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15 février 2019
20:00
Do You Speak the Queen's English?
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The most popular interactive page on the New York Times website in 2013 was How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk. This interactive feature asked readers to answer questions about the words they use and how they pronounce them. From the answers given to these language questions the NYT was able to create an interactive map showing where the reader was from in the United States. Now the New York
18:00
America's 2018 Oil Spills
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On average there were around 11 oils spills a month in the United States during 2018. The largest oil spill was in April in Superior, Wisconsin. 11 people were injured in the incident when a storage tank exploded. You can view all the 137 oil spills that occurred in the United States during 2018 on Resource Watch's interactive map. The 2018 Oil Spills Map uses data from NOAA to plot the
12:30
Mapping Asia's Most Powerful Countries
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According to the Lowy Institute the USA is the most powerful country in Asia. I'm not sure I agree that the United States is in Asia but I'm not going to argue that it exercises a lot of influence in the continent. According to the Institute's Asia Power Index the next most powerful country in Asia is China. The Asia Power Index ranks 25 Asian countries and territories in terms of their power
14 février 2019
20:30
The Best Brewery Road Trip Ever
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If you are tired of the usual bog standard Saturday night pub crawl and you want to take on something a little more ambitious then you need Flowing Data's Brewery Road Trip. This map provides you with the shortest possible route that takes in all the best American breweries. If you undertake this mega journey then you will visit all 71 American breweries in RateBeer's list of the top 100
18:00
A Strip Map of Mars
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In 1675 John Ogilby published Britannia, a series of strip maps of roads in England and Wales. In 2019 the New York Times also published a strip map. Only this strip map shows the journey of a robot on Mars. On Wednesday NASA announced that the Mars Opportunity rover was no longer working. In June Opportunity went into hibernation during a dust storm on Mars. It was hoped that after the
15:40
The UK's Most Romantic Streets
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There are 168 Love Lanes in Great Britain. You can view them all on Esri Valentine's Day interactive map, Britain's Most Romantic Roads. The Esri map has 1,453 romantic streets in total. As well as showing the location of all 168 Love Lanes Esri's map includes a Kissing Tree Lane in Stratford-upon-Avon, a Partnership Way in Blackburn and a Heart’s Delight Road in Kent. The toponym 'Love Lane'
13 février 2019
20:00
The Weather Forecast for 2080
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In the year 2080 the climate in Washington D.C. will resemble the current climate experienced in the state of Mississippi. Portland will experience a climate similar to California's current climate. And Los Angeles will have a climate which resembles present day Las Palmas in Mexico. You can find out what kind of climate your city can expect in 2080 on the University of Maryland's new
18:05
1.4 Million New York Collisions
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Times Square witnessed more pedestrian injuries from motor vehicle collisions between 2012 and 2019 than any other location in New York. The most cyclists injured during that period was on Delancey Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. You can explore more motor vehicle collision trends in New York on the Motor Vehicle Collisions Map. The Motor Vehicle Collisions Map uses New York Police
12:51
Delhi - A City Born of Partition
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After the partition of India in 1947 half a million Hindu and Sikh refugees from Pakistan arrived in Delhi. The arrival of half a million extra citizens changed Delhi for ever. In fact the impact of their arrival on the city itself can be observed by comparing the map of Delhi in 1942 to the map of Delhi in 1956. Delhi - 1942 vs 1956 allows you to directly compare a street map of Delhi in 1942
12 février 2019
20:30
Making Building Footprint Posters
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I have been inspired by Maptime's Street Patterns tool for making street pattern posters to make my own building footprint posters. Maptime's Street Patterns is a wizard for making map posters from street patterns which can be found at different locations around the world. The tool uses data from OpenStreetMap to create small circular images consisting of just the street map of your chosen
18:00
Mapping American Debt
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Medical debt affects many Americans. Nearly 20% of Americans have delinquent medical debt on their credit reports. Even those with health insurance in America can still be burdened with huge medical debts. In fact around 60% of those with medical debt have health insurance. The Urban Institute's Debt in America visualizes medical debt levels in every county in the USA. The map allows you to
15:30
How Green is London?
