A Divided Map of America’s Overdose Crisis

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 22/10/2025 à 08:36

In Overdose in America The Guardian reports that drug overdose death rates in the United States are falling across most of the country. According to The Guardian's report overdose death rates have fallen nationally since 2023 mainly because of wider access to naloxone, expanded treatment options and a decline in fentanyl availability and purity in parts of the country.However, The Guardian also

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County Stripes

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 21/10/2025 à 08:54

County Stripes I was reading the comments on a time-lapse map of power outages in the US posted on Reddit yesterday. Many of the comments focused on the sizes of U.S. counties, particularly noting how counties appear to get noticeably larger as you travel westward across the country.I therefore decided to take a closer look at the size of U.S. counties across the country, carrying out some

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A 65,000-Year History Map

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 20/10/2025 à 09:14

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has attempted to tell the 65,000-year history of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Its Deep Time project brings to the fore the stories of Country from First Nations knowledge holders. The project combines modern scientific understanding of the Oceania region with the traditional knowledge and culture of the peoples who have

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No Kings, No Tyrants & No Dictators

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 18/10/2025 à 10:19

The No Kings interactive map is not particularly interesting in itself - except as a visualization of the huge geographic sweep of anti-Trump sentiment in the United States. The map is ostensibly just a simple interactive map that shows you the locations of today's protests against the escalating authoritarianism of the Donald Trump administration in the United States.As well as showing the

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Bird Migrations in a Warming World

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 17/10/2025 à 09:15

The Guardian has published a report exploring how global warming is affecting the natural migration patterns of different bird species. The article Bird Migration Is Changing is beautifully illustrated with a number of impressive animated maps.My favorite of these mapped illustrations tracks the path of a storm-chasing seabird, the Desertas petrel. The Desertas petrel spends almost all its life

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America - Then & Now

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 16/10/2025 à 08:46

The Library of Congress Street View Explorer allows you to view vintage photographs side-by-side with their corresponding modern Google Street View panoramas, letting you explore how America has changed (or not) over time.Matt Miller created the Explorer by carrying out a textual analysis of the approximately 95,000 comments on the LOC Flickr account, which includes over 40,000

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How to Create a Birdsong Map

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 15/10/2025 à 08:54

Diario SUR has created an interactive that allows you to listen to Málaga birds singing directly from a map. Mouseover any of the markers on This is how Málaga sings and you can listen to a sound recording of a Málaga bird species submitted by users of the website Xeno-Canto.Xeno-Canto is a community-driven online

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Which NYC Neighborhood Do You Live In?

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 14/10/2025 à 07:26

Is it NYC? allows you to discover which New York neighborhood most resembles your hometown. Simply enter your location into Is It NYC? and instantly discover if you're living in a trendy, SoHo-like area or a leafy, outer-borough haven like Forest Hills.Cosine SimilarityAt its core, Is It NYC? is an exercise in geospatial data analysis and similarity matching. Behind the curtain, the map

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Drowning Cities in 3D

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 13/10/2025 à 06:38

The Sea Level Rise 3D Map is a very effective visualization of the possible effects of rising sea levels. The map uses Google's 3D Maps API with deck.gl and three.js to create a very realistic demonstration of how locations around the world could be impacted by different levels of sea level rise.The map was created by combining Google’s Photorealistic 3D Tiles with a custom Three.js water

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Stories of Displacement & Return

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 11/10/2025 à 08:32

Journeys of Resilience of Refugees from Ukraine is an interactive map tracking the movements of refugees from Ukraine amidst the ongoing war. Created for the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM), the map captures both the immense scale of forced migration and the stories of return and resilience that continue to unfold.Since Russia’s invasion, around 11 million Ukrainians

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How much for a house like this?

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 10/10/2025 à 16:30

How good are you at guessing the value of a house based purely on its curb appeal? Well, now you can find out with my new daily challenge Street View game - Curb Value.Each day, Curb Value loads a new set of real homes currently on the market. For every property, you’re shown a static Street View image, a frozen snapshot of the house captured by Google’s cameras. Based on what you see from the

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How Big was the Roman Empire?

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 10/10/2025 à 07:32

TrueSize.net is an interactive map that allows you to compare the true size of countries and regions around the world. You’ve probably played with 'true size' maps before but TrueSize.net goes far beyond other 'true size' maps - t’s a fully fledged platform for exploring the real scale of countries, regions, and even historical empires.Unlike most 'true size' maps that focus solely on modern

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30 Day Map Challenge

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 09/10/2025 à 07:19

November’s 30DayMapChallenge is fast approaching - and the daily themes for this year’s event have just been released!The #30DayMapChallenge is an annual, community-driven event that brings together mapmakers from all over the world. Started by Topi Tjukanov in 2019, it’s become a global celebration of cartography, creativity, and data visualization. Each day in November, participants

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India Rules the World Map

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 08/10/2025 à 08:41

This animated cartogram resizes countries around the world according to their annual number of births.In this “natal map” of the world, India appears as the largest country, with over 23 million babies born each year - roughly equivalent to the entire population of a country such as Chile (about 20 million people). China, with 9.54 million births per year, and Nigeria, with 7.51 million births

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Four Ways to Destroy the Earth

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 07/10/2025 à 07:23

Project Impact is an interactive asteroid-impact simulator that lets you drop different sized asteroids on the cities of your choice - and observe how they could be destroyed. Alongside the simulation, you can also learn about the mitigation strategies used to detect and deflect hazardous near-Earth objects, and even test your defense skills by taking command of Planetary Defense Command in a

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Mapping Russia's Attack on Europe

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 06/10/2025 à 09:22

Each symbol on this interactive map represents an attempt by the Russian state to destabilize European democracy. The map visualizes Russia’s hybrid warfare against the West, which involves tactics as diverse as cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns, physical sabotage, and even possible assassinations — actions that might seem minor in isolation but form part of a broader strategy to undermine

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The School Lines That Divide US

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 04/10/2025 à 09:54

New America has released an interactive map that reveals how the boundaries of U.S. school districts could be redrawn to create a fairer education system for all students.In most states, school district lines determine which local property taxes fund which schools. This means that children in affluent areas often benefit from far more school funding than those in nearby districts with lower

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The Atlas of American Gun Violence

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 03/10/2025 à 07:42

The Trace's An Atlas of American Gun Violence is an interactive map that uses data from the Gun Violence Archive to visualize gun homicides and assaults across the contiguous United States.The map has drawn a fair amount of criticism on the MapPorn subreddit, with many dismissing it as “just a population density map.” I think this criticism is somewhat unfair.  If you were to zoom

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European Death Zones

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 02/10/2025 à 07:11

Tages-Anzeiger’s data team has published a striking interactive map that visualizes one of Europe’s most profound demographic challenges: in most of the continent's regions, more people are now dying than are being born.In Europe is becoming a “net death zone”: What the future would look like without immigration the newspaper uses regional data from Eurostat and national statistics offices

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The World is Your Canvas with PaintMyMap

Maps Mania Par Keir Clarke 01/10/2025 à 08:12

Creating a truly beautiful and customized map can be a frustrating experience, requiring either expensive software or deep coding knowledge. Enter PaintMyMap, a new online custom map maker that lets anyone - from educators to professionals - design, style, and export custom maps in minutes, and all for free.What is PaintMyMap?PaintMyMap is an intuitive web-based editor designed to simplify

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