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24 juin 2017
18:30
City Cycling Stress Scores
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Moovel Lab's What the Street? provides an interesting analysis of how much space is dedicated to cars, to cycling and to trains in cities around the world. According to What the Street cyclists in most cities around the world can typically expect much less than ten percent of the physical space that is dedicated to cars. The quality of a city's cycling network however is far more than just a
23 juin 2017
19:00
Sonnets on the Streets of Seattle
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Seattle is a city 'full of cannabis craving lovers ... and power hungry sharks'. It is also a city full of poets and bards. Some of whom can be found on this Seattle poetry map. For two years Claudia Castro Luna has been Seattle's Civic Poet. To mark the end of her residency as Civic Poet Claudia has launched an interactive map of Seattle poetry. The Seattle Poetic Grid is a collection of
10:57
The Rent in Spain Falls Mainly Down the Drain
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Renting an apartment in Madrid or Barcelona is becoming very difficult for anyone who isn't already rich or a high earner. Like many other cites in the developed world a number of factors have combined to price many people out of being able to afford to rent an apartment in Spain's two most populous cities. Tell Me How Much You Can Afford and I'll Tell You Where to Live explains the problems
22 juin 2017
20:30
Degradation of the Amazon Rainforests
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Most people are aware of the devastating effect of deforestation on the Amazon Rainforest. Not so many people are aware of the equally worrying 'degradation' of forests. With deforestation the forest is completely cleared and left for pasture, monoculture or simply abandoned. Forest degradation is the thinning of tree density which leads to the removal of important biodiversity. It is often
18:30
Where Cars Rule the City Streets
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Do you know how much physical space in your town or city is dedicated to cars, to bikes and to trains? Moovel Lab has been analyzing OpenStreetMap data to answer this question and to provide a Mobility Space Report for major cities around the world. What the Street? allows you to explore these Mobility Space Reports and to view the amount of space dedicated to the three different modes of
21 juin 2017
18:30
Name the City from its Bike Lanes
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The Guardian has a fun map game which requires you to guess cities around the world based solely on maps of their bike lanes. The maps were created by Bike Citizens using their bike mapping data. Each city map consists of just protected bike lanes (blue lines) and painted lanes (grey lines). There are twelve city maps in all in Can you guess the city from its bike lane maps. All you have to
15:30
The UK Election Dot Map
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The Colours of the Election is a dot map which provides a view of the geographical distribution of votes cast in the 2017 UK election. Each dot on the map represents 250 votes for one of the political parties. The dots are randomly distributed within each electoral area. At the electoral ward level a random distribution of colored dots is obviously not the best way to present the number of
11:30
How to Make a Travel Time Map
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Mapbox has released a new plugin which allows you to add an isochrone layer to your Mapbox powered maps. The Mapbox Isochrone plugin visualizes how far you can travel in different periods of time. You can see how the ischrone plugin works on this demo map. You can adjust the starting position by dragging and dropping the car icon on the map. If you switch to the 'Quantized' view the map
20 juin 2017
20:30
Trump's Huge Conflict of Interest Map
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So many people ask me this. They ask me where does the president have great conflict of interests. I tell them Donald Trump has the best conflicts of interest. The corruption is big. I never realized how big it was. I really just see the bigness of it all. You know Obama worked on it for years, got zippo, zero. Me, the people just call me up, they say, ‘Donald, can we just give you the money?’
18:30
Mapping Death from Global Warming
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In 2003 in Europe 70,000 people died during an extreme heatwave. As global warming increases countries around the world are likely to experience more and more periods of life threatening extreme heat. By the year 2100 it is estimated that 74% of the world's population will be exposed to deadly heatwaves. The University of Hawaii has released an interactive map which predicts the number of
14:52
Working Abroad in the EU
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The free movement of workers is one of the basic principles of the European Union. It means that Europeans can move between countries in the European Union in order to work. In 2015 4% of the EU's population had made use of this right in order to live in an EU country in which they weren't born. The United Kingdom yesterday began negotiating its withdrawal from the European Union. One issue
19 juin 2017
18:30
From the World to MIT
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Students travel from countries across the world in order to study at MIT. This year nearly a quarter of MIT's overseas students come from China. India sends the next largest number of students to study at the university. MIT World is a new interactive map from MIT Senseable City Lab that visualizes the countries MIT students have come from over the last twenty years. The map provides a
16:00
Pollution Free Walking Routes
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Nitrogen dioxide emitted by motor vehicles has been above the legal limit in London for longer than most people care to remember. This means that pedestrians & cyclists can't really avoid pollution in the capital. However it is possible to cut your exposure to air pollution in half by avoiding the city's busiest roads. The Cross River Partnership can help you find a healthier route for your
16 juin 2017
18:30
Make Your Own Map
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If you're upset about seeing too many Maps without New Zealand then why not create your own map in which New Zealand is shown at the center of the world. The World Map Creator lets you create a map of the world centered on any location. You can even create your own map using your favorite map projection. The World Map Creator includes the option to center your map on any location in the world.