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The Mayor of London has released an interactive map which visualizes London's green infrastructure. The map shows where Londoner's have good or poor access to open green spaces, such as parks, gardens, trees and rivers. The tool is designed to highlight where there is more and less need for investment in London's green infrastructure. The Green Infrastructure Focus interactive map can be used
11 février 2019
22:30
Sydney No Harbour Bridge
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DX Lab's Pano-scope allows you to view some of the vintage historic panoramic photographs in the New South Wales State Library Collection. The library owns historical panoramic photographs taken in Sydney and elsewhere in New South Wales dating back as early as 1876. Pano-scope is a wonderful way to explore the NSW of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It allows you to see how
20:00
To the Kuiper Belt & Beyond
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Josh Worth's If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel is a scaled model of the Solar System. The model takes you on a 5,906,510,212 km journey from the sun out as far as Pluto. Luckily for us in this model each pixel is 3474.8 km, so we can cut down the journey time a little. If you haven't got the time to travel to Pluto today then perhaps I can interest you instead in a quick journey to Mars. How Far is
18:00
How to Make Street Pattern Posters
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Maptime Amsterdam #5: Street Patterns is a great tool for making map posters of the city street patterns which can be found at different locations around the world. The tool uses data from OpenStreetMap to create small circular images consisting of just the street map of your chosen location. You can see an example of the map images that Street Patterns outputs in my little Tokyo map above.
09 février 2019
18:06
The 8-Bit Atlas
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The 8-bit Map of the USA is an animated map of the United States in the style of a vintage 8-bit computer game. This pictorial map features 8-bit representations of popular tourist destinations from across the country. The 8-Bit Map of the USA is just an animated GIF so you can't actually zoom in on areas of the map. If you want to explore locations around the world in a little more detail (as
08 février 2019
18:38
The Polarization of Pennsylvania
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In Pennsylvania, Polarized The Inquirer takes a closer look at the 2018 mid-term elections to show how politics in Pennsylvania is becoming more and more polarized. In its article The Inquirer uses a number of map visualization techniques to explain how November's election results reveal the state's growing divisions. As you progress through The Philly's story the map constantly updates to
16:37
The Bike Paths of Europe
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Roman Kyrychenko has used OpenStreetMap data to create a map showing all of Europe's cycle paths. The map provides an interesting overview of Europe's cycling infrastructure and a reasonable guide to which countries in Europe have the most developed bike path networks. The European Map of Cycle Paths is only a static map but the Random Forest blog has posted it as a large image so you can get
07 février 2019
20:30
Space Debris - the Interactive Map
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Satellites is a THREE.js visualization of the man-made debris which is currently floating in orbit around planet Earth. This 3D globe shows 10,000 orbiting objects that are tracked by the U.S. Space Surveillance Network. There are currently more than 20,000 objects, mostly rocket bodies, debris, and satellites in orbit about our planet. This map simulates around 10,000 of those objects orbiting
18:00
Mapping Chinese New Year
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Every year around 2.8 million trips are made by Chinese people traveling home to spend the Chinese New Year with their families. Thanks to Baidu maps we are able to see when, where and how they traveled. Baidu's mobile map application has over 350 million active users and receives over 10 billion location requests every day. This provides Baidu with a unique insight into the movements of the
06 février 2019
20:30
It's a Watercolor World
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Watercolor World is busy painting the world in oils. Sorry - not oils - watercolours. The site is creating a free online database of documentary watercolour paintings which were painted before 1900. You can explore this database of paintings for yourself by the subject matters depicted or by the locations pictured using the Watercolour World interactive map. The interactive map allows you to
18:00
The New York Eviction Map
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There were over 19,000 people evicted in New York City in 2018. The Acting Public Advocate of the New York City Council has released a number of data visualizations of New York's residential evictions. Evictions: NYC residents are affected by evictions every day allows you to explore New York's eviction rates by year, zip code, or district. If you select individual markers on the interactive
13:47
The Elastic Railway Map
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Travel time is often represented using an isochrone map. On an isochrone map lines can be drawn to connect points to show areas which can be reached from one starting point in an equal travel time. A printed isochrone map is normally restricted to visualizing the travel times from one specific location. For example Francis Galton's Iscochronic Passage Chart, the first known isochrone map,
05 février 2019
18:00
The Irish Border - the Movie
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Yesterday I posted a short tutorial on creating animated movies using aerial imagery from Google Maps. Today someone was kind enough to direct me towards Keith O’Faoláin's animated movie of the Irish border, Oh Border Where Art Thou. One result of the UK's exit from the European Union could be the reintroduction of a hard border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Oh Border
13:37
Women's Cultural Contributions to Paris
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In 1971 Linda Nochlin published an article in ArtNews called "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?". In the essay she addressed some of the reasons why female artists are so often overlooked. The creators of Le Matrimoine Parisien also believe that women artists have been ignored and rendered invisible by society. They have therefore decided to make the female artists of Paris more
04 février 2019
20:30
Who Won the Super Bowl of Google Search?
