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19 octobre 2018
19:16
Mapping Latino Voters
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California has the largest number of eligible Latino voters of any state. 7,698,000 Latino voters can vote in California. In total 30% of the state's voters are Hispanic. In West Virginia on the other hand less than 1% of voters are Hispanic. Only 13,000 Latino voters are eligible to vote in the state. In the 2018 midterm elections there will be more than 29 million Latino registered voters
15:12
Shipwrecks of the First World War
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The Forgotten Wrecks of the First World War is an interactive map plotting the locations of historical wrecks from the Great War. It shows the known locations of wreck sites in and around the seas, coasts and rivers of the UK. The wrecks included on the map include merchant & naval ships, passenger, troop & hospital ships and submarines. It also shows the locations of ports, wharfs and coastal
10:45
Americans don't know their Alsace from their Bilboa
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Holiday Cottages asked Europeans and Americans to identify the locations of countries around the world on a map. They then compared the results to see whether Americans or Europeans have a better understanding of world geography. The results were not good for the Americans. Where in the World? A Global Look at Geographic Recognition presents the results of a test involving over 1,000 people
18 octobre 2018
20:30
New York's Fast Food Hot Spots
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Last year the London mayor Sadiq Khan announced he wanted to introduce fast food exclusion zone around London schools. The purpose of these exclusion zones are to help fight the rise of child obesity. The zones don't apply to existing fast food outlets but would apply to anyone planning to open a fast food restaurant in the future. You can see where these fast food exclusion zones will exist
18:30
Flying Over Trump's Wall
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The Washington Post has created an impressive fly-over of the USA - Mexico border. The map takes you on a tour of the entire border, from the west coast to the Gulf of Mexico. The Post's Borderline interactive gives you a complete overview of the invisible and physical barriers which already separate the two countries and the huge job that Trump has ahead of him if he wants to build his wall.
15:52
Unequal Neighbors
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This interactive map is an interesting Visualization of Differences in GDP per Capita of Neighboring Countries. Essentially the map makes obvious where countries around the world have under-performing economies in comparison to their immediate neighbors. On the map the reddest countries are those with the lowest relative GDP compared to their immediate neighbors. In other words the reddest
17 octobre 2018
20:30
Mapping the Impact of Agriculture
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Esri has released the second installment in its Living in the Age of Humans series. This new story map, entitled The Living Land, explores how humans use the Earth's limited land space. This installment of Living in the Age of Humans focuses on the impact of agriculture, which accounts for the vast majority of the Earth's surface which has been modified by humans. Just half a percent of the
18:30
Unequal Education in the USA
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ProPublica's Miseduction map shows where black and Hispanic students are missing out on educational opportunities compared with white students. The map uses data from the U.S. Department of Education to show which schools and districts have the best and worst racial disparities in educational opportunities and school discipline. The map allows you to view racial disparities between either
16 octobre 2018
20:30
Every House of Representatives Election
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Electing the House of Electives is a new interactive data visualization of every House of Representatives election since before the Civil War. The map allows you to explore the historical swings of political power at both the national level and, closer to home, at the regional level. The interactive map is easy to navigate. You can view the election results for any year simply by selecting a
18:30
Fly Me to the Moon
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The movie First Man, about the first ever manned landing on the moon, has reignited interest in our lunar neighbor. If you are interested in following Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the surface of the moon then you could take your first tentative footsteps by exploring NASA's Moon Trek. Moon Trek is an interactive map of the moon created by NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and Caltech. The map
15 octobre 2018
19:51
The Charles Darwin Map Projection
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Benjamin Schmidt has created a map projection which has been optimized to show the track of the route of the Beagle during Charles Darwin's 1831-1836 famous survey voyage. Data-driven projections: Darwin's world is an Observable Notebook which visualizes the track of the Beagle on a map that preserves continuity near the areas where the Beagle sailed, at the expense of areas of the world that
18:30
Mapping the Damage from Hurricane Michael
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NOAA's Hurricane Michael Imagery is an interactive map visualizing the damage caused by Hurricane Michael. After the tropical storm struck last week NOAA captured aerial imagery of some of the locations which suffered the most damage in order to support homeland security and emergency response requirements. If you use the map layers menu you can turn NOAA's recent aerial imagery on & off. This
10:59
Flooding Kerala
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In August over 200 people were killed in Kerala by the worst flooding to hit the Indian state in over 100 years. One reason for the dramatic flooding was that many of Kerala's hydroelectric dams were forced to release water with little warning to those who live downriver from the dams. Reuters has been investigating why the waters in Kerala's dams were too high before the monsoon struck. In How
13 octobre 2018
18:30
One Mile of Devastation
