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06 March 2021
11:14
Storks and Rockets
sur Google Maps Mania

When Mapbox first announced the release of 3D terrain as part of Mapbox GL I briefly toyed with the idea of creating a 3D terrain map with a 3D model of a plane in order to create a very basic flight simulator. This flight simulator would combine the Mapbox demo maps Add a 3D Model and Add 3D Terrain to the Map to load a 3D model of a plane on top of a 3D terrain Mapbox map. Unfortunately I
05 March 2021
11:00
Heritage Under Threat
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The National Trust has released a new interactive map which highlights the risk to the UK's most important heritage sites from climate change. The National Trust is a charitable organization responsible for preserving land and buildings of national importance and/or outstanding beauty. The trust's new map identifies the future climate threats, such as coastal erosion, extreme heat and flooding
04 March 2021
18:00
The Cold Blob in the Gulf Stream
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New climate data shows that the Gulf Stream is now at its weakest in more than 1,000 years. The Gulf Stream is the warm Atlantic ocean current that stretches from the Gulf of Mexico across the Atlantic Ocean to the western coast of Europe. The Gulf Stream has a huge influence on the climates of the east coast of North America and of western Europe. Any weakening of the Gulf Stream could have
10:42
Where is the Brave Heart of Scotland?
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Alasdair Rae has created an interactive map which shows both the geographical center of Scotland and its 'population weighted' center. There are of course a number of different methods that you can use to map the geographical center of Scotland - each of which will result in a different center point for the country. For example in 2002 the Ordnance Survey used a 'centre of gravity' method to
03 March 2021
11:27
I Am Not a Dot, I Am a Free Man
sur Google Maps Mania

Last week saw the release of two excellent dot maps, Kenneth Field's Presidential Election 2020 map and NBC's coronavirus deaths map 500,000 Lives Lost. My only problem with these two dot maps is that they both fail to acknowledge that using a dot as a mode of representation is an inherently political act. To paraphrase The Prisoner, I am not a dot, I am a free man.I for one don't want to be
02 March 2021
18:00
Conjoined Twin Towns
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Sãotá is a really interesting experiment which merges the map data of two very different cities to create a map of an imagined conjoined city. The map was created by Near Space Interface and combines geodata from the Brizilian city of São Paulo and the Colombian city of Bogotá. The new 3D map of the imagined city of Sãotá combines map data from two neighborhoods in Bogotá (La Candelaria and
11:08
Mapping a Landslide
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In February more than 200 people were killed in the Himalayas when a landslide on India's second highest peak caused a flash flood which swept away villages and two hydro-electric projects. Such large landslides are rare at this time of year, leading climate scientists to warn of the potential for ever increasing numbers of deadly landslides in the Himalayas as the planet continues to
01 March 2021
18:00
Discovering the Northwest Passage
sur Google Maps Mania

