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01 July 2020
18:00
Map of Mathematicians
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My nearest mathematician is Edmond Halley, for whom Halley's comet is named. According to the Mathematicians Birthplace Map Halley was born in Shoreditch, London - just one mile from where I now live. You can discover which famous mathematicians were born near you on the University of St Andrews School of Mathematics and Statistics interactive map. This map shows the birthplaces of nearly
16:00
The Sea Stories of Barra
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Sgeulachdan na Mara / Sea Stories - an online cultural map of the sea is a wonderful interactive map featuring local stories found around the island of Barra, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. To create the map the island's school pupils interviewed local Barra fishermen and older members of the local community. The result is a unique map featuring local legends and oral history as told by
30 June 2020
18:00
Create an Earth Club Sandwich
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In 2006 Ze Frank challenged the viewers of his video show to create an Earth Sandwich. He wanted two people on opposite sides of the Earth to create a sandwich - using two pieces of bread with the whole of planet Earth in between. To help people create this Earth Sandwich Ze Frank created an interactive map which could find the antipode for any location on Earth. Ze Frank's map no longer works
16:00
The Virtual Hajj
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This year, because of the coronavirus outbreak, the Hajj pilgrimage has been limited to only one thousand pilgrims. For Muslims the sacred Hajj pilgrimage is an essential life journey, a trip which they must make (if they are capable) at least once in their lifetime. The Kontinentalist has created an interactive story map, Inside the Sacred Hajj Pilgrimage, which explains how people undertook
29 June 2020
18:00
The US High Poverty Map
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During the current economic downturn neighborhoods which are already economically vulnerable will most likely be hit the hardest. The Economic Innovation Group's High Poverty Map is an interactive map which visualizes the metro neighborhoods in the United States which had high levels of poverty in 2018 and those which were in high poverty in 1980 but have since successfully turned around. On
16:00
Placename Pronunciation Maps
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Traveling in Wales can be difficult for non-Welsh speakers. For example how exactly do you ask for directions to Llanfairpwll-gwyngyllgogerychwyrndrob-wllllantysiliogogogoch. If you also have problems pronouncing Welsh placenames then you might appreciate Map Llais. Map Llais is an interactive map which provides audio recordings which allow you to hear how you should pronounce the names of
27 June 2020
11:33
The Earth Impacts of Covid-19
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We all know the devastating impact that Covid-19 has been having on people's lives around the world. We are also profoundly aware of the economic impact that Covid-19 lock-downs are having on the global economy. Perhaps less understood is the impact that these lock-downs and this reduced economic activity is having on the Earth's environment. Early on in the Covid-19 outbreak NASA revealed how
26 June 2020
18:00
How America Was Lost to Covid-19
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The New York Times has published a damning story map which visualizes America's failure to stop the spread of Covid-19. In How the Virus Won the NYT shows how a few thousand cases of Covid-19 in February was over the next few months able to spread almost unchecked across the United States. Using animated flow maps the newspaper effectively shows how a lack of leadership and a failure to act
16:00
Mapping International Migration Flow
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International Migrant Stock in 2019 is an interactive flow map showing the number of immigrants and emigrants moving into and out of countries around the world. The map also shows the countries where all those migrants moved to and from. The map uses data from the United Nations to show which countries immigrants in each country came from and where emigrants from each country moved to. If you
25 June 2020
18:00
Exploring the Deepest Point on Earth
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Challenger Deep is deep. Very Deep. Located in the Mariana Trench, Challenger Deep is the deepest known point in the Earth's seabed. But just How Deep is Challenger Deep? John Nelson has the answer in this beautiful Esri story map which helps to explain the staggering depths of Challenger Deep. As you progress through this story map you will learn about the natural forces which created this
16:00
How Happy is the World?
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People in the United States are sad. Of course emotions do vary depending on where you live in the United States. In Montana people are very sad, whereas in the neighboring states of Idaho people appear to be happy. At least that is according to the How is the World? interactive map. How is the World is an interesting map which can tell you how people are feeling around the world. On this map
24 June 2020
18:00
Amnesty's Video Map of Police Violence
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Amnesty International says that there were at least 125 separate incidents of police violence against protesters between 26 May and 5 June. In response to what Amnesty reports as 'largely peaceful' Black Lives Matter protests the police have often used what appears to be disproportionate and indiscriminate force. Amnesty report that the use of violence by the U.S. police has not only been
16:00
YouTube Near You
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YouTube GeoFind allows you to search YouTube videos by location. Using the GeoFind interactive map you can search for videos by location and see where each of the returned videos was shot on the very same map. Being able to search for videos by location seems to be a great idea and on the face of it should provide really interesting results. However searching YouTube videos geographically
23 June 2020
18:00
Is Your Country Democratic?
