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18 octobre 2017
18:30
Mapping Vincent Van Gogh
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The Center for Open Data in the Humanities has created a very impressive Leaflet.js based tool for browsing historical manuscripts, paintings and other documents. The IIIF Curation Viewer is an open-source image viewer that allows you to view any image that has an IIIF Manifest (a common standard used by many museums, galleries and universities around the world). In this demo of the IIIF
17 octobre 2017
19:30
Do You Live Near a Freeway?
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The Los Angeles Times can tell you how close you live to a freeway. Just enter your address and the LA Times will show you your house and the nearest freeway on an interactive map. It will also tell you if you are within the 500 foot zone where air pollution is highest or if you are within the 1,000 foot zone (where scientists advise that you shouldn't live). The map is part of the
17:30
Real-Time Satellite Movies
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The Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch has released a new mapping tool which allows you to create short animated movies of the Earth using the latest satellite imagery from GOES-16 and Himawari-8. The RAMMB Slider uses the latest available imagery from both satellites to allow you to create small animated movies of the Earth. Slider includes the option to select archived imagery if you
14:53
Mapping the UK's Falling House Prices
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If you account for inflation then a majority of UK residential properties are selling less now than they were ten years ago. In fact house prices have fallen in real terms in more than half of UK neighborhoods since 2007. The BBC has created an interactive map which shows where house prices have gone up and where they have gone down. The House prices: Have they actually gone up? map clearly
16 octobre 2017
22:30
North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Range
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ABC News has mapped the worldwide risk from North Korea's nuclear weapons. In Where can North Korea’s missiles reach? ABC shows which countries are in range of Kim Jong-un’s inferiority complex. This scrolling interactive uses a faux 3d globe to show the ranges of North Korea's different missile types. As you progress through the story map the ranges of North Korea's short-range, medium-range,
20:30
Who Owns Your Water?
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17% of water systems in the United States are privately owned. On average these private water companies charge customers 59% more for their water than publicly run water systems. This is bad news for customers, especially because unhappy customers can't switch to another water company. Who Owns Your Water shows the percentage of the population served by private water utilities in each state.
19:30
Google Outer Space
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Google Maps can now help you navigate the solar system. As well as its aerial imagery, Street View and maps of Earth Google Maps can now take you to Mercury, Venus, Mars and Pluto. It can also show you maps of our moon and the moons Ceres, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Mimas, Enceladus, Dione, Rhea, Titan and Iapetus. All of these new planets and moons on Google Maps have place-labels so you won't get
18:30
Animated Markers in Mapbox
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Arden de Raaij, a developer from Lisbon, has released a nicely designed Mapbox map for geotagged photos. The map shows where photographs were taken and allows you to view them directly from the map. It also has some very impressive animations and transitions which are fired when the user interacts with a map marker. There are two main animation effects used for each map marker, which are
14 octobre 2017
18:16
Santa Rosa Fire Satellite Imagery
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Satellite imagery from DigitalGlobe shows some of the devastating damage done by the wildfires in Northern California. Robin Kraft, a developer originally from Santa Clara, has created a before and after map which allows you to compare DigitalGlobe's latest satellite imagery with aerial imagery taken before the fires. The Satellite Map of NorCal Fires includes satellite imagery taken after the
13:30
London Sucks You In & Spits You Out
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This week Election Data published an interactive map to visualize the net migration data for areas of the UK to & from London. The map shows whether more people in each local authority area in England move to London or have moved from London into the area. The map also provides a rather neat visualization of why the Conservative Party could be in trouble in its traditional heartland of the
13 octobre 2017
19:21
Arrows Swoop on Berlin Airport
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On the same date as Germany's recent general election Berliners also got to vote on whether to go ahead with the planned closure of the city's Tegel Airport. The Berliner Morgenpost's interactive map of the referendum results got swamped a little by all the German Election maps. The Tegel Volksentscheid 2017 interactive map shows you how many people voted 'yes' or 'no' in each electoral ward.
