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21 October 2019
20:00
The More Modern Plague of New York
sur Google Maps Mania

Over the last week I've become a little obsessed with Nineteenth Century temperance maps of drinking establishments in London and New York. These maps were designed to give the impression that the two cities were overrun by a plague of alcohol. The temperance maps of New York show that in the Nineteenth Century many areas of the city really were heavily populated by bars and saloons. I thought
18:00
The Modern Plague of New York
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During the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries the Temperance movement campaigned against the consumption of alcohol. The tendency of the Temperance movement to see alcohol or alcoholism as some form of social disease is apparent in maps such as the Modern Plague of London, which was created by the National Temperance Publication Depot in 1886. Almost at the same time as the National
11:12
The 2019 Swiss Election Maps
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Yesterday federal elections were held in Switzerland to elect members of both houses of the Swiss Federal Assembly. The largest party, the anti-immigrant Swiss People's Party, remained the most popular party but lost 12 seats on a -3.8% swing. All the major political parties, except for the two Green parties, saw a downturn in their vote share. The Greens gained 17 seats on a 6.1% swing (they
19 October 2019
18:00
Weather Forecast - 120,000,000 BC
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Cameron Beccario's earth animated wind map library is a fantastic way to visualize weather conditions around the globe. The library is most often used to map wind, ocean and atmospheric conditions in real-time. It has now also been used to map the climate 120 million years ago, in the Early Cretaceous. During the Early Cretaceous or the Lower Cretaceous the Earth had a very different climate
18 October 2019
16:52
The Modern Plague of London
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The Modern Plague of London is a map showing the density of pubs in central London. On this map the number of pubs in each kilometer square is represented by the size of the yellow circles. The more pubs there are in a square kilometer then the larger the size of the yellow circle. The areas with the most pubs are mostly found in Westminster and the City of London. On the 16 x 7 square
17 October 2019
15:00
The Polish Imperial Election
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On Sunday Poland held a national election. The right-wing Law and Justice Party (PiS) won a majority in the lower house of parliament (the Sejm), but lost its majority in the upper house (the Senate) to the opposition. Before looking at the maps of this week's election in Poland I want to show you a map of how modern day Poland looked in the Nineteenth Century: The Partitions of Poland 1815–
16 October 2019
20:00
Mapping California's Poisoned Wells
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California state regulators have tested 600 wells across the state for toxic chemicals. The Los Angeles Times has created an interactive map which allow you to view the safety of the water in each well. Twenty-four of the wells now have a health advisory. Hundreds of wells are contaminated across California. Find out where uses colored markers to highlight the wells where dangerous chemicals
18:00
Mapping the Natural World
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We all rely on nature for our food & water and even for the air that we breathe. These are only some of the most visible benefits that nature provides. The UN’s Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services (IPBES) believe that we all need to better understand the full value of nature in order to ensure that we take every step to protect it for sustainable use.
10:01
Mapping Cuts in School Funding
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Next year 83% of schools in England will be worse off than they were in 2015. A new interactive map from the School Cuts coalition allows you to see how your local schools' government funding for next year compares with the funding they received in 2015. On the map schools are shown using colored map markers. The lighter colored markers indicate where a schools has made a funding gain on 2015

2:38
CnG Podcast Episode 6
sur James Fee GIS Blog

So Bill and I put out another podcast. This gets a bit retro when we start talking about the shapefile going away and Blackberry maps.

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15 October 2019
18:00
2018 Global Terrorist Attacks
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The Global Terrorist Database has released its report into global terrorism trends in 2018. There were more than 9,600 terrorist attacks across the globe in 2018. More than 22,980 people were killed in those attacks. The 2018 GTD report is illustrated with a static map which shows all the terrorist attacks which occurred across the world in 2018. Although the map shows that Iraq still suffered
11:58
Parks Boost House Prices
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The UK's Office of National Statistics has carried out some interesting data analysis to determine if nearby parks increase house prices and if so by how much. The ONS used data of house prices from real-estate company Zoopla and map data from Ordnance Survey's Open Greenspace to determine if urban houses near parks and other green spaces are more expensive than houses positioned further away
14 October 2019
20:00
Birds & Animals at Risk of Extinction
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Two-thirds of birds in North America are at risk of extinction from global heating. That is 389 different species of birds. Conservation group Audobon has mapped out the North American habitats of 604 different species of birds. They then applied the latest climate models to these habitats to project how these habitats will be affected by global heating. Survival by Degrees: 389 Species on the
18:00
The Fantastic Fall Colors Map
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In Fantastic fall foliage … and where to find it the Washington Post has mapped out America's forest species data and colored these forests to show their Fall colors. The colors that forest leaves turn depends on the species of trees. Different trees turn different colors in the Fall and at different times. The Washington Post's map shows the different colors that you can expect across the
16:00
Monday's Map Game
sur Google Maps Mania