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Every year Dalia Research surveys people around the world to compare people's attitudes towards democracy. The 2020 Democracy Perception Index is now out and provides some interesting insights into how people around the world perceive their own governments and the importance of democracy. 43% of people around the world say that their own government only serves a small group of people. On the
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The Multilingual Map of the World
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Country Names in Any Language is an interactive map which allows you to view an atlas of the world on which the country labels are written in the language of your choice. Using the drop-down menu you can select from any language in the world to view a map on which the country name labels are displayed in the selected label. The country names for each language are fetched live from Wikidata and
22 June 2020
18:00
Where Americans are Moving
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Esri has used the latest American Community Survey to visualize where people are moving to and from in the United States. The Where are people moving? story map explores patterns of internal migration within the USA and shows you where in the country people moving into your neighborhood in the last year came from. The visualizations include maps showing where most people moved from in each
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Maps with Zealandia
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The vast majority of the continent of Zealandia sank beneath the oceans around 23 million years ago. Originally Zealandia was part of the supercontinent Gondwana (along with South America, Antarctica, India, Australia, Arabia and Africa). Zealandia broke away from Gondwana between 83–79 million years ago. The vast majority of it now sits beneath the Pacific Ocean and Tasman Sea. Only the
21 June 2020
16:00
The 2020 Submarine Cable Map
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Every year Telegeography releases a map of the current network of undersea telecommunication cables around the world. The 2020 Submarine Cable Map has now been released. Subsea cables carry telecommunication signals under the oceans, communicating information between different countries and regions of the world. In the 19th Century the first submarine cables were laid to carry telegraphy
20 June 2020
16:00
Buckingham Palace Street View
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The website of the British Royal Family includes a virtual tour of three rooms in Buckingham Palace. Buckingham Palace is the London home of the Queen of England and the administrative headquarters of the British monarchy. The Buckingham Palace tour allows you to explore the Throne Room, the White Drawing Room and the Grand Staircase. Each of these three 360 degree panoramic tours include
19 June 2020
18:00
The Gerrymandered States of America
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Antimander is an open-source interactive application which is designed to detect gerrymandering within congressional districts. Using Antimander you can explore thousands of alternative congressional district maps to view how different electoral districts can radically alter the electoral results in different states. Using the Antimander interactive map tool you can explore how Wisconsin's
16:00
Who Lived in Your House?
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The BBC has a very interesting history series called A House Through Time which explores social history by telling the story of one single house, and its owners & inhabitants over time. Each series looks at just one house and each episode in each series recounts the lives of just one family who lived in the house. Since the first series of A House Through Time I've been thinking that it would
18 June 2020
18:00
A 3D Reconstruction of a Crime Scene
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In October of last year Iraq's security forces violently cracked down on protesters in Baghdad and southern Iraq. In Baghdad the security forces used lethal military-style tear gas and smoke grenade launchers against civilians which resulted in a number of gruesome deaths. In order to show how the security forces were deliberately using these grenades to maim and kill protesters Amnesty
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The Fascist Bombing of Madrid
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Last week on Maps Mania I wrote about the Fascist aerial bombing of Barcelona in the 1930's. Barcelona was not the only Spanish city which suffered from this new devastating aerial bombardment tactic. The capital Madrid also suffered from massive aerial and artillery bombardment during the Civil War of 1936-1939. In Madrid Hitler's Condor Legion and Mussolini's Aviazione Legionaria tried out
17 June 2020
18:00
Everest 360