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The photos and videos that have emerged showing the destruction caused by Hurricane Michael have been shocking and evocative. None of these images has been more effective in showing the scale of the disruption caused by the tropical storm than the New York Times' Hurricane Michael: One Mile of Devastation in Florida. This simple but powerful visualization simply stitches together a series of
12 octobre 2018
18:30
A Map of all the Books
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The HathiTrust Digital Map is an interactive map which allows you to browse and explore the 14 million volumes in the HaithTrust's repository of digitized texts. The map not only provides a visual interface with which you can navigate the books in the HaithiTrust digital library it also includes a fascinating discussion about how the texts are organized on the map. A discussion which explores
11 octobre 2018
18:30
Deserting Central USA
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From 2000-2010 the population of the central United States declined. A combination of a higher death rate than birth rate and outward migration led to a fall in the population of counties running down the nation’s midsection. You can view the population trend in every county in the USA from 2000 to 2010 on the Population Change Estimates 2000 - 2010 interactive map. When you run the choropleth
12:47
The Swiss Solar Power Potential Map
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Homeowners and businesses in Switzerland can now find out the solar power potential of their buildings at the click of a button. The Swiss Federal Office of Energy has released an interactive map which shows the solar potential of every rooftop in the country. To find out how much solar energy a building can produce you just need to click on a building on the How much electricity or heat can my
10 octobre 2018
18:14
Mapping Racial Diversity in the USA
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National Geographic has created a wonderful interactive map which visualizes the racial diversity of America block by block. The map provides a fascinating insight into the diversity of American towns and cities and also reveals how these same towns and cities can be divided along racial lines. Back in 2013 the University of Virginia made the Racial Dot Map, a Google Map which shows the
13:43
Where M&S Gets its Fish
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The M&S Supply Chain Map now shows where the company sources its fish & shellfish from. British retailer Marks and Spencer created the M&S Interactive Map in order to be more transparent with their customers. The map has been used in the past to show the factories around the world where M&S source their branded clothing, clothing accessories, footwear, food, non-alcoholic drinks and household
09 octobre 2018
20:30
Hurricane Michael Maps
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The Washington Post has used data from the National Weather Service to create an interactive map of the forecast track of Hurricane Michael. The map includes forecast impact times which show when the hurricane is expected to hit locations in Florida and Georgia. The WaPo map includes scaled markers which show the forecast category of the storm along its forecast path and the forecast wind
18:30
Maps for Drones
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The AirMap is an interactive map for drone pilots. The map provides an easy way to view local airspace rules, up-to-date flight advisories and the latest weather for your current location. To start using AirMap you need to choose the type of drone mission that you require. This can be either flying for fun or a commercial drone mission. After you select your mission type the map sidebar
13:51
Cork in 3D
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Cork Guide has released a mapped guide to Ireland's third largest city. This bird's eye view interactive map provides an interesting categorized guide to the city and its major points of interest, hotels & heritage bars. At the heart of the Cork Guide is an oblique map of the city showing the city's buildings in 3D. The 3D map is a little bit of a cheat as an interactive 3D map as it is built
08 octobre 2018
18:30
A New Mapping Platform is HERE
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Stamen has been playing around with HERE's new map building platform XYZ. XYZ includes a range of tools of API's, SDK's and tools which can help you make interactive maps. HERE XYZ is a full stack of interactive mapping tools which allow you to create a spatial database and visualize & style that data on top of an interactive map. Stamen has created a nice introduction to the HERE XYZ mapping
15:26
Brazil Election Maps
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The extreme far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro won the most votes in the first round of Brazil's presidential election yesterday. However the candidate failed to win 50% of the vote and so he will now face a second round election on 28 October against the the left-wing Workers' Party candidate, Fernando Haddad. Globo has created an interactive map visualizing the results of yesterday's election
06 octobre 2018
14:44
If Car Companies Hadn't Lied About Diesel
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In 2014 the International Council on Clean Transportation discovered that the diesel cars of a number of different car manufacturers exceeded legal levels for nitrogen oxide emissions. The result of diesel cars emitting higher levels of pollution than claimed by the manufacturers has been far higher levels of air pollution across the world. This has been starkly visualized by Da Standaard. Last
05 octobre 2018
19:04
Follow the River
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The USGS's Streamer map allows you to trace rivers or streams upstream to their source or downstream to their final destinations. The interactive map can create very dramatic visualizations of river watersheds, particularly when you trace a river upstream to show all of its tributaries. Streamer is incredibly easy to use. Just click on a river on the map and select either the 'upstream' or '
15:30
Unboxing the Shetlands