Don't start work yet! At least not until you've played How Many US Cities Can You Name? How Many US Cities Can You Name is a very simple but strangely addictive game which requires you to name as many US cities as you can. That's it! You just need to type US city names. Every city you enter will be highlighted on the map. As you add cities to the map the game keeps a running score of how many
12 October 2019
17:47
Build it and They Will Come
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From 1909 to 1970 Forbes Field was home to the Pittsburgh Pirates. This baseball park was also the first home of the Pittsburgh Steelers football team. In 1971 the park was demolished and cleared for use by the University of Pittsburgh. At some point during the first few years after its construction the Detroit Publishing Company took 5 photographs of Forbes Field which, when stitched together
11:07
Mapping the Heat of this Summer
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The BBC has used data from thousands of weather stations to map all the temperature records set in the northern hemisphere over the summer of 2019. Almost 400 locations recorded their hottest ever recorded temperatures during May-August of this year. In Hundreds of temperature records broken over summer the BBC visualizes them all on an animated map. The BBC's map animates through the summer
11 October 2019
20:00
California Wildfires and Power Outages
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Wildfire risk is once again a topic of fierce debate in California. The Pacific Gas and Electric company has cut electricity and gas to large areas of California as a preventative measure against wildfires. Because of fires being caused by trees falling on power lines PG&E has been blamed for two deadly wildfires over the past two years. In order to avoid liability for wildfires this year the
18:00
Mapping US Auto Emissions
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The New York Times has mapped out the CO2 emissions of roads across the United States. CO2 emissions in the US have been on the rise since 2013. Much of this rise has been in and around cities. The Most Detailed Map of Auto Emissions in America shows the CO2 emissions for 2017. If you click on a metro area on the map you can view how much emissions have risen in total since 1990 and how much
16:00
Chronological Maps with Flourish
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Flourish, the data visualization studio, has released a new interactive mapping format which allows you to show geographical data changing over time. The new Point Map template allows you to show points on a map over time, either by rate or cumulatively. Using the template you can show events occurring over time as points on an interactive map, which can be scaled and colored based on the data
13:42
In Search of Station Street
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In Medieval Streets and Modern Roads I hypothesized a theory that in England we largely stopped using the suffix 'Street' when naming our roads around 1800. Before the late Fifteenth Century the word 'Road' was never used for street names in England because this sense of the word only emerged in the late Sixteenth Century. Before the Sixteenth Century lots of roads were called 'Street'. My
10 October 2019
18:09
Extreme Earth
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The Globe of Extremes is an interactive 3D globe which pinpoints some of the most extreme places on Earth. Give the globe a spin and you can discover some fascinating facts about planet Earth. If you click on the orange markers on the globe you will learn about the most distant point from land, the altitude with the highest permanent human settlement and who was the first person to reach the
18:00
The Birth of an Iceberg
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The British Antarctic Survey's Halley Research Station is famous for discovering the hole in the ozone layer. The hole in the ozone layer was first discovered at Halley in 1985. Measurements of ozone have been made at Halley every year since the base was established in 1956. Unfortunately a crack in the Brunt Ice Shelf led to the station being abandoned over the winter of 2017. This evacuation
16:00
The World's Biggest Pub Crawl
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There are 339 pubs in the UK called the Red Lion. It is the most popular name for pubs. If you had a pint in every single Red Lion you would have a very serious drinking problem. But that didn't stop The Pudding from creating a Red Lion pub crawl - a 5,213 mile journey around the UK visiting all 339 Red Lions. Of course The Pudding didn't stop there. In Ye Olde Mad-Lib Pub Crawl Generator The
09 October 2019
20:00
Tracking Trump's Approval Ratings
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Every month Morning Consult maps President Trump's approval ratings. In September Trump only had a net positive approval rating in 18 states. In the other 32 states the president has a negative approval rating. All the states on the Tracking Trump interactive map are colored to show the level of Trump's net approval rating. If you click on a state you can view a chart showing the percentage of
18:00
What if Your Representative Were a Goth?
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What if Your Alderman Were Goth wins the award for the weirdest interactive map of the year. The map itself is easy enough to understand. Just click on a Chicago electoral ward and you can view a picture of the ward's alderman photoshopped to look like a goth. What is less easy to understand is why? I don't think I've seen a goth in real life for about seven years. I think its also been
16:00
A Crowdsourced Map of the World
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XYZ Drawful is an experimental map which allows anyone in the world to draw on an interactive map. The result is a map of the world which is overlaid with the scribbles and drawings of hundreds of different users. Draw There are a number of different tools which you can use to draw on XYZ Drawful. Select the 'Draw' and 'Add new feature' options from the map sidebar and you can select your
08 October 2019
20:00
Your Weekly Drought Update
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Currently 39% of the United States is dry or in drought conditions. This information comes from the University Of Colorado Boulder Water Desk. The Waterdesk has released three interactive maps which provide the latest data on U.S. drought, precipitation and snowpack conditions. The Weekly Drought Reports Map uses data from the National Drought Mitigation Center to provide a weekly update on
18:00
A Panoramic View of 1907 Indianapolis
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The Detroit Publishing Company's vintage photographs of America are a great resource for exploring the United States of the early Twentieth Century. When visiting cities the photographers of the Detroit Publishing Co would often find a high building from which to take a series of bird's eye view photographs. When stitched together these pictures can be made into one long panoramic image of
16:00
The Global Problem of Opioid Consumption
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More than one million Belgians took an opioid in 2017. This has led the Belgian magazine Medor to take a close look at the consumption of opioids around the world and in particular at the rise of opioid consumption in Belgium. The Pain of the Belgians uses a series of maps and charts to explain the rise of opioid use and where this rise is being seen around the world. The USA leads the world
07 October 2019
20:00
Panoramic View of Detroit 1908