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National Geographic has created a stunning 360 degree panorama of the Himalayas shot from above. The 360 degree panoramic image in Everest From Above gives you an incredible aerial view of Mount Everest and its surrounding peaks. Photographer Renan Ozturk climbed Everest in May 30, 2019. He captured this amazing aerial view of Mount Everest using specially modified drones. In the panoramic
16:00
The Sexist Street Names of Amsterdam
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Sara Sprinkhuizen and Leon de Korte have analyzed 5,400 Amsterdam street names to explore what and whom the Dutch have historically considered important enough to be immortalized by having a street name. You can view the results of this analysis in From Pythagoras to Amalia. You might not be surprised to learn that like most other towns and cities around the world Amsterdam has far more
16 June 2020
18:00
The Timelines Of Glacial Retreat
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Artist Fabian Oefner has created two outstandingly beautiful images from the heartbreaking effects that global heating is having on the world's glaciers. Using historical data of glacial retreat Oefner has released two interactive photographs which visualize how Switzerland's Rhône and Trift Glaciers have shrunk in size over the last 140 years. Timelines by Fabian Oefner consists of two
16:00
Widen My Sidewalk
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Many local councils in the UK are exploring how they can best facilitate safe social distancing in the urban environment. Creating new bike paths and widening pavements are two of the most effective measures which can be undertaken to help people avoid public transit while still allowing pedestrians to maintain a two metre distance from other members of the public. To support this effort
15 June 2020
18:00
Chicago BLM
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The South Side Weekly has created a story map which chronicles the conflicts between police and protesters in downtown Chicago on May 30th. What Happened May 30? uses a combination of eyewitness accounts, video and photographs to provide a chronological report of the events which resulted in what many people feel was unjustified force by the police against people protesting against the killing
16:00
The Cursed Jewel in the Crown
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At the height of Britain's colonial powers it was often said that India was the jewel in the crown of the British Empire. India's raw materials, its cotton, spices and tea, certainly went a long way in helping to make Britain one of the richest countries in the world. There were also many other treasures which somehow ended up being transferred to British ownership during the days of the
14:00
How Far Can Your Drive in Two Hours?
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Sweden's Public Health Authority is advising Swedes not to travel. However if traveling is essential it says that short trips of up to a two hour drive from your place of residence are permitted. To help people visualize how far they can drive in two hours the national public television broadcaster SVT has released an interactive isochrone map. Så långt kommer du på två timmar (So how far can
13 June 2020
18:00
How to Git Yonder - Cowboy Driving Directions
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If you've ever wondered how to git yonder then you may be in need of Yondermap. Yondermap is a driving directions service designed exclusively for the use of cowboys & cowgirls (although you can use it as well). Enter a request for directions into Yondermap and you will receive your riding directions on a Western themed interactive map. The detailed driving instructions provided with your map
16:00
A Video Masking Effect
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The Wall Street Journal has published an article investigating the protests which have taken place across America since the senseless killing of George Floyd. The article, Maps: How Protests Evolved in the Wake of George Floyd’s Killing, is illustrated with a cool animated video map of the United States. Every state on this WSJ map is an animated video clip from a Black Lives Matter protest.
12 June 2020
18:00
The Urban Analysis Interactive Map
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Morphocode Explorer is a new interactive tool for urban analysis that allows you to explore thematic maps and key urban indicators directly in the browser. The tool has been designed to help businesses and city planners analyze urban data and gain location insights around land use, development intensity, transit networks and demographics. The Morphocode Explorer interface consists of an
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Taking a Vacation on Google Earth
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Google Earth Vacationist is a slideshow of stunning landscapes found on Google Earth. There are already a number of websites which collate some of the most beautiful and interesting satellite views which can be found on Google Maps and Google Earth, however Google Earth Vacationist offers a little more. Each of the gorgeous satellite views on Google Earth Vacationist can be viewed as both a
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How Busy is My Bus?
