waldo tobler, inventor of many interesting map projections
http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~tobler/

cartograms and map distortion techniques
cartogram central

michael naimark, pioneered the technique of moviemaps
www.naimark.net

masaki fujihata - gps projects and georeferenced video tracks
http://www.field-works.net/

joachim sauter, dirk lüsebrink, videotraces as spatial objects
art+com website

golan levin keeps a list of the numerous projects using time-lapse video techiques
An Informal Catalogue of Slit-Scan Video Artworks