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During the early years of the Twentieth Century the Detroit Publishing Company traveled around America taking photographs and selling postcards of different cities. When visiting a city the photographers would often find a high building from which to take a series of bird's eye view photographs. When stitched together these pictures could be made into one long panoramic image of the city. I've
18:00
American Panoramas
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In 1907 photographers from the Detroit Publishing Company climbed to the top of the Minneapolis town hall and took a series of photographs of the city. The Detroit Publishing Company made money from selling postcards and panoramas of American locations. These images now provide a fascinating insight into early Twentieth Century America. The Star Tribune has created an interactive panoramic
16:00
Mapping Endangered Animals
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There are 1,288 species of endangered animals in the USA. In fact the number of endangered species in the USA has grown by 8% in the last ten years. Among these endangered animals is the Florida panther, of which there are fewer than 100 left. The Black-footed Ferret is also on the critical list, with fewer than 400 still in the wild. You can find out how many endangered species there are in
05 October 2019
16:00
The Berlin Wall - Then & Now
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The Berlin Wall was torn down nearly 30 years ago. The Berlin Wall divided the city for 28 years. Then on November 9, 1989 the East German government announced that all East German citizens were now free to visit West Germany and West Berlin. Since that date most of the Berlin Wall has been destroyed. The Berliner Morgenpost has published a series of before and after photographs which allow
04 October 2019
20:00
Generate Environmental Factsheets
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Geofolio is an easy to use map tool for generating environmental reports for any location on Earth. The application uses data from various sources, including NASA, ESA, USGS and the Global Cropland Area Database, to provide you with a comprehensive environmental report for your chosen location. Simply select a location on Geofolio's interactive map and it will generate thematic factsheets
16:00
England's Multiple Deprivation
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Three weeks ago the UK government released the 2019 Indices of English Deprivation. The indices show the levels of deprivation at the neighborhood level. The government measures deprivation in a number of different areas, including income deprivation, employment, education, health and crime. The different indices are combined to give an overall relative measure of deprivation. The Index of
10:20
Mini Tokyo
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Mini Tokyo 3D is a live real-time map of Tokyo's public transit system. The map shows the live position of Tokyo's trains in 3D as they move around the city. Mini Tokyo has two different map views. If you press the eye icon button you can switch between the 'underground' (pictured above) and 'overground' layers. The underground mode highlights the city's subway system with colored subway lines
03 October 2019
19:32
What Are Your Roads Called?
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Last week, in Medieval Streets, Modern Roads, I investigated the theory that at some point in the Seventeenth Century in the UK we stopped naming roads with the suffix 'Street' and started using the suffix 'Road' on a much more frequent basis. I became interested in visualizing this historical pattern in UK road names partly because of Data Stuff's Beautiful Hidden Logic of Cities. The
16:00
The Traveling Baptism Problem
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In the 1830's a woman called Elizabeth Nichols traveled the length and breadth of England & Wales baptizing her daughter in hundreds of different locations. The reason for this serial baptism of her child wasn't because Elizabeth Nichols was particularly devout. It was because of the alms or outdoor relief that she received upon baptizing her child, the assistance which was given to her in the
11:40
Extra-Tropical Storm Lorenzo
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Storm Lorenzo is expected to hit the Republic of Ireland later today. Storm Lorenzo contains the remnants of Hurricane Lorenzo, the most powerful hurricane that has ever been recorded in the far east Atlantic. Met Éireann has issued an orange warning of very strong winds in Galway, Mayo, Clare, Kerry and Limerick. Winds of up to 140 kilometers an hour are expected. Storm surges are also
02 October 2019
18:00
Global Heating in 3D
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A Century of Surface Temperature Anomalies is a powerful visualization of global heating across the world. The visualization uses a WebGL powered 3D globe to show how temperatures have changed over the last one hundred years. The globe uses data from NASA's GISS Surface Temperature Analysis to show global surface temperatures for each decade since 1910. Surface temperatures around the world are
10:00
Apple Bans Hong Kong Safety Map
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Update (written on 10/9/2019): Apple has now approved the HKmap.live application. Reportedly it has quickly become the best selling app in Hong Kong. The People's Daily newspaper is not happy with the decision. It has called the approval of HKmap.live as "unwise" and "imprudent". The newspaper has also ominously warned that the decision would "draw more turbulence", which suggests that Apple's
01 October 2019
20:00
The Manifest Postal Destiny
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In 1775 Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first Postmaster General. Since that date the United States Postal Service has become one of the most important public institutions in the country. In fact the postal service has grown as the United States has grown and over the years as the US expanded westward so has the United States Postal Service. You can view an animated map showing the
18:00
Ride the G-Train to Beijing
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The Hong Kong to Beijing high speed rail line is 2,439km long. It takes around nine hours to complete the journey, traveling at speeds of up to 300 kilometers per hour. You can complete the journey even more quickly by taking a virtual Journey to the North: From Hong Kong to Beijing in 9 hours on the high-speed rail. Journey to the North uses satellite imagery to map the nearly 2,500km route of
16:00
UK Climate Emergency
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Climate Emergency is a clever animated choropleth map which shows which councils in the UK have declared a climate emergency. More than half the local authorities in the UK have now declared a climate emergency. By declaring a climate emergency councils are committing themselves to taking urgent action to reduce local carbon emissions. The UK government has set a 2050 target for the UK reaching
30 September 2019
20:00
The Names of Singapore's Streets
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In 2013 Noah Veltman released an interactive map which explored the History of San Francisco Place Names. The map explained the meaning behind every San Francisco street name. This fascinating map began something of a trend for people and organizations mapping the meanings behind street names in cities around the world. Since then there have been far too many interactive maps of street names
18:00
The Scenic Routing Engine
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Sight Safari is a routing engine which will find you the most interesting and picturesque route between two points rather than the shortest route. Everybody has used Google Maps to find directions - which is great for showing you the quickest route from point A to point B. What Google Maps doesn't do is show you the most scenic or interesting route. Sight Safari uses data from OpenStreetMap to