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As more and more people are returning to work more and more people are having to break social distancing protocols by traveling on public transport. What would be really useful for those having to use public transit is real-time information about how many passengers are currently travelling on each bus, tram, train and boat. Step forward Cardiff Bus. Cardiff Bus' real-time tracking map now
11 June 2020
18:00
Virtual Tours of the World's Museums
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Beijing's Palace Museum is the world's most popular museum. It is visited by around 15 million people every year. The museum is located in the Forbidden City, which for nearly 500 years was the home of the Chinese Emperor and his household. The Palace Museum has created a number of virtual tours which allow you to explore some of the museum's galleries and also some of the amazing buildings of
16:00
America's Confederate Memorials
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The Southern Poverty Law Center has mapped over 1,500 public symbols of the Confederacy across the United States. These public symbols include not just statues and other memorials but schools, parks and roads which have been named for Confederate leaders or battles. In Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy the SPLC has created an interactive map showing the location of
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The Sexist Streets of Belgrade
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Nearly 90% of streets in Belgrade named for people are named for men. Less than a 11% of streets in the capital of Serbia which have been named for people are named for women. EqualStreetNames: Belgrade is an interactive map which colors the streets of the capital of Serbia based on whether they are named for men or women. On the map streets named for men are colored yellow and streets named
10 June 2020
18:00
Border Spies in the Skies
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The Customs and Border Protection agency owns and operates 10 drones which it is allowed to use within 100 miles of a border. Gizmodo has managed to get one year's worth of flight data from seven of those drones. You can view an interactive map of those flights from June 2019-June 2020. In Where Customs and Border Protection Drones Are Flying in the U.S. and Beyond Gizmodo takes a detailed
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The Fascist's Aerial Bombing of Barcelona
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Barcelona was one of the first ever major cities to experience mass aerial bombardment. During the Spanish Civil War Mussolini's Italian air force launched an extensive aerial bombing campaign on the Spanish city in support of Franco's fascist forces. The people of Barcelona responded by building over a thousand underground public air raid shelters (refugis aeris), These shelters helped to
09 June 2020
18:00
Covid-19 International Travel Restrictions
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Because of Covid-19 countries around the world have imposed restrictions on international travelers. These restrictions obviously differ from country to country. The International Air Travel Association has therefore released an interactive map to show the travel regulations which have been imposed by individual countries around the world. On the IATA Travel Regulations map individual
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How Old is Saint Petersburg?
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How Old is this House is an interactive map which colors every building in St Petersburg by its age of construction. St Petersburg has a long and colorful history. The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great in 1703. For much of its history it was the capital of the imperial Russian Empire (after the Russian Revolution Lenin moved the capital to Moscow). The St Petersburg building age map
08 June 2020
18:00
The Spread of Covid-19 in Rural America
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Around the world rates of coronavirus seem to be often tied very closely to population density. It makes sense that in urban centers, where people live close together and travel on crowded public transit systems, a virus like Covid-19 is more easily able to spread. It is surprising then that in the USA "Of the 100 counties nationally with the highest infection rates for May, three quarters
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Estimating Protest Numbers
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Estimating crowd sizes can be a very controversial subject. When reporting on the numbers of people attending a march or protest the media will often use estimations provided by the police. However the police may not always be impartial observers - particularly if the protests being reported on are against police violence. One way to estimate the size of a crowd is to use maps to calculate the
06 June 2020
17:00
The National Gallery of Art in 3D
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I have really missed visiting art galleries and museums during the lock-down. The National Gallery of Art, like nearly every other museum and gallery in the world, is currently closed to visitors. However that doesn't mean that you can't still visit the gallery virtually. During the National Gallery of Art's temporary closure you can still explore some of the gallery's collections and
05 June 2020
18:00
Street View's Secret Depth API
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a screenshot from the now defunct Urban Jungle One of the hidden secrets of Google Maps Street View imagery is that it contains hidden depth map data. That depth data has been used in the past by applications such as Urban Jungle (no longer working) to superimpose other objects on top of Street View images. In the screenshot above you can see how Urban Jungle used Street View's hidden depth
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Police Use of Force Measures Work
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Last weekend Al Jazeera mapped out Where black people are most disproportionately killed by police in the United States. The map revealed that Black Americans are two and half times more likely to be killed by a police officer than white Americans. Of course that isn't the whole story. The Al Jazeera map used data from Mapping Police Violence. The 2019 Mapping Police Violence interactive map
04 June 2020
18:00
Sounds of the Wild West
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Yesterday Esri announced a number of new features available in ArcGIS Story Maps. These new features include a swipe control (to swipe between two different map views), new embed tools for sharing your Story Maps and more basemap options. Maybe because I've been trapped in inner-city London for the last three months during lockdown I particularly like the new audio tools. These make it much