Arctic Fog is a fascinating historical journey into the discovery of the Northwest Passage and the Northeast Passage. The map recounts all the important expeditions carried out by explorers through the ages which eventually lead to the discovery of sea routes from Europe, through the frozen north, to the Pacific and towards Asia.At the beginning of Arctic Fog you can choose whether you want to
10:08
Switzerland is Now Open
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The Swiss Federal Office of Topography, or 'Swisstopo' as they are officially known, is Switzerland's national mapping agency. Swisstopo are renowned for their incredibly detailed and accurate topographical maps. Maps which you can now use in your own mapping projects.From today Swisstopo is making its geodata free to use according to the principles of Open Government Data (OGD). This means
27 February 2021
11:28
Making Histyory with Maps
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Making History Sandbox is an interesting interactive mapping tool which allows you to make maps which show developments over time. It is probably easiest to explain this tool using a working example - so here is a little demo map of an animated timeline I created with Making History Sandbox. Essentially the tool consists of a timeline and regions which can be colored on the map. To create a
26 February 2021
18:00
The Affordable Housing Map
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The average house price for all home types in the United States is now around $295,000. The days of being able to buy a five figure starter home are fast coming to an end. But they aren't over just yet.If you want to know where your can find a home for less than $100,000 then you can refer to Social Explorer's Housing Units Less Than $100,000 interactive map.Housing Units Less Than $100,000 uses
9:37
The Coronavirus Monitor
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The map I have consulted most often in the last few months has been the Berliner Morgenpost's Coronavirus Monitor. The German newspaper's visualization of the epidemic not only provides a global overview of the present number of new infections in countries around the world but also allows you to explore how the virus has spread in those countries since the beginning of the outbreak at the start
25 February 2021
18:00
The Stars & Warming Stripes
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In 2018 Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science at the University of Reading, released a powerful data visualization to illustrate how temperatures have risen around the globe over the last century. His visualization used colored stripes to show the average annual temperatures for every year of the last century. This type of data graphic is now commonly
9:27
100,000,000 OpenStreetMap Edits
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Update: The 100,000,000th edit has now been made to OpenStreetMap. The edit was made by user Lamine Ndiaye, who made a change to OSM in Nianiane, in the Fatick Region of Senegal. Lamine has been a registered user of OpenStreetMap since 2013 and has made 2,151 edits to the map. Later today the 100,000,000th edit will be made to OpenStreetMap. OpenStreetMap is a free crowdsourced map of the
24 February 2021
18:00
Street Fashion on Street View
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European fashion retailer Zalando has launched a new and unique online shopping experience. With its new Street It All campaign Zalando allows customers to view and buy street fashions directly from a Google Map.Using the Street It All interactive Google Map you can explore custom street views shot in four different Spanish cities. Click on the map markers in Barcelona, Madrid, Malaga and
9:28
Mapping Attacks on the Press
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Every year the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) releases an annual report on the number of journalists imprisoned and killed by countries across the world. This year the CPJ has created a story map Attacks on the Press 2020 which explores in detail attacks on the press around the globe. In its annual global survey the CPJ report that across the world at least 274 journalists are in jail
23 February 2021
18:00
A Dot Map of Half a Million Covid Deaths
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Almost half a million people have now died from Covid-19 in the United States. Yesterday, in Visualizing Half a Million Deaths, I looked at how data journalists at the New York Times and the Washington Post have attempted to visualize the scale of the tragedy experienced over the last year. Both the NYT and the Post have created data visualizations which attempt to portray the scale of half a
11:11
The Dot Map of the 2020 US Election
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After both the 2012 and 2016 U.S. Presidential elections Kenneth Field of Esri made impressive dot maps showing where people had voted for the Democratic and Republican candidates. Kenneth has now completed and released his dot map of the US Presidential Election 2020.The US Presidential Election 2020 interactive shows around 160 million dots (158,383,403), or one dot for every person who voted
22 February 2021
18:00
Raphael's Cartoons
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One of the many wonders of London's fantastic free museums is the Raphael Court in the Victoria and Albert Museum. This large gallery hosts the enormous Raphael Cartoons, which were created by the Renaissance artist in the 16th Century. In 1515 Pope Leo X commissioned seven huge tapestries which he wanted to hang in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo had completed his ceiling in the

17:46
I’m Here at HERE
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Enclosure: [download]

Last Tuesday I started at HERE Technologies with the Professional Services group in the Americas. I’ve probably used HERE and their legacy companies data and services for most of my career so this is a really cool opportunity to work with a mobile data company.

I’m really excited about working with some of their latest data products including Premier 3D Cities (I can’t escape Digital Twins).
Digital Twins at HERE

17:46
I’m Here at HERE
sur James Fee GIS Blog

Enclosure: [download]

Last Tuesday I started at HERE Technologies with the Professional Services group in the Americas. I’ve probably used HERE and their legacy companies data and services for most of my career so this is a really cool opportunity to work with a mobile data company.

I’m really excited about working with some of their latest data products including Premier 3D Cities (I can’t escape Digital Twins).
Digital Twins at HERE