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Yesterday the Scottish government passed a law which makes it illegal to place the Shetlands Islands in an inset box on a map of Scotland. Just as Hawaii is often shown in an inset box on maps of the United States the Shetland Islands are often placed in an inset box on maps of Scotland. By making it illegal to place the Shetland Islands inside an inset box the politicians have created a huge
12:54
The Living Conditions of Children in France
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The French government's Department of Research and Statistics has published an interactive map which shows the levels of access children in France have to childcare, health facilities and other important services. The Living Conditions of Children in Metropolitan France map visualizes a number of different variables which allow you to compare child services across different regions of the
04 octobre 2018
20:30
The Leaflet Travel Time Plug-in
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Trafford Data Lab has released an isochrone plug-in for Leaflet.js, which allows you to show travel time reachability on your interactive maps. leaflet.reachability uses the openrouteservice Isochrones API to visualize how far you can walk, cycle or drive in different periods of time on a Leaflet.js powered interactive map. You can explore the potential of the leaflet.reachability plug-in on
18:30
Which Countries Take the Most Refugees
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Earlier this week Australian broadcaster SBS released an interactive map of migrant deaths around the world. The broadcaster has now created a map showing the countries where refugees come from and the countries where refugees end up. This new map uses data from UNHCR to visualize the number of refugees or asylum seekers living in each country and the number of refugees who have left each
1:00
Near Real-Time Pedestrian Counting
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The City of Melbourne has implemented a fully automated pedestrian counting system to measure foot traffic and to help inform future decision making and planning. The counting system uses sensors that are fixed on street lights and awnings and which are able to count pedestrians as they walk below. The sensors are able to count pedestrians in each direction and the data is then uploaded every 15
03 octobre 2018
18:30
The Anti-Immigration Money Industry
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Some companies are making a lot of money out of Donald Trump's repressive immigration policies. The amount of government money pouring into ICE contracts has almost doubled in the past year. Companies profiting from this expansion include some expected names in the prison and detention industry, such as the GeoGroup who have earned over $438 million from ICE contracts. However a number of
15:14
Where Can You Afford to Live?
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The short answer to the question of where young people can afford to rent in the UK is 'practically nowhere'. For example if you want to live in London then you might just be able to afford a one bedroom apartment if you earn north of £51,000. If you earn the average wage for a person in their 20's then you could move to Brighton where you would only have to pay around 50% of your salary, on
10:15
Where Was Germany Divided?
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Today is the Day of German Unity. The day on which Germans celebrate the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990. The question that Waz would like you to answer on this day is, 28 years after reunification Do You Remember Where Germany Was Divided? All you need to do to test your knowledge is draw the historical internal border between East and West Germany on a map of the country. Once
02 octobre 2018
20:30
Mapping Migrant Deaths Around the World
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Australian broadcaster SBS has mapped out migrant deaths around the world. Their How many asylum seekers never make it to their destination uses data from the Missing Migrants Project to show dead and missing migrants across the globe from 6 January 2014 to September 2018. The map shows that the Mediterranean is still the location where the most refugee deaths occur as people try to enter
18:30
Mapping Mass Graves in Iran
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Following the Islamic Revolution in 1979 the new Iranian government began to violently purge itself of non-Islamic opposition. After the 1988 Iran-Iraq war the Iranian government began further mass executions of its political opponents. PainScapes has now identified over 100 locations across Iran that they believe are the sites of mass graves created by the Islamic Republic of Iran during the
15:30
London to Brighton in Four Minutes
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In 1953 the BBC filmed a non-stop train journey from London Victoria to Brighton. The journey took one hour, but the filmmakers sped up the movie to compress it into just 4 minutes. You can watch the whole four minutes of this sped-up train journey on YouTube. In 2013, sixty years after the original film was made, the BBC filmed the same London to Brighton train journey. You can now watch the
01 octobre 2018
18:30
Mapping the American Dream
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The American Dream is based on the idea that everyone in the USA has the same opportunities to achieve prosperity and success. No matter where you are born, no matter who your parents are, with hard work, ambition and determination you can achieve wealth and success. A new interactive map from Opportunity Insights visualizes the average outcomes in adulthood for people in every census tract in
15:30
Where Temperatures are Rising the Fastest
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Temperatures are rising faster in the Swedish town of Kiruna than anywhere else in Europe. So far this century temperatures have risen 3.4° C above the 20th Century average for the Swedish town. The town with the second highest rise in temperature in Europe is Fredrickstad in Norway, where temperatures have risen by 3.0° C. Der Spiegel has mapped out where temperatures have risen this century
13:30
Inside the Houses of Parliament
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CNN has created an interactive tour of the Palace of Westminster or, as its more commonly called. the Houses of Parliament. The tour consists of a number of custom 'Street Views' of the building comprising of annotated 360 degree panoramic videos and images of the building's most famous rooms. CNN's Houses of Parliament tour allows you to take a guided tour around one of the world's most iconic
