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01 July 2022
12:46
The Climate Shift Index
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The Climate Shift Index shows you how much global heating has influenced today's weather. Every day the Climate Shift Index map reveals where in the United States temperatures have been affected by climate change. The map reveals just how much global warming could be affecting the weather on any given day.The colors on the Climate Shift Index map where that day's temperatures are more or less
30 June 2022
10:35
Mapping Vintage Newspapers
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The Library of Congress' Chronicaling America project digitizes historic newspapers from across the United States. Using the site anyone can search and read historic newspaper stories published at any time from 1777-1963. A new interactive map now allows you to search these vintage newspapers by location. The new Exploring Chronicaling America Newspapers interactive map allows you to browse the
29 June 2022
9:42
Introducing Mapbox Globe View
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Mapbox's 3D globe view is now available to all developers. The new globe map projection option in Mapbox GL and Mapbox mobile SDKs allows you to turn your 2D maps into fully interactive 3D globes. The new globe view includes a number of styling options which allow developers to "adjust the color of space, (the) visibility of stars, and the color of the atmosphere around a globe".If you want an
28 June 2022
19:00
Game of Populations
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The UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) has today released the latest population and household estimates for England and Wales based on the 2021 census. The population of England & Wales is now 59,597,300. In the previous census (2011) the population of England & Wales was 56,075,912 The UK population as a whole is now almost 67 million. In celebration of the new population data for
9:51
They Paved Paradise
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USA Parking Lots is an interactive map of the United States which blacks out every single parking lot in the country. Of course because this is America it means that if you zoom in on a major city the map displays a lot of black polygons.Because the map doesn't have a FAQ page I don't know how the data for the parking lots was obtained. If I was going to make a similar map for the UK I would
27 June 2022
18:30
Explore the Pyramids of Meroë
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Fresh from climbing Mount Everest in 3D today I'm undertaking a tour of the Pyramids of Meroë. If you travel south down the River Nile through Egypt to Sudan, just before you get to Khartoum you will come to Meroë, the ancient capital of the Kushite Kingdom. Here you will discover an ancient city which is home to more than 200 pyramids. Google Arts and Culture's Pyramids of Meroë is a
9:51
GoeGuessr for Art
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Geo Artwork is a fun game in which you have to guess where individual works of art were created. The game is very similar to the popular Geoguessr game, except instead of trying to work out the location of Google Maps Street View images you have to work out the origins of individual works of art.In Geo Artwork you are shown a painting (or another type of artwork) and using your knowledge of art
25 June 2022
9:58
Where is Abortion Illegal?
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Following Friday's decision by the Supreme Court to overturn Roe vs Wade the legality of abortion has now been handed over to individual states. This means that a woman's right to choose in the United States depends on a patchwork of laws which range from states with outright bans on abortion to states where the right to choose is enshrined in law.To help inform women of their local laws
24 June 2022
9:48
Climb Mount Everest in 3D
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Mount Everest 3D is an impressive 3D map of the world's tallest mountain and the peaks which surround it in the Himalyayas. The map uses high resolution aerial imagery draped over a 3D digital elevation model to provide a unique view of one of the world's most beautiful and inspiring landscapes.As wall as being able to pan around and zoom in on the wonders of the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of
23 June 2022
18:18
A Brief History of Time & Space
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the shifting borders of the Holy Roman Empire from 1000-1750 Point in History is an interactive map which allows you to explore country and regional borders over time. The map uses historical boundaries data from the Historical Boundaries Project in order to show how the boundaries of countries around the world have developed and changed through history.If you click anywhere on the map a
10:28
The Drunken Spider Crawl
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Today I finally got around to creating my own 'data spider' map, inspired by William Davis's viral Hub and Spoke interactive map. My Drunken Spider Map can help you find the ten nearest bars to any location in London or New York. If you pan around the map then the 'spider' will walk around the map, so that it is always pointing to the ten nearest bars to the center of the map.Cloning William's
22 June 2022
10:47
Brooklyn Bridge is Falling Down
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Brooklyn Bridge may not be about to fall down any time soon, however according to the U.S. National Bridge Inventory Map it is in 'poor condition'. Esri's U.S. National Bridge Inventory Map uses government data to map the age and condition of bridges over 100 years old in the United States. The map can be used to discover the condition of bridges across the country and view data on how much
21 June 2022
9:56
100 Years of Climate Data
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The European Climate Assessment & Dataset project records data for more than 15,000 weather stations across Europe. This data includes historical temperature and precipitation records dating back as far as the 19th Century. The data provides comprehensive evidence of how climate change has contributed to extreme rises in temperature across the whole of Europe. The Climate ECAD Map uses this
20 June 2022
9:53
Mapping the French Election
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Macron's En Marche! party has failed to win a majority in France's new National Assembly following strong performances by the left-wing alliance and the far right. The president's En Marche! won the most seats of any party in the national election. However the 245 seats won by Macron fall well short of the 289 seats needed for an overall majority in the National Assembly and far short of the
18 June 2022
10:23
Backup Ukraine
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According to Ukraine's Ministry of Culture Russia has already destroyed over 300 buildings and sites of cultural importance in Ukraine. This includes the total destruction of 9 cultural heritage sites in the Donetsk, Kyiv, Sumy and Chernihiv regions. In response to this destruction of Ukraine's cultural and historical heritage the Backup Ukraine project is helping volunteers to capture and
17 June 2022
10:54
Cool Off with a Climate Stripe Fan!