10:43
Visualizing Half a Million Dead
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The Johns Hopkins Covid-19 Dashboard is currently reporting that there have been 498,897 deaths from the coronavirus in the United States. As the USA approaches the terrible milestone of half a million deaths from Covid-19 data journalists have been given the morbid task of thinking about how best to visualize the dreadful impact that the pandemic has had on American lives.One common response
20 February 2021
12:29
The Noisy Children Map
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The Dorozoku interactive map has stirred up a lot of noise in Japan. The Dorozoku (road-tribe) map is a crowd-sourced noise pollution map which anyone can use to identify noisy streets. People are using the map to complain about noisy children playing on the street or about adults standing around and talking loudly. One typical complaint on the map reads. "It's noisy and dangerous as many
19 February 2021
11:05
The Mars Rover Tracking Map
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Yesterday NASA's Perseverance rover landed successfully on Mars. NASA's 2020 Mars mission is to examine the geology of Mars looking for the biosignatures of past microbial life on the red planet. In order to carry out this mission the Perseverance rover is also equipped with the Ingenuity helicopter drone. The Ingenuity drone will be used to help scout for points of interest which the
18 February 2021
18:00
Every Map Projection at Once
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Overlapping Projections is an interesting map which shows 70 different map projections all at once. The result is a map of the world which is still recognizable but very blurry at the edges. Overlapping Projections is a simple but effective visualization of how different map projections distort the size of countries around the world. Over the years there have been quite a number of clever
11:13
Worldwide Cell Tower Distribution
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The Cell Tower Distribution map reveals where cell towers are distributed around the globe. The map uses OpenCelliD, the world's largest open database of cell towers, to visualize the density of cell towers across the world. If you are afraid of your phone losing its connection then I would advise traveling in the Sahara, the Australian outback, in the Amazon, in Siberia, Greenland or the North
17 February 2021
18:00
The Distance to Your Nearest MiLB Team
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This season there are 120 Minor League Baseball (MiLB) teams. That is 43 less teams than last year. One consequence of this reduction in the number of teams is that a lot of baseball fans will now have to travel a lot further to attend a Minor League Baseball game. In Where it's harder to watch a Minor League Baseball game in 2021 Axios has mapped out the distance from every county in America to
12:12
Clouds are Gathering Over Mapbox
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Update: William B. Davis has now released a working demo map and blog post about his original Cloud Effect Using Turf.js and Mapbox.GL. The post includes an interactive map with animated cloud and an explanation of how the effect is created, using Mapbox's circle-blur and circle-opacity (and turf.js for the animation). Darren Wiens has created a fun map which demonstrates how clouds (or smoke)
16 February 2021
9:34
A Quiet Chinese New Year
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Last Friday (12th Feb) was Chinese New Year. In a normal year around 2.8 million trips would have been made by Chinese people traveling to visit and stay with relatives over the Spring Festival holiday. During this year's Spring Festival, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, travel in China was down by at least 50% on last year.Thanks to Baidu maps we are able to see when, where and how Chinese
15 February 2021
18:00
The Flights of the Dictators
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Airplane tracking maps like Flightradar24 and FlightAware are a fantastic resource for tracking flights around the world in real-time. However both Flightradar24 and FlightAware don't track all planes. At the request of governments, individuals and corporations some aircraft (often considered sensitive) are not shown on these live tracking maps. A significant percentage of those planes whose
10:39
The Origins of Stonehenge
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It has long been believed that the smaller bluestones of Stonehenge were originally quarried in the Preseli Hills of west Wales. This means that the stones had to have been transported over 200km to the site of Stonehenge. Now new analysis of neolithic human bones found at Stonehenge has provided supporting evidence that over 5,000 years ago people transported stones weighting up to 5 tonnes
13 February 2021
14:27
Humanitarian Mapping
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The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is a body which liaises between the OpenStreetMap organization and humanitarian organizations. The team is often actively involved in mapping post-disaster areas and in building better risk models for locations around the world. Accurate maps are essential after a disaster strikes, enabling relief agencies and governments to get resources and supplies
12 February 2021
9:55
The Icebreaking Ships of the Baltic
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Despite the effects of global heating parts of the Baltic Sea are still often blocked by ice during the coldest winter months. The task of breaking the ice to clear important shipping lanes falls to the icebreakers, ice-strengthened ships which are used to keep the ports and sea lanes open. You can view the Baltic's icebreaking ships working in real-time on Baltice.org's Icebreaking and Traffic
11 February 2021
12:48
Historical Maps of New York
sur Google Maps Mania

The Brooklyn Public Library has a fantastic collection of historical maps of New York City and beyond. The library has digitized around 1,500 of these vintage maps which means that they can all be accessed on-line. The Center for Brooklyn History - Map Collections includes maps dating from the 17th Century right up to the modern day, providing an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the
10 February 2021
18:00
The Age of Providence
sur Google Maps Mania