29 septembre 2018
18:30
The Global Crop Map
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RTBMaps shows the distribution of different crops around the world. You can use the map to see where potatoes, bananas, sweet potatoes and other root vegetables & tubers are grown across the globe. The map also includes a number of socio-economic layers which allow you to view such things as population density alongside where the different crops are grown. Select a crop from the map's drop-down
15:30
Extreme Heat = Less Greenery
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There have been a number of maps which have attempted to visualize the extreme weather that much of the world has experienced in 2018. In Mapping One Hot Summer Maps Mania explored weather visualizations from the Berliner Morgenpost, the BBC and the Washington Post. Another stark effect of the extreme heat in Europe this summer is the sharp drop in the continent's green vegetation. The EU NDVI
12:16
Belgium Air Pollution
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20,000 Belgiums have taken part in a citizen science project to measure air pollution in Flanders (the northern region of the country). For the project volunteers installed air quality sensors on a street facing window of their homes. These sensors measured NO2 levels during all of May 2018. You can view the results of the project on the Curieuze Neuzen Vlaanderen interactive map. The map uses
28 septembre 2018
20:30
The Tunnels Under Capitol Hill
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Underneath the palatial government buildings on Capitol Hill lies an underground network of tunnels connecting the United States Capitol to the Library of Congress, the Senate Office Building, the Home Office Building, the Supreme Court, the House of Representatives and other government buildings. You can learn more about Washington D.C.'s underground tunnels on the Capitol Hill Tunnels story
18:30
The Most Dangerous Places
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The Most Dangerous Places interactive map visualizes the most dangerous locations in Africa and Asia. The map provides an overview of the number of fatalities from armed conflict that have happened since the beginning of 2017. The map uses data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) to plot the number of deaths from conflict per 100,000 people in each 3,000 km2. Click on
15:30
Mapping the 1848 Vienna Revolution
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The 1848 Revolution in France, often known as the February Revolution, was followed by a number of other revolutionary uprisings across Europe. In Austria the authoritarian government was determined to quell the spread of the liberal ideas associated with republicanism and stop the rise of nationalist movements within its large Empire. The Austrian Empire had already restricted freedom of the
9:42
Norway's Secret Military Sites
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Norway has released an interactive map of all the military locations where it is forbidden to operate a drone and some security experts are not happy. All the markers on the Innmelding av Sensorflygning map indicates an area where it is illegal to take aerial photographs or video using a camera or any other type of sensors. The map shows many of Norway's most secret military installations,
27 septembre 2018
18:30
Global Warming is Here
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Global warming has already increased temperatures around the world. You can find out how much temperatures have risen where you live on a new map from Carbon Brief,. The map shows how far global temperatures have risen since 1850 and how much they are expected to rise by the end of this century. If you click on your location on the map you can view a temperature chart showing the rise in the
26 septembre 2018
18:30
Tracking Nobel Scientists
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Physics Today has tracked out the lifetime movements of every Nobel Prize winning physicist. Nobel Physicists on the Move allows you to watch an animated track showing the significant movements of any of the 206 Nobel physics laureate on an interactive map of the world. Select a Nobel physics laureate from the map's drop-down menu and you can view an animated map which shows where they were born
11:47
The World's Trains in Real-Time
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A number of interactive maps now allow you to watch the train networks of entire countries in real-time. These incredible maps show all the trains across a whole country moving at the same time. A good example is Belgium's Train Map, which shows all of Belgium's trains moving in real-time on top of an interactive map. The map shows inter-city trains (IC), peak hour trains (P) and slow trains (L
0:18
The Australian Cancer Atlas
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The Australian Cancer Atlas is a new interactive map showing the incident rates of different cancers and their survival rates across Australia. The map makes it easy for people to see where in the country incident rates of different types of cancer are higher or lower than the national averages. Among the interactive map's many excellent features is a 'Tours' facility which provides more
25 septembre 2018
20:30
The Deadliest Highways in the USA
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The deadliest stretch of highway in California is a 3.51-mile segment of the Sierra Highway in the Santa Clarita Valley. This small segment of highway had 11 fatalities in 2015 & 2016. The second deadliest stretch of California highway in 2015 & 2016 was a 3.70-mile stretch of State Route 74 in Hemet (also known as Florida Avenue). This stretch of road was responsible for 10 fatalities. Panish
16:32
Germany's Most Dangerous Roads
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The Accident Atlas is a new interactive map from the German government which reveals information on where road accidents have occurred on the country's roads. Roads on the map are color-coded by the number of accidents that have happened on each section of road. If you zoom in on the map you can view the number of accidents which occurred on each section of a road and on each side of a two-way
11:26
Tea or Chai?