15 juin 2017
18:30
How Are You Helping Syria?
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Syria has been at war for 6 years and 63 days. This war has lead to over 11 million people losing their homes. What have you done to help? The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and Google have teamed up to create an immersive web documentary explaining the issues around the Syrian refugee crisis, where Syrian refugees are going and how you can help. Searching for Syria uses audio, video,
11:32
Deserted Islands - A Story Map
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It is illegal to hunt or kill the rabbits on Okunoshima island in Japan. Not that many people want to kill them. In fact tourists from around the world flock to Okunoshima or 'Rabbit Island' primarily to visit the thousands of wild rabbits that inhabit the island. However the rabbits of Okunoshima island weren't always so revered. In fact the island was once the location of Japan's secret
14 juin 2017
20:30
Uber and Lyft in San Francisco
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In the Fall of 2016, on an average Friday, Uber and Lyft made more than 200,000 journeys. A new data visualization, Uber and Lyft in San Francisco, allows you to explore the combined usage of Lyft and Uber in San Francisco during Fall 2016 on an interactive map. The map shows in which areas of the city the two ride-share services are used the most. You can explore the data by day of the week
18:30
Street View Cars for Science
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The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has teamed up with Google to use Google Maps Street View cars to measure air quality. Google's Street View cars were equipped with sensors to measure nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide and black carbon as they drove the streets capturing the panoramic Street View imagery for Google Maps. You can read more about the experiment on EDF's article, Mapping Air
15:13
Hamburg's Live Transit Map
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You can now follow all the vehicles in Hamburg’s public transport system in real-time on just one interactive map. The HVV Live Map shows the live real-time position of buses, rapid transit and regional trains. It even shows you where the city's ferries are and where they are going. Vehicles are shown on the map using moving colored dots. The colors of the dots mirror the official colors of
13 juin 2017
20:30
New Google Map of Lynchings
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Between 1877 and 1950 more than 4,000 African Americans were lynched in the United States. The Equal Justice Initiative has collaborated with Google to launch an in-depth examination of this terrible episode in American history. A Lynching in America includes interviews, audio recordings and reports into the history of lynchings in the United States. It also includes an interactive map
18:30
New York in 3D
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You can explore New York in glorious 3D on Cesium. In New York City Cesium uses NYC DoITT's 3D Building Massing Model of New York City to help to bring the city alive. NYC DoITT's 3D building model was created from a 2014 aerial survey of the city. The building models include detailed pitched roofs and roof appendages such as chimneys, parapets and spindles. If you want to use the 3D buildings
10:38
The French Legislative Elections
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Emmanuel Macron's En Marche! has had a huge amount of success in the first round of the elections for the French National Assembly. Macron's party are now being predicted to win between 400 and 450 seats (out of 577) in the National Assembly after the second round vote. The first round of the 2017 French Legislative Election was held on Sunday. The elections are for the 577 members of the
12 juin 2017
20:30
The Oceans are our Garbage Cans
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Around 8 million tonnes of plastic is dumped into the world's oceans every single year. This plastic is dangerous to marine life and, once it enters the food chain, ultimately dangerous to the health of the human race. The Ocean Cleanup organisation believes that between 1.15 and 2.41 million metric tons of that plastic in the oceans originates from the world's river systems. Two thirds of it
18:30
Shrinking Ice Caps, Rising Seas
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The National Snow and Ice Data Center has created a series of interactive maps which visualize Satellite Observations of Arctic Change. The maps allow you to see how sea ice, snow cover and frozen ground have all been shrinking during the 21st Century. Other maps plot air temperature changes in the Arctic and the changes to Arctic vegetation. Global warming is causing observable changes to
16:30
American Cargo Mapping
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The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has released its 2017 Infrastructure Report Card. This detailed report awards grades to individual infrastructure sectors based on criteria such as Condition, Funding and Operation & Maintenance. You can explore the grades awarded to the United States cargo transportation infrastructure on a new Esri story map. The Transportation Infrastructure:
10 juin 2017
18:30
Mapping House Prices
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In January Demographia International named Vancouver the 3rd least affordable housing market in the world, behind Hong Kong and Sydney. The housing market in San Francisco was ranked the 9th least affordable. Darkhorse Analytics has created interactive maps which help explain the housing markets in Vancouver, San Francisco and Edmonton. The 2017 Property Assessments visualizes the average
09 juin 2017
18:30
Children's Maps