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Has Global Warming got you sweating this summer? Don't worry. And don't get all hot under the collar about climate change. Instead just sit back & relax and cool yourself off with a strikingly beautiful Climate Stripe Fan.The Berliner Morgenpost's Climate Stripe Fan is the perfect answer to this summer's record breaking heat waves. Let's face it world leaders and global corporations will do
15 June 2022
9:58
How Big is Occupied Ukraine?
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The New Statesman has released an interactive tool which allows you to view a map showing the area of Ukraine currently occupied by Russia. The map also allows you to drag this territory around the map so that you can easily compare this occupied area to any other location on Earth. If you drag the red polygon (representing the territory of Ukraine currently occupied by invading Russian forces)
14 June 2022
20:00
URL Map
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Map URL is an impressive interactive map which you can control by using a number of query string parameters within the map's URL address. Using the available query string parameters you can center your map at any location in the world, set the zoom level of the map and even add a marker at a specified location. For example the map in the screenshot above was created using the URL address: [https]
13 June 2022
19:00
Data Spiders
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Hub and Spoke is an interactive map which shows you the eight closest airports from any location on Earth. Click anywhere on this map and turf.js is used to draw lines from that location to the eight nearest airports. Obviously this map will be invaluable to anybody who is desperate to know where their nearest airports are located. However, to be honest, I think most people are going to use
10:48
The Poor & Poor Health in Brussels
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The investigative journalism magazine Médor has undertaken an extremely detailed examination of the health of Brussels. In Bruxelles Malade they explore the extreme inequality of health and health care provision in the capital of Belgium. Through a detailed analysis and mapping of health, economic and housing data Médor shows how the poorest neighborhoods in Brussels suffer from low incomes,
11 June 2022
12:00
Space Junk
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In November Russia fired a missile at one of its own satellites, exploding it into over 1,500 pieces of large orbital debris and hundreds of thousands of pieces of smaller orbital debris. This debris caused pandemonium aboard the International Space Station, where the seven crew members were forced to shelter in capsules. Luckily (and purely by chance) the debris passed by the ISS without
10 June 2022
10:11
Wheat, War & Famine
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The Guardian has published an informative story map which illustrates how the Russian invasion of Ukraine is disrupting the world's food supply and contributing to rising food prices across the world. In the Black Sea Blockade the newspaper uses a story map to illustrate and explain how the war in Ukraine is affecting the global supply of wheat and sunflower oil.Russia and Ukraine provide
09 June 2022
18:30
The Map of Your Twitter Friends
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Small World is a new application which acts like a Marauder's Map for your Twitter Friends. Sign in to Small World using your Twitter account and you can view all the people you follow on Twitter on an interactive map. Small World can even automatically notify you when you're in the same city as one of your Twitter friends.According to Small World 14 of my Twitter friends are currently close-by
9:06
Scratch & Sniff New York
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Under the grey, decrepit streets of New York there is a shiny, modern 21st Century city just waiting to emerge. At least there is on Chris Whong's Urban Scatchoff interactive map. Urban Scratchoff uses aerial imagery of early 20th Century New York, captured by a plane in a 1924 flyover of the city. Underneath this 20th Century aerial imagery is another layer which contains more recent aerial
08 June 2022
9:58
The Sound of 6,000 Years of Deforestation
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Six Thousand Years of Forests tells the story of how the UK's forests have been transformed over the last 6,000 years into croplands, pastures and cities. What was once a country covered by primeval forest is now an intensely farmed and populated landscape, with only 13% of the country covered by woodland. However Six Thousand Years of Forests doesn't confine itself just to the UK. In fact it
07 June 2022
9:49
The Noise of the City
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Noisy Cities is an interactive map which visualizes noise pollution in New York, Paris and London.Noisy Cities isn't just a mapped visualization of noise pollution. It is also a mapped sonification of noise pollution. These interactive maps of New York, Paris and London don't just use a heat map layer to visualize the average levels of road traffic and aircraft noise. If you turn on your
04 June 2022
10:57
Where Cars Kill
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Every year tens of thousands of people are hit by cars in New York. The New Yorker has released an interactive map which allows you to see where cars have injured pedestrians or cyclists between 2013 and 2021. Enter a New York zip-code into the When Cars Kill map and you can view the locations of all the car crashes in that neighborhood that resulted in injuries.The map uses data from the New
03 June 2022
9:39
Prevailing Winds & Runway Alignment