13:30
Minard's March on Moscow
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Charles Minard was a pioneer of the use of graphics in engineering and statistics. His most famous visualization was his flow-map of Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign. During his March on Moscow Napoleon faced freezing temperatures and starving conditions (the Russian army burnt anything that might feed or shelter Napoleon's army as it retreated). Minard's flow map visualizes this eastward
12 octobre 2017
20:30
The Northern California Wildfire Map
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There are currently sixteen active wildfires burning in Northern California. Esri's Waze Alerts and Wildfires interactive map uses live data from USGS and Waze, to show the locations of active wildfires and traffic alerts for Northern California. The active fire data displayed on the map comes from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Geospatial Multi-Agency Coordination
18:30
Big Planes & Little Planes in Real-Time
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Real-time flight tracking maps have been around for a number of years now. Flightradar24 is a great example of a website which allows you to search and view airplanes moving in real-time on an interactive map. Aviation Tracker down't have all the amazing options available in Flightradar24 but it does have an interesting approach to visualizing planes live on a map. The aircraft on Aviation
13:00
The River Nile is Dying
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The BBC has released a web documentary which explores the dwindling health of the River Nile and how the human race is largely responsible for its demise. Maps are used throughout the BBC's investigation to illustrate where and how climate change, human consumption, human waste and desertification are combining to kill the world's largest river. You can read the BBC's web documentary yourself
11 octobre 2017
22:30
How Healthy is Your New Neighborhood?
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Are you living in an environmentally unhealthy neighborhood? HealthyEnviron can tell you. Just enter your address into HealthyEnviron's interactive map and it will reveal how healthy your environment is - based on 11 different factors. HealthyEnviron uses data from the CDC's Public Health Tracking Network and the EPA's Air Quality Database to give every neighborhood in the United States a
20:30
Selling Plastic Pollution
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The world throws away a huge amount of plastic every year. Many countries dump a large proportion of their plastic waste on other countries. The Trade in Plastic explores how much plastic waste is thrown away by each country around the world. It also examines the global trade in waste plastic and some of the illegal practices in disposing of plastic. A Trade in Plastic includes two main maps
18:30
Demonstrating the Mercator Problem
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On Monday, in Working with Map Projections, we explored how different map projections distort our picture of the world. The Mercator projection is undoubtedly the most common mpa projection used in modern online interactive maps. It is therefore worth taking a closer look at the particular distortions of Gerardus Mercator's popular map projection. The Mercator Problem is an informative
16:30
What Powers America?
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Carbon Brief has released a new comprehensive map to show How the US generates electricity. The map visualizes how and where electricity is generated in the USA and the amount of electricity generated by the different types of electricity production. The map allows you to filter the results by type of electricity production. This allows you to see where in the country the different types of
10 octobre 2017
20:30
An Overview of Planet Earth
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When astronauts first look down on Earth from outer space they often experience what is called the 'overview effect'. Seeing the whole of the Earth from above can inspire a deeper realization of both the beauty and fragility of this planet we call home. The Daily Overview hopes to inspire just a little of that effect by providing you with daily aerial images of Earth. The Daily Overview
18:30
How Rich is Your Representative
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According to the Center for Responsive Politics the average net worth of a member of the U.S. House of Representatives is around $8 million. The average net worth of all Americans is $69,000. If you want to find out how much richer your Representative is than you then you can check out Legbranch's interactive map, How Wealthy Are Our Representatives?. The map uses scaled markers to show the
11:54
50 Years of Typhoons
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68 Years of Wind and Rain is an animated map showing historical typhoon tracks in and around the southeast coast of China. The map visualizes 1,832 typhoons in the region since 1949. As the map animation plays out typhoon tracks are added to the map by year. The yellow typhoon tracks show the typhoons that made landfall in mainland China. As the animation plays the bar graph below the map also
09 octobre 2017
22:30
Beware Out of Date Flood Maps
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Bloomberg believes that outdated FEMA flood maps could be one reason why less than one in four homes in Hitchcock, Texas had flood insurance when Hurricane Harvey hit. The Federal Emergency Management Agency hasn't updated the food maps in the area since the early 1980's. This may have led local residents to have a false sense of the likelihood of floods in their neighborhood. Hitchcock is not