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Esri has a new basemap designed for the young at heart. The Children's Map is a fun global map full of illustrations of famous man-made & natural landmarks and pictures of some of the world's most loved wildlife. The Children's Map can be used to explore the locations of the countries of the world, their capitals and major cities. As you explore the world on the Children's Map you will also
14:16
Young Britons Turn on May
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The Conservative Party won the most seats in the UK election, but they do not have enough seats to form a majority government. The results have been a huge surprise to many people, including most of the polling companies. The results have not been such a surprise to those who have noticed the huge popularity of the opposition leader among young voters. Jeremy Corbyn has not only proved very
08 juin 2017
23:57
UK Election Maps
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Guardian map from during the 2015 general election The first results from the UK general election are expected soon. If the Exit Poll is to be believed this is going to be an exciting night and a very long night if your name is Theresa May. You can follow the results as they come in on The Guardian's Live Election Tracker. The Guardian has decided to use a cartogram, in which the geometry of
18:30
3D Mapping with NASA
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NASA's World Wind is a free, open source platform for creating interactive 3D globes. It can be used as a tool for visualizing global data on top of a fully interactive 3D globe or 2D map. You can get a good idea of the capabilities of NASA World Wind by looking at some of the applications that have been built using its API. WorldWind Explorer is a basic demo which shows how different base maps
16:39
Uluru on Street View
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Panoramic Street View imagery of the magnificent and sacred Uluru is now on Google Maps. Google worked with Aṉangu Traditional Owners of Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park to ensure that they respected Tjukurpa law while capturing this new 360 degree imagery of Uluru and the Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park. You can explore the new Street View imagery of Uluru on Google Maps. To find out where the
11:30
How Well Do You Know Your Hoods?
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How well do your know your local neighborhoods and the neighborhoods of the world's largest towns & cities? You can find out by playing Click that 'hood!. Click that 'hood! is a geography game which tests your knowledge of city neighborhoods. To play Click that 'hood! you first need to select a city or town from the long list of locations available. You are then shown an interactive map of
07 juin 2017
19:30
Don't Miss the Eclipse
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Witnessing the 1999 total eclipse in Northern France was one of the most memorable experiences in my life. It would have been even better if it hadn't been obscured by clouds. On August 21 North America will experience a total eclipse of the sun. If you are planning to view the eclipse then you might want to check NOAA's Cloudiness Map of the Eclipse. The map not only shows you where you can
18:03
The Global Refugee Crisis
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CREATE Lab has mapped the movement of refugees around the world for every year since 2000. The map uses data from the U.N. Refugee Agency to show where refugees have come from and which countries around the globe that they have fled to. At first glance the animated flowing dots on the Global Refugee Flow map can be a little confusing. As with a lot of animated maps it can be hard to pick out
8:45
The Wall Between the USA & Morocco
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If Donald Trump had been President of the United States in the Paleozoic era then he might have built a wall between the USA & Morocco. The super-continent of Pangea existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras, before it began to break apart about 175 million years ago. Of course there weren't any country borders on Pangea. By some estimates, however, the land mass that is now
06 juin 2017
18:30
Mapping Frank Lloyd Wright
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Frank Lloyd Wright was born 150 years ago on June 8th, 1867. To mark the 150th anniversary of the architect’s birth the National Trust for Historic Preservation has released a mapped tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's Pope-Leighey House and a map of some of his most memorable buildings. A Tour of the Pope-Leighey House includes a floor-plan, photos and descriptions of one of the architects Usonian
12:57
Mapping Constructivist & Brutalist Buildings
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The Constructivist Project celebrates and documents the design and buildings developed by the Soviet Constructivist group of architects. Soviet Russia's Constructivist architecture of the 1920's and early 1930's embraced modern materials and technology to design buildings with a social and communal purpose. The Constructivist Project Map allows you to find and explore Constructivist buildings
05 juin 2017
20:30
Mapping the Fictional San Francisco
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In 'Around the World in Eighty Days' Jules Verne described San Francisco as a city of "verdant squares". You can discover how other authors have described the city on the Literary City interactive map. Ever since the days of the Californian gold rush San Francisco has held a special position in the myths and literature of America. To celebrate San Francisco's status as one of the most vibrant
18:30
Every Traffic Fatality in America