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Wind History is a new interactive map which shows the prevailing wind directions around weather stations in the United States. Most of these weather stations are located at airports. On the map 2,500 wind rose diagrams show the normal wind direction at airports across the United States. A larger date control allows you to view the prevailing wind directions at all airports on the map for any
02 June 2022
10:13
The Top 10 Wordle Like Map Games
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The pace of new Wordle inspired map and geography games shows no signs of abating. EOGuesser is the latest daily geography challenge which is obviously inspired in part by the now famous word game. The objective of EOGuessser is to guess the correct location shown in a satellite image. You have three attempts to guess the correct location. The closer you get to the correct location the more
01 June 2022
11:57
What Matters in the Midterm Elections
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In order to find out which issues voters care most about for the upcoming midterms, Axios analyzed which issues were being searched the most on Google in each congressional district. In Midterm elections 2022: The issues that matter to Americans Axios has mapped out the relative and absolute importance of different political issues in each district.As you can see in the animated screenshot
31 May 2022
8:31
Map Clipping
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I recently received a request to help design a triangular map to complement a company logo. Having only last week written about Microsoft's Building Footprints I decided that I would use a building footprint layer as my base-map, with the map clipped to only show those buildings within a triangular area. The objective being to create something like the map above.Having downloaded the building
30 May 2022
10:51
Footways and Slow Ways
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A new interactive map can help you navigate London on foot, showing you the quietest and most enjoyable routes for walking in the capital. The Footways map includes hundreds of kilometres of scenic, safe and pedestrian-friendly walking routes in central London.The map includes hundreds of routes, spanning out from London's mainline stations, using the most low-traffic and low-pollution streets,
28 May 2022
14:39
The Highway Exits of Massachusetts
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The animated GIF above shows aerial images of highway exits across Massachusetts. The images were taken from Bird's Eye Cards, a collection of categorized aerial observations of the Massachusetts landscape, created by the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library. Lots of round water bodies in Massachusetts Bird's Eye Cards was created by Garrett Dash Nelson, who has
27 May 2022
10:27
America's Mass Shooting Problem
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School Shootings are an almost uniquely American problem. While it is true that school shootings have taken place in other countries around the world, as the map above shows no other country has experienced anywhere near the number of school shootings as the United States. This School Shootings by Country 2022 map claims that the USA has experienced 288 school shootings. The country with the
26 May 2022
10:34
Polluting the Poor in San Francisco
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If you are on a low income in San Francisco then you are probably breathing polluted air. On average the poorest San Franciscans have a 30% higher exposure to nitrogen dioxide than other residents in the city. If you are poor and black then you are probably breathing in even more polluted air. Neighborhoods with high densities of Black, Latino and Asian residents have on average 55 percent more
24 May 2022
11:11
Downloading Microsoft's Building Footprints
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Microsoft's Building Footprints dataset now contains data on 777m buildings around the world. The data can be downloaded in GeoJSON format and can be used under a Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL).The building footprint data is created by Microsoft by AI detection of buildings from satellite imagery. The map at the top of this post shows where building footprint data is currently
21 May 2022
16:29
Australian Election Maps
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Australia's conservative Coalition government has lost power for the first time in nearly a decade. The Labor Party is projected to win enough seats to form the new government and its leader, Anthony Albanese, will become the country's new Prime Minister. At the time of writing, while it is still not clear whether the Labor Party will reach the 76 seats it needs for an overall majority, it has
20 May 2022
8:47
How Election Maps Lie
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Tomorrow (21 May 2022) Australia goes to the polls to elect a new government. Ahead of the election and before the results begin to be visualized ABC News has released an interesting analysis of how Australia voted in the last election and what the two main parties have to do to win this election. At the core of this analysis is a discussion of how electoral maps can actually distort the true
19 May 2022
9:36
The Deadly Streets of San Francisco
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Six times a day, every day of the week someone is injured by a car in San Francisco. A car injures someone approximately every four hours on the city's streets. Around every 13.19 days a person is killed by a car in the city.The San Francisco Traffic Fatality Map hopes to shame the city's elected officials into action by identifying and memorializing all the victims of car violence in San
18 May 2022
9:12
Street View of War
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The official website of the Department of Tourism of the Kyiv Oblast State Administration are determined to record and document the destruction being caused in their region. In order that no-one is ever able to forgot the crimes committed in the Kyiv region they have established a Virtual Museum of War Memory. The main exhibit in the Virtual Museum of War is a number of custom made Street View