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Boat Traffic on Amsterdam's Canals
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A Summer Day In Amsterdam's Canals is an animated map which visualizes a whole day of boat traffic on Amsterdam's canals. The map allows you to observe the different types of boats which navigate Amsterdam's canals and the ebb and flow of boat traffic over the course of a typical summer's day. The interactive map of Amsterdam's canal traffic is a little hidden away. To view the map wait until
28 September 2019
16:00
Medieval Streets, Modern Roads
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Last week I discovered that there is only half a road in the City of London. There are lots of Streets, Lanes, Avenues and Alleys within the square mile of the City of London. However the only street that is called a 'Road' is Goswell Road. The boundary of the City runs down the middle of a small section of Goswell Rd. So there is just half a road in the City of London. The reason why the
27 September 2019
18:00
16 Thousand Flights to Mecca
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Every year millions of Muslims around the world fly to Mecca to perform the Hajj. The Hajj is the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. It is something that every Muslim must do at least once in their lifetime, if they are capable. Flying to Hajj is an interactive story map by Al Jazeera which visualizes and explores the 16,888 flights made to Mecca during this annual pilgrimage to Mecca. The
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Mapping Swiss Inequality
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The Swiss broadcaster Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) has released an interactive map to show the Unequal Distribution of Income in Switzerland. The broadcaster uses an interactive bivariate choropleth map to visualize both average incomes and income inequality across Switzerland. Bivariate choropleth maps show two variables at once. Therefore sometimes they can be a little difficult to
26 September 2019
18:00
America is Becoming More Diverse
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The Brookings Institution has used recently released U.S. Census Bureau estimates for 2018 to map out where America is becoming more diverse. Six Maps that Reveal America's Expanding Racial Diversity looks particularly at the metro areas where the white, black, Hispanic and Asian populations have shown marked growth. The article starts with an interactive map which shows where minority groups
16:00
The Orientation of UK Runways
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The orientation of airport runways are normally determined by prevailing wind directions. Aircraft find it easier to land without a crosswind and planes can more easily take-off and land upwind. Aircraft also need a lower ground speed at both landing and take-off when they are pointing into the wind. As a consequence runways are usually built to point in the prevailing wind direction. In fact
25 September 2019
18:00
Mapping the Off-Shore Tax Scam
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Nearly 10% of the world’s wealth is hidden in offshore tax havens by a few individuals. Multinational companies hide nearly 40% of their profits in these same tax havens. You can find out how much each country around the world is losing in corporate tax revenue on the Missing Profits interactive map. Losses that you and I have to pay for in our own tax bills. Researchers from the University
16:00
Make 3D Models in Seconds
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The DEM Net Elevation API can help you create your very own 3D terrain models for any location on Earth. Dem Net has a fantastic tool which allows you to create your own 3D models simply by selecting an area on a map. It really is that easy. To create a 3D model all you have to do is draw a square on an interactive map around the area that you wish to model. Within seconds DEM Net will create a
24 September 2019
20:00
Whaling Voyages of America
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Before the development of oil refineries in the mid-nineteenth century whale oil was one of the main sources of fuel for lighting and the lubrication of machines. Whaling was therefore a huge industry. In 1858 America alone had 199 ships participating in the capture of whales. These whaling ships and their crews would make voyages which would last 6 months to three or four years, during which
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The Streets and Avenues of New York
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In many American cities the street grid system is often reflected in the names of the city's streets. For example in some cities you might find that all roads called 'Avenue' run north to south, while all roads called 'Street' run west to east (or vice versa depending on the city). It is possible to visualize this pattern very effectively with an interactive map and a radial chart. My Street
16:00
The Witches of Scotland
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The University of Edinburgh has released a series of interactive maps visualizing the nearly 4,000 women and men accused of being witches in Scotland from the 16th to 18th centuries. The Witchcraft Act was in force in Scotland between 1563 and 1735. Under the Witchcraft Act the practice of witchcraft and the act of consulting with witches could be punished by death. It is not known exactly how
23 September 2019
18:00
See the Space Station Tonight
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James Darpinian's See a Satellite Tonight can tell you when the International Space Station is flying over your house. It can also tell you where to look in the sky if you want to see it for yourself. Share your location with See a Satellite Tonight and you can view an interactive 3D Cesium Earth, showing your current location highlighted on the globe. The globe also shows an animated ISS
16:00
The Streets of London
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The most interesting fact I know is that there are no roads in the City of London. I've been repeating this fact for years. This weekend I finally decided I should actually check for myself to see whether it is actually true or not. To find out if there are any streets called 'Road' in the City of London I ran the following query in Overpass Turbo: [out:json][timeout:185]; area["name"="
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How Climate Change Will Affect You
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The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology have produced guides to show how each region of Australia is likely to be affected by climate change. The Guardian has released an interactive map which allows users to click on any region of Australia to view how it will be affected by global heating. If you enter a postcode or
20 September 2019
18:00
The World's Worst Climate Sinners
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If we want to avoid a climate change catastrophe then every person on Earth needs to restrict their CO2 output to 2.7 tonnes a years. For comparison, if you took a return flight from Vienna to New York in economy class, you would consume about 2.8 tonnes of CO2. Moment has created an interactive map which shows which countries around the world are currently exceeding the 2.7 tonnes of CO2
16:00
France's Nuclear Paradise
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Between 1960 and 1996 France carried out 193 nuclear tests in French Polynesia in the South Pacific. The tests have had a devastating and long lasting impact on the area's islands and people. You can learn more about France's nuclear testing program in Nuclear Dissent, an interactive multimedia report into the effect of France's nuclear testing in French Polynesia during the second half of the