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Browsing Twitter yesterday, during the game, I had the impression that most viewers wanted neither side to win Super Bowl 2019. It turns out that I was wrong and there was a distinct east-west split in support for the two Super Bowl teams. Simon Rogers has used Google Search data to visualize the top team searched for, between the L.A. Rams and the New England Patriots, in every U.S. county.
18:00
Make Your Own Google Maps Movies
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Kevin McGloughlin's stunning video Epoch was made by editing together thousands of Google Maps aerial images. The video was obviously inspired by Páraic McGloughlin video Arena (Kevin and Páraic are brothers). Both these movies took months to create. The brothers spent hours & hours scouring Google Maps searching for the thousands of aerial views that make up their movies. I'm going to show you
13:41
Britain's Most Dangerous Roads
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The most persistently highest risk road in the UK is the A254 between Margate and Ramsgate in Kent. The A254 isn't the only dangerous A road in the UK. In fact according to the Dangerous Roads 2018 map all of Britain's top ten most dangerous roads are A roads. On average every day 73 people were killed or seriously injured on Britain’s roads. during 2018. You can see where Britain's most
03 février 2019
23:32
The Great Australian Road Trip
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Australia's Highway 1 is the longest highway in the world. It is around 9,000 miles long and circumnavigates the whole country (which I guess makes it the world's longest roundabout as well). If you've ever wondered how long it would take to travel around Australia's coastline, using the world's longest highway, on the world's greatest road-trip, then you should refer to this Esri story map How
02 février 2019
20:14
The Road to the Super Bowl Stadium
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Esri has used historical satellite imagery from World Imagery (Wayback) to show the construction of the Mercedes-Benz Stadium over time. On Sunday the stadium will host Super Bowl LIII between the Los Angeles Rams and the New England Patriots. The Mercedes-Benz Stadium was opened in 2017 and replaced the Georgia Dome. Esri's the Road to Super Bowl LIII uses historical satellite imagery to track
18:00
Chicago on Ice
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Last week temperatures in Chicago fell as low as -30 degrees as the polar vortex affected temperatures across large areas of the United States. According to NOAA this cold weather has caused nearly 50% of Lake Michigan to freeze over. Asa Strong has used Planet to create a side by side comparison of Chicago as seen from the air in December and in January. The Chicago on Ice comparison consists
01 février 2019
20:30
Cities Growing Wider and Not Taller
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Some of the fastest growing cities in the world are in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. These rapidly expanding cities are often in regions with few financial resources to manage urban growth. The result of this fast expansion is that instead of increasing population density by growing upwards through taller buildings these cities often expand outwards. This unplanned rapid expansion can
18:00
Gentrification & White Privilege in Boston
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Gentrification in Boston - green tracts have seen rises in number of graduates & rental costs The Boston Neighborhood Change Interactive Map is a new interactive visualization tool for exploring demographic, social, and economic changes in the city of Boston. The map uses a range of historical census and American Community Survey data to provide a number of insights into how the city of Boston
13:24
The Book Map Quiz
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The writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce started an interesting discussion on Twitter recently about novels (and other books) which include fictional maps. Most of you reading this will be familiar with the map from the Lord of the Rings and The Game of Thrones. Frank's Twitter thread also discusses the role of maps in Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle, in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and
31 janvier 2019
20:30
Mapping the Polar Vortex
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It is quite cold in America at the moment. For example in Park Rapids, Minnesota temperatures have fallen as low as -42F (-41C). Joshua Stevens created the above visualization of the polar vortex, which is causing the extreme weather in the USA at the moment. The map uses seven days of GEOS-5 NASA EOSDIS Worldview data to show how the polar vortex has affected air temperature above the United
18:00
500 Years of the Russian Empire
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Borders of Russia 1462-2018 is an interactive map which shows the political boundaries of Russia ever since the 15th Century. The map visualizes how Russia has shrunk and grown over the centuries as different regions and countries have joined or left its empire. You can view Russia's borders on the map for any year of its history by selecting a year from the map timeline. In the years where
13:07
Rising Rents in Germany
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On average the cost of renting a property in Germany rose by 4.8% last year. They have also risen by a total of 13.2% in the last five years. However the level by which rents were increased depends a lot on where you live in the country. In Berlin rents have actually increased by over 25% in the last five years. Zeit Online has released an interactive map which shows the average cold rent (no