17 May 2022
9:23
Mapping Fire & Flood Risk
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Both the Washington Post and NPR have released new interactive maps which allow you to view the risk of wildfire to your home. Climate change means that the chances of extreme weather conditions are increasing for everyone. These extreme weather conditions bring with them increasing risks of wildfire and in some locations increased flooding risk. The First Street Foundation has analyzed the
16 May 2022
9:59
Geo Sentences
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My life is about to get a lot easier. I waste many, many hours every week editing geographical data in geojson.io. This process often involves having to painstakingly delete individual polygons and lines on an interactive map in order to create a smaller GeoJSON file containing only the geographic features that I actually require. Another time intensive activity I often struggle with is trying
15 May 2022
12:19
A Super Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse
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Tonight, beginning at around 10.30pm (EDT), you will be able to watch a full lunar eclipse. On May 15th the sun, moon and Earth will align. Between 10.30pm and 2am the Earth will move between the sun and the full moon and as a result the Earth's shadow will pass across the surface of the moon. As the Earth's shadow passes over the moon it will cause the moon to have a reddish hue. This is why a
14 May 2022
2:00
Mapping Rising Seas
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NZ SeaRise is an interactive map which reveals how rising sea levels might effect locations around the coast of Aotearoa based on different climate change scenarios. Using the map you can view the likely impact of sea level rises at 7,434 sites around New Zealand (covering every 2km of coastline).Because New Zealand suffers from a lot of techtonic activity mapping the impact of sea level rises
13 May 2022
11:38
The NYPD is Spying on You
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There are thousands of surveillance cameras in New York which can track your movements around the city. The New York Police Department's facial recognition software can identify individuals as they move around New York and pass in front of any of the city's pervasive surveillance cameras. The system works using millions of profile pictures scraped from social media accounts without users'
12 May 2022
9:37
24 Hours of Global Flight Traffic
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Google has released an animated map visualizing 24 hours of global flight traffic around the world. The WebGL Air Traffic Demo has been released to illustrate what can be achieved using the WebGL features of the Google Maps JavaScript API.The WebGL overlay view in the Google Maps API allows developers to add and animate 2D and 3D graphics on top of a Google Map. In the WebGL Air Traffic Demo
11 May 2022
8:37
Global Plastic Watch
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The world's plastic waste is now being mapped from space. Global Plastic Watch (GPW) has released a new interactive map which tracks the world’s plastic pollution in near real-time by using artificial intelligence to identify plastic waste sites in satellite imagery.GPW's algorithms can identify plastic waste sites as small as 5x5 meters. By identifying and mapping sites where plastic waste is
10 May 2022
10:36
Exposing the Horrors of War
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Over the last two months reporters at the Washington Post have verified more than 200 videos documenting some of the atrocities carried out by Russia in its invasion of Ukraine. Since the beginning of the Russian attack on Ukraine ordinary citizens, soldiers, and officials have been using their phones to record the horrors carried out by the Russian army.The Post has now organized these videos
09 May 2022
10:47
A Still Life Map of the World
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Jason Farago of the New York Times has published another close reading of a Dutch masterpiece. Over the last few years Farago has released a number of art essays which look closely at famous works of arts. Each of these art critiques owe a lot to the navigation and presentation techniques developed for online interactive maps. As you progress through one of his close readings an accompanying
08 May 2022
20:56
Population By Latitude and Longitude
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About 88% of the world's population lives north of the equator. One reason for this is that there is more landmass north of the equator and more ocean south of the equator. However the north of the planet has only around 68% of the world's landmass. This means that nearly 90% of the world's population is squeezed into the 68% of the world's landmass that lies north of the equator.You can
06 May 2022
10:10
Voice Controlled Maps
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Steve Attewell's Voice Controlled Map is an interesting experiment in providing a more accessible interactive map with navigation controls that support vocal commands. This means that users are able to search and move around the map using a number of different spoken commands.The map can be panned up & down and left & right, can be zoomed in and out, and can be moved to named locations all by
04 May 2022
10:09
The Importance of the Indian Ocean
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The Strategic Importance of the Indian Ocean is a new interactive map which seeks to underline the strategic importance of the Indian Ocean as one region, stretching from the eastern coast of Africa to the western coast of Australia. The map provides an interactive tool for exploring the importance of the Indian Ocean to trade & global shipping, and to visualize the territorial claims of