Two new interactive maps have been released which help in the never-ending quest to map the age of every single building in the world. The How Old is Providence? and How Old is Minneapolis? building age maps follow the familiar methodology of coloring individual building plots to represent the decade when buildings were constructed. The Providence building age map is interactive. Hovering over
10:10
No Fly Free Zones
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In response to the more virulent variants of Covid-19 which are now emerging lots of nations around the world appear to be updating their lists of who is and isn't permitted to enter their countries on an almost daily basis. Every day the IATA (International Air Transport Association) updates and releases a new set of rules to explain who is and isn’t allowed to travel into which countries
09 February 2021
18:00
Covid-19 by Satellite
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Water quality in the Venice Lagoon during the Covid-19 outbreak Last summer a number of mapped visualizations were published to visualize the short-term effects of Covid-19 on the environment. As a result of the lock-downs and work at home orders which have been established in many countries around the world there was a marked fall in road traffic in many global cities and a subsequent and
10:52
Pointillist New York
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Pointillism NYC is an interactive map of New York which uses LIDAR data to show all the city's fabulous skyscrapers in glorious 3D. This 3D map is made from millions of individual dots which together create an incredible map of the city. A map which closely resembles the paintings of Pointillist artists such as Georges Seurat or Paul Signac. You can view your favorite landmarks in the city on
08 February 2021
18:00
A Living, Breathing Earth
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The Digital Twin Sandbox is a fun 3D globe which includes an animated snow layer visualizing the global levels of snow over the course of one whole year. As the globe spins you can view the levels of snow rising and falling across the whole world during the passing of 365 days. If all that snow leaves you feeling cold then you can visualize other data on the interactive globe instead. Select the
10:06
The Commuting Time Map
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The CommuteTimeMap can show you how far you can live from your workplace in order to be able to commute to work within the time you would like to spend commuting. Enter your work (or place of study) address into this interactive map, submit your commuting travel time and an isochrone layer will show you all the areas which you can travel to and from within your commuting time. The
3:08
The National Bushfire Map
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The 2019-2020 bushfire season in Australia, was truly disastrous and is now referred to in Australia as Black Summer. Around 46,050,750 acres were burned during last year's bushfire season, over 9,000 buildings were destroyed, and nearly 500 people lost their lives. In January of 2020 a new national bushfire map was released. Bushfire.io is an interactive map which uses data from a range of
06 February 2021
16:29
Mapping US Vaccine Allocation
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During the first phase of Operation Warp Speed the federal government distributed Covid-19 vaccines based on the total adult population of each state. Most states then used the CDC’s COVID-19 Vaccines Work Group recommendations in deciding how those vaccines should then be allocated to their citizens. In Phase 1a the CDC advice was that priority should be given to health-care personnel and
05 February 2021
10:23
Covid-19 School Tracking Maps
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The Canada COVID-19 School Tracker is an interactive map which is plotting COVID-19 outbreaks in schools across Canada. The map is designed to provide parents, communities and students with the information to make important decisions about school openings. In Canada decisions about school openings are being made at the province level. Unfortunately for parents and students information about
04 February 2021
10:12
Colonizing the Planets
sur Google Maps Mania

One of the world's most popular interactive maps is the True Size Of ... , which is a fun tool for comparing the size of different countries by placing one country on top of another. The True Size Of ... is particularly useful for showing some of the size distortions which are inherent in the Mercator projection, for example by placing Greenland on top of the continent of Africa. One thing that
03 February 2021
18:00
Boston's Favorite Streets
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MIT's Sensable Lab has discovered a unique method to determine which streets are seen as the most desirable. By analyzing the routes taken by pedestrians to get from A to B Sensable Lab discovered that on average pedestrians chose to walk 10% further than the shortest route. So why do pedestrians go out of their way when walking from A to B? They might deviate from the shortest route to avoid
10:43
Historical Sanborn Maps of America
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From 1866 to 1977 the Sanborn Map Company produced maps of U.S. cities and towns. The Sanborn maps contained detailed information about individual buildings so that fire insurance companies could accurately calculate fire risk. In the 1960s Fire Insurance companies stopped using maps to underwrite fire risk and consequently there was no market for new Sanborn maps after this time. However the
02 February 2021
18:00
Polygon Tweening
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2020 was a record breaking year for wildfires in California. Four of last year's fires are in the largest six wildfires ever seen in California. These include the August Complex fire which was California's largest wildfire in history by some margin .Reuters has created a very impressive data visualization to illustrate the devastating size of last year's fires in California. At the heart of The
12:35
The Bendy Video Map
sur Google Maps Mania

Both Mapbox and Leaflet.js include options which allow you to overlay videos on top of an interactive map. Mapbox's raster layers and Leaflet's L.VideoOverlay class both make it very easy to add playable videos on top of the satellite imagery (or road map) of the location shown in the video. This is particularly useful if you want to add animated timelapse satellite images or show drone
01 February 2021
18:00
Mapping Cubism
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I am a huge fan of Jason Farago's art criticism for the New York Times. His close readings of famous works of art are illustrated with interactive scrollytelling paintings. Farago's critiques owe a lot to the navigation and presentation techniques developed for online interactive maps. As you progress through one of his close readings the interactive painting zooms and pans to illustrate
11:12
The Healthy Streets Index
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University College London (UCL) has released a new interactive map which rates London's streets based on how 'healthy' they are. The Healthy Streets Index ranks every single street in Central London based on ten different indicators. The map reveals that some London boroughs have a much higher proportion of healthy streets than other boroughs. According to the index Camden has some of London's
30 January 2021
12:07
Mapping the Eternal City
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In 1748 the Italian architect and surveyor Giambattista Nolli published an ichnographic plan of Rome. Nolli's 'Great Plan of Rome' was remarkable for a number of reasons. It was easily the most accurately surveyed and drawn map of the city to have ever been published. It was also one of the first ichnographic maps of Rome. Before Nolli all the maps of Rome produced since the Roman Empire has
29 January 2021
18:00
Mars in 3D
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Ares is an interactive map which uses NASA elevation data to create a 3D map of Mars. Using the map you can explore the red planet at will, climbing in and out of craters like an energetic Mars rover. In December Mapbox released Mapbox GL JS V2. This latest build of Mapbox's interactive mapping library includes the option to view the Earth's terrain in 3D using a global Digital Elevation Model.
11:17
Virtual Tourism
sur Google Maps Mania