20:30
New York Loves Bacon
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The Food Capitals of Instagram is a really nicely designed guide to the popularity of foods with Instagram users around the world. The interactive allows you to select a number of different types of food and see where the most Instagram users are posting pictures of that kind of food across the globe. Select a type of food from the icon menu above the map and you can see where Instagram users
18:30
Working With Map Projections
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Projection Face is a great illustration of the distortions created by different map projections. The interactive shows how 64 different map projections effect our view of the world by showing each projection's effect when applied to something very familiar, the human face. The distortions of each of the different projections cab be illustrated further by clicking and dragging any of the mapped
1:00
Wagga Wagga Hey
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They say that Wagga Wagga is so good that they named it twice. They are wrong. The second Wagga in Wagga Wagga is used as an intensifier. Wagga means 'crow'. So Wagga Wagga means 'many crows'. This reduplication of names is a fairly common theme in Australian place-names. Another example is the town of Tiba Tiba, which means 'lots of water'. The Reduplication Map of Australia is an interactive
07 octobre 2017
18:30
One Day of Gun Violence in the USA
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Earlier this week Vox published an interactive Mass Shootings map to visualize the 1,518 mass shootings in the United States since December 2012. Looking at the huge number of shootings over a number of years is an interesting way to explore America's obsession with guns and shooting each other. However you don't necessarily need to look at the accumulation of gun crime over time. You could
06 octobre 2017
20:30
The History of North and South Korea
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After the Second World the Korean Peninsula was divided in two. The north was occupied by Soviet troops. The South was occupied by the USA. In 1948 the two zones became two separate countries. It has been a story of intermittent conflict and fragile peace ever since. The Two Koreas is an Esri Story Map about the history of the two countries, their political leaders and their divergent
18:30
The Lyrical Map of Hip Hop
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The Pudding has analyzed the lyrics of about 50,000 songs in order to discover the most common words used in Hip Hop. From this analysis they were then able to make an interactive map which groups Hip Hop artists by lyrical similarity. The Words That are Most Hip Hop interactive map organizes the faces of Hip Hop artists based on the overlap between the words they use in their lyrics. You can
05 octobre 2017
20:30
Watch New York Being Built
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A new animated map shows the major periods of construction in New York since 1880.The map provides a great insight into which areas of New York were developed in each decade of the Twentieth Century. New York Construction allows you to select any year since 1880 and view all the buildings in New York which were built in the 50 years immediately before your chosen date. There are lots of other
18:30
110 Maps That Explain America
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Data USA claims to be "the most comprehensive website and visualization engine of public US Government data". It allows you to explore a wealth of government data about the demographics, economics, health and education of the United States. The Maps section of Data USA contains over 110 different choropleth views of this data. These maps visualize the different data sets about America and the
04 octobre 2017
18:00
Money = Happiness
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Alexander Bastidas Fry has used data from the World Happiness Report to map the happiness score of every country in the world. He has also created a number of visualizations which compares these country happiness scores against a number of other factors. One thing that Alexander's World Happiness visualization seems to show is that happiness is very closely tied to economic production. If you
03 octobre 2017
20:30
The Amazing Map of Rome
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There is very little new in cartography. Over the last few years there has been a bit of a trend to create building age maps of cities. A building age map is a great idea but it isn't new. For example an Italian archaeologist had the same idea over 100 years ago and what he created was nothing short of cartographic magnificence. At the turn of the Twentieth Century Italian archaeologist Rodolfo
18:30
1,518 Mass Shootings Mapped
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Since the tragedy of Sandy Hook there have been 1,518 mass shootings in the United States. In less than six years 1,715 people have been killed and 6,089 wounded in mass shootings. Vox has mapped all 1,518 of those mass shootings, using data from the Gun Violence Archive. Vox's Mass Shootings interactive map shows the location of 1,518 mass shootings across the United States since December
11:30
Moscow Noise Pollution
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Urbica built their own cheap noise meters using the OrangePi platform with a microphone attached. They then placed their meters on Velobike stations around Moscow. With this data the team were then able to build a noise pollution model for the whole of Moscow. The Noise Map of Moscow is the resulting interactive map of noise pollution in the Russian capital. At first glance the map appears to
02 octobre 2017
18:30