03 May 2022
9:44
Comparing Map Projections
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If xkcd's recent Madagascator cartoon map has sparked your interest in the use of map projections then you might like Engaging Data's Country Centered Map Projections interactive tool. This map allows you to view how different map projections can have a dramatic effect on how the world is visualized. It also shows that where you center a map can also radically alter how the world is
02 May 2022
9:42
Madagascator & Mexicator
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xkcd has published another fun, map based cartoon. Bad Map Projection No. 248: Madagascator is a world map which uses the Mercator projection "but with the North Pole in the Indian Ocean so that it exaggerates the size of Madagascar instead of Greenland.' The map is a great way to visualize how the Mercator projection distorts size the more you move away from the equator. Because Mercator is so
30 April 2022
11:10
Coal Power & Extreme Heat
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India has been experiencing weeks of extreme heat. As Indians have struggled to cope with temperatures approaching 46°C the demand for electricity has soured. In recent years the Indian government has responded to souring energy demands by building more & more coal fired power stations. Coal is of course the single largest source of global heating. Build more coal power plants ? the world gets
29 April 2022
12:07
Street Widths in American Cities
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American streets tend to be much wider than streets in other countries. The average width of a residential street in the United States is 55 ft. For comparison, in Paris in post-1990 developments the average street width is less than 20 ft. While in Tokyo the average street in post-1990 developments is just 16.4 feet wide.Street widths obviously differ in different U.S. cities. Streets in
28 April 2022
9:48
A New Global Population Explorer
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Population Explorer is a new interactive map for visualizing and exploring global population density. Using the tool you can explore where people live around the world and access basic demographic data (such as gender and age) for defined areas.To create this new interactive tool Meta used artificial intelligence to estimate population density from buildings identified in satellite imagery. The
27 April 2022
12:11
Step Inside a New York Tenement
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The Washington Post has created a virtual tour which allows you to step inside a New York tenement building and explore how people lived in the city at the beginning of the 20th Century. The tenement at 97 Orchard Street, Manhattan is one of two historical buildings owned by the Tenement Museum. Each building has been preserved to provide a sort of time capsule of life in the late 19th and
25 April 2022
10:35
2022 French Election Maps
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Yesterday the people of France, given a choice between a center-right candidate and an extreme right-wing candidate, decided to vote for the center-right politician. Which means that Emmanuel Macron will serve a second term as President of France. Two weeks ago, in the first round of voting for the French President, Macron and Le Pen finished first and second from a field of twelve. This led to
23 April 2022
11:15
Global Warming is Happenng
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Americans overwhelmingly believe that global warming is happening. According to the Yale Climate Opinion Maps the majority of people in every state in America believes that 'global warming is happening'. Every year Yale surveys the opinions of Americans, aged 25 and over, about their attitudes, beliefs and policy preferences towards global warming. You can view the results of this year's survey
22 April 2022
10:45
Earth Day Doodles
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satellite imagery showing the glacier retreat occurring at the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro Today's Doodle on the Google homepage features animated time-lapse imagery, providing evidence of the impact of climate change. In honor of Earth Day 2022 Google is displaying four different animated GIF's, each one showing how global heating is effecting one of four different locations around the world. If
21 April 2022
10:03
64 Days Since a Global Warming Record
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The United States has gone 64 days without a daily temperature record being broken somewhere in the country. On Feb 15th Borger, Texas recorded a temperature of 78 degrees Fahrenheit. It was the hottest Feb 15th in Borger on record. That day was also the last time a record daily temperature was recorded in the United States (at least until the next time a daily temperature record is broken).The
20 April 2022
10:31
The Las Vegas Building Age Map
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Las Vegas was founded in 1907. During the early years of its existence the city had a relatively small population. In 1930, one year before gambling was legalized, the population was 5,165. The city now has a population of over 640,000. Over the last one hundred years a lot of new buildings have had to be built in order to accommodate Las Vegas' expanding population and industry.You can explore
19 April 2022
10:15
Explordle
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Explordle is a fun geography game which requires you to identify the correct locations shown in a YouTube video. It is kind of like a game of GeoGuessr - except it is played with a video rather than Google Street View. The rules of Explordle are very simple. You are shown a video of a random location and all you have to do is pick the correct location from a choice of four. After you have made
18 April 2022
11:09
What Two Numbers?