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The word used for 'tea' in most languages around the world is derived from Chinese. However not all languages derive the word 'tea' from the same Chinese word. Some languages get their word for tea from the Mandarin 'chá', while in other languages the word tea derives from the Min Nan Chinese word 'te'. The result is that in most languages around the world the word for 'tea' sounds something
24 septembre 2018
20:30
China's Religious Re-Education Camps
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Up to one million people in China have been detained by the Chinese government because of their religion. Uighurs, Kazakhs and other Muslims in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have been arrested by the Chinese authorities and imprisoned in re-education camps. People have been arrested and imprisoned for having 'abnormal' beards, for wearing veils or for avoiding alcohol. In fact
18:30
Life in the Year 2100
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According to most current models of climate change life in the year 2100 is going to resemble the most dystopian visions of the future cooked up by writers of science fiction. We can look forward to a world which suffers from extreme heat, rising seas and practically unbreathable air. For example, MIT recently modeled how climate change could impact on the future of air quality in the USA. The
15:30
World Radio Maps
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The BBC World Service radio station broadcasts around the world in over 30 languages. The BBC World Service Radio Map is a new experimental way to switch between the different language versions of the World Service using an interactive map. Click on a country on the Radio Map and you can listen to the BBC World Service language service provided for the selected country. The map provides an
22 septembre 2018
18:30
How to Make a Viral Map
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The most popular interactive map of this week has to be the New York Times' How Connected Is Your Community to Everywhere Else in America?. The NYT interactive map visualizes the connections people have on Facebook and comes to the conclusion that we are much more likely to know people who live near us than those who live a long way away. I know! You're shocked, right? The conclusion that we
21 septembre 2018
18:30
Mapping Meteorite Strikes
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Displayr have been busy mapping where meteorites fall. They have created a number of mapped visualizations of NASA's Meteorite Landings database. The database contains information on all known meteorite landings. The Displayer maps however only contain information on the 1,107 meteorites that were recorded as they fell. In What Are Your Chances of Being Hit by a Meteorite Displayr unveils a
15:30
The UK Isotim Travel Map
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There are lots of interactive isochrone maps, which can show you how far you can travel within a set amount of time. But there aren't many interactive isotim maps, maps which show you how far you can travel for different amounts of money. In the UK you can now use faremap to see how far you can travel on public transit for the change you currently have in your pocket. Enter a destination into
11:01
Twenty Years of India Lights
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From 1993 to 2013 the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) took nightly pictures of India from space. The University of Michigan, in collaboration with the World Bank, has examined all 20 years of these satellite images to analyze how light output has changed across India during this time. India Night Lights is a project from the University of Michigan and the World Bank to
20 septembre 2018
20:30
What Causes California Wildfires?