The Atlas of Data Technologies
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Lambert, the Data Monster, wants to take you on a guided tour of the World of Data Technologies. To help you find your way around Lambert has created an interactive map of Data World. The map uses Leaflet.js to introduce you to this confusing world of big data. The interactive map includes numbered map markers showing you all of Lambert's geotagged Monstragram photos. Click on the marker
16:00
Dangerous Roads for Cycling
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CycleStreets, the UK bike route map, now also allows you to view data about road accidents which have involved cyclists. This means that you can use CycleStreets to plan a bike route and also see the relative safety of that route, based on the number of traffic accidents. The road collision data comes from the Department of Transport. The map allows you to filter the traffic accidents shown
13:30
Real Trains in Real Time
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The Swiss Railways map Trafimage shows the entire public transit network of Switzerland. It maps railway lines, tram lines, buses and cable-cars. The map even shows you all the trains on the Swiss railway network moving in real-time. If you select the 'Train Tracker' option from the map menu you can watch all the trains in Switzerland moving in real-time, based on the timetable of the Swiss
30 septembre 2017
18:20
The Indigenous People of Colombia
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Over recent year the government of Colombia has been helping to secure the territorial land rights of some of the country's indigenous peoples. More than 1,630,000 acres of land has been legally titled to indigenous communities, helping to ensure the survival both of the indigenous peoples and the important ecosystems which exist within those territories. The Amazon Conservation Team's
29 septembre 2017
16:40
Mapping 17 million Data Points:
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Axismaps were challenged to visualize the percentage of children receiving rotavirus vaccines over ten years at state, county and zip code level. This is more than 17 million data points. A lot of data to put on an interactive map. The resulting Rotavirus Visualization is a very effective demonstration of the growth in the number of children receiving the vaccine across the United States
14:30
The Great British Music Map
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The Big British Music Map is a word map of famous UK bands and musical artists. It shows the most famous artists associated with the various regions and towns of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. If you select an artist on the map you can listen to their most iconic song. You can also view information about the artist's net worth and charting history. The association of artists to specific
28 septembre 2017
20:30
Mapping Photos of Hurricane Maria
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The National Alliance for Public Safety GIS (NAPSG) Foundation has created an interactive map to document and evaluate the damage caused by Hurricane Maria. The Hurricane Maria Photo Map is a crowd-sourced map of geo-located photos showing damage caused by the tropical storm. The map is designed to assist Emergency Management Agencies in evaluating the damage caused by Hurricane Maria and
18:30
Canada's Indian Residential Schools
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The Canadian Indian residential school system was created in order to remove indigenous Canadian children from their families and cultures. Over the 100 years of the school system's existence around 30% of indigenous children were removed from their homes and placed in residential boarding schools. The last of these schools was closed in 1996. You can view all 132 of these schools, located
27 septembre 2017
20:30
The Superhero Distribution Map
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There's obviously something in the water in New York. Something that turns ordinary men and women into superheroes. I've been analyzing the Marvel Superhero Origins map trying to work out where superheroes are most likely to born. The answer is 'New York' - probably. Exploring the map for the distribution of superhero births reveals that more superheroes are born in and around New York City
18:30
This We'll Pollute
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United States military and its contractors are the only people in the United States allowed to dispose of hazardous waste at highly polluting 'open burn' sites. It makes full use of this exemption. Open burn sites are banned because of the potentially dangerous levels of air pollution resulting from their use. The Pentagon and its contractors operate 61 open burn sites with no environmental
26 septembre 2017
22:51
NASA's Updated Worldview
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NASA has updated the EOSDIS Worldview interactive map to make it easier to find satellite imagery for recent natural events around the world. It allows you to quickly find NASA satellite imagery for natural events which can be seen from space, such as hurricanes, wildfires, icebergs, algal blooms and volcanic eruptions. Links to the imagery of recent natural events can be found under the '
18:30
Mapping Storm Damage from the Air
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Yesterday NOAA Tweeted the above pre & post-Hurricane nighttime satellite imagery of Puerto Rico. The imagery shows the devastating effect the storm has had on the country's electricity supply. Hurricane Maria has left most of the island without power. It has also caused extensive damage to buildings. NOAA has also released an interactive map of aerial imagery of Puerto Rico and the U.S.