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Mapping Traffic Fatalities on America’s Roads is a Google Map which visualizes every traffic fatality on American roads for any month from 2001 to 2016. Using the month and year drop-down menus you can select to view the data for any month. The fatalities shown on the map aren't differentiated by type of vehicle or by the weather conditions but you can click on individual markers to view this
11:10
Archaeology in Danger
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The Temple of Baal, before & after destruction by ISIS In 2015 ISIS destroyed the Temple of Baal in the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria. This pointless destruction of a World Heritage site briefly managed to turn the world's attention towards the danger faced by archaeological sites around the world, particularly in North Africa and the Middle East. Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East
04 juin 2017
18:30
Around Canada in 150 Days
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In celebration of Canada's 150th birthday 'Canada C3' is sailing coast to coast from Toronto to Victoria via the Northwest Passage. The expedition set sail from Toronto on June 1st and will arrive in Victoria on October 28th. You can follow the expedition live on the Canada C3 interactive map. The map shows the live position of the Canada C3 ship and the track of its journey around Canada and
03 juin 2017
10:58
Google's UK Election Trends
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Next Thursday the UK will be electing a new government. The current Conservative government has been fighting their election campaign largely on the issues raised by Brexit. But is this really the political issue that UK voters care most about? According to Google Trends the Conservative Party are partly right in identifying Brexit as a big issue in this election. The Google Trends UK Election
02 juin 2017
11:30
I See Seychelles from the Seashore
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A few years ago Eric Odenheimer had the idea of mapping what lay across the ocean from every beach in North, South and Central America. His popular static map showed which country you would see if you could see all the way across the ocean. What Odenheimer's map visualizes is the country across the ocean which is on an equivalent latitude. Andy Woodruff was inspired by Odenheimer's map to
01 juin 2017
20:30
Singapore Sinking Under Water
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Almost 20% of Singapore is reclaimed land. The country is therefore very worried about the likely effects of rising sea levels. In order to illustrate the possible impact of sea level rise the Straits Times has released a virtual reality visualization called Singapore Underwater. Singapore Underwater users virtual reality to show how Singapore might look in the future if global warming leads
18:30
Goodbye New Orleans
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The world's second largest polluter appears set to pull out of the Paris climate accord. Thanks to NOAA's Sea Level Rise Viewer we can observe one likely outcome of this action on the coastal areas of the United States. By the end of this century the National Climate Assessment estimates that sea levels may rise by up to 6.6 feet. NOAA's interactive map uses the most accurate elevation data
31 mai 2017
18:30
Mapping American Sanctions
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One way that the United States can attempt to influence or punish companies & individuals around the world is by imposing economic sanctions. Sanctions effectively prohibit non-sanctioned businesses and individuals from engaging in economic activity with sanctioned entities. The punishment for breaking a sanction can involve huge fines and / or civil or criminal penalty. Enigma Labs has
10:49
Parallel Computer Mapping
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MapAnt is a huge interactive orienteering map of Finland. The map includes all of the features that you would expect from a good orienteering map, such as contour lines and topographic features. Perhaps the most distinctive thing about MapAnt is the way it was constructed. MapAnt is an auto-generated map compiled by parallel computing. To make MapAnt 100 computers analyzed and extracted data
30 mai 2017
19:00
Mapping Seattle Crashes
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Seattle Collisions is a mapped visualization of Seattle vehicle collisions since 2006. The tool allows you to analyze Seattle Department of Transportation data by location and calculate the economic cost of the vehicle collisions. You can filter the vehicle collision data by date and by current map bounds. Seattle Collisions also allows you to view the collision data and economic costs for
17:30
Historical St. Louis in 110 Drawings
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In the 1870's a printer named Richard J. Compton employed an artist called Camille N. Dry to draw a birds's eye view map of St.Louis. Dry's map had to include every building, street and landmark in the city. The result was the magnificent 'Pictorial St. Louis', a huge oblique map consisting of 110 individual drawings or plates. You can examine Compton and Dry's Pictorial St. Louis with this
29 mai 2017
19:30
World Population Trends
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The citizens of Hong Kong have the highest life expectancy in the world. The life expectancy at birth is 83.7 years. The lowest life expectancy is in Swaziland, where citizens have an average life expectancy at birth of 49.19 (UN DESA 2015). World Population - Uneven Development is an interesting mapped visualization of global population data & trends. The map uses data from the United Nations
17:30
How Students Travel
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Every day around 184,000 post-secondary students in Toronto travel to their lectures via foot, bike, car and public transit. In order to help universities, transportation agencies and students make better decisions about transport infrastructure and programs StudentMoveTO surveyed Toronto students about where they live and how they travel to and from campus and home. Heatmaps of Home-Campus
