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13 décembre 2018
17:30
US Average Life Expectancy
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Where you live can have a huge influence on how long you can expect to live. People who live in New York's Chinatown have a life expectancy of 93.6 years. However people who live in nearby Roosevelt Island have a life expectancy of just 59 years. You can discover the average life expectancy in your neighborhood on this new interactive map from Quartz. Quartz's Life Expectancy Map reveals the
12 décembre 2018
17:44
The Place-Names of America
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John Nelson recently noticed that navigable passages between mountains in the USA have lots of different names. Some are called passes, others are called gaps and some are even called notches, or saddles. Being a cartographer John wondered whether there could be any regional variation in the use of these names for navigable valleys. He therefore mapped out where these place-names are used in the
13:50
Where's the Plaque?
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Read the Plaque has mapped the location of over 17,000 plaques around the world. Using the Read the Plaque interactive map you can search for plaques marking historical or interesting locations around you. As well as searching for plaques by location you can search Read the Plaque by tag or by the most recently submitted plaques. You can also select to view a random plaque from the over 17,000
11 décembre 2018
20:00
The Euler Spiral Map Projection
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A Euler spiral is a curve whose curvature changes linearly with its curve length. A Euler spiral can therefore be used to create a map projection by projecting a curved globe onto a flat spiral. The interesting point for cartographers is that the more spirals used in a Euler spiral map projection the less distortion there is. Now for the math. By cutting a sphere along a spiral with width 1 / N
17:30
Where You Should Worry About Earthquakes
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The OpenQuake Map Viewer provides free and open-source visualizations of global earthquake hazards. Each of the Map Viewer visualizations uses the OpenQuake engine, a seismic hazard and risk calculation software, to show seismic risks & hazards and seismic exposure around the world, Currently the OpenQuake Map Viewer provides three separate interactive Leaflet powered maps: the Global Seismic
13:16
Making Play Maps for Children
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Kinderkiez turns digital maps into real life play mats for children. If you are looking for a map present for a child (or for the grown-up kids in your life) then you can't do much better than these wonderful nursery mats which depict a map of any location in the world. Using the Kinderkiez creation tool you can select any location in the world for your play mat. Once you have chosen a location
10 décembre 2018
20:00
Where is the News?
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Forbes has carried out an analysis of the Television News Archive to create a series of maps showing which areas of the world have featured in the news programs of some of the major television networks. The Forbes article Mapping a Decade of Television News includes maps showing the coverage around the world of the BBC, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. Unfortunately the article only has static maps
17:30
The World's Population Pyramids
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Earlier this year The Pudding created an impressive interactive map which visualized the world's population in 3D. The Pudding's Human Terrain interactive map shows population density across the globe using 3D population pyramids. The taller a pyramid block on The Pudding map then the more people live there. The Pudding has now used its own map to explore in more detail the pattern of
11:15
How Religious is Europe?
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Romania has the most religious population in Europe. 55% of Romanians are 'highly religious' according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. The least religious population in Europe lives in Estonia, where only 7% are highly religious. In How Religious is Your Country? Pew Research discovered that in general Central and Eastern Europeans are more religious than Western Europeans. In Central
09 décembre 2018
17:36
The Queensland Bushfires from Space
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The United States is not the only country in the world to have suffered from record levels of wildfires this year. Last month hundreds of bushfires ravaged the Australian state of Queensland. The intensity and scale of the fires were worse than any fires previously experienced in the state. ABC News has used satellite imagery to help show the massive areas of the state that have been affected
07 décembre 2018
17:30
The Most Sung About Locations
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New York is the most sung about city in the world. Closely followed by London, LA, Paris and Miami. Celebrity Cruises has released an interactive map which reveals the most sung about locations across the globe. To make Music Mapped Celebrity Cruises scanned the lyrics of over 200,000 songs. These songs all appeared in the top 40 of the US Billboard Hot 100 and UK Official Singles chart since
06 décembre 2018
20:00
Dangerous Biking in LA
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An interactive map by the LAist reveals that there is almost no section of road in Los Angeles where a cyclist hasn't been injured. The L.A.-Long Beach Bike Crashes interactive map shows the location of every collision within Los Angeles and Long Beach involving bicycles from 2010-2015. The LAist argues that with its wide, flat roads and sunny weather LA should be a wonderful place to cycle.