10:36
Where Germany Votes Far Right
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Yesterday's election results revealed the rise in support for the far-right in Germany, particularly among voters in the former East Germany. The increase in votes for the extremist AfD however was not entirely unexpected. In fact before yesterday's election the Berliner Morgenpost had already explored the rising popularity of right-wing parties in previous German elections. In Where Germany
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Fried Chicken Dividing Lines
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Fried chicken shops are now the most important tool in demographics. If you want to know the economic health of a city's neighborhoods you can ignore census data and instead just count the number of fried chicken shops in each neighborhood. The lower the number the greater the wealth. We have looked before, in Fried chicken vs. coffee shops and in Fast Food England, how the 'fried chicken
25 septembre 2017
20:30
Valuing Vancouver
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The MountainMath blog has created an interesting mapped visualization of Vancouver's Homes in One Family (RS) Zones. The map allows you to enter your salary to view where you can afford to buy a home in the city (or, as is more likely, where you can't afford to buy). If you earn less than $175,000 your options for buying in a one family zone are very limited. At around 200k you have some
18:30
Abandoned Railroads of the USA
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Abandoned Rails is a website dedicated to the thousands of miles of railways which have been abandoned over the years in the United States. The site allows you to explore for America's abandoned railroad routes by railroad company or by location, using the Abandoned Rails Interactive Map. The interactive map plots the routes of abandoned railways - where their location is known. Where the
10:46
The Rise of the Far Right in East Germany
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Angela Merkel has won her fourth term as German Chanvellor. However the biggest news of this German election has to be the rise of the far right AfD party. It appears that both the centre-right CDU and centre-left Social Democrats lost voters to the controversial AfD. Despite retaining power in a coalition government Merkel's CDU party achieved their worst results since 1949. The Social
24 septembre 2017
23:50
Live German Election Map
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The Berliner Morgenpost's 2017 Wahlkarte is a live interactive map showing the live results from the 2017 German election. This Leaflet powered map allows you to view how each party has performed in the electoral constituencies which have declared their votes. constituencies on the map are colored by the party with the highest number of votes. If you select a political party's name (from the
23 septembre 2017
18:30
Shrinking Glaciers Around the World
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Since 1850 Switzerland's glaciers have shrunk by around 50%. The World Glacier Monitoring Service say that this process is likely to continue and that 80 to 90 percent of glacier ice mass will be lost by 2100. Swiss newspaper Tages Anzeiger has visualized the extent of Switzerland's shrinking glaciers in the last 160 years in So Schmolzen die Schweizer Gletscher in 160 Jahren Weg. In a series
22 septembre 2017
18:48
Boston Underwater
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Climate Ready Boston is an initiative by the City of Boston to help prepare the city for future climate change. As part of this initiative the city has released an interactive map showing the areas of the city most at risk from flooding and extreme heat. This new Map Explorer features spatial data from Climate Ready Boston. It also includes population demographic data so that the social
15:20
Ryanair's Cancelled Flights
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Here's what 1,848 cancelled flights look like on a map. Ryanair Cancelled Flights is a Carto interactive map showing all the flights cancelled by Ryanair from September 21st to October 28th (except for Oct 24th, the data for which appears to be missing from the map). Last Saturday low-cost airline Ryanair announced that it would be cancelling between 40 and 50 flights per day until the end of
21 septembre 2017
18:30
Trump's Wall Maps
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USA Today flew & drove along the entire 2,000-mile border between the United States and Mexico. During these journeys they mapped every known piece of the existing border fence between the two countries. You can view the locations of this existing border fence and also view the aerial video USA Today shot during their flight along the border on a new interactive map. Should we build a wall? A
12:30
Every Building in Great Britain
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Last year Emu Analytics released a Building Heights in England interactive map. The map uses data from the Ordnance Survey to color building footprints in all of England by the height of each building. If you want to create your own building footprint map using Ordnance Survey data for Great Britain then Alasdair Rae can help you. Alasdair has created shapefiles for all of Great Britain's
20 septembre 2017
18:30
Mexico Earthquake Maps
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Yesterday a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck central Mexico. At the time of writing there have been 216 confirmed deaths from the quake. The U.S. Geological Survey's interactive map locates the epicenter of the quake near the town of Raboso in Puebla, 76 miles southeast of Mexico City. The USGS's Latest Earthquakes Map includes options to view earthquake activity over the last 24 hours, the
19 septembre 2017
18:30
Non-Clustering Custom Place Labels
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Planet of Sound was created by Dorothy to crowd-source the music playlist for an event they held in May of this year. That event is now over but the map still works and is well worth visiting. Not least for its magical non-clustering custom map labels. The Planet of Sound map allows you to tag any location in the world with a song and a memory. If you don't want to add a song you can just
11:48
Vintage Maps of Japan
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The Japanese Historical Maps Collection of the East Asian Library has worked with the David Rumsey Map collection to digitize around 2,300 early Japanese maps. The Japanese Historical Maps collection allows you to explore all of these digitized historical maps from Japan as zoomable images. If you want you can explore some of these vintage maps in more detail on Google Maps. The Japan
18 septembre 2017
20:30
School Safety Snapshot
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Zendrive has rated the road safety around 75,000 schools nationwide. Using mobile phone data from car drivers Zendrive has measured the levels of dangerous driving around schools across the United States. You can find out the Zendrive ratings for dangerous driving around your local schools on the Zendrive School Safety Snapshot interactive map. The map uses three different administrative
18:30
Mapping Marine Protected Areas
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Marine Protected Areas (MPA) are areas of oceans where human activity is restricted for conservation purposes. 6.35% of the world's seas are now covered by MPAs. That is a ten-fold increase in the area of our oceans designated as MPAs in the first seventeen years of this century. You can view which areas of the world's oceans have MPA status on Protected Planet's Marine Protected Areas
17 septembre 2017
18:30
Free Style OSM
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If you like the Emoji Map Generator then you will probably love Map Stylizer. Where the Emoji Map Generator allows you to create maps from your favorite emojis the Map Stylizer gives you more scope to create a custom styled map from an OpenStreetMap tile. The Map Stylizer includes a number of pre-set map styles. For example the screenshot above shows the White House styled using the Map
15 septembre 2017
20:30
Cleaner Air = Longer Lives
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You can use this interactive map to find out how many extra years you could expect to live if your country met the World Health Organization's recommended safe levels of air quality. The Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago's Air Quality-Life Index map shows how many life years could be saved in countries around the world if they met WHO standards for safe levels of airborne
18:30
Rocking All Over the World
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Taylor Swift really likes playing in Nashville. If you check out her gigging history on the Music Globe you can see that the number of concerts she has played in Nashville dwarfs all other locations. Mind you she did move to Nashville at the age of fourteen, so perhaps her gigging history isn't that surprising. You can find out where other musical artists like to gig on this new 3d Music Globe.
