I personally like these posts occasionally because sometimes seeing how someone can create an interesting and/or different type of visualization - makes you think more about how people perceive things and how you can change the way you present to improve perception and possibly be fun or entertaining.
I'm sure it violates the Google Map TOS to modify their maps so it would be an interesting two-weekend project to create a mashup of OpenStreetMaps and phrases/sets of concepts/questions to generate these automatically. It could go viral.
First step would be calculating intersections and the angle of intersection for a limited geographic area. Then build a UI that lets users rate the "divergence" of the statements or entities they want to visualize. Then map the set of user input to your intersection db. It might be hard to teach an algorithm how to make it visually appealing but that Words app did it.
I'm sure it violates the Google Map TOS to modify their maps so it would be an interesting two-weekend project to create a mashup of OpenStreetMaps and phrases/sets of concepts/questions to generate these automatically. It could go viral.
First step would be calculating intersections and the angle of intersection for a limited geographic area. Then build a UI that lets users rate the "divergence" of the statements or entities they want to visualize. Then map the set of user input to your intersection db. It might be hard to teach an algorithm how to make it visually appealing but that Words app did it.
Word cloud: http://neoformix.com