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A mysterious new website is causing confusion around the world. Visit What 2 Numbers and you are presented with two seemingly random numbers. What is truly spooky is that I have found that if you cut and paste the two numbers presented into Google then you will be shown a map revealing your current location. Eerie!On a completely unrelated note I really like this xkcd explanation of Coordinate
16 April 2022
10:34
Europe's Refugee Backlog
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On the 4th March the European Union enacted a 'special protection system' which gives Ukrainian refugees near-automatic asylum. The system is designed to quickly provide residence & work permits for those fleeing the war in Ukraine. While this is obviously fantastic for anyone fleeing the atrocities and war crimes being carried out by the Russian army it may not be so great for refugees from
15 April 2022
10:03
Movie Maps
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a lot of movies have been set in Chicago A very good friend of mine will soon be moving from the UK to live in Visalia, California. In preparation for the move I thought it might be fun to watch a movie set in Visalia. I therefore looked up the city on Wikidata's the Narrative Locations of Movies Map.Larry Clark's controversial movie 'Ken Park' seems to be the only movie that was ever set in the
14 April 2022
10:00
The New Racial Dot Maps of America
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The University of Virginia's Racial Dot Map of America has been taken off-line. After 9 years the popular interactive map, visualizing the distribution of race and ethnicity in the US, has finally come to an end. In a statement announcing the map's removal the Demographics Research Group at the University of Virginia stated that there are several reasons why the map has now been ended.Chief
13 April 2022
10:44
AI Generated Maps
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Latent Diffusion is a very clever AI powered tool which can create images from a text prompt. Tell Latent Diffusion what you want a picture of and it will generate a synthesized image based on your request. I asked Latent Diffusion to design some maps in the style of different artists. Here are the (mostly awful) results: a map painted by Piet Mondrian a map of New York painted by Van
12 April 2022
10:13
Mapping the French Election
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On Sunday the French voted in the first round of the 2022 presidential election. Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen emerged as the two leading candidates in the election and will go forward into the second round of voting to be held on 24 April.Yesterday Le Monde published an interactive map of the election which colors each commune based on the candidate who received the most votes in the first
11 April 2022
11:14
Exploring Patterns in Placenames
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Placename Patterns Using Regular Expressions is an interactive mapping tool for exploring the distribution of different patterns in placenames. For example in the map above I have plotted the distribution of placenames ending in 'thorpe' and 'chester' in the British Isles and placenames starting with 'Beau''. The distribution of the placename suffix 'thorpe' (the old Norse word for 'homestead'
09 April 2022
10:11
Four Seasons in One Map
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This animated map shows the temperature of the sea surface changing over the course of one year. Sea surface temperature influences the weather and the climate around the globe. The temperature of the sea effects the temperature of the air above it and influences atmospheric wind, warmth and water content. On the map you can see the cycle of warming and cooling with the passing of the seasons.
08 April 2022
10:50
The Floating Shiny Knot is Back
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One of my favorite Street View experiments (from the days when Street View experiments were all the rage), is back.Ten years ago I described the Floating Shiny Knot as,"an impressive experiment using canvas with Street View. The application superimposes an animated shiny knot on top of any Street View image (you can choose a chrome or glass finish for the knot). You can even rotate and drag the
07 April 2022
9:50
The 2022 r/place Atlas
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Josh Wardle, the inventor of Wordle), had his first viral hit back in 2017 with the subReddit r/place. On April 1st 2017 Reddit uploaded a 1,000 x 1,000 pixel canvas to the /r/place subreddit. The canvas was blank except for the message: "There is an empty canvas. You may place a tile upon it, but you must wait to place another. Individually you can create something. Together you can create
06 April 2022
10:09
How Kyiv Beat Putin
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In How Kyiv Has Withstood Russia's Attacks the New York Times explains how the Ukrainian capital has managed to defend itself against a larger army with far bigger weapons. At the heart of this explanation is an interactive storymap which the newspaper uses to illustrate the Russian army's troop movements and to show how its attack was repelled by the brave citizens of Kyiv. 3D buildings are
05 April 2022
10:26
Uninhabitable Earth
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Yesterday the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report on climate change. In the report the IPCC warns that the Earth is currently heading towards increased temperatures of more than 3C.This will have catastrophic effects for life on Earth. In Where the Earth Will be Uninhabitable the Berliner Morgenpost has used a 3D globe to highlight all the locations in
04 April 2022
10:36
House Styles Throught the Ages
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Explore Milwaukee's History Through its Many Home Styles is a fascinating interactive map which visualizes how the architectural styles of Milwaukee's residential properties have changed through its history. The map reveals how architectural tastes have developed over time and how these changes have helped define modern day Milwaukee.In the late 19th Century into the beginning of the 20th
02 April 2022
10:15
America's Rent Inflation Crisis
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Over the last year there have been some astronomical rises in the cost of renting in the USA. A new analysis by Rent.com shows that rents have risen by at least 40% in many cities across the country in just the last year. For example in Long Beach, California the average rent for a one bedroom apartment has escalated by 56.7% since March 2021. In A Monthly Look at Average Rent Price Trends