14 septembre 2017
20:30
Before & After Irma
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The Washington Post has used satellite imagery from before & after Hurricane Irma to show the scale of the destruction caused by the tropical storm in the Carribean and in Florida. Before and After Hurricane Irma uses high resolution satellite imagery from DigitalGlobe to provide an aerial view of just a few of the areas devastated by the storm. NOAA has also released an interactive map which
18:30
Street Views of 1980s New York
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Broadway in the mid 1980s had a lot to offer. Karate Kid Part II was on at the cinema, Cats was being performed nightly at the theater and on Times Square you could buy just about any drug that you wanted. If that sounds appealing to you then get ready to jump into this new Street View time machine. 80s.NYC is a fantastic collection of vintage photographs of New York City street scenes, all
11:34
10 Street View Games to Kill Your Day
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1. GeoGuessr There are lots of 'Can you guess the Street View?' type games but there is only one GeoGuessr. GeoGuessr is probably the most popular Google Maps geography game. In this geography game you are shown a random Street View image and you must try to guess where in the world the Street View was taken. Once you have guessed you are shown how close your guess was to the correct location
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Mapping Australia's Support for Gay Marriage
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This month Australia is holding a non-binding national postal survey into the issue of same-sex marriage. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has released a really interesting story map which looks at the results of a poll which asked Australians the same question last year. How Australians think about same-sex marriage, mapped shows the level of support for gay marriage across the whole
13 septembre 2017
20:30
The Relative Cost of Housing
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Last month the Housing Affordability Story Map used Esri’s Housing Affordability Index to map the local affordability of housing across the United States. The map looked at the share of average income in an area to the size of the average mortgage to determine how affordable local property is for local people. Mortgage Magnitude is another Esri story map which uses the Housing Affordability
18:30
Global Sea Level Rise Since 1933
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The Permanent Service of Mean Sea Level has been measuring sea level changes around the world since 1933. To do this the organisation has over 2,000 tide gauge meters measuring sea levels across the globe. CORRECTIV has mapped the records from 500 of these meters to provide an insight into how sea levels have changed in the last century and how they might change in the future. Using
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The Languages of Sydney
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Small Multiples has used the Language Spoken at Home (LANP) data from the 2016 Australian census to map the languages spoken in Sydney and Melbourne. The languages we speak in Sydney and Melbourne includes two interactive dot maps (one for each city) which show the languages spoken at home by those cities' residents. The individual dots on both maps represent 5 people. The colors of the dots
12 septembre 2017
20:31
Dreamliner by Dreamliner
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Last month Boeing drew a massive geo-glyph of a Dreamliner aircraft during a test flight over the United States. While performing engine performance testing a Dreamliner test aircraft flew for 18 hours from Seattle to Seattle. Its flight path (which took it as far south as the southern tip of Texas) just happened to be in the shape of a giant, USA spanning, airplane. You can review the whole
18:30
All the Bikes in All the World
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The Bike Sharing Atlas is a great data dashboard which allows you to explore real-time data from over 1,000 bike sharing networks around the world. Using the dashboard you can view individual bike networks and compare and contrast how different cities operate their bike sharing networks. The 'Networks' view provides small multiple maps of bike sharing networks around the world. These multiple
11 septembre 2017
18:30
The History of the Hurricane
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Much has been made about the record breaking nature of Hurricane Irma. The intensity of Irma and the length of time it maintained that intensity meant that it broke all sorts of records. But don't take my word for it. You can compare Hurricane Irma to any other hurricane over the last 100 odd years for yourself using NOAA's interactive map of hurricane tracks. NOAA's Historical Hurricane Tracks
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The Geography of London's Nightlife
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London's nightlife is moving east and northwards, according to a new interactive map of the city's clubs. Nesta's Clubbing Map shows where clubs have opened & closed in London from 2005-2015 and shows that the city's West End is losing its traditional role as the center of London nightlife. The map shows that since 2005 a large number of new clubs have opened up in and around Shoreditch in
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This Map Speaks Māori
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If you get upset about all the World Maps Without New Zealand then you might want to spare a thought for Māori speakers. Even though Google Maps includes New Zealand apparently its automated voice always seems to mispronounce Māori place-names. To rectify this problem Vodafone and Google have released a new map to crowdsource all the place-names that Google Maps manages to mispronounce. Anyone
