken from my trips on Dopplr.

	#!/bin/bash

	# TODO the station code should be an argument
	# also I just ran this as one line so it might not even work as a script

	# GSOD: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/res40.pl?page=gsod.html

	for i in gsod_199*.tar;
	do y=`echo $i \| awk -F '_' '{print $2}' \| awk -F '.' '{print $1}'`;
	echo working on $i $y;

	// cheekily stolen from http://maps.kimasendorf.com/
	var featureType = ["all", "water", "landscape", "landscape.man_made", "landscape.natural", "landscape.natural.landcover", "landscape.natural.terrain", "administrative", "administrative.country", "administrative.province", "administrative.locality", "administrative.neighborhood", "administrative.land_parcel", "poi", /"poi.attraction", "poi.business", "poi.government", "poi.medical", "poi.park", "poi.place_of_worship", "poi.school", "poi.sports_complex",/ "road", "road.highway", "road.highway.controlled_access", "road.arterial", "road.local", "transit", "transit.line", "transit.station"/, "transit.station.airport", "transit.station.bus", "transit.station.rail"/];
	var elementType = ["all", "geometry", "geometry.fill", "geometry.stroke", /"labels", "labels.icon", "labels.text", "labels.text.fill", "labels.text.stroke"/];
	var visibility = ["on", "simplified", "off"];

	var asdfMapStyle = [];

	// NEW GOOGLE MAPS STYLE
	google.maps.visualRefresh = true;