16:47
Global Wind & Rain
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The animated interactive weather map Ventusky now has a new radar layer, which can show the levels of rainfall around the world. The Ventusky weather map offers highly accurate data about weather conditions around the world. It now offers even more accurate precipitation data across the globe. Ventusky has been working on its new radar layer for over a year. The layer uses sources from all
11:31
The Most Densely Populated Areas in Europe
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The most densely populated square kilometer in Europe is in the center of Barcelona. This square kilometer in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona is home to 53,119 people. Dan Cookson's Hyper Density in EU maps every square kilometer in Europe with a population of over 10,000 people. Kilometer squares with a population over 10,000 are colored on the map to show their population density.
05 décembre 2018
19:30
The Autocomplete Map of the USA
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A few years ago autocomplete maps were very popular. Then they went away for a while. Now they are back! Autocomplete maps show you the most searched for phrases on Google for different locations. For example if you type into Google 'why is Alaska ..' Google will list a number of auto-complete suggestions based on how most people use that question stem when searching on Google. On Google most
17:30
Russia's Attack on the World's Democracies
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Russia seems intent on destabilizing democracies around the world. In just the last three years Russia has hacked into the servers of the Democratic Party in the USA, assassinated a person in the UK and, most recently, fired upon Ukrainian ships. The Alliance for Securing Democracy has been tracking where and how Russia has been interfering in more than 40 countries around the world. You can
11:49
Building on Britain
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Just under 6% of the UK is built on. More than half the land is farmland and around a third of all land is natural (heath, moorland etc). You can discover how much of your local area is built on using the BBC's new interactive map. How Much of Your Area is Built On uses new data on UK land use, which was derived from analyzing satellite imagery. Enter your location into the BBC's interactive
04 décembre 2018
17:30
Discover Your 2018 Climate Twin
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In the year 2080 London will experience weather which resembles the climate in Lima today. Frankfurt in Germany will be as hot as Malawi and living in Berlin will be like living in Lesotho in southern Africa. You can find your 2080 climate twin using The Summer of 2080 Will Be This Warm interactive map. If you enter your location or click on your location on the map you can view the town or
11:23
The Flood Risk Map of England
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The UK government's Long Term Flood Risk Map for England provides an overview of the chances that any location in the country will flood in any year. It shows you the chances that locations will flood in any given year from either surface water, groundwater or from rivers or the sea. Locations are colored on the Flood Risk Map to indicate the chances that they will flood in a year. You can also
03 décembre 2018
20:00
Comparing Countries by Size
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Jason Davies has arranged the world's countries in order of land area. Russia, the largest country in the world, is the first country to appear on Jason's Countries by Area visualization. Luxembourg, the smallest country in the list, comes last. The map of every country in this visualization is reproduced to scale. This means that the countries at the bottom of the visualization are very small
17:30
Transmarine Dream
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Come and explore the strange transmarine dream of Andy Woodruff's Beyond the Sea. Back in 2016 in Beyond the Sea Andy Woodruff answered the question of what lies beyond the sea for locations around the world. He created a series of maps which showed where each continent could be seen from (if you ignore the curvature of the Earth and our imperfect eyesight) from every other continent. His maps
11:59
Flooding Models for the Netherlands
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The University of Gronigen has released an interactive map which shows which areas of Friesland are vulnerable to storm water flooding. The Wolk Viewer map models how rain water flows through the streets after a heavy rain storm. It simulates both the flow paths of the rainwater and where standing water would accumulate. The map covers most of the Friesland area of the Netherlands. The Wolk
01 décembre 2018
12:04
I Know Where You Were Last Summer
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If you are German the Berliner Morgenpost knows what you did last summer. At least they have a rough idea about where you spent your vacation. The newspaper has used anonymized roaming data to find out where Germans like to travel. In Mobile Data Reveals Where Germans Were Last Summer the Berliner Morgenpost has mapped the most popular destination for German holiday makers. The most popular
30 novembre 2018
14:30
L'Eau de Pesticide
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In France many groundwater aquifers have become contaminated by pesticides. These pesticides come from agriculture and also from amateur gardeners. Some of the aquifers which are now contaminated by pesticides are used for the production of drinking water. You can discover the levels of pesticide contamination in France's groundwater aquifers using the Data Pesticides interactive map. The map
11:42
Mapping UK Pub Closures
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There used to be four pubs within a five minute walk of my house. One pub remains. Two of them are now small supermarkets. The other has become a private residence. My neighborhood in East London isn't different from any other part of the UK in terms of the dramatic number of public houses closing. According to the Office of National Statistics nearly 1 in 4 pubs have closed in the last 10
29 novembre 2018
20:30
Drone Panoramas of Paradise Fire