Do you remember vacations? In the past, before the global pandemic, once or twice a year people would often take a break from their normal work in order to travel and relax. They would sometimes spend this time visiting far away places and exploring famous landmarks in person. Sadly this freedom to travel, which many of us enjoyed in the past, no longer exists. Which means we now have to
28 January 2021
18:00
Covid Risk Maps
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The New York Times has released an interactive map which shows the risk level of catching Covid-19 in every U.S. county. The See Covid-19 Risk in Your County map uses data from Covid-19 tests and reported cases to show the risk assessment of catching Coronavirus at the county level. Individual counties on the NYT map are colored to show the current risk level. If you hover over a county then
11:38
Trippy Rorschach Maps
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Take a look at the following map and tell me what you see. If you see a bat or a butterfly then we may need to discuss your childhood in a little more detail. Landschach is an interactive map which creates a Rorschach test pattern from elevation data in Mapbox's map tiles. The map was created by Mapbox's Damon Burgett. Essentially Landschach places four different maps on one page. Each of the
27 January 2021
18:00
Historical Country Borders
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The Historic Country Borders map allows you to explore the historic rise and fall of empires and countries around the world since 2000 BC. Using the map's interactive timeline you can select any date in history from 2000 BC to 1994 AD to view the borders of the world's countries at that time.The map uses data from aourednik's historical basemaps to show country borders during the different
11:46
The Privatization of East Germany
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Before the reunification of Germany in 1990 there were over 8,000 state run enterprises in the GDR. The VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) were publicly owned enterprises which were created after the second world war, during the period when there was a mass national nationalization of the private sector in the then Communist run half of Germany. Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, in 1989 around
26 January 2021
18:00
How Well Do You Know Mercator?
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The Mercator Map Projection has some very well known problems. Invented in 1569 by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator the map is very useful for navigating - particularly at sea. A straight line on a Mercator projection map is a line of constant true bearing, which makes it very easy for navigators to plot straight-line courses. Unfortunately because the linear scale of a Mercator
11:08
The Shadow on the Map
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Since the first release of Google Maps sixteen years ago the user interface tools of interactive maps has changed very little. The '+' and '-' buttons used for zooming in and out on the map has pretty much been a constant feature. As has the use of a search box (so that users can quickly find a location on the map) and map layer buttons (so that users can switch between satellite and road map
25 January 2021
18:00
Who is Against Vaccinations?
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A survey conducted by Carnegie Mellon University’s Delphi Lab suggests that more than 25% of Americans would not get vaccinated. If 1 in 4 people refuse to be vaccinated then the USA will struggle to ever escape from Covid-19 lock-downs.While the survey is extremely worrying it is also helpful as it can help the CDC target where they need more education campaigns. You can explore the
10:00
175 Years of the Dufour Map
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The Topographic Map of Switzerland, also known as the Dufour Map, is the oldest official map series of Switzerland based on accurate geometric measurements. In 1845 the Federal Topographic Bureau, led by Guillaume-Henri Dufour, began publishing a map of Switzerland divided into 25 sheets. The original map was published at a scale of 1: 100,000. To celebrate the 175th anniversary of the
23 January 2021
10:21
The Map with a Pearl Earring
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Many museums and art galleries around the world now use interactive mapping interfaces to allow visitors to explore individual works of art online. Presenting paintings as zoomable images provides a unique perspective which gives the viewer the opportunity to study a work of art in impressively close detail.Using the navigating methods of panning and zooming (which users are familiar with from
22 January 2021
11:54
The Covid City Exodus
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In the last few weeks I have read a number of reports estimating that the population of London has fallen by as much as 300,000 during the Covid epidemic. Part of this fall can be blamed on Brexit (many foreign-born workers have left the UK during the last year) however it is also widely believed that the rise of home working has encouraged many people to move out of the capital.When people are
21 January 2021
18:00
Global Shipping Traffic