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How New York City Grew Over Time
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A couple of week's ago Maps Mania, in The Street Age Map, featured an interesting map which used vintage historical maps to plot how the Mamoroneck Village in New York grew over the last 150 years. Since then the Running Reality project has reminded me about their platform which maps how towns and cities have changed over time. In New York City Running Reality shows how the city grew over a
03 June 2020
17:00
Scrollytelling Artworks
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Last week the New York Times published a fascinating examination of a painting by Thomas Eakins. Eakins' painting 'The Gross Clinic' is a gruesome depiction of a 19th Century operating theater. Taking Lessons From a Bloody Masterpiece is a great scrollytelling crtique of the painting by art critic Jason Farago. As you scroll through Taking Lessons From a Bloody Masterpiece Farago explores in
02 June 2020
18:00
The US Curfew Map
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The Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) system used to warn the public about dangerous weather, missing children and other critical situations - like police curfews. Customers of wireless companies that sign up to the Wireless Emergency Alerts system receive geographically targeted WEAs on their mobile phones. This involves receiving text-like messages alerting them of imminent threats to safety in
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Fun Lessons About Maps
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The UK's national mapping agency the Ordnance Survey has a great Mapzone section which has been designed to help children develop their understanding of Maps, Geography and GIS. If you are currently home-schooling then Mapzone is a superb way to introduce some cartographical educational fun into your day. In each of the three main subject areas (Maps, Geography & GIS) Mapzone includes lessons,
01 June 2020
18:00
Mapping Police Killings
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Black Americans are two and half times more likely to be killed by a police officer than white Americans. Of course not all states are equal. Black Americans in Utah actually have an incredible 9.2 times more chance of being killed at the hands of the police than a white person. In Rhode Island 8.74 black Americans are killed by the police for every white person killed. Al Jazeera has mapped
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The 9.24 to Watford Junction
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You can now explore the 1947 train timetable for the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company in more detail than ever before. The London Midland & Scottish Railway Company timetable for certain suburban services June 16th to October 5th, inclusive, 1947 uses the Leaflet.js mapping library to allow you to zoom in on every single line on the 432 pages of this vintage UK train timetable.
30 May 2020
16:00
Snapchat Protests
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Snap Map can often be a very good guide to how events are unfolding in real-time. With much of America still reeling from the killing of George Floyd you can get a sense of the anger being felt across the country from the videos currently being submitted to Snap Chat. Snap Map allows you to see where other Snap Chat users are in real-time and view any media that they may have submitted using
29 May 2020
16:00
London's Victorian Industry
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I am fascinated by maps which provide a snapshot of my local neighborhood during different periods of history. Today I've been poring over an interactive map which shows London's industrial buildings at the end of the Nineteenth Century. Up until the Dissolution of the Monasteries my neighborhood was encompassed within the grounds of an abbey. After the Dissolution not a lot changed locally
28 May 2020
18:00
How to Persuade with Maps
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The Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library has created an online exhibition which explores how maps can distort the truth. The exhibition includes a number of interactive maps which have been used to visualize how cartographers attempt to represent reality and how that representation always involves some form of distortion. In Bending Lines: Maps and Data from Distortion
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Postcards from the Great War
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Return to Sender is an interactive map which allows you to explore and view postcards which were sent during the First World War. The map allows you to explore images of postcards which were sent during a time when many young men were posted to locations a long way from home. Using the map you can also read the often poignant messages which were written by these men to their loved ones back
27 May 2020
18:00
Communities at Risk from Covid-19
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The Washington Post has created an interactive map which allows you to explore which census tracts in your town or city might be most at risk from the coronavirus. We now know that some areas are more susceptible to high rates of Covid-19 than others. Some of the factors contributing to higher rates of mortality include overcrowded housing, high levels of existing health conditions and high
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The Campaign for Wider Sidewalks
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One of the problems local authorities are struggling with around the world is - as we emerge from lock-down how can we best support social-distancing in our urban environments? One worry is that crowded public transport systems could contribute to a second wave of Covid-19 in areas which are beginning to lower their death rates. Many towns and cities are therefore keen to promote walking and
26 May 2020
18:00
Changing Cities
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Last week Kyle Walker released his Mapping Immigrant America interactive map which is a dot map showing the number and origin of immigrants in America at the census tract level. Kyle's map is an interesting way to explore where immigrants from different regions live in the USA. If you want to explore how the racial and ethnic diversity of neighborhoods are changing over time then you can refer
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In Lockdown No One Can Hear You Scream
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The Listening Passport is an interactive map of sounds recorded during the Covid-19 lock-down. The Listening Passport project was originally designed for people in Cornwall, England to record the sounds that surround them during isolation during Covid-19. However the map is actually being used to record the aural soundscapes of coranavirus by people throughout the UK and even further afield.