19 September 2019
19:49
Sidewalk Labs’ Replica Has Spun Out
sur James Fee GIS Blog

Some really interesting news in the digital twin planning space from last week:

The newly formed company, which is headed by Nick Bowden, also announced Thursday it has raised $11 million in a Series A funding round from investors Innovation Endeavors, Firebrand Ventures and Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. The capital will be used to accelerate Replica’s growth through new hires beyond its existing 13-person staff, expansion to new cities and investment in its technology.

What makes this interesting is what Replica is:

The Replica modeling tool uses de-identified mobile location data to give public agencies a comprehensive portrait of how, when and why people travel. Movement models are matched to a synthetic population, which has been created using samples of census demographic data to create a broad new data set that is statistically representative of the actual population.

How, when and why people move around a city.

As a planner, investor or developer; you can imagine how this is really interesting. As the TechCrunch article points out, there are privacy implications to this but if this model works and can help plan cities better, we’ll all be better off. Cities are growing at exponential rates and new ones are being built every day. Helping planners make better initial decisions about where and how things should go OR help them make changes as the city develops will only improve life for all.

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The Papua Environmental Atlas
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The Papua region, which makes up the Indonesian half of the island of New Guinea, is largely undeveloped. While this lack of development is wonderful for the environment it also means that 53 percent of the population doesn't have access to electricity. More than 25% of people living in the Papua region also live below the poverty line. The government of Indonesia has decided to accelerate
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What's in a Streetname?
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Inspired by Data Stuff's The Beautiful Hidden Logic in Cities the mapping team at the City of Amsterdam has been mapping out the street names of Amsterdam. What's in a Streetname? is an interactive map which colors Amsterdam's streets based on their name endings (i.e. whether they are streets, roads, lanes, alleys etc.). Streets in many American cities are often organized into a grid system
18 September 2019
18:00
Killing Child Mortality
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The New York Times has published an interactive map which shows how child mortality rates are improving around the world. According to the Times Almost Everywhere, Fewer Children are Dying. In fact since the beginning of the 21st Century child mortality rates have been cut in half. The Times' interactive map visualizes the reduction in child mortality from 2000-2017. The red patch on the map
16:00
A Real-Time Map of the Galaxy
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NASA's Your Galactic Neighborhood is a digital orrery which shows the real-time position of the planets in our solar system. Like a traditional mechanical orrery Your Galactic Neighborhood provides a model of the Solar System that shows the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons. As well as visualizing the position of the planets and moons Your Galactic Neighborhood shows the
17 September 2019
20:00
Segregating San Francisco
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According to the Haas Institute the San Francisco Bay area is more segregated now than it was 50 years ago. The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley has analysed levels of racial residential segregation in the Bay Area since 1980 and concluded that seven of the Bay Area’s nine counties have become more racially segregated. You can explore the results of the Haas
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The Timeline of American Universities
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Founded in Massachusetts in 1636, Harvard University was the first college of higher education in America. In fact for 57 years Harvard was the only university in America - until the founding of the College of William & Mary in 1693. Yale University was the fourth university to be founded, opening in 1701. Nine universities in total were founded before the United States of America became a
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Saints & Sinners of America
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Having explored the spatial distribution of towns and villages named for saints, in my Saints Of Europe interactive map, I was intrigued to see which towns in the USA have been given the names of saints. Saints and Sinners shows the location of towns and villages in the USA which include the prefixes 'St', 'Saint', 'San' or 'Santa'. To add a little spice to the map I also added the location
16 September 2019
20:00
The Difference Between Streets and Roads
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In the UK you won't find many roads in the centers of many towns and cities. This isn't because they are pedestrianized. It is because the word 'road' was rarely used as part of a toponym before the late 16th Century. Up until the 17th Century roads were called something else, such as 'streets' or 'lanes'. For this reason any city or town in England, which still retains its medieval street
18:00
The Street Names of Vancouver
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Golf courses are more likely to have roads named after them in Vancouver than women. In Vancouver more streets have been given the name of famous golf courses from around the world than have been named for famous or notable women. There are 26 streets bearing the name of a famous golf course and only 16 streets in the whole city which have been named for women. Of Vancouver's 651 streets 276
16:00
London Squared
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The City Intelligence Unit at the London Datastore has released a really interesting visualization of London Commuting Flows. The visualization uses an interactive cartogram to show where the residents in each London borough travel to work within London. The cartogram repesents every London borough as a small square. Each of these small squares is a mini choropleth map showing where in London

