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17 août 2018
11:38
Mapping Raptor Persecution
sur Google Maps Mania

Birds of prey in the UK all share a common enemy - the human race. Every week the RSPB receive reports of raptors being shot, trapped or poisoned. Many other incidents go unreported. This is why the RSPB has decided to release a centralized hub to monitor and track raptor persecution in the UK. The Raptor Persecution Hub provides an overview of the illegal treatment of birds of prey in the UK.
16 août 2018
20:30
Mapping the Homeless of LA
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In January 2015 the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority carried out a survey of the homeless in Los Angeles County. The survey estimated that there were 44,359 homeless living in the county. Using the data from the count the Los Angeles Times created a dot map to visualize the distribution of homeless people throughout the county. Each dot on the Where are L.A. County’s Homeless? map
18:30
Making Vintage Panoramic Maps
sur Google Maps Mania

The Buffalo News has created a nice interactive map from an 1880 panoramic map of Buffalo, created by E.H. Hutchinson. The Buffalo News interactive version of the map allows you to zoom-in and explore this vintage oblique view of the city in close detail. The map includes a number of map markers which provide information about some of the landmarks shown on the map and some historical photos of
15 août 2018
18:30
Mapping the Key Seats in the Midterm Elections
sur Google Maps Mania

The New York Times has mapped 62 key House seats which could go either way in this year's midterm elections. The Democratic Party must win at least 23 Republican held seats to win the House in November. To take control of the House the Democratic Party or the Republican Party must reach the 218 seats needed for a House majority In Tracking the House Races to Watch in the 2018 Midterm Elections
14:02
Exploring Stonehenge's Prehistoric Neighbors
sur Google Maps Mania

Stonehenge is one of the most iconic prehistoric monuments in the world. Every year it is visited by over 1.5 million people. I wonder how many of those visitors visit any of the other 300 odd Neolithic and Bronze Age barrows that are within walking distance of Stonehenge. One way to appreciate the astonishing prehistoric landscape around Stonehenge is by exploring the Stonehenge Barrow Map.
14 août 2018
20:30
Saving Half the Planet
sur Google Maps Mania

The biologist Edward O. Wilson argues that if we conserve half the Earth’s land & sea we will be able to save most of the planet's biodiversity from extinction. His proposal is a simple to understand concept which, if implemented, could save life on planet Earth. The Half-Earth Project was born out of Wilson's proposal to ensure that Earth's biodiversity is saved by protecting half all the
18:30
The American Murder Rate Map
sur Google Maps Mania

A new interactive map allows you to explore trends in violent crimes in America's biggest cities. The map, created by a team of social scientists at New York University, allows you to view the murder rates in cities across the USA. At launch American Violence consists of an interactive map visualizing the murder rates in 84 of the largest U.S. cities. Going forward the map will also show
13 août 2018
20:30
Fracking in California
sur Google Maps Mania

California's Getting Fracked is a story map created by Faces of Fracking to illustrate the impacts of fracking in California. The map takes you on a tour through some of the state's most high-intensity fracking sites responsible for some of the most serious environmental and health concerns. As you scroll through the story the locations of oil & gas wells in the LA Basin are added to a
18:30
3D Models in Mapbox GL
sur Google Maps Mania

Andrew Harvey has created an impressive demonstration overlaying a 3D model on top of a Mapbox GL map. His Add a 3D Model to a Mapbox GL JS Map places a 3D model of a radio telescope on top of an interactive map. Adding a 3D model to a Mapbox GL map allows the user to view the model from lots of different angles. If you right-click on the map you can rotate around the model and adjust the angle
10:46
The UK's Secret Photogenic Hot-Spots
sur Google Maps Mania

If you want to increase the number of your followers on Instagram then you could start by posting some stunning photographs of beautiful locations that nobody else has heard of. Luckily for UK photographers the Carphone Warehouse has created an interactive map of some of the UK's most stunning but little known locations. It has identified locations in cities across the country that are both
10 août 2018
11:09
Explaining Droughts in Taiwan
sur Google Maps Mania

It rains quite a lot in Taiwan. However despite all that precipitation the country also often suffers from water shortages. One reason for these water shortages is illegal land use in reservoir catchment areas. CommonWealth Magazine has created a wonderful story map to visualize how such illegal land use around the Shihmen Reservoir has led to a huge silt build-up in the reservoir, severely
09 août 2018
20:30
Mapping American Anti-Semitism
sur Google Maps Mania

The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish non-profit organization, has released an interactive map documenting over 3,000 incidents of extremism or anti-Semitism in the United States in 2017 and 2018. Their new H.E.A.T. Map shows the locations of incidents of extremism, anti-Semitism and terrorism across the whole country. Incidents on the map are color-coded by the type of incident. If you hover
18:30
Avoid the Sun Walking Directions
sur Google Maps Mania

If even the mere thought of walking in the midday sun gives you sweaty palms then you need the new Parasol walking directions map. Parasol is a routing engine for Boston which can give you walking directions between any two points in the city, optimized for walking in the shade. If you love the sun then don't worry. Parasol isn't just for those looking for shade, it can also be used to find you
14:10
Removing Pollution with Vegetation?
sur Google Maps Mania