30 janvier 2019
22:30
Flying Why Tesla Burns
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The Washington Post has managed to get hold of the flight records of Elon Musk's private jet. They have used this data to create an impressive animated map showing how the Tesla chief jetted around the world in 2018. The Post's animated map is accompanied by a breakdown of Tesla's recent poor fortunes. In What 150,000 miles in a private jet reveal about his ‘excruciating’ year the Post makes a
20:30
Every Building in Toronto
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MapTO has mapped Every Building in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. The map provides an interesting insight into historical land use and planning trends in the Greater Toronto area. The MapTO building footprint map includes a guided tour of some of the most interesting patterns which can be found in Toronto's urban landscape. If you use the forward and back buttons the map will zoom to
18:00
The World Corruption Index
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The United States has now fallen out of the list of the top 20 'cleanest' countries. Every year Transparency International ranks the world's countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption. The United States lost four points since last year and has dropped out of the top 20 countries on the CPI for the first time since 2011. The report says that the United States is currently
29 janvier 2019
20:30
Burning California - 123 Years of Wildfire
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Earlier this month the Huffington Post used data from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to map out more than a century of California wildfires. Capital Public Radio has now used the same data to create their own interactive map. Both the Huffington Post map and Capital Public Radio's A History of California Wildfires map visualize the perimeters of all the wildfires in
18:00
The Interactive Map of Chinese
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Hanzi, the written language of Chinese, has tens of thousands of separate characters. Many of those characters are not widely used. However, to be truly literate in written Chinese, you need a knowledge of at least three to four thousand characters. The Hanzi Universe is an interesting experiment in mapping 8,615 Chinese characters according to their visual similarity. The Structural Similarity
12:24
The Amsterdam Tree Map
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Amsterdam is one of Europe's greenest cities. There are around 400,000 trees in Amsterdam. Around 75,000 of those trees are elm trees. You can see the location of all those elm trees and Amsterdam's other trees on the city's Tree Map. The City of Amsterdam's Tree Map is an interactive map of the trees maintained by the city authorities. The map shows the location, the height and the species of
28 janvier 2019
20:30
Commuting in the USA
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The average American will spend over one year of their life commuting to work. For most Americans that year will be spent sitting alone in a car. More than three-quarters of American commuters drive to work alone. CityLab has used 2017 commuting data from the American Community Survey to map how Americans get to work. The Great Divide in How Americans Commute to Work includes a number of maps
18:00
New Jersey's Population Mountains
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New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the USA. However not all parts of the state are as densely populated as others. Three New Jersey towns appear on the list of the top 50 most densely populated places in the world. At the opposite extreme the town of Walpack has a population density of less than one person per square mile. NJ.com has created a 3D map which shows the number of
13:20
The National Dutch Bird Count
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The sparrow remains the most common bird to be seen in Dutch gardens. Every January tens of thousands of Dutch people take part in a National Garden Bird Count. Since 2001 citizen scientists across the Netherlands have recorded the different species of birds visiting their gardens in the last weekend of January. This year's count took place over this last weekend and the results are already in.
27 janvier 2019
16:30
Mapping the Holocaust
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Between 1941 and 1945 the Nazis murdered six million European Jews. This amounted to two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe. The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies has identified the locations of 1,096 ghettos created by the Germans in Nazi-occupied Europe. They have also identified the locations of 868 concentration camps. In Mapping the Holocaust PBS
25 janvier 2019
20:30
125 Million US Buildings in 3D
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note - screenshot is of Cesiumjs not the new U.S. cityGML data Open City Model is a project which has been working on creating cityGML data for every building in the United States. The first release of Open City Model is now live, with the 3D building data for 125 million buildings in the USA. You can grab the open cityGML data for the United States on the project's GitHub page. On Open City
18:00
Helsinki in 3D
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The 3D Model of Helsinki is about to be updated with new imagery. Currently the city's 3D map is based on satellite imagery from 2015. Over the summer of 2017 an airplane captured 50,000 aerial photographs of the city. Now ten dedicated computers have turned those 50,000 aerial photographs into a new and improved photo realistic 3D model of the city. The CityGML data of the city's 3D model will
15:25
How Well Do You Know the UK?