15:30
The iPhone U1 UWB Chip, Digital Twins and Data Collection
sur James Fee GIS Blog

Oddly enough the biggest news this week from the iPhone 11 introduction by Apple barely got any play. In fact, on the iPhone 11 Pro website, you have to scroll past Dog Portrait mode to get any information about it. Apple describes the U1 chip thusly:

The new Apple?designed U1 chip uses Ultra Wideband technology for spatial awareness — allowing iPhone 11 Pro to understand its precise location relative to other nearby U1?equipped Apple devices.⁴ It’s like adding another sense to iPhone, and it’s going to lead to amazing new capabilities. With U1 and iOS 13, you can point your iPhone toward someone else’s, and AirDrop will prioritize that device so you can share files faster.⁴ And that’s just the beginning.
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Makes sense right? A better way to AirDrop. But there is so much more there, “precise location relative to other nearby equipped Apple Devices“. But what is UWB and why does it matter? The UWB Alliance says:

UWB is a unique radio technology that can use extremely low energy levels for short-range, high-bandwidth communications over a large portion of the radio spectrum. Devices powered by a coin cell can operate for a period of years without recharge or replacement. UWB technology enables a broad range of applications, from real-time locating and tracking, to sensing and radar, to secure wireless access, and short message communication. The flexibility, precision and low-power characteristics of UWB give it a unique set of capabilities unlike any other wireless technology.

So that’s really interesting, low energy use, high bandwidth and is very secure. I thought Jason Snell did a great job looking into the U1 on Six Colors:

From raw data alone, UWB devices can detect locations within 10 centimeters (4 inches), but depending on implementation that accuracy can be lowered to as much as 5 millimeters, according to Mickael Viot, VP of marketing at UWB chipmaker Decawave.

That’s pretty amazing. Basically it takes what makes Bluetooth LE great for discover, secures it and then makes it faster and more accurate. So we can see the consumer use cases for UWB, sharing files and finding those tiles we’ve heard so much about. But where this gets very interesting for our space is for data collection and working inside digital twins. You can already see the augmented reality use case here. A sensor has gone bad in a building, I can find it now with millimeter accuracy. But it’s not just what direction it’s how far. UWB uses “time of flight” to pinpoint location (measuring the time of signal to gauge distance), enabling it to know how far away it is. Just knowing a sensor is ahead of you is one thing, but knowing it is 20 feet away, that’s really a game changer.

You can see this through a little known app Apple makes called Indoor Survey. Small side note, back in late 2015 I blogged about Apple’s Indoor Positioning App which ties into all this. Where you really see this use is when you go to the signup page see how data is brought into this app using a standard called Indoor Mapping Data Format. Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) provides a generalized, yet comprehensive data model for any indoor location, creating a basis for orientation, navigation and discovery. IMDF is output as an archive of GeoJSON files. Going to the IMDF Sandbox really shows you what this format is about.
Apple’s IMDF Sandbox
Basically you see a map editor that allows you to really get into how interiors are mapped and used. So Apple iPhone 11 UWB devices can help place themselves more accurately on maps and route users around building interiors. Smart buildings get smarter by the devices talking to each other. Oh and IMDF, Apple says, “For GIS and BIM specialists, there is support for IMDF in many of your favorite tools.“. I will need to spend a bit more time with IMDF but its basically GeoJSON objects so we already know how to use it.

The thing about GPS data collection is it works great outdoors, but inside it is much harder to get accuracy, especially when you need it. With Indoor Survey, devices can collect data much more accurately indoors because they know exactly where they are. If you’ve ever used Apple Maps in an airport and seen how it routes you from gate to gate, you get an idea how this works. But with UWB, you go from foot accuracy to sub centimeter. That’s a big difference.

Now we’re a long way away from UWB being ubiquitous like Bluetooth LE is. Right now as far as I can tell, only Apple has UWB chips in their devices and we don’t know how compatible this all is yet. But you can see how the roadmap is laid out here. UWB, GeoJSON and an iPhone 11. Devices help each other get better location and in turn make working with Digital Twins and data collection so much easier.