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The Camp Fire was California's deadliest and most damaging wildfire in history. The fire is estimated to have caused $7.5–10 billion in damage to property. More importantly it also killed 88 people. An interagency UAS task force, led by the Butte County Sheriff's Office, has now captured 360 degree panoramic imagery of some of the destruction caused by the Camp Fire. Licensed UAV pilots were
17:30
New York's Music Map
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Online ticket reseller Vivid Seats has mapped out the most popular music genre and the most popular music act in each New York zipcode area. The Most Popular Music Genres in New York map colors zipcode areas to reveal each area's favorite type of music. If you mouseover an area on the map you can also see the area's favorite musical artist or group. Vivid Seats hasn't provided any information
12:50
A Toponym Map of Berwickshire
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Packs of wolves once hunted in the forests of Berwickshire. The wolves have long gone but they have left their mark in the county in the name of a small stream,which is called Wolfcleugh Burn (a cleugh is a narrow gorge or chasm with high rocky sides). The University of Glasgow's Berwickshire Place-Name Resource allows you to explore and learn more about the names of villages, towns and other
28 novembre 2018
10:25
The Medieval Murder Map of London
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London in the 14th Century was a dangerous place to be. The murder rate in early 14th century London was about 15-20 times higher than an English town with an equal sized population today. A new interactive map shows that market areas in London were particularly dangerous. The University of Cambridge's new London Medieval Murder Map plots the locations of 142 murders which took place in the
27 novembre 2018
19:30
Send Street View Christmas Cards
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It's nearly time to send your Street View Christmas cards. To help you create your seasonal custom panoramic cards you can now use Street View Postcards - a new creation tool from Map Channels. Here's my finished Street View Xmas card. If you want to create your own custom made card then you can use Map Channels' Street View Postcard tool. Using Street View Postcard you can make a Christmas
17:30
Where on Mars
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Yesterday NASA successfully landed the InSight probe on the surface of Mars. (Is there) Life on Mars is an interactive map of the red planet, which has been updated to show the location where NASA's InSight robot landed on Mars. InSight has landed on the Elysium Planitia, a large, flat and featureless plain, which is close to the planet's equator and perfect for landing spacecraft. It is also
26 novembre 2018
19:30
The Map of Scientific Collaboration
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Olivier H. Beauchesne has created an interactive map which shows the international collaboration of scientists around the world. The map plots the connections between scientists and researchers in different cities as seen in scientific journals and papers ("for example, if a UCLA researcher published a paper with a colleague at the University of Tokyo, this would create an instance of
17:30
The Destruction of the Amazon Rainforest
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The deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil last year reached its highest rate for ten years. Nearly 8,000 sq km of rainforest was destroyed between August 2017 and July 2018. The Brazilian government says that illegal logging is to blame for the huge rise in deforestation. The future outlook for the Amazon rainforest looks to be even worse. The newly elected president, Jair Bolsonaro,
24 novembre 2018
12:03
Building a Bike Friendly Berlin
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Earlier this year Berlin passed a mobility law designed to encourage safe cycling in the city. The law requires that all major and minor roads should have separated bike lanes, the creation of 100,000 parking spaces for bikes and the redesign of 30 accident hotspots every year. In order to help facilitate safer cycling in Berlin the city has released FixMyBerlin. This interactive map is
23 novembre 2018
21:22
Black Friday Cyber Monday Live Shopping
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Shopify's BFCM Live Map visualizes real-time sales across the world made over this weekend on the popular e-commerce platform. As you watch the BCFM Live Map customer orders are animated as great circles on a 3D globe showing you where sales are being made. This isn't the first real-time retail tracking map I've seen. Obviously these kinds of maps don't have much real practical use, beyond
11:13
Mapping the Rise of Populism
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This week the Guardian newspaper has been running a series of articles exploring the rise of populism across the globe. The newspaper claims that over the last 20 years populist political parties have tripled their support in Europe. In Revealed: one in four Europeans vote populist the Guardian has mapped the populist vote share in European national elections since 1998. Using the map's date
22 novembre 2018
12:46
A Short History of Industry in Latvia
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Industrial Heritage for Tourism is an interactive map of historical industrial sites in Estonia and Latvia. The map provides a guide to early industrial factories, mills and other industrial sites which are now open to visitors in both countries. You can filter the locations featured on the interactive map simply be selecting an icon from the map menu. The categories of industrial heritage
21 novembre 2018
19:07
Drowning Cities
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Flood Vancouver is an impressive visualization of how rising sea levels could affect the city of Vancouver. The Flood Vancouver 3D map allows you to manually adjust the level of the sea to visualize which parts of the city would flood at different sea levels. You can adjust the sea level on the map by clicking on the up and down arrows on your keyboard. The 3D buildings on the map will change
11:34
Putting Sikh Soldiers on the Map
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During the First World War over one million Indians served overseas. At least 74,187 Indian soldiers gave their lives in the war. Although the Sikh population was less than 2% of the total population of British India at the time of the First World War they made up more than 20% of the British Indian Army. The contribution of Sikhs to the First World War is commemorated in a new interactive map.