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What do you get if you combine huge forests, global warming and lots of people? The answer is devastating wildfires. At least that appears to be what is happening in California. According to The Guardian the extensive California forests are full of dead trees, nearly 129 million of them. Because of global warming the past five years have been the hottest recorded in California and the state has
18:30
The Football Fans Optimal Road Trip
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Randy Olson has worked out the optimal road trip for football fans. If you undertake his optimal football fan road trip you can visit 48 different stadiums, watch 90 different teams, and witness 6 of the biggest rivalries in college football. All within this year's 51-day season schedule. To create the Optimal Football Fan Road Trip Randy set himself a number of rules. The trip only includes
19 septembre 2018
18:30
School Road Safety
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Zendrive has released an interactive map which allows you to check how safe the roads are around your local schools. Zendrive's School Safety Snapshot provides a safety rating for all schools in the USA based on driver behavior around each school. To grade each score Zendrive measured the number and type of unsafe driving events, as detected by the Zendrive platform, around the school. The
16:00
Getting to Know Basle
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Most Americans in Basle live in Altstadt Grossbasel. Germans living in Basle prefer the neighborhoods of Riehen and Bettingen, which are right next to the German border. The Riehen and Bettingen neighborhoods are also popular with old people. Most young adults (20–39) live in Rosental, Gundeldingen, Matthäus and Altstadt Kleinbasel. These are also some of the least popular neighborhoods for
10:06
Mapping Migration Flow
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Migration in Latvia is a wonderfully designed interactive map which visualizes the country's internal migration flow. The map was developed by Latvia's Central Statistics Bureau. The overall choropleth view of Latvia visualizes the number of people who have left each town and region in Latvia since the year 2000. You can also toggle this choropleth view to show the number of people who have
18 septembre 2018
20:30
Hurricane Florence Aerial Imagery
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NOAA’s Remote Sensing Division has been flying its airplanes along the North and South Carolina coast since Saturday. The planes have been collecting damage assessment imagery in order to help and support emergency response after Hurricane Florence. The Hurricane Florence Imagery interactive map allows you to view the latest imagery on top of a map and pre-Florence aerial imagery. The map
18:30
Mapping Gentrification in Austin
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The University of Texas was commissioned by the Austin City Council to research and map neighborhoods in the city where residents are being displaced by development and the rising cost of property. You can view the results of this research on the Austin Gentrification and Displacement Indicators interactive map. The map allows you to see which Austin neighborhoods are most vulnerable to
16:00
The Land Use of Berlin
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Back in July Bloomberg mapped out how American uses its land. In Here's How America Uses its Land Bloomberg discovered that 41 percent of land in the contiguous United States is given over to livestock. Urban areas make up just 3.6 percent of American land use. Of course that urban land is also made up of a number of different types of land use, including buildings, parks and roads. Now I can't
10:25
Stealing the Maldives
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In 2014 and 2015 the Maldives Tourism Minister Ahmed Adeeb with the help of President Abdulla Yameen and a number of corrupt local businessmen began leasing out islands and coral lagoons as tourist resorts. These deals were carried out without legally mandated public bids and the profits were embezzled by Adeeb and his cronies. The government and Maldives citizens were in effect robbed of $79
17 septembre 2018
20:30
Naming Philadelphia's Neighborhoods.
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Everybody loves to argue about neighborhood boundaries. Don't they? What makes these arguments so great is that with no official boundaries no-one can prove that their views are correct. Except if you live in Philadelphia. Residents in Philadelphia who are involved in an argument over a local neighborhood boundary can just refer to the Philadelphia Inquirer's Philadelphia Neighborhood Map.
18:30
How to Find an Electric Citi Bike
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New York has a new bike hire system which allows people to rent pedal-assisted electric bicycles. The problem for anyone who want to use one of Citi Bike's electric bikes is that there are only 200 of them dotted around the city and they can be very difficult to find. Unless you consult I Want to Ride an Electric Citi Bike. I Want to Ride an Electric Citi Bike is an interactive map which shows
16:00
What Did Europe Ever Do For Us?
