There was a bomb threat in downtown Reykjavik today, near the main Government Building. The police have released some photos of one suspect. Amazingly they haven’t found the person yet,…
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The Busiest Bus Stops in Reykjavik
Here’s a small applet, which allows you to navigate through Reykjavik Bus data. Green = people entering the bus. Red = people leaving the bus. [applet code=”busExplorer” file=”http://pabamapa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/busExplorer.jar,http://pabamapa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/core.jar,http://pabamapa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/GLGraphics.jar,http://pabamapa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/log4j-1.2.15.jar,http://pabamapa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/opengl.jar,http://pabamapa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Unfolding.jar” width=500 height=500…
Are Odd Years Bad for Handball Players?
The Handball European Championship 2012 is underway in Serbia. That’s fun. I remember the book SuperFreakonomics having a chapter about birthdays of pro soccer players. They tend to be born…
"Where is Everybody?" Most Popular Bus Stops in Reykjavik.
Here are some pictures representing the most popular bus stops in the Greater Reykjavik public transport systems. See the comparison between 8 o’clock and 16 o’clock maps. One can see…
Mapping the Bus Stations in Capital Area
I am currently working on a project to map the bus transport in Iceland. I have a full list of all BUS stations along with their internal IDs (see here: names).…
Where Chickens Die
There are only four slaughterhouse which kill chickens in Iceland (see: here). And according to this report by the Icelandic Competition Office two of those account for more than 90% of…
The Northern Urban Sprawl Myth
“The downtown is for foot people, the suburbs are for car people, the centre is dense, the outskirts are not.” I have told this story myself a couple of times.…
Merry Christmas from PaBaMapa.com
[processing width=”500″ height=”400″ file=”http://pabamapa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/sketch_dec20a.jar”] Thank for following us in 2011. We will be back with fresh new data and infographics on the 2nd of January 2012.
Sports vs. Culture – Continued.
My most recent post, Sports vs. Culture, got quite a few reads. I will sum up some of the main questions/topics which could be heard in the discussion that followed. 1.…
Sports vs. Culture
Around a week ago I promised, in a tweet, to compare the public expenditures on sports and arts in Iceland. The motivation was a comment by an Icelandic handball player who, in an…