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Leeds Live has a fun little geography quiz to brighten up your Friday. How Well Do You Know the UK is a Leaflet.js based quiz which asks you to pinpoint the location of ten UK towns and cities. How Well Do You Know the UK follows the well-known format of most interactive map games. For each question you are asked to point to the location of a town on a blank map. You are then scored based on
24 janvier 2019
20:30
Who's Listening to Hikaru Utadu?
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#HikaruUtada #(Songs) is an interactive globe which is tracking where people are listening to and commenting on the music of Hikaru Utada around the world. Hikaru Utadu is a Japanese-American singer, who is one of Japan's all time top-selling recording artists. The success of Hikaru Utada’s latest single 'Face My Fears' can be followed live on this interactive globe. The globe uses 3d bar
18:00
Earthquake Activity on a WebGL Globe
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Nine Point Five is a WebGL visualization of earthquakes around the world from 2000 to 2010. It shows, and allows you to explore, U.S. Geological Survey data of ten years worth of earthquakes on top of an interactive globe. The globe includes a timeline which allows you to filter the results shown on the globe by date range and by the magnitude of the quakes. Nine Point Five lists the
11:58
Where the Europeans Hate Europe
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While the British argue among themselves about the least catastrophic way to leave the European Union, the rest of Europe just continues to quietly hate the idea of European integration. You can see for yourself where Europeans don't like the concept of the European Union on an interactive map created by the European Commission. The Geography of EU Discontent maps the level of support for
23 janvier 2019
20:30
The Average Temperature World Map
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Following yesterday's beautiful Average Earth from Space 2018 interactive map I went hunting for a map of average temperatures around the world. The trophy I bagged was Temperature Sensei's Temperature and Weather Conditions of the World. Temperature Sensei's Temperature and Weather Conditions of the World includes a map of the average temperatures in countries around the world. It also
18:00
What Powers America?
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Coal is still the main source of energy for the USA. However, despite President Trump's campaign promises, the use of coal continues to fall. The consumption of coal during 2018 is expected to be the lowest in 39 years. You can explore America's power supply on the U.S. Power Plants map. U.S. Power Plants is an interactive map showing the locations, size and type of America's electric power
13:23
One Hundred Views of Edo
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Utagawa Hiroshige was one of Japan's finest ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world) artists. Hiroshige is probably most well-known for his series of woodcut prints, such as The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo and Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces. You can view some of the views from these three series of prints on the Ukiyo-e Map. This interactive map
22 janvier 2019
20:30
Washington's Environmental Hazards Map
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The Washington State Department of Health has released an interactive map which shows details about the environmental and public health risks in every census tract in Washington state.The Washington Tracking Network allows you to see the level of environmental-health hazards across the state and to view local socio-economic details in every census area. Using the map menu you can select to view
18:00
Average Earth 2018
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Johannes Kroeger has created an interactive map which shows the average cloud cover across the world in 2018. The map shows the medium cloud cover experienced at every location on Earth based on information taken from daily satellite images. To create the Average Earth from Space 2018 interactive map Johannes analyzed the per-pixel median color in the daily images of the satellite-based Soumi
11:02
Where's Everyone Moving in Holland?
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Relocations 2017 is an interactive map which shows where people relocated to & from in the Netherlands during 2017. The map uses data from Statistics Netherlands to show how many people moved between different Dutch municipalities. If you hover over a city on the map all the flow lines to and from that city are highlighted on the map, showing where the city's residents relocated to & from in
21 janvier 2019
20:30
The Little Sports Atlas
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How the rest of the world loves to laugh at baseball's 'World Series'. A competition which is only played by teams in North America. However it turns out that the rest of the world is wrong. Baseball is in fact a sport that is played in lots of countries around the world, including Cuba, Japan and countries throughout Europe. I know this because Zeit Online has been busy creating world maps for
18:00
Mapping Shrinking Glaciers
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The Rhône Glacier in the Swiss Alps is the source of the Rhône river. Over the last 120 years the glacier has shrunk by a very large extent. In recent years, during the summer months, the glacier has been covered with UV-resistant fleecy white blankets. These cover about 5 acres of the shrinking glacier and are believed to reduce its melting by up to 70%. You can view how far the Rhône Glacier
15:30
London's Bike Sharing Network
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London Bicycle Hires 2017 is an interactive map of around 1.5 million trips made on the city's Santander Cycle Hire network. The map visualizes the number of trips started from individual docking stations on the network and the most popular journeys taken between different stations. As you might expect the most busy individual docking stations in London's bike sharing network are the city's
20 janvier 2019
22:00
Hawaii's Sea Level Rise Map
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The islands of Hawai'i are particularly vulnerable to sea level rise. It is believed that 6,500 structures and 19,800 people in Hawai'i could be exposed to chronic flooding within the next 60 years. The Hawai'i Sea Level Rise Viewer has been released to show which areas of the state will be most affected by rising sea levels. The map allows users to see which areas could be exposed to coastal
18 janvier 2019
18:00
Illinois' Lost Bet on Gambling Machines
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ProPublica has been investigating how the state of Illinois is having to pay out for its bet on legalizing video gambling. Around ten years ago the state changed the law to allow video slot and poker machines. The state now has more of these machines outside casinos than any other state. Illinois' lawmakers assumed that the legalization of video gaming would raise huge amounts of tax dollars
12:06
How Long Since You Saw the Sun?