20 novembre 2018
17:30
Mapping Sustainable Forestry Projects
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explorer.land is a new interactive mapped based story telling tool from OpenForests. The platform is designed to allow organizations around the world to share information about their sustainable land based projects with the wider public. The explorer.land interactive map allows anyone to search for different sustainable land based projects around the world, discover more about each project's
12:52
How Green is Your City?
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The UK's Office for National Statistics has released two interactive maps which show how much greenery there is in every street in the Welsh towns of Cardiff and Newport. To create the two maps in How Green is Your Street the ONS analyzed every pixel in every Street View image of the two cities. From that analysis they were able to map green every single street is, in both cities. The maps show
0:00
Mapping Poverty in Victoria, Australia
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774,000 Victorians live in poverty. That is more than 1 in 10 of the entire population. Rates of poverty are even higher in some neighborhoods. For example in Meadow Heights more than 1 in 3 people are living in poverty. The Victoria Council of Social Services and the economic modelling firm NATSEM have launched an online map which visualize the poverty rates in each Victoria suburb. VCOSS
19 novembre 2018
17:52
Mapping Every Homicide in Toronto
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The Toronto Star has released an interactive map which shows the location of every homicide in the city for the last 15 years. The map uses data from the newspaper's own library database crosschecked with the police's homicide data. Homicides on the Every Toronto homicide in the past 15 years interactive map are shown using color-coded map markers. The homicides shown on the map can be filtered
10:52
Exploring Fictional London
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Authorial London is an interactive map of references to London locations which can be found in the works and biographies of the writers who have lived there. The map allows you to explore the places where authors lived in London and the locations which they wrote about. The map uses different colored markers to show London locations where the featured writers lived & worked (yellow) and the
17 novembre 2018
11:23
California Air Pollution & Smoke Maps
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The EPA has published a handy guide which provides advice on how you can minimize your risk from smoke and air pollution in California. Fire and Your Health suggests that you avoid the smoke as much as possible. If recommended you should stay indoors, run your air conditioner (if you have one), and pay attention to local air quality reports. The Environmental Protection Agency's AirNow website
15 novembre 2018
17:30
How Big Are California's Fires?
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NBC News has released an interactive map which allows you to compare the size of California's wildfires with the size of your home town. California's wildfires are as big as 16 Manhattans allows you to overlay the outline of the Camp Fire, the Woolsey Fire or the Hill Fire on top of any other location on a Leaflet powered map. If you enter a location into NBC's map you can see the outline of
12:24
3D Zurich
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A 3D city model is available from Open Data Zurich. This model allows you to add 3D buildings to your interactive maps of Zurich. You can see the 3D buildings in action on an interactive map on this codepen example, which loads the 3D building layer into an Esri map. Once the 3D building layer loads onto the map you can zoom in and out and rotate around the city's buildings. If you select one
14 novembre 2018
19:30
Drowning American Homes
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In the year 2050 the island of New Orleans will introduce a new twice daily ferry service carrying passengers across the Pontchartrain Sea between the island city and the mainland port at Baton Rouge. In the year 2060 the island will rename itself New Venice. From the year 2100 the city will be colloquially remembered as New Atlantis. Climate Central and Zillow have released a new study
17:30
Preventable Health Risks in the USA
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Smoking, Obesity & Drinking is an Esri story map which visualizes the rates of three preventable health risk factors at the county level in the USA. It includes choropleth maps which reveal the rates of smoking, obesity and excessive drinking in every American county. Smoking, Obesity and Drinking is also a consummate lesson in how the story map format can be used to lead the user by the hand
13 novembre 2018
19:30
California Wildfire Damage Map
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The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has released an interactive map showing which buildings have been destroyed or damaged by the Camp Fire. The Camp Fire Structure Status map plots the latest field damage inspection reports for buildings in areas affected by the Camp Fire. The map uses different colored icons to indicate the scale of fire damage to individual buildings.