Around 1.4 billion kg of air pollutants are removed by woodlands, plants, grasslands and other vegetation each year in the UK. The amount of air pollution removed from the air where you live is dependent on the amount of local vegetation. The UK's Office for National Statistics has created an interactive map which allows you to see how much air pollution in your area is absorbed by local
08 août 2018
20:30
How Big is the Mendocino Complex Fire?
sur Google Maps Mania

The Mendocino Complex Fire has now become the largest fire in California's history. This has led to an outbreak of mapped visualizations of the fire. Some of these maps have attempted to visualize the size of the fire and how it compares to previous Californian fires. The Guardian's report on the fire includes an animated map which shows how the fire has spread since it started on 27 July. How
18:30
The Population Density of the USA in 3D
sur Google Maps Mania

HomeArea.com has created a series of interactive maps to explore the population of the United States and how that population has changed over time. These maps visualize the population density of the United States today and how the population center of the country has shifted during its short history. 3D Population Density of the US is an interactive map which shows the population density of
07 août 2018
18:30
The Extreme Heat Forecast Map
sur Google Maps Mania

About two hours after posting yesterday's Map Mania post on extreme heat maps I discovered that the National Weather Service actually has an interactive map which forecasts potential heat risks for the next seven days. This new weather forecast map provides a quick overview of the potential heat risk for the upcoming week. The NWS HeatRisk map uses a simple color scale to show the forecast of
11:56
How far can you travel on a Dublin bus?
sur Google Maps Mania

Dublin is currently planning a major overhaul of its bus network. This will involve a more efficient network which connects more locations and which will carry more passengers. Of course the new network also carries the danger of upsetting existing customers, who are familiar with the current routes and services. What better way to show the benefits of the new Dublin bus network than with an
06 août 2018
20:30
Extreme Heat Kills
sur Google Maps Mania

Extreme heat is a killer and this summer has yet again been a season of extreme temperatures. From 1975 to 2004 an estimated extra 1,300 deaths occurred annually, on average, during periods of extreme summer heat. This is a figure that is likely to significantly rise as we experience more and more days of extreme heat. Last year the New York Times created an animated map to show how extreme
18:30
How far can you get in 30 minutes?
sur Google Maps Mania

Oalley is an interactive map that can tell you how far you can travel within a given time. For example it can visualize on a map everywhere that you can travel to in 30 minutes by car, train or bike (France only) from your current location. If you enter a location into Oalley, a method of transport and a period of time you can view an isochrone map showing how far you can travel in that time
10:34
The Street Names of Paris
sur Google Maps Mania

Le Figaro has been researching the history of street names in Paris. In particular it has examined how many Parisian roads were named for people and which historical periods those people are from. It then colored those roads on a map of Paris to show which historical period is most commemorated in Paris' roads. In What Paris Street Names Reveal the newspaper says that a total of 2,500 streets
04 août 2018
19:30
The Shark Tracking Map
sur Google Maps Mania

You can now explore the movements of 45 sharks off the east coast of America on Oceana's interactive Global Fishing Watch map. Millions of sharks are caught and killed every year by fishing boats. By overlaying the shark tracks on top of the Global Fishing Watch map users can view where these sharks have intersected with nearby commercial fishing vessels. Global Fishing Watch aims to help
03 août 2018
18:59
Mapping the Global Refugee Crisis
sur Google Maps Mania

Refugee Flow uses an interactive 3d globe to visualize the current migration crisis across the world. The site uses a number of different datasets and interactive visualizations to explore different aspects of the crisis that force millions of people to flee from their homes. Refugee Crisis is divided into two main sections; Armed Conflicts and Migration Routes. The Armed Conflicts section
14:12
Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them
sur Google Maps Mania

Fans of Danish bacon won't be surprised to learn that there are a lot of pigs in Denmark. Although they might not be aware that pigs in Europe are also heavily concentrated in northern Belgium and the Netherlands. Fans of pizza and buffalo mozzarella might be interested to learn that European buffaloes live almost exclusively in southern Italy. I learnt all this from Maarten Lambrechts Herds of
12:03
UK Marine Traffic
sur Google Maps Mania

The tracks of fishing boats off the coast of Cornwall One of my favorite real-time vehicle tracking maps is Marine Traffic, which shows the live positions and tracks of boats around the world. It is always fascinating to explore the major shipping lanes in and around coastal waters that emerge on Marine Traffic. One thing that never occurred to me when using Marine Traffic is that different
02 août 2018
15:21
Where & When New York Eats
sur Google Maps Mania

A new interactive map reveals where New Yorkers like to eat and what they like to eat when they get there. Bites of the Big Apple is an animated map which plays through one whole day of food related Instagram posts in the Big Apple. To make the map Crimson Hexagon identified the most popular food and drink hashtags used in New York during the 6th-12 May 2018 and where & when in the city those
12:10
Mapping Bird Migration Routes
sur Google Maps Mania

Tönn, a Greater Spotted Eagle, was born in Estonia in 2008. Every year Tönn flies south to his winter grounds in Spain. Usually in March-April he flies back to Estonia. You can explore the migratory route of Tönn and hundreds of other birds on the Birdmap. The Birdmap is an interactive map which shows the tracks of Estonian birds that have been tagged with GPS trackers. You can select to view
1:00
Melbourne in 1945
sur Google Maps Mania