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The citizens of France have been deprived of one hour's worth of sun (compared to the average) in 2019. However some citizens of France have been denied far more hours of sun than others. For example the residents of Rouen have already lost three whole days of sun compared to the average year. Franceinfo has mapped out the amount of sun recorded in France between January 1st and January 16th.
17 janvier 2019
18:52
Taking the Measure of America
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Measure of America has developed the American Human Development Index to measure the well-being of Americans in a number of different areas, including health, education, and income. You can explore these well-being scores at the county, state and congressional district level using the Measure of America interactive map. Mapping America allows you to view choropleth maps visualizing the
16:00
Mapping London's Trees & Tree Cover
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The London Tree Canopy Cover interactive map provides a high resolution view of tree canopy cover in the Greater London area. The map was created by a European Space Agency funded project called Curio Canopy. Curio Canopy uses machine learning based techniques to identify tree canopy cover from ESA satellite imagery. The project also uses crowd-sourcing to get citizen science volunteers to
16 janvier 2019
20:30
Political Donations in the Midterm Elections
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Money for California's congressional candidates in the midterm elections came from all over the USA. The Mercury News has mapped out every city where the Democratic or Republican candidates raised at least $10,000 in the seven congressional seats flipped by the Democrats in November. The interactive map in From Moscow (Idaho) to Jupiter (Florida), follow the money that flowed into California’s
18:00
Mapping the Ebola Outbreak
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In the last six months there have been 600 cases of Ebola in the Congo and there have been over 400 deaths. It is now the second largest outbreak of the deadly disease in Africa. Reuters has used the story map format to tell the story of the disease from its discovery near the Ebola river in 1976 to the current time. In Africa, a Virus Spreads Reuters shows where major outbreaks of the disease
12:53
Brexit & the Irish Border
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One of the major considerations in the Brexit negotiations between the EU and the UK is the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. This is the only land border between the UK and the EU. When free movement and free trade between the EU and the UK ends there may need to be a return to a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic. The 1998 Belfast Agreement ended
15 janvier 2019
21:00
Mapping Austin's Dockless Journeys
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The Austin Transportation Department has released the city's Dockless Vehicle Trips dataset. This data records where and when the city's dockless bikes and scooters are used. The data is updated everyday and includes records of more than two million dockless trips. You can access and use the data yourself using the Austin Dockless API. You can also access and explore the data using the Dockless
18:00
Modeling Crisis Migration Routes
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Visual Perspective has developed a model which uses different factors to predict the likely migration routes people might take away from an area in a time of crisis. To explain its model and how the model works Visual Perspective has released an interactive map which provides a demonstration of the model in action in the Yemeni city of Dhama. In Predicting Migration in Response to Crisis Visual
12:02
How Will Your MP Vote on May's Deal?