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When the UK leaves Europe next year it will finally liberate itself from the shackles of free trade and free movement. Its citizens are eagerly looking forward to their new found freedoms of paying for trade tariffs and travel visas. They are also keen to see an end to the £5 billion a year that the EU invests in the UK. If you want to know what initiatives, companies, research projects and
15 septembre 2018
18:30
The Exoplanet Explorer
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The Exoplanet Explorer is an interesting attempt to create imagined solar systems showing the orbits of all the known exoplanets. An exoplanet is a planet that has been discovered outside the Sun's solar system. Thousands of exoplanets have now been discovered, mostly with NASA's Kepler Space Telescope. The Exoplanet Explorer uses data from NASA to create imagined views of the three thousand
14 septembre 2018
21:30
Real-Time Maps of Hurricane Florence
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The Washington Post is mapping the amount of rainfall from Hurricane Florence in near real-time. The animated map in Hurricane Florence’s Deluge, in Real Time shows the track of Hurricane Florence and the cumulative rainfall that has fallen since 7pm on September 12th. As the Post's animated map plays you can see the hourly rainfall markers sweep in following the track of the tropical storm. As
20:00
The World History Map
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The WorldMap is an open source mapping platform from Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis. Users of WorldMap can quickly create a map using their own data layers or using the hundreds of data layers already added to the WorldMap. WorldMap has 23,000 registered users who have created over 6,000 maps with 29,000 data layers. You can explore some of these by following the links in the
16:30
The Interactive Map of Jewish Places
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Jewish Places is a new interactive map designed to provide detailed information about locations which have been important to Jewish life in Germany. The new Jewish Places website aims to provide a tool which can help individuals document and explore Jewish life in Germany and provide a guide to local Jewish history in towns and cities across the country. The Jewish Places interactive map
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The Wall of Gammon
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The Wall of Gammon is an interactive map which provides a virtual wall of honor commemorating the lives of those brave aging, angry white men who are defending this country from the likes of the European Union, immigrants, the MSM and political correctness gone mad. These brave men can be found in every pub and golf-club in this great land, regaling one and all with their impassioned arguments
13 septembre 2018
18:30
AI Hurricane Forecasts
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The Deep Learning-based Hurricane Intensity Estimator is a new interactive map developed by NASA which uses artificial intelligence to assess the wind speed intensity of tropical storms. You can use the map at the moment to follow the progress of Hurricane Florence as it approaches the United States and to view the intensity assessments that the model has made for this huge tropical storm. The
11:37
How Sweden's Election Changed the Map
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Sweden's national public television broadcaster Sveriges Television has created an interesting data visualization of the votes cast in this week's Swedish election. It has mapped the overall winner in each election constituency to show where each political party won the most votes. In the Swedish Vote each constituency is shown as a colored dot. The color of each dot represents the political
12 septembre 2018
18:30
Mapping the Growth of the Soybean
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In July Bloomberg explored how America uses its land. In Here's How America Uses its Land Bloomberg showed how more than a fifth of American land is given over to growing crops. They have now mapped how industrial scale factory farming has dramatically altered the types of crops grown on all that land. In The Consolidation of the American Harvest Bloomberg maps America's massive shift from
15:30
The UK Broadband Speed Map Explained
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The Financial Times has one of the best data visualization teams of any newspaper. Back in July that team created and released a great interactive map visualizing the average broadband speed in every postcode area in Great Britain. If you enter a postcode into the FT's Broadband Speed Map you can view the average broadband speed in your area and see how it compares to the national averages.
9:23
Denmark from All Angles
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Denmark's Board of Data Supply and Efficiency Services (SDFE) has released oblique aerial views of the whole of the country. Skråfoto is an interactive map which allows you to zoom in on any location in Denmark and view oblique aerial photographs of the location captured from every angle. The Skråfoto map is made up of 1.3 million high resolution oblique aerial photographs of Denmark. Oblique
11 septembre 2018
20:30
Mapping Segregation in American Schools
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Schools in the southern states of America are as segregated now as they were 50 years ago. However it isn't just the southern states where schools are segregated along racial lines. Because of the residential segregation that exists in nearly every town and city the majority of black children in the USA end up attending schools where the majority of students are black and white children
18:30
Mapping Hurricane Florence
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The National Hurricane Center has issued a Hurricane and Storm Surge warning for "the east coast of the United States from Edisto Beach, South Carolina northward to the North Carolina-Virginia border, including the Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds". At the time of writing Hurricane Florence is forecast to approach the coast of North Carolina or South Carolina on Thursday. The National Hurricane
15:30
The Geography of Germany's Far Right
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Recent far-right demonstrations in Chemnitz has once again focused attention on Germany's problems with violent right-wing protests. The Berliner Morgenpost has mapped out where Germany's far-right demonstrations have taken place across the country in recent years. In Where Germany's Far-Right Marches the newspaper has mapped the locations of far-right demonstrations and the number of people who