17:30
This Warming Planet
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If you want to know what kind of temperatures you can expect from global warming then you might want to check out this new interactive map. Bread for the World's August 28, 2100 is a map showing the predicted temperatures around the world up to the year 2100. If you mouse-over any location on the map you can view the near surface air temperature for that location as predicted by NASA. A dynamic
15:30
Shadow Mapping
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Septima Skyggekort is an interactive map which visualizes the shadows cast by Denmark's buildings at any hour of the day and for any day of the year. The map was created using the OpenLayers mapping library using height data from Styrelsen for DataForsyning og Effektivisering, the public data agency of the Danish government. The height data appears to come from a Lidar survey of the whole of
12 novembre 2018
19:30
Mapping California's Wildfires
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NASA's Earth Observatory has published two satellite images of the California wildfires captured by its Landsat 8 satellite. Camp Fire Rages in California includes images of the Camp Fire (shown above) captured on November 8th. The article also includes a more zoomed out image which shows the smoke from both the Camp Fire and the Hill & Woolsey fires spreading out into the Pacific. Yesterday
17:30
The Map of Meaning
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Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief explores how humans and culture's construct meaning. Fernando Bresciano has been so inspired by Paterson's ideas that he has attempted to illustrate some of these theories in his own illustrated Land of Meaning. The Land of Meaning is an illustrated map of some of the archetypal meanings which can be found in life, in legends and in
13:17
Mapping the Norse World
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The Norse World is an interactive map showing the locations mentioned in medieval Norse literature. The map is intended to be a resource for students of medieval Swedish and Danish literature and history. It provides an invaluable insight into what places were written about and how places & countries were perceived and visualized in Old Swedish and Old Danish in the Middle Ages. If you select a
11 novembre 2018
13:35
Mapping the Fallen of World War I
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A Street Near You is an interactive map showing the home addresses of men and women who died while serving in the First World War. There were an estimated 8 million military deaths in the war and the map shows the location records for nearly 410,000 of them. A Street Near You is a powerful and sober visualization of the numbers of individuals who lost their lives in World War I. If you enter an
10 novembre 2018
18:28
California Wildfire Maps
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Esri's Smoke from Wildfires map visualizes the National Weather Service smoke forecast. Using the map's slide control you can view the NWS smoke forecast for the next 48 hours. The map also shows the fire perimeters of active fires. Esri has also released a special California Wildfires Map which is providing near real-time information about the traffic conditions on the state's major roads. This
12:49
Mapping Internal Migration
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Internal Migration in the City of Barcelona 2016 is a simple but effective visualization of where Barcelona residents moved to and from within the city in 2016. The map provides an overall scale of the numbers of people moving between Barcelona's different neighborhoods without giving the precise figures of how many people moved between each district. The scaled markers on the map provides a
09 novembre 2018
19:30
Global Food Security
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Around 12% of the Earth’s land surface is being used to grow crops and about 22% is being used for grazing and rearing livestock. As the world's population grows rising demand for food coupled with the environmental strains of global warming is straining our ability to feed ourselves. The Colors of Food Security is a series of maps visualizing some of the social and environmental issues
17:30
Mapping Global Causes of Death
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The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation has released the results of the 2017 Global Burden of Disease Study. The study investigates causes of death in countries around the world. You can explore the results of the study on GBD Compare, an interactive tool which visualizes estimates of the world’s health for 359 diseases and injuries and 84 risk factors from 1990 to 2017. The map is
11:40
1.4 Million French Dead on the Field of Honor
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1.4 million French soldiers died between 1914 and 1918 in the First World War. That is the equivalent of 37 deaths per hour for four and a half years. One hundred years after Armistice day the French newspaper Le Figaro has released an interactive map which visualizes the huge number of French death in World War I. Fallen on the Field of Honor animates through every single day of the war
08 novembre 2018
19:30
Mexico's Cocaine Routes
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Enter your home address into Cocaine Routes and you can track your drug deliveries in real-time on Google Maps from Mexico all the way to your front door. Of course - I'm lying. Cocaine Routes is actually a website designed to make you think more closely about the human cost of drug trafficking. Enter your address into Cocaine Routes and it will actually create a personalized video based on
17:30
The Geography Treasure Hunt Game
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How good is your knowledge of the world? You can find out by playing Esri's Geography Treasure Hunt game. During the game you are asked a series of questions. To answer each question you just need to zoom in on the correct location on the map. If you zoom in on the correct location a numbered marker will appear leading you to the next question. In other words you have to find the correct
15:30
Mapping the Evolution of Brasilia
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You can now explore the social and urban evolution of Brasilia on the pilotPlan interactive map. The map allows you to access and view historical photos, aerial imagery and vintage maps of the city since its inauguration as Brazil’s capital in 1960. At the heart of pilotPlan is a timeline control which allows you to view historical maps, plans and images of the city from different decades.