The Melbourne Cricket Ground is the largest sports stadium in Australia and the tenth largest in the world. The MCG hasn't always been used for sports. During World War II the stadium was occupied in turn by the United States Army Air Forces, the Royal Australian Air Force and the United States Marine Corps. Now you can view the stadium as it looked at the end of World War II on Melbourne 1945.
01 août 2018
20:30
How America Uses its Land
sur Google Maps Mania

America belongs to its cows. More than one-third of U.S. land is used for pasture. It is by far the largest land-use type in the contiguous 48 states. But that's not all a large proportion of the USA's cropland is used to produce feed. This cropland added to all those pastures results in 41 percent of land in the contiguous states given over to livestock. That is a lot of land set aside for
17:30
Unsafe Waters in the Delaware River Basin
sur Google Maps Mania

The Delaware River Basin watershed provides drinking water for more than 15 million people. Environment America's Delaware River Basin Map visualizes the potential threats to waterways in the basin. It allows citizens, activists and officials to find out whether their local waterways are safe enough for swimming, fishing and / or drinking. Enter your address into the the Delaware River Basin
31 juillet 2018
22:30
U.S. Wildfire Maps
sur Google Maps Mania

On Sunday I reported on two useful maps for helping to keep track of the spread of wildfires this summer. The San Francisco Chronicle's California Fire Tracker is mapping and providing information on the wildfires currently burning across California. You can also view information about wildfires inside and outside of California on the US Wildfire Activity Public Information Map. Esri has now
20:30
This is an AI World
sur Google Maps Mania

Google is building a new world designed by artificial intelligence (and it is a world that is actually a lot less creepy than it sounds). World Draw is an AI experiment which you can take part in simply by submitting simple drawings. World Draw takes user submitted sketches and uses artificial intelligence to recognize what has been drawn. It then turns those recognized objects into 3d models
18:30
The Native People of Australia
sur Google Maps Mania

Back in 2015 Native-Land started mapping the territories and languages of the indigenous peoples of the United States and Canada. Native-Land now also shows the territories and languages of the indigenous peoples of Australia and New Zealand. The map consists of two main layers, one showing the 'territory' of indigenous peoples and the other showing the geographical spread of indigenous
30 juillet 2018
20:30
How Gerrymandered is Your District?
sur Google Maps Mania

The United States is one of only a few democratic countries that allow politicians to play a major role in redistricting. Most countries appoint an independent commission to handle how political districts should be defined. It is almost as if the American system was designed to encourage gerrymandering. The ACLU's What the District map allows you to explore how your election district has
18:30
The World According to Strabo
sur Google Maps Mania

The title 'Father of Geography' could be given to the Greek philosopher, historian and geographer Strabo. Strabo lived during the transitional period when the Roman Republic developed into the Roman Empire. He is most well known for his 'Geographica', an historical and descriptive account of the people and places living in the different regions of the western world, during his era. Strabo
16:30
The Art of Location Tracking
sur Google Maps Mania

Painted Earth is an amazing interactive map which can turn the track of your location history into a unique and original work of art. Just open Painted Earth on your phone and the map turns the whole world into your canvas and transforms your location into a paintbrush. If you open Painted Earth on a mobile phone when you move around a colorful line will be painted on a blank canvas. While you
29 juillet 2018
19:11
The California Wildfire Map
sur Google Maps Mania

The San Francisco Chronicle has released a California Fire Tracker in order to map and provide information on all the wildfires currently burning across California. Fires are shown on the map when they are larger than 500 acres, have caused damage to property, or when people have been injured or killed as a result of the fire. The fire perimeters and hot spots shown for each wildfire are based
28 juillet 2018
12:10
The World as Seen in Vintage Photos
sur Google Maps Mania

Ajapaik is a gallery and interactive map showcasing historical and vintage photographs of Estonia. The site allows you to view over 130,000 old images of Estonia, about 75,000 of which have been mapped. The Ajapaik interactive map allows you to browse this huge collection of old photos by location. If you select a marker on the map the selected photo will be highlighted in the map sidebar. The
27 juillet 2018
18:30
An Extremely Misleading Election Map
sur Google Maps Mania

Yesterday the New York Times published an interactive map of the 2016 presidential election which succeeded in annoying a lot of cartographers. The NYT's Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Election allows you to explore the 2016 presidential election at the voting precinct level. The map is a great tool for exploring how many votes were cast for each presidential candidate at precinct level. It
14:49
Tonight's Total Lunar Eclipse
sur Google Maps Mania

Tonight much of the world can view a total lunar eclipse. A lunar eclipse happens when the Earth casts its shadow over the moon. Because the moon is currently at its most distant point from the Earth (apogee) this lunar eclipse will last longer than usual. We won’t get to see such a lengthy total eclipse again until June 9, 2123. However because the moon is so far away it will also look smaller
26 juillet 2018
9:52
Pakistan Election Maps
sur Google Maps Mania