25 May 2020
18:00
The Past Climate Explorer
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Past Climate Explorer is a fascinating interactive map which allows you to explore historical climate records for any location on Earth. Using the map you can explore average temperature, average precipitation, wind speed and cloud cover anywhere around the globe. If you click on the Past Climate Explorer interactive map you can view a range of different historical climate records from the
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Myriahedral Map Projections
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In 2008 Jack van Wijk devised a new method for visualizing the Earth in two dimensions. His Myriahedral projections manage to map the Earth onto a flat surface with very little angular and area distortion. Mapping a sphere onto a flat surface always requires some level of distortion. For example the Mercator projection has a large degree of area distortion and famously makes Europe and North
23 May 2020
17:00
The Dot Map of Immigrant America
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Kyle Walker of Texas Christian University has updated his Mapping Immigrant America to include the latest ACS data. Mapping Immigrant America is a dot map showing the number and origin of immigrants throughout the United States. The data for the map comes from the 2014-2018 American Community Survey carried out at the census tract level. Each dot on the map represents different numbers of
22 May 2020
16:00
The Street Age Map
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Mamaroneck Village in Westchester County, New York was incorporated in 1895. The village first developed as a small farming community on both sides of the Mamaroneck River. The two built areas on both sides of the river were joined into one commercial village in the 1890's. The population of Mamaroneck village in 1895 was 1,500. Over the last 125 years the population of Mamarneck has grown in
21 May 2020
18:00
The Covid-19 Trend Map
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ProPublica has created an impressive interactive map which allows Americans to see at a glance the trajectory of Covid-19 in each state. As more and more states are lifting stay-at-home orders the map has been designed to give Americans an overview of whether the number of cases of Covid-19 are going up or down in each state. On the Reopening America map each state is represented by a
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The Scottish Isochrone Map
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I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday who teaches in a school which is re-opening for students in two weeks time. She is very keen for her students to be able to go back to school. However she really doesn't want to start travelling again on the London Underground twice a day during the morning and evening rush hour. And I really don't blame her. My friend knows that I cycle a lot in
20 May 2020
20:00
The Unequal States of America
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If you live in Wyoming your vote is worth 3.64 times more than a voter in California. This is because of the uneven spread of electors per state in the United States. Wyoming has more votes in the Electoral College per registered voter than any other state. With the 2020 Presidential election looming large on the horizon it seems like a good idea to look once again at the peculiarities of
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The Lethal Heat Map
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A new study shows how global heating is already causing extreme dangerous heat & humidity conditions in locations across the world. High wet bulb conditions, when there is a combination of high heat and high humidity, can be very dangerous to the health of human beings. A new study by climate scientists show how these conditions are beginning to emerge around the globe. The study, called The
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The Tree Watering Map
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Global heating, and in particular long dry hot summers, has had an effect on Berlin's ecosystem. The fall in precipitation has been particularly harsh on the city's trees which suffer from drought conditions. In recent years many trees have suffered long term damage from lack of water and more and more trees have had to be felled. Giessdenkiez is an interactive map which shows the location of
19 May 2020
18:00
Hyper Resolution Mapped Paintings
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Last week Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum released a hyper-resolution image of Rembrandt's The Night Watch. This hyper-resolution image allows you to explore Rembrandt's masterpiece in very close detail, zooming in and panning around the image just as if it was an interactive map. On its own the new hyper-resolution image viewer allows you to get an unrivaled close-up view of the painting. However you
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New York Covid Death Rates
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Yesterday the New York City Department of Health released an interactive map which shows for the first time the NYC Covid-19 death rate by zip-code area. The map confirms earlier reports that the virus has had the most devastating impact in low-income boroughs and the boroughs with the highest percentage of non-white populations. Last month Ed Pilkington and Ankita Rao in A Tale of Two New
18 May 2020
18:10
Mapping the Nakba
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During the 1948 Palestine War around half the Palestinian people were forced from their homes. Nearly the entire urban Palestinian population was expelled before the Israeli Declaration of Independence in May 1948. For this year's Nakba Day the Palestine Open Maps project has created an interactive story map exploring the effects of the Palestine War on the Palestinian people. In How the Nakba
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Mapping Stores Open in Italy
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Last month a French interactive map was released to show which stores were open and which were closed during the lock-down in France. Ça reste ouvert is a crowdsourced interactive map which provides information on the operating status of stores across the whole of France. The map's creators also made the code for the map freely available on GiHub so that people in other countries could make