0:27
Mapping New Zealand Population Growth
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All sixteen regions of New Zealand have experienced population growth in the year ending 30 June 2018. In many of these regions international and internal migration was responsible for a large part of this growth. Lots of people want to move to New Zealand. Presumably not all of them are Silicon Valley billionaires preparing for the apocalypse. You can compare the effect of natural increase and
07 novembre 2018
11:29
US Election Maps
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Donald Trump might consider hanging a map of the House midterm elections in the Oval office. Despite losing control of the house the map still appears deceptively rosy for the GOP. Luckily, for the rest of us, both the New York Times and the Washington Post have created cartogram map views of the House results which provide a far more accurate picture of the Democrat Party's success in
06 novembre 2018
18:30
The United States of Apathy - No More
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In the 2016 Presidential Election if absenteeism from voting was counted as a vote for 'nobody', then nobody would have won the election. More counties, more states and more electoral college votes were won by nobody than were won by either presidential candidate. You can see where nobody won in a new joint interactive map from Esri and cartographer Philip Kearney. The United States of Apathy
16:20
What Britain Thinks About Brexit
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A majority of the British people want to remain in the EU. However the British government is still trying desperately and ineffectually to negotiate the UK's successful withdrawal from the European Union. Channel 4 has decided that it would be interesting to discover what the British now think about Brexit. It commissioned Survation to carry out the largest survey on how the country would
05 novembre 2018
23:52
Australia's National Map
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NationalMap is an interactive map which Australians can use to access spatial data from government agencies. The map allows you to visualize data from many different government agencies via the data catalogue (select 'Add data' from the map). Spatial data in the data catalogue is organized into different categories, such as health, environment, communications and transport. You can find out
19:30
The Global Solar Heat Map
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Solar insolation is determined by a number of different factors. It depends on where you are on the Earth, the time of day & the time of year. It can also be affected by the orientation (or tilt) of your measuring device. The Solar (Sun) Intensity By Location and Time interactive map visualizes solar intensity (or insolation) around the world for any hour of the day or day of the year. You can
17:30
Faces of the World
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Journalist Paul Salopek is currently on a 21,000-mile walk around the world. His Out of Eden walk is roughly tracing the footsteps of the very first human beings who migrated out of Africa in the stone-age to eventually populate the whole world. During his multiyear walk Paul is documenting his journey and reporting on the stories of the people he meets. You can learn more about Paul's huge
15:30
Brownfield Sites Mapped
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In England there are around 17,000 brownfield sites. Brownfield sites are previously developed sites which are currently not being used. If these 17,000 sites were developed they could provide around one million new homes. The National Housing Federation's Housing Sites interactive map shows the locations of all brownfield sites identified by planning authorities in England. If you click on
03 novembre 2018
17:30
XKCD Cartography
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XKCD #2067 2018 Midterm Challengers is an interactive map of all the challengers in the 2018 midterm election. The size of the politicians' names on the map is determined by the importance of the office and the challenger's chances of success. If you click on a challenger's name on the map you can visit the candidate's website. You can also click on place-names on the map to view a location's
11:20
Where to Buy Food Without Packaging
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If you are eager to reduce your carbon footprint and desperate to find local shops which aren't full of foodstuffs and other goods sold in unnecessary packaging then you should bookmark Zero Waste Near Me. Zero Waste Near Me is an interactive map showing the locations of shops where you can buy unpackaged goods. At the moment Zero Waste Near Me maps shops, markets and fruit & vegetable box
02 novembre 2018
17:30
Mapping the Great American Novel
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Susan Straight has experienced all that America has to offer from the pages of the books in the Riverside Public Library. During a life spent reading she has explored the towns and cities of America. She has run through the woods of Maine, she has ridden across the prairies of Kansas and she has walked in the footsteps of the greatest characters in American literature. Thanks to Susan
11:32
The UK's Ageing Population
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Despite the UK's growing health inequality and stalling life expectancy the average age of the population is still growing. By 2037 it is estimated that 1 in 4 people in the UK will be aged over 65. The Office for National Statistics has released an interactive map which visualizes how the population is ageing across the UK over time. The Broad Age Group Percentage map allows you to view the
01 novembre 2018
19:30
Environment & Weather Layers for Leaflet
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If you need some environment or weather related map layers for your Leaflet.js maps then you should have a look at Leaflet Environment Layers. This Leaflet library allows you to add a combination of different environment and weather layers to your interactive maps. The Leaflet Environment Layers plug-in includes map layers from a number of different sources. The weather layers (including rain,
17:30
Who Hates Daylight Saving?