The results of yesterday's election in Pakistan are beginning to come in. Early results suggest that the ex-cricket star Imran Khan is currently in the lead but may fall short of an overall majority. Al Jazeera's Pakistan Elections map is showing the results live as they are released. The cartogram map view represents each of the 272 election seats as a hexagon. Each hexagon is colored to show
25 juillet 2018
20:30
When Birds Attack
sur Google Maps Mania

During the nesting season (April-July) crows can become aggressive, particularly when they perceive a threat to their brood. Sometimes crows will even attack humans. Crows attacking students became such a big problem at Langara College in Vancouver that GIS instructors Jim O’Leary and Rick Davidson decided to create an interactive map that enables people to report locations where crows have
18:30
Mapping Three Buses at Once
sur Google Maps Mania

You can wait ages for a bus and then three will turn up all at once. The phenomenon of bus bunching effects public transit systems around the world. Bus timetables are usually scheduled so that buses on the same route are evenly spaced. Unfortunately in reality passengers often end up waiting ages for a bus, which eventually turns up late and overcrowded - followed closely by one or two other
24 juillet 2018
22:30
OSM World
sur Google Maps Mania

Little Big City is a fun WebGL experiment which creates a small world based on OpenStreetMap data. Pan the inset map on Little Big City and you can view a little city made big on a small 3D globe. The globe visualizes buildings, roads and water from OpenStreetMap on top of a small 3D globe. A radius control allows you to change the scale of the map data shown on the map. Increase the radius and
20:30
Swimming to America
sur Google Maps Mania

Ben Lecomte is attempting to swim across the Pacific. For the next six months he is swimming eight hours a day, accompanied by a support sailboat, from Japan to San Francisco. He is now 521 nautical miles into his 5,000 nautical mile swim. You can follow Ben's journey on a live interactive map. The Longest Swim Live Tracker shows the track and current position of Ben in the Pacific and the
18:30
Mapping the Billionaire Yacht Club
sur Google Maps Mania

Forbes has used data from MarineTraffic to track the journeys of the super-rich over one year. Their Billionaires on the Sea interactive map shows you where the likes of Giorgio Armani and David Geffen sailed their over-sized yachts during 2017. The Forbes interactive map shows the tracks of 17 of the most expensive privately owned yachts over the course of one whole year. You can select to
23 juillet 2018
20:30
Why New York Deviates from the North
sur Google Maps Mania

Geoff Boeing's Comparing City Street Orientations has led to a trend of people mapping out the street grid orientations of cities around the world. It also inspired the amazing Streets Orientations Mapbox map, which allows you to instantly create a street orientation compass rose for any location in the world. One trend that becomes apparent after looking at so many of these street orientation
18:30
Mappae Mundi on Monday
sur Google Maps Mania

This week's historical world map is Oronce Fine's 'Modern and Complete Map of the Entire World'. published in 1531. It is the earliest known map on which the name 'Terra australis' appears. You can view the map in detail on Mappae Mundi, my collection of vintage world maps (to view Fine's map just click on the 1531 button). Terra Australis (Latin for South Land) was a hypothetical southern
16:30
Cassini's 3D Globo Terrestre
sur Google Maps Mania

Giovanni Cassini was an astronomer, mathematician and cartographer. In cartography he is probably most known for his family's Carte de France, the first ever topographic map of an an entire country. Started by Giovanni the Carte de France or the Cassini Maps were created by four generations of the Cassini family in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Cassini Maps were the first truly accurate
14:30
Average Income by Metro Station
sur Google Maps Mania

DataParis is a data visualization of Paris census data centered around the individual stations of the Paris Metro. The visualization allows you to explore information on the average wages, taxes paid, the unemployment rate (and lots of other social and economic data) by individual Parisians in neighborhoods around each Metro station. DataParis is actually a few years old now and uses data from
21 juillet 2018
12:49
The Geography of UK Pub Names
sur Google Maps Mania

Constantly Plotting has been busy mapping out the geographical distribution of pub names in the UK. In The Geography of UK Pub Names he has created hundreds of static maps showing the distribution of different pub names in the UK. The results are endlessly fascinating. Some of the maps make immediate sense. For example pubs named 'Miners Arms' seem to be most popular in areas where lead and
20 juillet 2018
20:30
Homeless in Seattle
sur Google Maps Mania

As part of its Project Homeless series the Seattle Times has mapped out the results of the 2018 Point in Time count of homelessness in King County. The map shows the change in the rate of homelessness since 2017 in each census tract in the county. Homelessness across the county is up 4 percent from last year. The Where are people homeless in King County? map colors each census tract by the
16:57
The Map of Languages
sur Google Maps Mania

The Europa Polyglotta is an eighteenth century map of the world's languages and alphabets. The map was published in 1741 as part of Gottfried Hensel's early work on comparative linguistics, the Synopsis Universae Philologiae. The map is divided into four continents of Europa, Asia, Africa and America. Each of the four continent segments includes a map of the continent and a list of the
12:57
Mapping the History of Liverpool
sur Google Maps Mania

Historic Liverpool allows you to explore and learn more about the history of Liverpool through historic vintage maps of the city and an interactive map highlighting the city's most historic buildings and monuments. The site includes a number of interactive vintage maps dating from 1847 through to 1898. My favorite vintage map of the city in the collection is Ackermann's Panoramic View of
18 juillet 2018
18:30
Mapping America's Education Deserts
sur Google Maps Mania

