Let Us Not Forget the Art Inherent in Geospatial Data

The image above is taken from Robert Kosara's EagerEyes site. He is experimenting with what I think of as functional visualizations of data sets.

In this case, he's connected all US ZIP Code centroids in ascending order to create a "ZIPScribble" map. He's also calculated a version of shortest path among all those points to create what he calls a "Traveling Presidential Candidate Map."

I'm not sure we'd call this GIS, but it is an interesting new way to see a data set we've all worked with in more prosaic applications. (VIA URBAN CARTOGRAPHY)