12:00
Europe's Population Mountains
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Topi Tjukanov has discovered how to give the Netherlands mountains. The answer is to turn population data into elevation. If you do that then the densely populated Netherlands becomes a mountaineer's dream of climbing heaven. Topi Tjukanov's 3D Global Human Settlement is a threejs powered mapped visualization of European population data, in which population is expressed as elevation. The
27 mai 2017
15:30
Vintage Maps of Toronto
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The Geospatial Centre at the University of Waterloo has been busy digitizing its collection of historical maps. You can view these vintage Canadian maps at Kitchener-Waterloo: 1955 to present. The maps available include historical maps of Toronto, Ottawa, Galt and Dundass. Also available is a map of the Centre's 1955 air-photo collection. Both the vintage maps and the vintage aerial imagery
26 mai 2017
18:30
Live Satellite Images of the Earth
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I've lost count of the number of times I've been asked whether I know any maps with real-time satellite imagery of the Earth. The short answer is that we aren't quite there yet. There is no map that can show you real-time satellite imagery of the whole Earth. However there are websites that can show you satellite imagery which was taken just a few hours ago. NASA and USGS' Landsat 8 completes
25 mai 2017
18:30
Medieval Map Wizards
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The Medieval Fantasy City Generator is a fun tool for creating random fictional maps of medieval towns. Just choose your size of town or city and the Wizard of Maps will magically create your very own fantasy medieval map. All the maps created by the Medieval Fantasy City Generator include a number of similar features. Each town or city is centered around a central market place. Each town is
16:30
Executive Travel
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The Executive Abroad is an interactive map which plots the overseas visits of every U.S. President and Secretary of State. The map starts in 1905 because no president traveled outside the country during their term of office before Theodore Roosevelt traveled to Panama in 1906. If you select a President or Secretary of State's name on the map you can view all their international trips. The
10:17
The Interactive Map of Unobtrusive Design
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Ongesigneerd (translation: 'Unsigned') is a podcast about unobtrusive design by Dutch broadcasters VPRO. To accompany the new season of the podcast VPRO has released the Ongesigneerd Interactive Map. In the podcast series broadcasters Tjitske Mussche and Laura Stek discuss the design of everyday objects that we find in the world around us. The interactive map presents a hand-drawn city scene,
24 mai 2017
18:30
Tsunami Travel Times
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A tsunami that started off the coast of Japan would take about ten hours to cross the Pacific Ocean before it hit the coast of Los Angeles. You can find out out the estimated travel times of tsunamis in the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean using NOAA's Estimated Tsunami Travel Times map. The map displays pre-computed tsunami travel times. NOAA haven't provided a lot of
16:30
The Geography of Hip-Hop
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The Geography of Hip-Hop is an interactive map documenting the history and geography of hip-hop. The map (and accompanying essay) explore how hip-hop has spread around the world and how different cites have developed their own distinct sounds and styles of hip-hop. The interactive hip-hop map allows you to browse and listen to hip-hop music by location. The map features 955 songs, most of
23 mai 2017
18:30
This Town was Named for You
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Many places around the world have decided to celebrate your life by naming roads, neighborhoods and towns in your honor. You can discover all the wonderful locations which now bear your name using the Where the Streets Have Your Name map. Where the Streets Have Your Name is a great application that you can use to create a Google Map showing all the places around the world that have your name.
14:30
Who Owns England?
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There has been a lot of speculation recently about who owns England? Land ownership in England is a closely guarded secret. The reason why the ownership of English land is kept such a closely guarded secret is because the answer is - the French. England is owned by the French. Or, more accurately, the Normans. In 1066 William the Conqueror and an army of northern Frenchmen successfully
22 mai 2017
18:30
Climbing the Himalayas
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The Discovery Channel's Mount Everest in 3D is probably the closest that you will ever get to climbing Mount Everest. In effect the climb is just a video of (what I assume is) a 3D map of Everest. However the video is linked to an elevation scale and as the video plays you can keep track of the rising elevation. On your ascent of the mountain you can also stop off at the Khumbu Icefall. The
16:30
Interactive Geological Maps
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William Smith was an English geologist who created the first nationwide geological map of the UK. A geologic map reveals the distribution of geological features such as different types of rocks. Smith's beautiful 1815 map visualized Britain's geological types using different colors for different types of geological feature. You can view interactive versions of William Smith's Maps online.