11.2 million Americans live in education deserts - in areas which are more than 60 minutes from the nearest public college. For many students (for example older students, students with child-care duties, students who work full time or those who attend college part time) higher education is only possible if they can attend a local public college. If there isn't a college nearby then they can't
10:00
Britain's Broadband Speed Map
sur Google Maps Mania

The Financial Times has mapped the average broadband speed in every postcode area in Great Britain. Surprisingly the map reveals that the inner cities often have the worst broadband speeds. You can enter your postcode into the FT's Broadband Speed Map to see the average broadband speed in your area and how that compares to the national averages. The red areas on the map are the areas with the

17 juillet 2018
22:21
The End of GIS
sur James Fee GIS Blog

So yea, link bait title, sue me. But I felt like it needed to be there. But before I go into what that all means, I’m going to continue blogging over on Medium but with a new focus. The RSS feed, email blasts, and Twitter account will cease to produce original content.

So why is there an end to anything? I’ve been working toward this end for some time, the focus has been to move away from proprietary stacks and toward open source. But there is a more significant theme to this. Pivoting away from specialized software that is good at one thing, towards libraries to get things done. Regardless I’m now working at a company that specializes in aggregating, analyzing and visualizing 3D data. GIS has been useful at many things, but 3D was never one of it.

The start of Spatially Adjusted happened over the course of a family vacation to my wife at the time’s in-laws in rural Texas. I can’t recall exactly what made me start, but it was the intersection of Esri and Open Source. This was pre-OSGeo, things in my life were still ArcGIS and mostly ArcIMS. There was a ton about me being excited about EDN when that first arrived and unboxing ArcGIS 9.1. But I was getting into open source. In fact, the first time I blogged about PostGIS, Sean Gillies was quick to put me in my place. Because of course I was a big Esri supporter, and all he saw was someone complaining about the quality of the software.

My blog has a big story arc in it. I go from “Esri blogger” to “Esri hater.” Early on I used to get Esri passing me info to get the word out. The reality of this was there was no Twitter or Facebook yet, so the only place people could be open was my comments on my blog posts. But over the years I grew bitter about the software. I grew tired of competing against Esri on contracts. I became angry at software being half-baked and having to rewrite things every few years. Look, there was a ton to like about the Esri Web ADF… No wait, there wasn’t. I’m sure people worked very hard on it, and they probably take it personally when I call it a POS but it was. Engineers aren’t at fault for creating the Web ADF, Esri marketing is at fault for choosing to push it.

I honestly could write pages on why I dislike things about Esri but I won’t. I’m honestly over it. I look back at ArcObjects, MapObjects, Web ADF and the rest and I feel like it was a different person. I cannot picture myself doing that work anymore, and that’s OK, we all grow up and grow into what we enjoy. That’s the big picture through this journey, being open to change. The “threat” of Google Earth, the “threat” of open source, the “threat” of the ELA. All irrelevant in the end. The most prominent part of our professional lives is our ability to handle change. Don’t assume anything, just look for ways to improve your workflows, provide better service toward others and be proud of your career.

Throughout this journey, there have been a couple people who have affected great change in me. Early on I can only think of two people; Howard Butler and Sean Gillies. Both forced me to look at how I perceived open tools such as GDAL, UMN MapServer, and PostGIS. Sean more than anyone called out my proprietary bullshit and while I didn’t agree with everything he said, it did open my eyes. Later on, blogging brought me into contact with more developers. People such as Bill Dollins, Dave Bouwman, and Brian Flood. The work they were doing, even in the Esri ecosystem really helped me grow. Even inside Esri, the creation of EDN and the DevSummit introduced me to Brian Goldin, Steve Pousty and Rob Elkins who basically made the first DevSummit my Woodstock.

I also can’t stress enough how many people I’ve met over the years because of this blog. Not a conference goes by where someone introduces themselves to me and tells me they follow me. That means a ton as personal networks is what drives us all. It has been those who introduce me to the fantastic stuff they are working on that inspires my passion. But that is why I think my story arc went from “Esri blogger” to the intersection of 3D BIM and GIS.

I really can’t think of anyone I’ve met over these years I don’t have a ton of respect for. From Art Haddad pushing ArcGIS Server to be something more than a hacked together project to Jim Barry always making sure I could find the right documentation or developer help, I’ve always been lucky enough to find the right person to help out. I really could go, but everyone should know what a great asset you are and still will be.

So what now for me? At Cityzenith I’m focused on building the platform that the real estate and AEC industries can use to make a better world. This blog has been on so many different platforms over the years. Best I can recall the progress went; Blogger -> MovableType -> WordPress -> Octopress -> WordPress -> Github Pages -> WordPress and rather than port it over to yet another platform I think it has earned the right to relax. Just like PlanetGS.com got to retire in dignity, so will Spatially Adjusted.

So follow me over at Medium where I’ll be talking about Elastic, Unity, Mapbox, Turf.js, Tippecanoe, Safe FME, 3D formats, AWS (including Lex, Lambda and Comprehend) and using Unity inside web browsers and mobile devices. Should be a blast!

So I think I’ll just leave this here because it is how I feel.