11:20
Browse the British Library with Leaflet Maps
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You can now browse through the British Library's book collection on an interactive Leaflet.js map. OK - you can't actually browse through the whole 25 million books in the British Library but you can explore a map of the 4,300 books that are currently stored in the Library basements at St Pancras. This is an area which is not normally open to the public. Elastic System is actually a work of
10 septembre 2018
22:30
Earth 2050
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The extreme heat this year has lead to a number of mapped visualizations of global warming. These maps can tell you how much hotter the temperature has become over the last few decades and predict how hot the planet will become in the next few decades. The Revelator has mapped the Climate in 2050. The map provides a graphic view of how much hotter the world will be in 2050 based on current
20:30
The Most Detailed Map of Antarctica
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The Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica is the first, high resolution terrain map of Earth's southernmost continent. This most accurate and complete elevation model of Antarctica is a joint effort from Ohio State University and the University of Minnesota. The map was constructed from hundreds of thousands of individual stereoscopic Digital Elevation Models (DEM) extracted from satellite
18:30
Subway Specs - Part II
sur Google Maps Mania

New York architect Candy Chan was so amazed to discover that there are no three-dimensional plans of New York subway stations that she decided to go ahead and create her own. The result is X-Ray Area Maps, a series of beautifully drawn bird's eye view illustrations of subway stations which reveal the tunnels, platforms and escalators which exist under New York's streets. Last Year Chan
10:18
Swedish Election Maps
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Despite some nearly hysterical reporting on the Swedish Election (outside of Sweden) the far-right Sweden Democrats party failed to pick-up much support in yesterday's national election. The party achieved around 17.6% of the vote, far short of the 25% that many were predicting. The governing Social Democrats were the leading party with 28.4% of the vote. The largest center-right Moderate party
07 septembre 2018
21:00
Refugee Camps & the September Storms
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I've seen a number of mapped visualizations recently about the dangers to Bangladeshi refugee camps from flooding. None of those visualizations work quite as well as the BBC's The girl whose home could slip away. What makes the BBC's account of Cox's Bazaar and the other Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh so powerful is the gripping narrative it contains. I've been reading a lot lately that
18:30
The D.C. Stop & Frisk Map
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Black residents in Washington D.C. are the target of 80% of the police department's forcible stops. 9 in 10 of those black residents stopped & frisked by the police are male. Black residents in D.C. are stopped by the police at a rate far higher than the proportion of black residents in D.C. and far higher than the number of crimes committed by black residents. White residents in D.C. are
06 septembre 2018
20:30
Who's Winning the Global Arms Race?
sur Google Maps Mania

Two weeks ago Maps Mania looked at a number of mapped visualizations of the SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, a record of all major arms deals around the world since 1950. However, if you really want to know who is winning the global arms race and is therefore the greatest peddler of death in the world, you need the Arms Race Visualization. The Arms Race Visualization allows you to select any two
18:30
The Refugee Map
sur Google Maps Mania

The Refugee Map is a well made mapped visualization of the movements of 18,469,990 refugees around the world. The map uses data from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to visualize what countries refugees have been forced to leave and the countries where they have settled. The map uses two colors. Red to show the countries that refugees have left and blue to show countries where refugees
15:58
Catalan Through the Ages
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The Historical Comparison of the Territory tool allows you to visualize aerial images of Catalan from 1945 until today. The map allows you to select any location and compare aerial images of the area from different years side-by-side. The tool even allows you to create an animated GIF showing how a chosen area has changed over the decades. The map includes a search facility so you can search
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The NSW Population Explorer
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The New South Wales Planning & Environment department has created an interactive map which shows the movement of residents in and out of the state. The map uses data from two different Australian censuses to show where people who moved between 2006 and 2011 moved to and from. The Population Explorer map allows you to explore migration in and out of New South Wales at three different levels of
05 septembre 2018
21:00
Can You Draw All 50 States?
sur Google Maps Mania

This is a fun game from Time which tests how well you can draw all 50 states. Time's See How Well You Can Draw All 50 States requires you to draw each of the states in turn from memory. As you draw each state Time adds your drawing to a map of the United States. After you have drawn a state you are shown a map of the state and given a grade based on the accuracy of your drawing. Each state that
18:30
Creating Simulations with Leaflet Maps
sur Google Maps Mania

AgentMaps is a new LeafletJS plug-in that allows you to create animated social simulations on an interactive map. These social simulations can take the form of simulated neighborhood commuting patterns, the spread of an epidemic in a town, traffic flow around an intersection or anything else that requires modelling the flow of agents around a location on a map. AgentMaps allows you to build and
04 septembre 2018
23:43
Satellite Imagery of Typhoon Jebi
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Japan has been hit by the strongest typhoon it has experienced in over 25 years. Typhoon Jebi made landfall in western Japan on Tuesday with winds of up to 107mph. You can view satellite imagery of the storm on EOSDIS Worldview. Worldview allows you to explore almost 20 years of global satellite imagery. The imagery comes from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)

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