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Today MP's in the UK parliament will finally have a 'meaningful vote' on the European Union Withdrawal Agreement, commonly known as 'May's Deal'. If the MP's vote against the deal it will have serious consequences for the UK's withdrawal from the European Union. What those serious consequences will be are uncertain. If the Prime Minister, Theresa May, loses the vote she will then have just
14 janvier 2019
20:30
White Supremacist Flyering in the US
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For a number of years the Southern Poverty Law Center's interactive Hate Map has tracked the growing number of hate groups operating in the United States. Now the SPLC has also mapped out where white supremacists have been flying banners or posting flyers in the United States. The Map of White Supremacist Flyering in the U.S. provides an overview of the number of white supremacist flyering in
18:00
Mapping America's Protected Land
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Around 14% of land in the United States is protected. This includes more than three billion acres of land managed by nearly 15,100 agencies and nongovernmental organizations, consisting of 200,000 separate parks and protected areas. The Protected Lands Database of the U.S. (PAD-US) records all land areas which are held in public trust in the United States. This includes public lands managed by
11:49
Who Owns England - Part III
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For the last two years Who Owns England has been diligently trying to discover who owns what land in England, Scotland and Wales. This is quite hard because the UK government doesn't want its citizens to know who owns their country. This task is also complicated by the fact that 15% of land in England & Wales is unregistered. That is why Who Owns England has now released Where is the
10:30
100 Years of Californian Wildfires
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In the last 123 years the equivalent of 33.8% of California has burned in wildfires. The Huffington Post has used data from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s Fire and Resource Assessment Program to map out more than a century of California wildfires. This Is What More Than A Century Of Wildfires In California Looks Like includes an interactive map which visualizes the
12 janvier 2019
21:00
Solving San Francisco's Housing Crisis
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San Francisco is generally perceived to be in a housing crisis. Many reasons are given for this crisis. One reason could be that rent controlled properties are becoming less affordable. Another reason is that home prices in the city have far outrun inflation for over a decade. Underlying both of these reasons is the fact that housing demand far outweighs supply in San Francisco. In San
18:00
Animated Population Cartograms
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In December Engaging Data created an interesting animated map to show the 'true size' of countries around the world. The Real Country Sizes Shown on Mercator Projection map allows you to switch between countries as they appear using the Mercator projection and their 'true size'. Engaging Data has now created a similar map which scales each U.S. state by the size of its population. Press the '
11 janvier 2019
20:00
3D Sketch Maps
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Raluca Nicola has written up a tutorial which shows you how to create a 3D map which has the feel of a sketched drawing. Sketch Your City with ArcGIS API for Javascript walks you through the process of turning a web scene into an impressive three dimensional sketch style interactive map. Before creating your own sketched 3D maps you can explore some of the cities already mapped by Racula.
18:00
Mapping America's Falling Fertility
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Yesterday the CDC announced that fertility rates in the USA had reached a thirty year low. In fact only two states, South Dakota and Utah, currently have fertility rates high enough to maintain current levels of the working population. The U.S. needs a total fertility rate of 2,100 births per 1,000 women in order to replace its population over time, without recourse to immigration. The fertility
10 janvier 2019
22:00
Mapping Superdiveristy
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Superdiversity is a new website exploring the rise of super-diverse cities around the world. A number of major cities have populations which are approaching 'majority-minority' status, where the percentage of people who are minorities is greater than the majority ethnic/racial population. Vancouver, Sydney and Auckland are three cities which have populations of whom around 40% were born
20:00
The Chicago Parking Ticket Map
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The Chicago Parking Ticket Map is a Bokeh powered visualization of Chicago's parking ticket data. This interactive map allows you to explore where and when parking tickets were issued in the city from the beginning of 2013 through to May 2018. The map has a number of options which allow you to filter the data by time of day, day of the week, by type of violation and by date range. If you
18:00
The History of Rising Seas
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Since 1933 the UK's National Oceanography Centre has been maintaining the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL), a repository for tide heights around the world. The PSMSL provides an invaluable guide to long-term sea level change across the globe. CORRECTIV has used the PSMSL data to map out the history of sea levels around the world since 1985. Steigende Meere includes an animated map
09 janvier 2019
21:00
Where is it safe to travel?
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The Travel Map is a useful tool for anyone who is planning to travel abroad. The interactive map provides travel advice and vaccine recommendations for countries around the world. It can also tell you about the prevalence of different vaccine-preventable diseases across the globe. The Travel Map is very simple to use. Countries are colored on the map by how safe they are to visit. If you
18:00
Where Federal Workers Aren't Being Paid
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Trump's government shutdown is affecting federal employees across the country. The Washington Post has mapped out exactly how many employees are affected in every state. The WaPo's Where Federal Agents Aren't Getting Paid map reveals that DC has the highest concentration of federal workers. Outside of DC the state with the highest percentage of federal workers is Alaska, closely followed by
15:00
Mapping UK Commuting Flows
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Commute-flow is an interactive map which reveals the commuting flow patterns for every area in England & Wales. The map uses origin-destination data from the 2011 census to show where people commute to and from in their daily work lives. If you select an area on the map you can view where people commute to for work. If you click on the burger menu icon you can switch to show the incoming
08 janvier 2019
20:00
Where Are the Richest American Counties?