22:00
The Māori Map of New Zealand
sur Google Maps Mania

Andrew Douglas-Clifford has created an interactive map of New Zealand with Māori place-names. The Te Reo Māori Web Map is a Mapbox map of New Zealand which shows the Te Reo place-names of New Zealand towns, cities, lakes, rivers, mountains and other notable locations. The map uses the Te Reo place-name data from OpenStreetMap. This meant that in order for the map to work in the whole country
11:35
Street Orientations - Anywhere Edition
sur Google Maps Mania

Today I was going to post a lot of other street orientation visualizations for global cities that have been posted to the Data is Beautiful subreddit over the last few days. But now I don't need to because you can create your own street orientation compass rose for any location in the world with the Streets Orientations Mapbox map. Visit any location on the world on the Streets Orientations
16 juillet 2018
20:30
Elevation Kaleidoscope
sur Google Maps Mania

Landschach is a global kaleidoscope made from a map of the world. It might not look like Landschach is made from a map but it is. What you are seeing is a map in which a sine wave has been applied to elevation values. This results in blocks of colors without the normal gradients you would get in a traditional elevation map. You can see this more clearly when looking at the same map without the
18:30
Mappa Monday
sur Google Maps Mania

In the 7th century the scholar Isidore of Seville wrote an encyclopedia of universal knowledge. His 'Etymologiae' included a description of the known world. Some medieval manuscripts of Etymologiae include a map based on Isidore's description of the world. These are widely known as T and O maps. You can view a 15th century interpretation of a T and O map on Mappae Mundi, my collection of
11:38
The Yangon Time Machine
sur Google Maps Mania

The Yangon Time Machine is a Google Map showcasing vintage photographs of Yangon, Myanmar. Yangon, the former capital of Myanmar, is steeped in history. The city boasts the highest number of colonial-era buildings in Southeast Asia. It also boasts a large number of impressive Hindu and Buddhist temples. You can browse the vintage photographs of Yangon by location by using the Yangon Time
14 juillet 2018
18:30
Street Orientations - World Edition
sur Google Maps Mania

Geoff Boeing's Comparing City Street Orientations has been very popular over the last week. Geoff's compass rose visualizations show the street orientation patterns of 25 major American cities. This series of compass roses reveals that nearly all U.S. cities adhere to a fairly strict grid system of roads. Now Geoff has turned his attention to other major cities around the world. City Street
13 juillet 2018
20:30
How much do you know about NATO?
sur Google Maps Mania