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VesselFinder is an interactive map which shows in real-time the live position of over 100,000 vessels around the world. The map uses AIS and satellite data to track and map the locations of boats and ships on both inland rivers and on the world's oceans & seas. On the maps different colored markers are used to show different types of marine vessels. Yellow markers show the locations of cargo
11:11
Bernie Sanders at the White House
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Bernie sits outside the White House A picture of Bernie Sanders sitting in a pair of mittens at President Joe Biden's inauguration quickly went viral yesterday. The picture shows Sanders sitting cross-legged and wrapped-up against the cold in the bleachers on Capitol Hill waiting for Biden to be sworn in.While the fashionistas of social media focused on the stunning outfits worn by the likes of
20 January 2021
18:00
The Interactive Map of World Fiction
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I am really interested in some of the attempts people have made to organize works of fiction into two dimensional mapped spaces. In November's #30DayMapChallenge I even created a very small Island of Fiction map demo myself to explore how fictional authors could be mapped onto the fictional territories of a fictional island. Most interactive maps of books that I have seen have used the idea of
12:41
The Distribution of Surnames
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The German Surname Map is a fascinating tool for visualizing the geographical distribution of surnames in Germany. Enter a surname into the tool and you can view a map showing where people with that name are distributed throughout the country. If you enter the name Merkel into the map (the name of the German Chancellor) you will discover that it is a common surname in Germany, with quite an
19 January 2021
11:19
Which Football Team Should I Support?
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Back in 2015 an interactive map called Which Team Should I Support used a Voronoi layer to divide England and Wales into areas assigned to the closest English Premier League teams. This map could therefore be used to quickly see which football team's ground was closest to your home in England and Wales. That map is now very out of date (some of the teams on the map have since been relegated
18 January 2021
18:00
Video Maps of the Attack on Washington
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Last week Parler, the controversial social network much loved by QAnon morons and right-wing domestic terrorists, was hacked. Very poor security on the Parler website meant that hackers were able to download every message, photo, and video posted to the site. Using data from the Parler hack Kyle McDonald was able to create the Parler Video Uploads interactive map. Kyle's map shows the location
10:48
The Relaxing World of Slow TV
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Back in 2011 the Norwegian public service broadcasting company NRK broadcast live and non-stop the 134 hour long voyage of the cruise liner Hurtigruten, as it sailed around the Norwegian coastline. On the NRK website as well as watching the amazing live footage of the cruise you could also keep track of the position of the liner on a live real-time Google Map. Slow television is the term
16 January 2021
11:50
Make Your Own 3D Animated Map
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Mapbox GL Director is a useful and fun tool for creating custom 3D map animations with Mapbox's new impressive 3D terrain features. The tool provides a very easy to use interface for creating custom map animations with Mapbox's 3D terrain, sky and camera features. Mapbox GL Director consists of an intuitive interface which allows you to choose any location on Earth as the basis of your map
15 January 2021
18:00
2020 - The Hottest Year on Record
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The Washington Post reports that 2020 has tied with 2016 as being the hottest year on record. In fact the last seven years have been the hottest seven years since reliable weather measurements began. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Britain’s Met Office and Berkeley Earth 2020 was a few tenths of a degree cooler than 2016, while NASA say that it was very
16:02
The Sound of an Epidemic
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Life has definitely become a lot quieter for me since the Covid-19 outbreak. During 2020 my social life became almost non-existent. I therefore no longer regularly hear the background noise of music and people that I am used to hearing in cafes, pubs and clubs. In London there is also a lot less plane noise than usual. Unfortunately road noise, which at one point during this epidemic had fallen
14 January 2021
11:47
The Story Map of Mars
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I suspect that nobody reading this will ever step foot on Mars. Today however you can take a virtual stroll on the Red Planet thanks to the amazing Jazero Explorer.Next month the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter drone will land on Mars inside the Jezero crater. The Ingenuity drone will be used to scout for points of interest which the Perseverance rover will then investigate and
13 January 2021
18:00
Driving a Train in Tokyo
sur Google Maps Mania