16 May 2020
14:53
The 2020 Eurorail Contest
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Tonight's Eurovision Song Contest has been cancelled. In its place you can watch live Eurorail instead. Listed below are the entries in the 2020 Eurorail Contest - a battle between Europe's live real-time animated maps of trains. Belgium's entry into this year's Eurorail Contest is Train Map. Train Map is a live map of the Belgium rail network which shows the position of Belgium's trains
15 May 2020
18:00
The Beer Belly of America
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Flowing Data has used Google Places data to work out where there are more bars than grocery stores. The results of this analysis are mapped out in Where Bars Outnumber Grocery Stores. In the United States Wisconsin emerges as the location with the highest ratio of bars to grocery stores. Across the whole of the USA there are about 13% more grocery stores than bars but in Wisconsin there are
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Running Pretty
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Cycling, walking and jogging seem to be more popular than ever. At the moment, however, most of us are limited to exercising in areas which are close to our homes. If you want to find new nearby routes for your daily exercise then you could try Trail Router. Trail Router is a routing engine which is designed to help you find new running routes, preferably routes which avoid busy roads. The
14 May 2020
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Melting Borders
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The border between Alberta and British Colombia is moving. This shifting border has nothing to do with any territorial dispute between the two Canadian provinces. It is moving because it lies across the Haig glacier. And the Haig glacier is melting. The boundary between Alberta and British Colombia is determined by the hydrological divide, that is "the spot where a raindrop at the highest
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Land-Grab Universities
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Many universities in the United States owe their existence to the theft of indigenous American land. The 1862 Morrill Act aimed to establish colleges across the United States. Colleges which were to be funded by "donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories". That 'donated' land was to come from indigenous territories. Under the act, through 162 violence-backed cessions, the USA
13 May 2020
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Flying Home to Texas
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Going Back Home is an interesting concept for a map based game. The game's scenario is that you are the pilot of a plane and all the world's compasses have gone haywire. You therefore have to fly your plane back to Dallas unaided, using just the place-names you can see on your map. There is one other complication which makes your task a little more difficult. You only have one tank of fuel.
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Our Sidewalks Are Too Narrow
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The Florence Sidewalks Map visualizes the widths of sidewalks in the Italian city of Florence. It allows users to see where in the city it is possible to observe social distancing and where it is impossible to maintain a gap of 2 meters between yourself and other pedestrians. All sidewalks on this map are colored red if the sidewalk has a width of less than 2 meters. Blue colored sidewalks
12 May 2020
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Is the Water Safe to Drink?
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Is Water Safe to Drink is an interactive map which advises you on the drinking quality of tap water in countries around the world. The map uses water quality assessments from a number of different sources to provide an overview of the water quality in each country. When we travel to foreign countries many of us default to drinking bottled water because of our doubts over the quality of the
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Map Based Video Chat
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Video conferencing applications are all the rage right now. So it was probably only a matter of time before someone developed a new mapped based platform for chatting on video. Besedky is a new open video meeting platform. The application is very easy to use. All you have to do to start a chat is click on the 'Add' button and click on the map. You can give your chat room a name and a room
11 May 2020
18:00
The World is on the Move Again
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Google, Apple and Facebook all provide data on how much people are moving during this epidemic - in comparison to their normal movements before the emergence of coronavirus. The mobility reports published by all three of the tech giants suggest that around the world people are beginning to show less discipline in restricting their movements. This trend seems particularly apparent in the United
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The 2020 Lock Down Music Festival
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There will be no music festivals this year. Unless you create your own. At home! Oslo World can help you get in the festival mood with their new music map, which features music which has been compiled by festival organizers from all over the world. The Oslo World Music Festival is a music festival held in Norway every year. The festival features music from around the globe, but with a primary
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Movement in the Age of Deconfinement
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From today people in France have a little more freedom. May 11th marks the first stage of France's 'Deconfinement' plan. As of today the French are allowed to travel by car without certification on trips up to 100 km long. Trips beyond 100 km - as the crow flies - from your home are prohibited. Deconfinement: How Far Can You Go? is a handy interactive map which shows you a 100 km radius around
09 May 2020
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Virtual Art Galleries