Vladimir Putin and his flunkies have launched a coordinated campaign designed to undermine support for NATO around the world. NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. It is in effect a system of collective defence whereby member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party. You can learn more about the
18:05
Where Work Pays
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If you've ever wondered if you could earn more money by moving home then you need to check out the Hamilton Project's Where Work Pays interactive map. This map allows you to see where people in your profession earn the most in the USA. Where you work in America can make a huge difference to your salary. To find out where you could earn the most money you need to select your occupation (or a
11:57
The History of Hamburg Mapped
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Hamburg Reloaded - Koppmann 1883 is a fascinating collection of 19th century photographs of the German city of Hamburg. The photos were all taken by Georg Koppmann, who established a photographic business in the city in 1865. If you select an individual vintage photo of the city from the photo gallery you can view a map showing you the location depicted. Mapbox GL is used to show the
12 juillet 2018
18:01
Languages Spoken in Toronto Homes
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More than 200 different languages are spoken in Toronto. You can view where the 24 top non-official languages are spoken in Toronto on Social Planning Toronto's new Interactive Language Map. The Interactive Language Map shows the top languages spoken at home in each census tract area (excluding English and French). Each census tract on the map is colored to show the most spoken language. If
12:20
Reconnecting Asia
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Reconnecting Asia is an interactive map and database of infrastructure projects that are being developed across Asia. The map is focused on transportation projects, involving roads, railways, and ports, which have been developed or proposed between 2006 and today in the supercontinent of Eurasia. Projects on the map are categorized into three categories - roads, railroads and ports. The map
11 juillet 2018
20:30
Visualizing Street Orientation
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If you seem to always be traveling in the same direction then it might be because you are. If you live in a large U.S. city then you probably spend most of your time locked in the city grid, traveling back and forth in the same old directions day after day, your direction of travel always determined by the orientation of the city's streets. You can view how your city is orientated on Geoff
18:30
Texans are the Worst Drivers in America
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The National Coalition for Safer Roads (NCSR) and the Vision Zero Network have collaborated to map over 48,000 speeding fatalities that occurred in the United States between 2012 and 2016. The map shows the top ten worst cities with the highest number of speeding fatalities. The 1st, 2nd and 4th worst cities for speeding fatalities are all in Texas. When zoomed out the National Speed Fatality
10 juillet 2018
20:30
Random States of America
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Despite losing the popular vote Donald Trump still won the Presidency. Trump became president because he won a majority of the 538 electoral votes. Each state is given a share of the United States’ 538 electoral college votes. Trump might not have won the most votes but he did win the votes that counted the most. If you were to randomly alter the state boundaries you would end up with a
18:30
How Accurate are Bing's Building Footprints?
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Recently Microsoft released the data of 124,885,597 computer generated building footprints in the United States. The building footprints were generated by training computer vision algorithms to recognize building geometries on aerial imagery of the USA. Microsoft has made the data free to download under an Open Data Commons Open Database License. Obviously Microsoft's USBuildingsFootprints is
09 juillet 2018
20:30
Why Star Wars Doesn't Work
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The United States is resurrecting one of Ronald Reagan's most crazy ideas. Back in the early 1980's Reagan proposed a space based missile system to protect the United States from intercontinental missile strikes by its enemies. The initiative was dubbed Star Wars by the media and was criticized for potentially igniting another arms race. The initiative was eventually dropped by Bill Clinton.
18:30
Your Personal Audio Guide to the World
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Road Trip is a new map based web application which serves as your own personal tourism guide. Just share your location with Road Trip and it will tell you about all the interesting places that you pass on your journey. If you open Road Trip while you are on a journey the application will read out loud the Wikipedia entries of locations and points of interest that you pass on your trip. Road
16:30
The First Map of Australia
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This week's Mappa Mundi is the Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula by Hendrik Hondius. The map is a double hemisphere map of the world. It was created in 1630 and published one year later. Among the map's main claims to fame is that it is one of the very first widely available world maps to show any part of Australia. The Australian coastline shown on the map is
06 juillet 2018
20:30
120 Million Buildings in the USA
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US Buildings is an interactive map of all 120 million buildings in the USA. The map uses data recently released by Microsoft to visualize 124,885,597 computer generated building footprints. The building footprints were generated by training computer vision algorithms to recognize building geometries on aerial imagery of the USA. OpenStreetMap currently shows 30 million building footprints in
18:30
Mapping Edmonton's Growth
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Urban Sprawl in Edmonton is a building age map created by Darkhorse Analytics which shows the growth of the city from 1898 to the present day. The map allows you to view how and when buildings were constructed and how the city has grown over the last 120 years. The map includes a simple timeline control which allows you to select any year from 1898 to 2017. The dark green buildings on the map
05 juillet 2018
20:30
Deforestation in the Colombian Amazon
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Deforestation Hotspots in the Colombian Amazon is a series of Esri story maps visualizing protected areas in the Colombian Amazon and the areas which are suffering the highest rates of deforestation. The three maps cover three different areas of the country, which are experiencing new or intensifying deforestation. The three areas of the Colombian Amazon that have been mapped are Caguan, La
18:30
The Global Climate Impact of Electricity
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The electricityMap is a map which shows in near real-time the carbon intensity of electricity consumption around the world. It allows you to see how much electricity is being consumed in regions across the globe, where that electricity comes from and how much it contributes to CO2 production. On the map regions and countries are colored according to the carbon intensity of their electricity
04 juillet 2018
12:28
Mapping England's New Houses
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Dan Cookson has created an animated map to show where new houses have been built in England over the last ten years. The map includes greenbelt areas so you can see how much development has taken place in areas which are supposed to prevent urban sprawl. The map uses new small user postcodes to determine where new houses have been built. Where are all the new houses in England? uses Carto's
03 juillet 2018
23:36
Mexican Election Maps
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador won Sunday's Presidential Election in Mexico. Although Obrador was the favorite to win the election the size of his victory proves that there is overwhelming support in the country for his proposed program of radical change. The BBC has created a static map which effectively visualizes the overwhelming success of López Obrador in Sunday's election. The map simply
18:30
Gio.js - Displaying Data on a 3D Globe
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Gio.js is a data visualization library for displaying data on a 3D globe. The library is built on Three,js and has a very simple to use API. The Gio.js library isn't a full scale 3D globe mapping library, like CesiumJS or OpenGlobus. It doesn't support such features as map tiles or importing GeoJSON files. The library is designed instead to provide a simple method for displaying data on a