The very popular Mini Tokyo 3D is a live real-time map of Tokyo's public transit system. The map shows the live position of Tokyo's trains in 3D as they move around the city.Following trains live on the colorful Mini Tokyo 3D map has always been a lot of fun. It is now an even more amazing experience. Mini Tokyo 3D has utilized Mapbox's new 3D Camera API to give you a first person view as a
11:23
Mapping the Parler Hack
sur Google Maps Mania

Parler, the controversial social network much loved by QAnon morons and right-wing domestic terrorists, is having a bad week. Over the weekend Amazon banned Parler from its AWS cloud servers. Now it has had all its data hacked. Very poor security on the Parler website has meant that anyone has been able to download every message, photo, and video posted to the site. After the FBI began asking
12 January 2021
18:00
The End of American Fossil Fuels
sur Google Maps Mania

The incoming Biden administration has set a goal to decarbonize the U.S. power sector by 2035. Currently over 60% of electricity in the United States is generated from fossil fuels. Therefore if the new administration wants to meet its ambitious 2035 goal the government clearly has a lot to do. Decarbonizing the U.S. energy sector will require the construction of new renewable power plants and
12:11
Global Vaccination Progress
sur Google Maps Mania

The UK was the first country to approve the use of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccination. Consequently the UK was able to start its vaccination programme early and has currently one of the highest rates of Covid-19 vaccinations. At the time of writing the UK has managed to vaccinate 4 doses per 100 people. However according to the Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker the UK is still a long way behind Israel (
11 January 2021
18:00
Escaping Slavery
sur Google Maps Mania

'Marronage' is a noun which describes the process of escaping slavery. The word derives from the 'Maroons', the name given to escaped slaves and the descendants of Africans in the Americas who created settlements away from slavery. The Mapping Marronage website is creating interactive visualizations exploring the networks by which enslaved people in the 18th and 19th century attempted to move
10:16
cARTography
sur Google Maps Mania

Interactive mapping libraries such as Leaflet.js are a fantastic, but still underused, resource for presenting and exploring works of art online.However some art galleries have begun to take advantage of the potential of JavaScript mapping libraries to provide interactive mediums for exploring artworks in close detail.The J. Paul Getty Museum is using Leaflet.js to provide close analysis of
09 January 2021
10:48
2020 Police Killings
sur Google Maps Mania

Police in the United States killed 1,114 people in 2020. Despite making up only 13% of the population 28% of those killed by the police were Black. There were only 18 days during the whole of 2020 when the police didn't kill someone. Mapping Police Violence has released its 2020 report and interactive map of police killings during the whole of last year. The map shows the locations of all the
08 January 2021
12:33
Global Warming in Your Town
sur Google Maps Mania

In just the last 50 years global heating has caused the temperature in Rome to increase by 3.7°C. Over the same period of time the mean temperature in London rose by 2.8°C, Madrid has risen by 2.5°C, Berlin by 2.3°C and Paris has risen by 1.5°C. The Global Climate Change map visualizes how mean temperature values of the 1960s compare with those of 2009-18. To create the map the climate data of
07 January 2021
10:08
Every Railway At Once
sur Google Maps Mania

In January last year Andrei Kashcha released his very popular City Roads interactive map. City Roads is a fun online tool which can be used to create your very own road map for any city in the world. Enter a city name into City Roads and it will generate a map of the city using only the city's road network from OpenStreetMap. One year later and we now have a rail version of City Roads. City
06 January 2021
18:00
America's Best Drives
sur Google Maps Mania

Geotab has worked out the quietest route in every U.S. state. Using 2015 traffic count data Geotab has worked out which roads (interstates, US routes, and state routes over 10 miles long) have the least road traffic. America's Quietest Routes allows you to view the quietest route in every state simply by selecting the state on an interactive map. You can then explore the route for yourself using
11:55
Georgia Senate Election Maps
sur Google Maps Mania

The results of yesterday's two run-off elections in Georgia will determine which party controls the senate. At the time of writing Democrat Raphael Warnock has won his race against Kelly Loeffler. The other race is yet to be called but currently Democrat Jon Ossoff has a very small lead over Republican David Perdue. Both The New York Times and The Guardian have published interactive
05 January 2021
18:00
The Interactive Geological of the World
sur Google Maps Mania

William Smith is largely credited with creating the first nationwide geological map. Smith's beautiful 1815 map 'A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales with Part of Scotland' visualized Britain's geological types using different colors for different types of geological feature. Smith's use of colors and many of his names for different strata are still used today. You can see
11:48
The Average Earth Map
sur Google Maps Mania

The Average Earth Map 2020 is an interactive satellite map which is constructed from imagery captured by NASA satellites over the course of the last year. The reason why it is called the 'average' Earth map is because each pixel on the map shows the average color of that location over the whole of 2020.In order to create the map cartocalypse used 365 daily satellite composite images of the
04 January 2021
18:00
15 Minute Santa
sur Google Maps Mania

15 Minute Santa is a fun new arcade game which requires you to deliver Christmas presents to the children of Seattle by guiding Santa around the city on an interactive map. The game can be downloaded to play on Windows, Mac or Linux. It can now also be played on-line.The object of 15 Minute Santa is to drive Santa around Seattle. As you navigate around the map of the city you earn points based
12:38
Hiking on Mars
sur Google Maps Mania