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest art gallery in the United States. It has over two million works of art in its permanent collection. The Met 360° Project is a series of six 360° movies which allow you to explore the museum and some of its galleries. The videos include tours of the Great Hall, the Met Cloisters and the Charles Engelhard Court. As each
08 May 2020
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Visualizing the Loss of American Jobs
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In the last seven weeks 33.5 million people have filed for unemployment in the United States. On Wednesday Automatic Data Processing, the US’s largest payroll processor, announced that 20 million jobs had been lost in the private sector in April alone. At the end of last month the Urban Institute did a good job of mapping where jobs have been lost across the United States. The Where
07 May 2020
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Cleaner Air Saves Lives
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One of the consequences of the current epidemic has been a drastic fall in air and road traffic across most of the world. This in turn has led to a marked fall in air pollution in many cities around the globe. This fall in air pollution can only be beneficial for our general health. If you are unconvinced about the dangers of air pollution then you might want to refer to the Natural Resources
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Take a Tree Walk
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On leaving my house it takes 567 steps to walk around my block and get back to my front door. I know because I've counted every step. This week alone I've walked around my block at least 30 times. Thanks to coronavirus I am now on very intimate terms with Pond Rd, Church Rd, Baker St and Manor Rd. Last week, in order to try to enliven my daily exercise routine, I tried Local Sightseeing with
06 May 2020
18:00
Where New Yorkers Still Use the Subway
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The Gothamist has used New York subway data to map out which subway stations have seen the most drastic fall in traffic during the coronavirus epidemic and which stations are still experiencing high levels of traffic. The interactive map in Which Parts Of NYC Are Relying On The Subway Most During Coronavirus uses scaled markers to show the total number of turnstile entries at each New York
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Global Population Mountains
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Over the last few weeks Alasdair Rae has been posting a series of population density maps to Twitter. On these maps population data in different regions of the world is visualized as population towers. You can view a collection of Alasdair's European population maps on his blog Stats, Maps n Pix. His Global Population Density map (pictured above) is a fantastic visualization of where most
05 May 2020
18:00
Mapping the Kent State Massacre
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Fifty years ago, on May 4, 1970, National Guard troops fired on unarmed students at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. They killed 4 and wounded 9. Some of the students who were shot had been protesting against America's bombing of the neutral Cambodia. Others had simply been walking by at the wrong moment or observing the protest. Mapping May 4 is a story map which explores the events
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The Sounds of an Epidemic
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Over the last few months many of us have witnessed a dramatic change in our aural landscapes. The huge reduction in air and road traffic has allowed other sounds, like birdsong and the wind blowing through the trees, to come to the fore. Pete Stollery has created a Google Earth sound map which aims to capture the new soundscapes which have emerged as a result of the huge reduction in normal
04 May 2020
18:00
Magic Animated Weather
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majicweather is a series of beautiful looking animated wind maps for locations around the world. The site features a large global animated map of wind patterns and a number of more localized animated maps for regions of the world. The animated maps are made using GFS forecast data from the United States National Climatic Data Center. The data is downloaded every 6 hours to create new animated
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The Clean Skies of Europe
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The dramatic reduction in road and air traffic in Europe over the last two months has led to unprecedented falls in the levels of air pollution. The European Data Portal has released an interactive visualization of NO2 and PM10 levels across Europe over the last few months which seem to prove a close link between the fall in air and road traffic and a reduction in nitrogen dioxide levels. The
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The Spanish Exercise Map
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During the whole of April my brother was stuck in a small apartment in Spain, unable to get a flight back to his home in Switzerland. Unfortunately the apartment he was staying in had no garden. My brother is a runner. He loves to run. During the whole month of April he was unable to go for one single run. In March Spain introduced some of the strictest coronavirus confinement measures. These
02 May 2020
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Money is the Best Vacine for Covid-19
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Last month in New York - A City Divided by a Virus we saw how the poorer and more diverse neighborhoods of New York were being hit harder by the coronavirus epidemic than New York's more affluent boroughs. This is a trend which has started to be noticed in other locations around the world. In New York, London and Paris it is clear that people living in the most deprived neighborhoods are
01 May 2020
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Explore the Great Barrier Reef
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The Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Queensland Australia, is the largest coral reef system in the world. The reef structure is made up of billions of tiny organisms, known as coral polyps. It is also home to an incredibly wide diversity of marine life. You can learn more about some of the amazing marine life that lives on the Great Barrier Reef on the amazing Reef Tracks. Using Reef

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