16:30
Mapping the Enlightenment
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Mapping the Enlightenment is an attempt to map the intellectual networks of the Enlightenment in Europe. It aims to map both the scientific centers in Europe and the travels of scholars between these centers. Through visualizing these intellectual networks and the movements of scholars Mapping the Enlightenment hopes to provide an insight into the exchange of knowledge that shaped European
02 juillet 2018
20:30
The Growth of the Interstate Highway System
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The Evolution of the Interstate is an animated map which allows you to view the construction of the U.S. Interstate Highway System from 1956 to 2017. The map starts in 1956, when the first 9,000 miles of highway are added to the map, and ends in 2017 with over 49,000 miles of highway. As the Evolution of the Interstate progresses new highways are added to the map by their year of construction.
18:30
The Greenest Cities in the World
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Prague is the greenest city in the world. Over 50% of Prague is given over to 'green' spaces. In comparison Tokyo is not very green. Less than 6% of the city is dedicated to parks or gardens. Travelbird has ranked 50 world cities based on their 'greeness'. You can view their results in The Greenest Cities in the World. To rank the cities Travelbird used OpenStreetMaps to analyze the amount of
16:30
Monday's Mappa Mundi
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The latest map to be added to my Mappae Mundi collection of historical world maps is Urbano Monte's 1587 Planisphere. Urbano Monte's Planisphere has been in the news a lot this year because the David Rumsey Map Collection at Stanford University recently acquired one of the only two existing manuscript copies of the map. The original manuscript map is in the form of a 60 sheet atlas. Urbano
30 juin 2018
18:31
Faces of Auschwitz
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Auschwitz concentration camp was established by the Germans in occupied Poland in 1940. In the next few years it became the most deadly Nazi extermination camp. It is estimated that 1.1 million people perished in Auschwitz-Birkenau between 1940-1945. The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum has 38,916 registration photographs taken of Auschwitz prisoners. They are working with Brazilian
29 juin 2018
20:30
Mapping City Gayborhoods
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The Pudding has mapped out gay neighborhoods in 15 different cities. The map plots businesses tagged 'gay bar' and data on where same-sex unmarried partner households and same-sex married joint tax filers live, in order to determine the gay neighborhoods in each city. The Pudding has also mapped out the differences in where same-sex female couples live and where same-sex male couples live. Men
18:30
Unequal Under the Law
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Your chances of going to prison after committing a crime vary wildly depending on which state of America you are tried in. In Maine the number of people imprisoned per 100,000 residents is 153. In Louisiana it is 816. If you are white and live in Louisiana you don't have to worry about being sent to prison for a crime as much as you would as black residents of the state. The white imprisonment
28 juin 2018
20:30
Satellite Evidence of Myanmar Atrocities
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The ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state has caused hundreds of thousands of refugees to flee to neighboring Bangladesh. Amnesty International's Mapping Myanmar's Atrocities Against Rohingya is a story map exploring the systematic burning of Rohingya villages, mosques and homes by the Myanmar military. As you progress through Amnesty's story map eye witness
18:30
Every Home Owner & Renter in America
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There have been a few maps recently which have tried to show the best places to rent or buy in the United States by comparing the cost of renting and the cost of buying in an area. Another indicator might be to look at where people are already renting and buying properties. For that job you need the Owners vs Renters map. Owners vs Renters is an interactive dot map showing every single home
8:31
All Flights Lead to Rome
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Two years ago Moovel Labs created a beautiful mapped visualization called Roads to Rome. The map showed the quickest route by road from 486,713 different starting points in Europe to the eternal city of Rome. Moovel Labs are now back with another stunning mapped visualization, this time showing the quickest flight routes to Rome from across the globe. Flights to Rome visualizes the quickest
27 juin 2018
18:55
Gentrification in Detroit
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Turning the Corner is an Esri story map which identifies Detroit city blocks which are most likely to experience transformational neighborhood change. Using the map you can view which city blocks in Detroit are most and least likely to become gentrified and most and least likely to experience the displacement of local residents. The map assesses the likelihood of transformational neighborhood
16:00
Ten Colombian Election Maps in One
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On the 17 June Iván Duque Márquez of the Democratic Center stood against Gustavo Petro of Humane Colombia in the second round of the Colombian Presidential election. Iván Duque Márquez received the most votes and will serve as President of Colombia from 7 August 2018 to 7 August 2022. The Colombian Presidential Elections - Second Round is a fantastic mapped visualization of the results from
12:19
Creating Moscow's Super-Park
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Dvorulitsa Moscow is a project to transform Moscow's periphery into a superpark by transforming the yardstreets (dvorulitsa). Yardstreets are the spaces between the apartment blocks that dominate the periphery in Moscow. They are areas that are often dirty, unkempt and uninviting. Dvorulista wants to help local residents transform these communal spaces into places which people will enjoy and
26 juin 2018
20:30
Where are the children?
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Donald Trump's 'zero tolerance' immigration policy has resulted in more than 2,300 children being separated from their parents and families. Torn Apart / Separados is a new interactive map which shows the locations of ICE facilities across the United States where these children might be being held. The Torn Apart / Separados interactive map uses data from Customs and Border Protection (CBP),
18:30
Ignoring the World's Refugees
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The world is suffering from a huge refugee crisis. The UN refugee agency says there are more than 25 million refugees in the world. It isn't exactly a global crisis. The reason why it isn't a global crisis is because countries in the developed world are doing very little to help. In fact about 85 percent of those 25 million refugees are being helped by low and middle-income countries. The
14:30
Mapping the Historical Layers of London
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A new interactive map plans to document the history of London from the time of the Romans right up to the present day. Layers of London uses vintage maps, images and crowd-sourced information to identify locations across the capital which have important historical significance. All of which can be explored and viewed on the Layers of London interactive map. Essentially Layers of London is an
25 juin 2018
20:30
Free, Open-Source 3D Maps
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OpenGlobus is a javascript library for creating interactive 3d globes. The library uses WebGL and is completely open-source and free to use. OpenGlobus supports GeoJSON, map tile layers, image and video overlays and vector layers for displaying polylines and polygons. The API for OpenGlobus is well documented, however as yet there aren't any written tutorials for getting started with the
18:30
Make the World Smaller & Venice Bigger
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I've added the Fra Mauro map of the world to my collection of Historical World Maps. To load the Fra Mauro map you need to click on the 1450 button. You can then zoom and pan the map to explore it in detail. Fra Mauro's world map was created around 1450 by the Italian cartographer Fra Mauro. His map is a circular planisphere with south orientated to the top of the map. Fra Mauro's map is one

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