Next month the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter drone will land on Mars inside the Jezero crater. The Ingenuity drone will be used to scout for points of interest which the Perseverance rover will then investigate and study. Perseverance is equipped with a number of scientific instruments which will help it to analyze the geology and environment of the red planet. Perseverance
02 January 2021
11:44
America's Vaccination Deserts
sur Google Maps Mania

The CDC has now added data on U.S. COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution to the CDC COVID Data Tracker. This new data provides the latest information on the total number of Americans who have received the Covid-19 vaccination and the rate (per 100,000 people) of vaccinations carried out in each state. According to the CDC interactive map West Virginia and South Dakota have so far vaccinated the highest
01 January 2021
11:41
The GitHub Globe
sur Google Maps Mania

The GitHub homepage currently features a 3D globe, on which animated lines are used to show GitHub activity around the world. As the 3D globe spins on its axis these colored lines arc out from the Earth to show where pull-requests are being made and merged around the world. The globe is an effective visualization of how GitHub's popular coding platform is a very active global community of
31 December 2020
18:00
How Sea Walls Destroy Beaches
sur Google Maps Mania

Propubilica and the Honolulu Star-Advertiser have produced a joint story into how sea walls are helping to cause coastal erosion in Hawaii. Over the last one hundred years Oahu, Maui and Kauai have lost around 25% of their sandy beaches. To help protect their homes from rising seas the owners of sea-front properties often erect sea walls. These sea walls then contribute to the loss of Hawaii's
11:31
The Interstate Highway Transit Map
sur Google Maps Mania

For the last nine years Cameron Booth's Transit Maps blog has been reviewing the design and effectiveness of transit maps created by transport networks around the world. He also occasionally features his own transit network maps.Sometimes Cameron creates transit diagrams for networks which don't strictly fall within the normal bounds of a transit map. For example Cameron's Interstates as a
30 December 2020
18:00
How Far Have I Walked?
sur Google Maps Mania

After the excesses of Christmas many of us are now thinking about what New Year's resolutions we can make in order to lose a few lbs. Last week I wrote about the new Trail Router interactive map, which can help you generate new running, walking and cycling routes to help keep your exercise regime a little more interesting. One very useful feature of Trail Router is that it can generate routes
11:25
Painting the World with Maps
sur Google Maps Mania

I've been working hard on completing this painting over the last few weeks. I'm actually quite pleased with the result. This mountain landscape, which I finally finished this morning, is now ready for framing.Actually to say I've been working on this painting for a few weeks is a slight exaggeration. It is also a slight exaggeration to call it a painting. In truth this masterpiece only took me a
29 December 2020
18:00
How Coronavirus Spread in Canada
sur Google Maps Mania

CBC / Radio-Canada has published a story map which compares the latest surge of Covid-19 cases in Canada with the first wave of the pandemic earlier this year. At the heart of Two Parts of a Pandemic: How the Coronavirus Spread in Canada is a 3D interactive map visualizing the number of coronavirus cases across Canada during the two periods of the year which saw dramatic surges. On top of this
11:21
The First #UKSnow of Winter
sur Google Maps Mania

For the first time this winter the hashtag UKSnow is trending on Twitter. This means that it is time once again to fire up the #uksnow Map.The #uksnow Map uses crowdsourced Tweets to map the location and levels of snow across the UK. Judging by the current map snow has been falling widely in the North and Midlands. There also seems to have been a smaller number of snow showers in the South of
28 December 2020
13:17
Like the Back of Your Hand
sur Google Maps Mania

Some interactive map games can be very difficult to play. Many of the map games I review for Maps Mania start by generating a random location. This location could be a city that you have never visited and know very little about. I have found over the years that it can be very frustrating to try to answer questions about a city that you know very little about.This is why you might enjoy playing
26 December 2020
13:01
The 2020 Map of the Year
sur Google Maps Mania

In 2020 there was really only one serious contender for Map of the Year. At the beginning of January I was convinced that the U.S. Presidential election was going to dominate the news and consequently we were going to see thousands of election maps during the course of the year, climaxing with hundreds of election result maps in November. The U.S. election was indeed one of the major stories of
24 December 2020
17:00
The Santa Tracker Maps
sur Google Maps Mania

Santa has begun has begun work on his busiest day of the year. This year you can follow Santa's journey around the world, as he delivers presents to all the world's children, on both the Google Santa Tracker and the NORAD Santa Tracker.The Official NORAD Santa Tracker uses NORAD's geo-synchronous satellites to detect the heat signature of Rudolph's red nose. It is then able to track Santa's

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