01 April 2022
10:26
Minard's Map of the Russian Campaign
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Charles Minard's 'Flow Map of the Russian President's Shrinking Sanity' is one of the famous engineer's most overlooked and under-appreciated information graphics.This cartographic depiction of the Russian President;s dwindling sanity during the Russian army's failed attempts to subjugate Ukraine provides a stark visualization of the effect of a failing military campaign on the mental health of
31 March 2022
10:24
The 2022 Submarine Cable Map
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Every year the telecommunications company Telegeography releases a new map to visualize the updated global network of undersea telecommunication cables which carry all our data around the world.The 2022 Submarine Cable Map has now been published.Subsea cables carry telecommunication signals under the oceans, communicating information between different countries and regions of the world. In the ">[hTTP9xE:yIl2AUoC8zA">] ">[hTTP9xE:V_sGLiPBpWU">] ">[hTTP9xE:V_sGLiPBpWU">] ">[hTTP9xE:qj6IDK7rITs">]
30 March 2022
12:18
The Fantastical Streetnames of Gothenburg
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After World War II the UK government decided to develop a number of new towns in order to help relocate people away from the country's most congested cities. I spent most of my childhood growing up in Crawley, one of these new towns which was built in southern England. When the town planners of Crawley mapped out their future town they decided to create clusters of streets with thematically
29 March 2022
11:13
A River Trickles Through It
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Nearly half of all river miles in the American West no longer exist in their natural state. Instead they have been dammed & diverted, or affected by some other form of human development. You can see for yourself where rivers in the West have been altered from their natural state on the Disappearing Rivers interactive map.On this interactive map, built by Gage Cartographics, all rivers in the
28 March 2022
12:20
This is NOT a Map
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Argleton Harbour This is Argleton Harbour, situated on the north-east coast of England.It is now a sleepy seaside town, relying on tourism and a small fishing industry to survive. It was once a busy port town, shipping coal to northern Europe, and unloading cargo (mainly from the Baltic countries). Like many northern towns Argleton Harbour hasn't yet recovered from the closure of England's coal
26 March 2022
11:42
The World's Most Polluted Cities
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According to the IQAir World Air Quality Report not one country in the whole world managed to meet the World Health Organization’s (WHO) PM2.5 annual air quality guidelines in 2021. In 2021 the five most polluted countries were: Bangladesh, Chad Pakistan, Tajikistan and India. IQAir's annual air quality report is based on an analysis of air pollution data collected from air monitoring
25 March 2022
10:30
Florida's Black Snow
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Sugar cane burning is so dangerous that it is banned in India. The practice is also being phased out in Brazil and Thailand.Sugar cane burning will soon only be permitted in one of the top four sugar-producing countries - the United States. When sugar cane farmers burn their fields the cane emits huge clouds of black smoke. This smoke contains fine particulate matter, or PM2.5, which is
24 March 2022
9:59
The Last Frost of Winter
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NOAA has released an interactive map which uses historical temperature data to map the Average Date of Last Spring Freeze Across the United States.Using the map you can view the last day on average when there is a chance for freezing temperatures at thousands of locations across the whole country.NOAA's last spring freeze map uses temperature data from 1991-2020 captured from weather stations
23 March 2022
9:56
Historic England from the Air
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A new interactive map from Historic England allows you to search and explore historical aerial imagery of England captured over the last 100 years. The Aerial Photograph Explorer map includes over 400,000 digitized photos from Historic England's aerial photo collections. The Aerial Photograph Explorer is a great way to explore how your town has changed over the last one hundred years. For
22 March 2022
10:10
Mapping Russia's Attacks on Civilians
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The NGO Human Rights Watch has investigated Russia's attacks on Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, between February 28 and March 5. The results of this investigation have led Human Rights Watch to conclude that Russia has attacked civilian buildings, "including apartment blocks, schools, places of worship, and shops, impeding access to food and medicines. They also damaged infrastructure
21 March 2022
10:17
The National Cycling Barometer
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Last year the French Federation of Bicycle Users (FUB) surveyed a quarter of a million bike riders about the cycling climate in their town or city. In FUB's Cycling Cities Barometer cyclists were asked to rate their municipality based on five different categories: • general feeling • safety • comfort • efforts of the municipality • parking and bicycle services Based on the answers
19 March 2022
10:37
Russia's Failed Invasion of Ukraine
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Russia believed that it could just march into Ukraine with very little resistance. However what was meant to be a quick war has quickly turned into a slow attritional battle for territory. The poor planning, logistics and tactics of the Russian army has met with fierce resistance from the Ukrainian people and Russia's invasion has clearly not gone to Moscow's plan. The Financial Times has
18 March 2022
9:56
Mapping Russia's Civilian Attacks
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Last week Russia attacked a maternity hospital in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. At least four civilians were killed and sixteen others were injured. The Russian army's terrorist tactics of attacking civilians and civilian targets are well established. For years the Russian army has been been targeting civilian infrastructure and civilians in Syria, in attempts to subjugate the people and
17 March 2022
11:29
How Old is Democracy?