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Daylight Saving ends this Sunday in the United States. You don't need a map to tell you that putting the clocks back by one hour every Fall is a despicable & sadistic form of torture. However Andy Woodruff really wants you to know how much you will suffer. He has therefore created an interactive map which shows you how many sunny evenings you will be losing once the clocks go back. Obviously
31 octobre 2018
19:30
Halloween Monsters & Ghostly Haunts
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The world is full of frightening ghosts, monsters and mythical creatures. For example Russians are haunted by the skeletal form of Koschei the Deathless, the legendary kidnapper of young women. In Guatemala you need to keep a wary eye out for Jaguar, the God of Fire, with his pointy fangs and catlike ears. In Denmark you don't want to accidentally bump into the Huldufolk, a race of elves who are
17:30
Global Warming of the Seas
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Global warming has led to rising water temperatures around the world. Reuters has released an interactive globe which visualizes how the sea temperature is rising and how this is affecting marine life around the world. Reuters' Ocean Shock report includes a 3D globe which visualizes ocean temperatures around the world from 1970-2017. Press play on the globe and you can clearly see how ocean
15:00
Time Travel in Venice
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I'd like to transport you back to Venice in the age of the Renaissance. However my TARDIS is temporarily out of action. I therefore suggest you explore the TimeMachine Atlas instead. The TimeMachine Atlas is a fantastic map of Venice through the ages. Using the atlas you can view a 2D or 3D map of Venice at any point in its long history. Select a date from the atlas' timeline and you can view a
30 octobre 2018
20:30
Where Not to Cycle in San Francisco
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If you are cycling in San Francisco you should take extra care in navigating Union Square. It is the area of the city responsible for the most traffic accidents involving bikes. There were 225 crashes involving cyclists in Union Square from 2013-2017. The next highest location for the number of bike accidents in the city was the Hayes Valley – Market St intersection, with a total of 135 bike
18:15
The Red Dead Redemption 2 Interactive Map
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If you are the outlaw Arthur Morgan then you might want to pack this map of New Austin and West Elizabeth in your saddlebags and head for the hills. The Pinkerton Detective Agency are hot on your trail. To help you stay one step ahead of Pinkerton's agents the RDR2 Map includes categorized markers of all the important locations in the game Red Dead Redemption 2. This includes all the locations
15:00
Vintage Maps in 3D
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Old Map Brought to Life is an interesting experiment in creating a relief map from an old paper map. The map uses three.js to overlay a vintage map of the Korean peninsula on top of a digital elevation model. Just click on the 'Help' button on the map to view the full list of controls which allow you to zoom in and out, pan around and rotate & tilt this 3D vintage map of the Korean peninsula.