14 September 2019
17:31
The Hooky Map of America
sur Google Maps Mania

The Hamilton Project at Brookings has created an interactive map which visualizes the rates of chronic absence at every school in the country. Chronic absence is when a student misses 10% or more of school. Students who miss this amount of schooling are academically at risk. Individual schools on the Chronic Absence Map are colored to show the percentage of the students who have a record of
13 September 2019
18:00
D.C. Under Water
sur Google Maps Mania

A new interactive map shows the projected flooding which could affect America's National Parks in 2050. Reveal has used data from the National Park Service to show the areas which could be inundated if a category 3 hurricane hit one of America's most popular National Parks. The interactive map allows you to view the affect of a storm surge on ten of the U.S.'s most popular National Parks. The
16:00
The Eel Rents of England
sur Google Maps Mania

In my childhood jellied eels were a reasonably common part of the diet in East London. You can still find a few Pie, Mash and Jellied Eel shops dotted around the East End. However cafes that sell jellied eels are now a much rarer sight in the East End and the consumption of eels has largely gone out of fashion. The demise of eels as a staple of the English diet is on the face of it very odd.

0:00
Bad Esri Products are Good
sur James Fee GIS Blog
I was having drinks the other day with an ex-Esri employee and we were talking about what Esri products I liked to work with. The short list is right below:
1. ArcView 3.x
2. MapObjects
3. ArcIMS
Arc/INFO might be on that list but let’s cap it at three. None of them were products that Esri wanted to keep around. All of them were thrust in the marketplace and then poorly supported. I get the idea that Esri wanted everything on ArcGIS platform (Server being a joke for so many years is proof of this) but being a developer on those platforms was really hard. The transition from Avenue to VB/VBA was particularly brutal. There were books written to help with this transition, but none by Esri.

My trajectory was shaped by these products above being abandoned by Esri. I went another direction because of being burnt by proprietary products that when abandoned cause huge problems. I think you have two choices, either double down or hit the eject button. I’m so glad I ejected…

12 September 2019
18:00
Two Degrees Hotter
sur Google Maps Mania

The 2016 Paris Agreement on Climate Change set a long-term goal to keep the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels. Unfortunately many places across the globe have already exceeded a 2 °C rise in average temperatures. The Washington Post has used data from Berkeley Earth to map the global rise in temperatures compared to the average temperature
16:00
The Wealth Divide in Spain
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Spanish newspaper El Pais has mapped out the average income per person across the whole of Spain. The map shows a stark divide between the north and south of the country. The Map of Spanish Incomes, Street by Street visualizes the average income in every neighborhood in the country. If you hover over an individual neighborhood on the map you can view the average income in the area. Immediately

11 September 2019
23:13
Download Your Fusion Tables Data
sur James Fee GIS Blog

I first wrote about Fusion Tables back in 2010.

Google Fusion Tables – Are you kidding me? These stuff is “teh awesome”. Fusion tables are going to be more “killer” than Google Maps was. Yup, pay attention.
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“teh awesome”? Seriously, who says that? Well I guess I did and that’s OK. Was it more “killer” than Google Maps, obviously no. It’s not that Fusion Tables was wrong, it is just there are so many alternatives to it that it really doesn’t matter anymore like it did when it first arrived.

Well if you’re like me, you probably have a lot of data in Fusion Tables and Google just sent out an email explaining how to get it out.

If you created many tables over the years, we’ve made it easy to download all your data in one step with a new dedicated Fusion Tables option in Google Takeout. You can save the rows, metadata and geometries of any base tables that you own, and export this data in the following formats: JSON, CSV and KML.

It’s a really nice tool, just tried it myself on some baseball data that I had in there. Google explains the tool as such:

The data for each table is saved to its own “archive”. The data will be saved in a Google Sheet; for datasets beyond the size limits of Sheets, you’ll get a CSV. This archive is stored in a top level folder called “ft-archive” in your Drive.
A Google Maps visualization is automatically created with the archived data. This map preserves many of the original Fusion Tables styling configurations. Any changes you make to the Sheet or CSV will appear in the map visualization.
A listing of all archived tables is stored in a Sheet. This handy Sheet is called “ft-archive-index” and lives within the “ft-archive” folder. The index Sheet summarizes each run of the archive tool and preserves the visualization URLs with encoded styles. Each time you run the archive tool, you will get additional archives based on the current data in your tables along with corresponding new rows in the archive directory.

You have until December 3, 2019 to get your data out. Google Takeout makes it easy which is really nice.

16:00
The Geology of South Limburg
sur Google Maps Mania

The Geology of South Limburg is an interactive geological map of the South Limburg region of the Netherlands. On the map different colors are used to show the different types of geological features which can be found in the region. The map also provides a guided tour and explanation of these geological features. The dramatic geology of South Limburg has been formed over the last 300 million
10 September 2019
20:00
The Homeless Should Sleep at Home
sur Google Maps Mania

Mahatma Gandhi once noted that "the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members." Let's explore a little how the United States treats its most vulnerable citizens. The City of Los Angeles is currently considering plans to ban homeless people from sleeping on many of the city's streets. These plans will make it illegal to sleep rough within 500 feet of
18:00
The Saints of Europe
sur Google Maps Mania

I was so fascinated by Dirk Kloosterboer's fascinating investigation into the spatial distribution of roads named 'Holleweg' (or 'Holloway') around the world that I decided to try my own investigation into the spatial distribution of place-names. For my analysis I wanted to explore the density and distribution of towns and cities in Europe named for Christian saints. As a work of data
16:00
The Beating Heart of Paris
sur Google Maps Mania

data.pour.paris is a new collection of interactive mapped visualizations of Parisienne open data. The project visualizes data made available by the city of Paris and its transport networks (Ile de France Mobilités, RATP, etc.). So far data.pour.paris consists of five mapped visualizations. These include an interactive map of all public streetlights in the capital (pictured above), the location
09 September 2019
20:00
Holloways of the World
sur Google Maps Mania