10:30
Beer Travel Time
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The most important criteria to use when choosing a new house is the length of time it takes to get home from the best pubs. That's why Lauri Vanhala has worked out the time it takes to get to every address in Helsinki from the city's top 20 pubs. In order to find the best places to buy property in Helsinki Lauri worked out the travel time on public transport from every address in Helsinki to
20 mai 2017
12:30
Scotland's Clan Battlefield Map
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Following the success of their Clan Map of Scotland tartan makers Lochcarron of Scotland have released a new interactive map documenting all the major battles that took place between the Scottish clans throughout history. The Clan Map of Scotland divides Scotland into geographical areas associated with the historical kinship groups of the country. If you select a clan region on the map you can
19 mai 2017
18:30
Ice Flow in Antarctica
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Like nearly everything else glacial land ice obeys the law of gravity. Therefore ice sheets flow downhill. They normally do this very slowly. Unfortunately we don't live in normal times. Global warming has caused the the oceans to also get warmer. The warmer ocean waters undercut Antarctica's glaciers, causing them to flow quicker and quicker. Over 60% of the world's freshwater is locked in
18 mai 2017
20:30
The Death of Bear 71
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For ten years wildlife conservation officers in Banff National Park tagged and monitored Bear71. In the ten years up to her untimely death Bear71 was also often captured by trail cameras in the park. Some of this trail camera footage can be viewed in a new interactive web documentary exploring the life of Bear71. At the heart of Bear71 VR is a 3D map of Banff National Park. The documentary is
18:30
Lights Out in Syria
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In his recent Lights On & Lights Out comparison of NASA's 2012 and 2016 Black Marble maps John Nelson drew attention to how NASA's imagery revealed the incredible fall of nighttime lighting in war-torn Syria. The BBC has now created a series of map animations which also use nighttime satellite imagery to drastically illustrate the effect of the war on Syria's electricity supply. In Syria from
12:18
Live Buses in Reykjavík
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Strætó BS is the public transport company responsible for operating public transit buses in Reykjavík. I don't know how good they are at running buses but they do know how to make a brilliant route planning map. The Strætó BS Route Planner map allows customers to easily plan which buses they need to take to travel between any two locations in the city and where they can catch those buses. To
17 mai 2017
18:30
Mapping One Year of Life on Earth
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A Breathing Earth is an animated map showing the seasonal growth and fall of the world's vegetation over one year. The map shows the extent of vegetation around the world for every week in 2016. To create the map the 'greenness' variable in satellite imagery of the Earth has been mapped for all 52 weeks of the year. This greenness variable is determined from satellite images from the VIIRS
14:30
Mapping the History of the Underground
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The world's first underground railway line opened in London in 1863. The Metropolitan Railway ran from Paddington to Farringdon Street. The line was a huge success (it carried 38,0000 passengers on its first day) and it wasn't long before the line was extended and new lines were built. To this day the London Underground continues to grow. Last month tunneling began to extend the Northern Line
16 mai 2017
20:30
The Crime Fighter's Dashboard.
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By day I'm a mild mannered cartography. By night I am the Masked Mapper! With my sidekick Compass Boy I roam the streets of New York fighting crime. Of course I have my own superhero crime fighting map. In the past when the Chief of Police needed my help he would shine a massive searchlight into the sky to grab my attention. However this proved pretty ineffectual, especially when I wasn't
18:30
Old Maps of Boston & New York
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A few days ago I discovered this fascinating post by Bill Warner on how MIT at the beginning of the Twentieth Century acquired land and built a new campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This story of the construction of MIT's campus is illustrated throughout using old vintage maps of Cambridge. The article uses screenshots from Mapjunction to compare before and after vintage maps of the area to
16:30
Mountaintop Removal in Appalachia
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More than one million acres of forest have been destroyed in Appalachia by mountaintop removal coal mining. This environmentally devastating form of strip-mining has also permanently destroyed over 500 mountains and 2,700 mountain ridge-tops in the region. You can examine the huge scale of the destruction to the mountain environment of Appalachia on SkyTruth's Mountain Top Removal interactive
15 mai 2017
18:30
Where's North Korea?