29 octobre 2018
17:30
The World's Worst Air Pollution Hotspots
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A cluster of coal fired power plants in Mpumalanga in South Africa are responsible for the world's worst air pollution hotspot. Europe's largest hotspot is around the Niederaussem coal plant in Germany. This is closely followed by London's air pollution hotspot caused by car emissions. Greenpeace has used satellite imagery from 1 June and 31 August 2018 to determine NO2 levels around the world
14:59
Counter Surveillance of the Police
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Earlier this year the police in the Bavarian region of Germany were given controversial new powers. The Bavarian Police Task Act (PAG) gives the police increased surveillance powers, including the right to read the mail of private citizens. The Peng-Kollektiv's new Cop Map is an attempt to turn the tables on the Bavarian police by allowing the public to provide real-time surveillance of the
12:00
The Map of Ancient Trees
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The Woodland Trust has released an interactive map which shows the locations of the UK's oldest trees. The Ancient Tree Index can help you find the UK's oldest trees by location, by tree species and by status. On the map each tree's marker includes an 'A', 'V' or 'N' to indicate if the tree is of ancient, veteran or notable status. Ancient trees are those that are in the third and final stages
27 octobre 2018
18:30
Mapping the Zip Code
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The zip code system designates postal delivery points within the United States. A zip code is a five digit number that relates to a specific postal district. Each of the digits in that number provides an increasingly more precise delivery point. The first digit in a zip code number designates a specific group of U.S. states. The second and third digits together represent a region or a large
26 octobre 2018
20:30
Mapping Midterm Political Donations
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With less than two weeks to go before the midterm elections CNN has published an interactive map which allows you to see how much money the Democrats and the Republicans have received in political donations in each zip code area. The CNN interactive map, How much money is your zip code giving to Republicans and Democrats?, shows that the Republicans are loved in Texas. Four of the top ten zip
18:30
The World's Most Powerful Company
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The East India Company: Data Visualisation allows you to explore the import & export trade routes of the East India Company between 1760 and 1834. At its peak the East India Company controlled over a quarter of the world's trade, essentially ruled over millions of people and had a private army over twice the size of the British army. The East India Company: Data Visualization provides an
16:00
Mapping Health Inequality
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Life expectancy in the UK has begun to fall for the first time in over 100 years. The main cause for this surprising rise in premature death is the Conservative Party. Of course I jest. The Conservative government's morbid austerity programme isn't responsible for the UK's falling life expectancy. Neither is it responsible for the glaring health inequality which the University of East Anglia
25 octobre 2018
21:00
Native American Archaeology
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Native America is a four part series from PBS exploring 15,000-years of American history. It is accompanied by an interactive map which explores what archaeological artifacts found across the Americas can teach us about the lives of the American peoples. The map take us on a tour of Native American archaeological finds. Artifacts that teach us about how goods and ideas were transported across
18:30
Global Population Pyramids
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The Pudding has released a really interesting mapped visualization of the world's population. Their Human Terrain interactive map shows population density across the globe using 3D population pyramids. The taller a pyramid block on The Pudding map then the more people are living there. The use of population pyramids is a well used and visually dramatic way to show population density. Foe
11:13
Street View of Hawaii's Sunken Island
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East Island, one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, has disappeared. The island, the second-largest in the French Frigate Shoals, was the most important nesting place for green sea turtles. It has now been washed away by Hurricane Walaka. Despite having been wiped off the map you can still visit East Island on Google Maps. Back in 2013 Google captured Street View imagery of the island, which
24 octobre 2018
20:30
Mapping International Trade
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Flows & Tolls is an interactive map visualizing the flow of international trade around the world. The map allows you to view the export and import of 99 different commodities around the world. It also allows you to see which commodities different countries import and export and which countries trade with which countries across the globe. Using the 'Exports' and 'Imports' buttons you can select
16:30
Mapping Where Your Food is Grown
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OneSoil is an interactive map which provides insights into European and US crop production. The map shows which crops are being grown where, revealing local and global trends in crop production. In total the maps shows what crops have been grown on over 57 million fields in the EU and the US over the last three years. The OneSoil map was created using AI algorithms to detect the types of crops
11:40
Satellite Evidence of China's Re-education Camps
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The BBC has today released an investigation into China's re-edudcation camps, which are being used to persecute Muslims in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Up to one million people in China have been detained by the government because of their religion. Uighurs, Kazakhs and other Muslims in XUAR have been arrested and imprisoned in re-education camps. Many of the reasons for the
23 octobre 2018
22:30
How to Create Locator Maps
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Locator maps are simple maps which show where something is located. They are used extensively, in particluar by newspapers and television news to provide an easy to understand geographical context to a news story. You can now create your own locator map in a matter of minutes using Datawrapper's new Locator Maps tool. The tool is very easy to use. Just click on the map to add markers to the
20:30
Locking Them Up
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The state of Florida likes to lock people up. In fact if you live in Florida you have over twice as much chance of being thrown in jail or prison as someone who lives in North Dakota. You can double your chances again by being black. Florida loves locking-up African Americans. Vera's Incarceration Rates interactive map visualizes the jail and prison populations for every U.S. county. The
18:30
The TARDIS Constellation
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There are 21 new constellations of stars in the night sky. These new constellations have been given names such as the TARDIS, the Albert Einstein and the Black Widow Spider. But you will need a very powerful gamma-ray telescope to view these new constellations - or NASA's powerful new interactive map. Since the beginning of human history people have stared up at the night sky and searched for

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