In my twenties I briefly lived in a squat in the North London district of Holloway. Despite having once lived in an area actually called 'Holloway' I never knew what a 'holloway' was - until today. A Holloway is a road or track which is significantly lower than the land on either side. I only discovered this fact thanks to Dirk Kloosterboer's fascinating investigation into the spatial
18:00
The Genius of Mercator
sur Google Maps Mania

The Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality believe that the Mercator map projection "has fostered European Imperialist attitudes for centuries and created an ethnic bias against the third world". However they do admit that the Mercator projection is a useful tool for European sailors. If you want a more balanced account of the Mercator projection then you you should read Tass's
16:00
Mapping French Population Density
sur Google Maps Mania

France's most populated city is Paris. With a population of over two million it has nearly three times the population of the next largest city of Marseilles. France's third most populated city is Lyon. You can explore the population of every commune in France for yourself on the Communes Population interactive map. Communes Population uses scaled circles to visualize the population size of
07 September 2019
20:00
Who Owns America?
sur Google Maps Mania

John Malone owns 2.2 million acres of the United States - an area of land which is bigger than the state of Delaware (1.5 million acres). Malone is the largest private landowner in the US. The Emmerson family are the second largest private landowners and Ted Turner is third. Both the Emmerson family and Ted Turner also own more land than the state of Delaware. You can discover how much land is
18:00
Visualizing Zip-Code Areas
sur Google Maps Mania

If you want to know how America's zip-code system works then you should refer to Engaging Data's Zip Code Map of the United States. Enter a five number zip-code into this map and with each digit you enter the map will show the area which your digits represent. The zip-code system was introduced by the United States Postal Service in 1963. The five digits of a zip-code number indicate the
06 September 2019
18:00
Bolsonaro's Amazon Fires
sur Google Maps Mania

Buzzfeed has mapped out all of the wildfires that burned in the Amazon during August of this year. The Amazon has witnessed more than 90,000 fires so far in 2019, according to Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE). Buzzfeed has used data from NASA to show where these fires were burning in the Amazon during each day of August. If you use the timeline control on Buzzfeed's We
16:00
The Archives of the Planet
sur Google Maps Mania

At the beginning of the 20th Century Frenchman Albert Kahn decided to send a group of photographers around the world. He wanted the photographers to capture a record of a way of life that Khan thought was about to disappear. Between 1909 and 1931 Khan's photographers collected 72,000 color photographs and 183,000 meters of film. This imagery provides an amazing historical record of the world at
05 September 2019
16:30
The Map of Really Rude Place-Names
sur Google Maps Mania

In 2004 the residents of the small town of Fucking in Austria had a vote on whether they should change the name of their settlement. Many residents had become tired of the frequent theft of the town's street signs and the endless visits of puerile English speaking tourists. Fortunately, for those of us who are are amused by infantile humor, the residents voted to keep the Fucking name. Of
14:00
The 45 Types of Road in Paris
sur Google Maps Mania

There are 45 different types of road in Paris. Les types de voies à Paris is an interactive map which allows you to view the distribution and location of all 45 different types of road in the French capital. By far the most popular type of road in Paris is the simple 'rue' or road. 3,422 or 57% of all roads in Paris are 'rues'. The second most popular type of road is 'place' (549). The third
04 September 2019
20:00
The Poor & Urban Heat Islands
sur Google Maps Mania

In August 2018 NOAA ran a citizen science project in Washington D.C. and in Baltimore to discover which part of those cities were effected by urban heat islands. You can see the results of this study on NOAA's Detailed maps of urban heat island effects in Washington, DC, and Baltimore. The detailed maps produced by NOAA show that the hottest areas in both cities are the areas with the densest
18:00
Who's to Blame for Climate Change?
sur Google Maps Mania

In 2016 countries around the world signed up to fight global heating. So three years later how well are individual countries meeting their individual targets to restrict climate change? You can find out using a new interactive map called the Climate Action Tracker. 195 countries from across the globe have signed the Paris Agreement on climate change. By signing the agreement governments have
03 September 2019
20:00
Mapping Japanese Land Values
sur Google Maps Mania

A new interactive map visualizes how Japanese land values have fluctuated over the last 30 years. Every year Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism publish details on the value of land at around 26,000 different locations. The 3D Map of Land Values in Japan: 1989 - 2019 map allows you to see how the cost of land has fallen and risen across Japan each decade since 1989.
18:00
NASA Earth Observation in 3D
sur Google Maps Mania

Emerson Walsh's WebGL Globe allows you to explore a number of NASA satellite views of Earth on a fully interactive 3D globe. The 3D globe visualizes a number of different layers from NASA Earth Observations. These layers include global population density, land & sea surface temperatures, albedo, crowd fraction, leaf area index, vegetation index and chlorophyll concentration. You can learn more
15:57
One Hour on the Irish Border
sur Google Maps Mania

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 Guardian newspaper has

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