09 septembre 2017
14:08
Mapping and the Physical Web
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I spent most of this morning hunting down 3D-printed creatures which were hiding in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. There are 15 of these creatures hidden around the park, which you can find with the Tales From the Park interactive map. Tales of the Park is a new digital experience created by UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). Using an interactive map you can hunt
08 septembre 2017
20:30
Abortion Clinic Driving Times
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151 towns and cities in the US have no accessible abortion clinics that are within a 1 hour round-trip drive. If you live in one of the worst states for provision then a round-trip to the nearest abortion-providing clinic can take up to nine hours. State legislation where you live may also limit abortion to a certain number of number of weeks of pregnancy. If you are pregnant for longer then
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Mapping Pictures of Hurricane Irma
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The National Alliance for Public Safety GIS (NAPSG) Foundation has created an interactive map to document and evaluate the damage caused by Hurricane Irma. The Hurricane Irma Photo Map is a crowd-sourced map of geo-located photos showing damage caused by the tropical storm. It is designed to assist Emergency Management Agencies in evaluating the damage caused by Hurricane Irma and assess
07 septembre 2017
18:30
Name That Place in One
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How well do you know your city? Test your knowledge with Urbanopticon, a Street View location guessing game. It is fun to play and is also a fun citizen science project. So let's play! After selecting a city where you want to play you are shown a random Street View image. You need to show where you think that Street View is by clicking on the Google Map. Once you have submitted your answer
06 septembre 2017
20:30
Roll Your Own Game of Thrones Map
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It has never been easier to create your own interactive Game of Thrones map. Thanks to Carto you don't even need to create your own basemap of Essos and Westeros. Carto's Game of Thrones Basemap of the Seven Kingdoms provides a great canvas on which you can add all of your Games of Thrones geo-data. If you want to know how to add all your GoT geo-data to the Carto basemap then you need Patrick
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Cycling Accidents in New York
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New York can be a very dangerous place to cycle. Especially between 6-7 pm and during the month of September. You can see how precarious it can be to bike in New York on this NYC Cycling Incidents Map. The map shows that there aren't many sections of the city's roads where cyclists haven't been injured. In fact there are so many dots (each showing the location of a cycling accident) that
05 septembre 2017
22:30
Hurricane Irma Interactive Maps
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Google has released a crisis map for Hurricane Irma. The Hurricane Irma Crisis Response Map shows the hurricane's forecast path as well as a number of layers to help people living in the storm zone. The emergency layers for Hurricane Irma include public alerts, evacuation routes and the locations of shelters, gas stations & their fuel status. The map also includes layers to show the current
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Halibut Mapping
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The International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) carries out annual surveys to assess halibut stocks in eleven regulatory areas, from northern California to the Bering Sea. A new interactive map has used this survey data to visualize how the numbers and size of halibut in the Pacific Ocean have drastically fallen since 1998. Mapping change in weight, length, and abundance of Pacific
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Mapping Animal Migrations
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The Military Mutual has created an interactive map showing the incredible migratory journeys undertaken by animals around the world. The map shows selected journeys made by species which every year travel incredible distances by land, sea and air. The lines on the Strength in Numbers map show the direction and locations of the selected animal migrations. The circles represent the size of the
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Mapping Aboriginal Place Names
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I linked earlier today to the Muru View application which superimposes the original indigenous place-names of Australian locations on top of Google Maps Street View. That application uses data from historical surveys from the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia. The work recovering the data used in Muru View was undertaken by the State Library of New South Wales. The library has used
04 septembre 2017
18:30
On the Road 2.0
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If Jack Kerouac was alive today he could avoid all that budget travel, teenage angst and broken dreams by traveling across the USA on Google Maps Street View. That's what Lionel Tardy did. And he's documented his virtual journey in A Road Trip Through West USA. A Road Trip Through West USA is a hyperlapse journey using Google Maps Street View images. It animates a roundabout journey from LA to
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How Will East & West Berlin Vote?