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Can you correctly identify the location of North Korea on an unlabeled map? If you can then you are more likely to favor a diplomatic and non-military response to North Korea than someone who can't find it on a map. The New York Times asked 1,746 people to find North Korea on a map. 36 percent got it right. These same 1,746 people were then asked a series of questions about what sort of
16:30
One Belt, One Road, Lots of Maps
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Diplomats from countries around the world were in China over the weekend. Most of them were desperate to claim a share of the billions of dollars China plans to invest in its Belt and Road projects. China's ambitious One Belt, One Road strategy plans to connect Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa with a huge transport and oil & gas pipeline network. An interactive map on Fortune
13 mai 2017
17:30
Real-Time Cyber Attack Maps
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Yesterday's huge ransomware attack on websites around the world seems to have reignited interest in the live real-time mapping of cyber attacks. The malware WanaCrypt0r 2.0 encrypts files on infected computers and then demands payment from the computer owner to unlock the files. A number of anti-virus and cyber security companies feature real-time maps which purportedly show cyber attacks
12 mai 2017
11:00
India's Growing Cities
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A little over 100 years ago Delhi wasn't even in the top 5 most populous cities in India. It is now the fourth most populated city in the world. You can view the growth of India's cities on the Hindustan Times map of India’s 50 Most Populous Cities. This map shows the 50 most populous cities in 2011 and tracks how they have grown since 1901. The map includes a timeline which allows you to view
11 mai 2017
15:50
Beautiful Trash Route Mapping
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Hopefully you'll find the design of this data visualization more stimulating than the actual data itself. Beautiful Trash is a mapped visualization of the daily trash routes of the Cincinnati Department of Public Services. The map is very useful if you live in Cincinnati and want to know what day your garbage will be collected. Otherwise you might still be interested in the map's beautiful
10:48
The Election Dot Map
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In just under a month's time the UK will hold yet another general election. After the last UK election hexagonal grid maps seemed to be the most popular way to visualize the results. The use of hexagon grids helps to overcome the problems of political districts being based on equal population areas and not on equal geographical areas. Using hexagon grids stops an election map being visually
10 mai 2017
18:30
Where You Live & When You'll Die
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Geography is not the biggest factor in determining how long you can expect to live. However where you live in America can effect your life expectancy by up to twenty years. Being born in the USA already puts you at a disadvantage to people born in the 30 countries (such as Chile, Costa Rica & South Korea) which have a higher life expectancy than the United States. If you are then unfortunate
09 mai 2017
18:30
Migration Flow in the USA
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Texas is the most popular destination for Californians moving out of the Golden State. The love that Californians have for Texas is reciprocated. California is actually the most popular destination for Texans moving out of state. An interactive map by Oregon State University allows you to see which states are the most popular destinations for Americans moving house. The US Migration Flow Map
16:30
America's Deadliest Roads
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America's most dangerous highway is the US-1 in Florida. According to Geotab it has the highest number of road fatalities & fatal crashes (adjusted for average daily traffic counts) of any highway in the United States. The section of US Route 1 located in Florida has had 1,079 fatalities in the last ten years. You can find out the most dangerous roads in each state on Geotab's new The Most
08 mai 2017
17:30
Gentrification in London & New York
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According to CityLab Greenpoint & Williamsburg, Bushwick, Central Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Chinatown and Lower East Side are five New York neighborhoods currently experiencing gentrification. CityLab teamed up with Esri to map New York City Comptroller data. This data compares economic and demographic profiles of New York neighborhoods in 2000 and 2015. In Mapping the Modern
11:43
French Presidential Election Maps
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77 years after being invaded by Nazi Germany over one third of votes cast in a French Presidential election went to a fascist. We have to ask ... 'why'? Results of the French presidential election reveal the same geographical split which emerged in the first round vote for the president. This geographical split reveals that Le Pen is most popular in the north-east of France and along the
06 mai 2017
18:30
Stress Free Bike Maps
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Montgomery County in Maryland has created a stress frees route planner for cyclists. The Bikeway Stress Levels map shows you the most and least stressful streets for cycling in the county. It can also plan a route for you that avoids the most stressful roads. To create the map the Montgomery County Planning Department rated every single road in the county based on how stressful it is for
05 mai 2017
16:30
May the Fourth Be With You!