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The animated map above shows the number of years each country in the world has been democratic at twenty year intervals from 1872-2021. Our World in Data's How Old are Democracies Around the World? interactive map shows that even in countries where people enjoy the right to vote the age of their democracy is still relatively young. As Our World in Data succinctly notes "This means that for most
16 March 2022
10:41
The Russian Roundabout
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In response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine many countries around the world (including the EU and the USA) have closed their airspace to Russian aircraft. Russia has responded in turn by introducing tit-for-tat restrictions, closing its airspace to airlines from 36 different countries around the world. Enrico Spinielli has published a couple of maps which visualize the disruptions caused to
15 March 2022
10:51
Mapping the Russian Advance
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One thing that has surprised most people about Russia's illegal attempt to occupy Ukraine is how ill equipped the Russian army has been. A combination of poor logistics, poor planning, poor equipment and poor morale all appear to have helped hinder the Russian advance. At the same time the incredible bravery and resistance of the Ukrainian people has proved an amazing counterpoint to the shame
14 March 2022
10:25
How Big is Ukraine?
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One of the recurring themes in the news coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been the large size of Ukraine. According to Nations Online "Ukraine is "600,000 km²; ... about twice the size of Italy or slightly smaller than the US state of Texas". You can compare the size of Ukraine to other locations around the world by using Hans Hack's Reprojector tool.The Reprojector interactive map
11 March 2022
10:01
The Digital Atlas Ortelius
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The Atlas Ortelius was the first 'modern' world atlas. Abraham Ortelius printed his 'Theatrum orbis terrarum' at the end of the sixteenth century in Antwerp. Before the publication of Ortelius' atlas maps were printed and sold separately or composite atlases could be made to order. These composite atlases usually consisted of maps of different sizes and styles. Ortelius' 'Theatrum orbis
10 March 2022
10:21
Wheredle
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The pace of new Wordle inspired map and geography games shows no signs of abating. Wheredle is my latest favorite riff on the viral word game. The goal of Wheredle is to identify a new U.S. state every day from a random image taken from Google Maps Street View. Fans of GeoGuessr will be familiar with the basic concept of Wheredle. Using contextual clues, such as street signs, landmarks and the
09 March 2022
10:49
The City of Women Tube Map
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The City of Women London Tube Map is a reimagining of the iconic London Underground map, in which all the station names have been replaced with the names of notable women.For example Swiss Cottage station has been renamed for the poet Sylvia Plath and Hyde Park Corner has been renamed for Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of the UK suffragette movement. The map, released yesterday for
08 March 2022
10:56
Ukrainian & Russian Casualties
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The Ukrainian Civilian Objects Attacks and Casualties Interactive Map is an attempt to track and map Russian attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine.The map consists predominantly of geo-tagged photographs of civilian buildings which have been damaged by Russian bombs. The map also includes a running total of the number of civilians who have been killed and injured by Russia's illegal war
07 March 2022
11:57
Russian Bombing in 3D
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Satellite Images of Ukraine is an interactive map which allows you to explore 3D models of buildings destroyed by Russian bombing in the Ukrainian town of Borodyanka.Last week Russian bombs destroyed the entire town center of Borodyanka, which is located about 37 miles north of Kyiv. The town had no Ukrainian military presence but Russia decided to decimate the town anyway, resulting in the

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