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German newspaper Tagesspiegel has been investigating how Berlin neighborhoods have voted in all general elections since the fall of the Berlin Wall. With the next Federal Election just a few weeks away the paper wanted to explore how Berliners have voted in previous elections and in particluar whether East and West Berlin are still generally supporting different political parties. The Wie
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Aboriginal View
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Muru View superimposes the original indigenous place-names of Australian locations on top of Google Maps Street View - in 3d! The application uses place-names used in historical surveys from the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia to map the original indigenous place-names of locations in New South Wales. It superimposes the place-name labels for each of these locations on top of its
03 septembre 2017
16:00
Merlo's Map of Reformation Venice
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The Newberry library in Chicago has a major exhibition on Religious Change and Print, 1450-1700 opening on September 14th. In support of this exhibition they have put together an online collection of the Newberry's manuscripts, maps and images from the Reformation. This includes a superb interactive presentation of Giovanni Merlo’s engraved map of Venice from 1676. The Newberry's interactive
02 septembre 2017
18:30
Before & After Harvey
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This week the Washington Post wondered what would happen if you dropped a huge volume of water on other locations in the United States. It has put together a number of mapped visualizations which imagine the effect historic levels of flooding could have on other cities. Meanwhile Esri has used NOAA aerial surveys to show images of Houston before and after Hurricane Harvey. The Washington
01 septembre 2017
18:30
New Cloudless Satellite Map
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EOX has released an interactive cloudless satellite map of the world using imagery from the European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites. The Sentinel-2 Cloudless Map uses satellite imagery of the Earth captured between May 2016 and April 2017. EOX's Sentinel-2 Cloudless Map includes a labels layer which allows you to view country borders and place labels on top of the satellite
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800,000 Street Views of Amsterdam
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The City of Amsterdam has added 800,000 panoramic images of Amsterdam to Mapillary, the crowd-sourced alternative to Street View. This new 360 degree imagery includes lots of Street View imagery of the city's canals captured by canal boat. The best way to view the new imagery is by zooming in on Amsterdam on Mapillary. You can then select 'filters' and turn on the "Only show 360 panoramas"
31 août 2017
22:30
Mapping Child Care Deserts
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It appears that over half of Americans live in child care deserts, areas where it is difficult to find licensed child care. The Center for American Progress has analyzed the locations of licensed child care providers in 22 states (all those that have publicly available databases of licensed child care providers) and determined that much of the USA has inadequate child care provision. You can
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4472 San Francisco Families Evicted
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The No-Fault Evictions Map visualizes properties in San Francisco where landlords have evicted their tenants using the controversial Ellis Act. It shows both individual properties and an overall choropleth view which shows which San Francisco neighborhoods have seen the most eviction. The map includes a date control which allows you to filter the map by a specific date range. You can also
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Wake to the Sounds of Nature
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Wake each morning to the sounds of nature with the EcoAlarm. The EcoAlarm will gently wake you every morning using specially recorded sounds from some of the world's most natural environments. As you wake to the sounds of water flowing and birds singing you will also be helping to save the forests of Argentina. EcoAlarm is an alarm clock application that wakes you using the sounds of the
30 août 2017
20:30
The Emoji Map Generator
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You have probably dreamed all of your life that one day you will have your very own Emoji Map. Well today that life-long dream becomes a reality - thanks to the Emoji Map Generator. The Emoji Map Generator can create an emoji map for any location in the world. Just select the area you want to map and click 'generate'. It really is that simple. You now have an Emoji Map. But "Hold on"", I hear
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2017 Tour de Turtles
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Soca, the Leatherback turtle, is currently leading this year's exciting Tour de Turtles. With 63 days left in this annual endurance race Soca is currently around 200 miles in front of Lincoln in second place. However, with 6 days still remaining in the Tour de Turtles, this race is still wide open. Every year Sea Turtle Conservancy track the marathon migration of sea turtles from their nesting

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