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Loudoun County in Virginia is the U.S. county with the highest average wage earners. The median household income in Loudoun County is $125,672. That is over twice as much as the American median household income, which the U.S. Census Bureau reported in September 2017 as being $59,039. Recently there have been a number of mapped visualizations of data from the American Community Survey (ACS).
18:00
2018 - the Year of Climate Change
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In 2018 the biggest trend in online mapping was climate change. Last year there were numerous interactive maps released designed to visualize how global warming will effect the world in the coming years. These maps visualized the future that we can now expect, including rising sea levels, rising global temperatures, and increasing air pollution. Alongside these portents of our depressing
07 janvier 2019
20:30
12 Months of Global Winds
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Reddit user anvaka has created an impressive video visualizing 12 month's of global surface winds. The 2018 Global Wind map uses GFS (global forecasting system) data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. While watching the video it is possible to spot the world's prevailing winds. There are a number of dominant wind patterns around the globe which are influenced by the
19:30
How Big is the SkyDome?
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Toronto's SkyDome stadium overlaid on Central Park Mapto has developed a neat way to show the comparative size of a building by overlaying its 3D model on top of an interactive map. The map allows you to place the 3D model on any spot in the world, allowing the user to view the building in relation to a familiar location. In the Mapto example, SkyDome Map, you can view a 3D model of Toronto's
16:30
America's Million Dollar Neighborhoods
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3.65% of American homes now cost more than one million dollars. You can find out where America's most expensive homes are located on the Million Dollar Neighborhoods map. This interactive map uses data from Trulia to show neighborhoods where the median house price has exceeded $1 million. The map uses different shades of blue to show which year the median house price in the neighborhood
05 janvier 2019
17:51
2018 Journalist Deaths
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76 journalists around the world were killed in 2018. The Committee to Protect Journalists' database includes journalists who were murdered in the last 12 months and also journalists who were killed in action (from crossfire or combat on assignment). Afghanistan, Mexico and Syria, receptively, were the three countries where the most journalists were killed in 2018. The CPJ's 2018 Map of
04 janvier 2019
20:30
The Geography of the World's Religions
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Recently Pew Research released an interactive map called How Religious is Your Country?. This map visualized how many people in each European country identify as being religious. If you were wondering which religions those European believers follow you can find out with the World Religions Map. The World Religions Map shows the most practiced religion in each country of the world. On this
18:00
The Sound Maps of the the Wild West
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Montana State University and Esri have collaborated to map Montana's varied ecosystems. The Sounds of the Wild West takes you on an audio tour of the state's prairies, mountains, parks, rivers and national parks. The Sounds of the Wild West includes four audio tours in total, Yellowstone National Park, the Crown of the Continent, the High Plains and Upper Missouri. Each ecosystem's tour
03 janvier 2019
20:00
The OpenLitterMap
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I am sure that you are aware of the huge environmental damage being caused to the world's oceans by plastic waste. One way you can try to minimize that damage is by minimizing your use of plastic. The creator of OpenLittterMap believes you can also help to minimize that damage by recording and reporting waste. The OpenLitterMap is an open mapping application that anyone can use to record and
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The Racial Dot Map of U.S. Prisons
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The University of Virginia's Racial Dot Map is one of those maps which I find myself referring to over and over again. Nearly every time I see a geographical breakdown of social and economic conditions in the USA I find myself referring to the Racial Dot Map. For example, The Opportunity Atlas allows you to see which neighborhoods in America offer children the best chance to rise out of
11:08
The BBC's Alarmist Migrant Map
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The BBC has today come under fire for misrepresenting the scale of the number of migrants who have recently attempted to enter the UK. In 2018 539 migrants were discovered trying to enter the UK on small boats. The number of migrants attempting to enter the UK in this manner has risen over the last few months. The BBC has attempted to visualize the recent rise in the number of migrants
02 janvier 2019
20:00
The 1940 Wooden Model of San Francisco
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The David Rumsey Map Collection has released an interactive map of a 1940 wooden model of San Francisco. The 1940 WPA San Francisco Model allows you to explore up close the incredible detail in this hand crafted wooden model of the city. At the end of the 1930's the Work Progress Administration in San Francisco spent three years creating a huge wooden model of the city. The completed model
17:30
Mapping Medieval Comet Sightings
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Medieval Comet Sightings is a story map exploring how comet sightings were recorded by medieval historians and used to explain subsequent unfortunate events. The map uses research by Dr Marilina Cesario which combines medieval history with astrophysics to explore how comets were understood in the Medieval period. Medieval historians often used the appearance of a comet (in hindsight) as a

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