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away ... there was a map. The Star Wars Galaxy is a huge 3d WebGL map of the entire fictional galaxy from George Lucas' series of Star Wars films. The map includes 3d models of all the planets, moons and death stars that feature in the popular movies. When the map loads you should press the play button in the bottom left-hand corner of the map to set out
04 mai 2017
18:30
Global Real-Time Animated Transit Maps
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There are lots of localized transit maps which show the real-time location of buses, trains and other modes of transport in towns and cities around the world. Travic, on the other hand, has always had global ambitions. The Travic map provides animated maps of over 700 transit systems around the world. Livemap24 has similar global ambitions. Using Livemap24 you can zoom-in on locations around
14:55
Medieval Digital Maps
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The Oxford Outremer Map is a thirteenth-century map of Israel and Palestine. The map also encompasses parts of modern day Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan. The map seems to depict the region sometime between 1229 and 1244, when Christians had control of Jerusalem. The map itself was probably built to aide European pilgrims to Jerusalem. The Fordham Medieval Digital Projects has
02 mai 2017
20:30
Changes to the Black Marble
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NASA's new composite satellite map of the Earth shows the distribution of artificial lights around the world. The so called 'Black Marble' map of the Earth is made up of the best cloud-free satellite images of each land mass captured during 2016. The new Black Marble map can also be compared with the last major satellite map that was created to show the Earth at night, released by NASA in 2012
18:30
Make Your Own Animated Wind Map
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Earth Nullschool is one of the greatest interactive maps of all time. It is both an awesome technical achievement and a beautiful visualization of worldwide weather. Now you too can create your own global interactive animated wind map. WebGL Wind is a plug-in library for Mapbox GL which can create an animated mapped visualization of wind conditions around the world. The map uses wind data from
15:30
How Well Traveled Are You?
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Have you traveled as much of the world as the Queen of England? My guess is that unless you have a commonwealth of countries and a massive royal yacht then the answer is "Probably not!". You can find out with the How Adventurous Are You? interactive scratch map. Just click on all of the countries that you have visited around the world and the scratch map will reveal how much of the world that
01 mai 2017
18:30
The Global Atlas of World Trade
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You can now explore how trade operates around the world on a new global resource trade database, which includes 20 million points of data on global trade spanning 270 countries and 1,300 commodities since 2000. The online database also allows you to map the trade flow of individual commodities around the world. Using Chatham House's resourcetrade.earth you can track and visualize how natural
16:11
Mapping Borneo's Deforestation Disaster
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In 1973 three quarters of Borneo was covered in tropical forest. Since 1973 over one third of that forest has been lost due to industrial logging and the spread of industrial oil palm and pulpwood plantations. The Atlas of Deforestation and Industrial Plantations in Borneo shows where Borneo's tropical forests have been lost and the incredible scale of this continuing deforestation. The
29 avril 2017
18:30
Live Traffic with Mapbox
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You can now add live traffic conditions to your Mapbox Maps. Mapbox Studio users now have access to two new preset map styles - both of which show live traffic conditions. The two traffic condition styles are called Traffic Day and Traffic Night. Traffic Day shows traffic conditions on top of a light streets basemap while Traffic Night shows traffic on top of a dark streets basemap. You can
28 avril 2017
18:30
The Leaflet Flowmap Layer
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Sarah Bellum's Canvas Flowmap Layer is a popular ArcGIS JavaScript API library which allows you to map objects flowing from one location to another. It is now also available as a custom map layer for the Leaflet JavaScript mapping library. Like the original ArcGIS flowmap layer Leaflet.Canvas-Flowmap-Layer uses Bezier curves to visualize the movement of objects from one location to another on
11:25
The /r/Place Atlas
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On April 1st Reddit uploaded a 1,000 x 1,000 pixel canvas to the /r/place subreddit. The canvas was blank except for the message: "There is an empty canvas. You may place a tile upon it, but you must wait to place another. Individually you can create something. Together you can create something more". Reddit users could select one pixel on the canvas and fill it in with any color from a 16-bit
27 avril 2017
19:30
The Ever Changing World at Night
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The lights are going on all over India. A lot of them. If you compare NASA's new nighttime map of the Earth with the 2012 map you can see where in the world electric lighting has grown and where it has fallen over the last four years. India stands out as a country that has seen a huge increase in night lights, Two weeks ago NASA released a new composite map showing the Earth at night. The so
16:30
The Global Press Freedom Map
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Over the last twelve months the United States has fallen two places in the World Press Freedom Index. In explaining this fall Reporters Without Borders point to Donald's Trump's war with the media and his declaration that the press are the 'enemy of the American people'. While the USA has dropped two places (to 43rd) Norway has risen two places to become the top ranked country in the world for
14:30
The View from the Top of the World
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An Eye at the Summit is a planned expedition to climb the Baruntse mountain in the Khumbu region of eastern Nepal. In October of this year a team of French mountain climbers will begin a 35 day expedition to ascend the Méra Peak (6,476 m), reach the summit of Baruntse (7,129 m) and finally climb Lobuche Est (6,120 m). The Baruntse climb has been organized in order to raise funds for the

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