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19 March 2019
20:00
Mapping the Ganges & Its Pollution
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Reuters reports that the Indian government has pledged to spend nearly $3 billion on cleaning up the Ganges. The Ganges is of huge religious and cultural importance to millions of Indians. Millions of Indians also depend on the river everyday to supply their water needs. Unfortunately the river is also hugely polluted by industrial waste and plastics (some of this comes from religious offerings
18:00
Who Will Win the Global City Race?
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Animated bar chart races have suddenly become a very popular method for visualizing data over time. Their recent popularity owes much to John Murdoch's 18 Years of Interbrand’s Top Global Brands. This animated bar chart race shows the brand value of the top global brands from the years 2000-2018. As the animation plays out each brand's bar on the chart grows or shrinks to reflect the brand's
18 March 2019
20:00
The Deathscapes of China
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The huge level of development in twenty-first century China has been bad news for the dead. The high premium on land in the country has resulted in a kind of graveyard gentrification, where those who had thought they had reached their final resting place have had their graves forcibly relocated to other locations. In fact around ten million graves have been exhumed and moved in just the last ten
18:00
Who Owns NYC?
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Lots of buildings in New York City are owned by shell companies, which are used by landlords to maintain anonymity in order to hide themselves from tenants and avoid repercussions. That is why JustFix.nyc has launched Who Owns What in NYC?, a service which reveals the buildings owned by individual landlords and by management companies. If you enter a New York address into Who Own What in NYC?
14:30
The Rising Temperatures of Europe
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Since 1960 every European city has become hotter. Lisa Charlotte Rost has used historical temperature data from Berkeley Earth to visualize how much the average temperature has risen or fallen in every European city since 1960. The interactive map in Which European cities have gotten warmer? (Spoiler: All of them) uses colored markers to show the average temperature difference in European cities
17 March 2019
17:35
John Ogilby's Cartography
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Earlier this week Layers of London, a website dedicated to visualizing London's history, added a new vintage map layer to their interactive maps. The new layer allows you to explore Layers of London's historical events on top of John Ogilby and William Morgan's 1676 map of London. Ogilby and Morgan's map was created after the Great Fire of London in 1666. The map was originally intended to
16 March 2019
13:11
Europe's Busiest Shipping Routes Revealed
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Ships around the world are fitted with AIS transponders which automatically report the position, course, and speed, of individual vessels. The Automatic Identification System can be used by websites like MarineTraffic to show the live real-time position of ships across the globe. The accumulated data from AIS transponders can also be used to reveal interesting patterns in ship traffic, such as
15 March 2019
19:06
Where are the Best Neighborhoods?
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If you want to know the best neighborhoods in your town then you need Best Neighborhood. Enter your zipcode into Best Neighborhood and you can view the areas of your town colored to show the best areas for walkability, the cost of housing and employment rates. You can also view lots of local demographic and socio-economic information about your town's neighborhoods. Best Neighborhood uses
12:10
Poland is Nowhere
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Where is Poland? is a fantastic exploration of Poland under partition as seen by the Danish writer Georges Brandes in the late Nineteenth Century. The site uses the observations of Brandes to explore one of Poland's most turbulent periods of history. When Georges Brandes arrived in Poland in 1885 the country was divided between the three imperial empires of Austria, Prussia and Russia. Where is
14 March 2019
20:00
Mapping Global Life Expectancy
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Mapipedia's Average Life Expectancy by Country since 1800 is an interesting data visualization of life expectancy around the world from 1800 to 2018. The visualization shows how life expectancy has changed around the globeÂ since the beginning of the Nineteenth Century and also attempts to explain the reasons behind some of the most significant changes in life expectancy during this period of
18:00
Racial Profiling in Police Stops
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An analysis of 100 million police traffic stops has revealed that white people are more likely to be found with illegal items. Despite this fact black and Latino drivers are more likely to be stopped and searched by the police than white drivers. The Stanford Open Policing Project has gathered data on around 100 million police traffic stops carried out from 2011-2017 across the United States.
15:07
Mapping Housing Affordability in D.C.
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Low and middle-income families are being priced out of the housing market in Washington D.C. according to the D.C. Policy Center. Their report into housing in the District, Taking Stock of the Districtâ€™s Housing Stock, includes a number of interactive maps which illustrate the pressures on the housing market. In each of these interactive maps D.C.'s building footprints are colored by a number
13 March 2019
16:46
Where on Google Earth is Carmen Sandiego?
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The Crown Jewels have been stolen! Can you help recover them? The International thief Carmen Sandiego and her crew of V.I.L.E. operatives have broken into the Tower of London and escaped with the Queen's favorite jewels. You will need all your geographical expertise to follow the clues, track down Carmen Sandiego and her gang of thieves, recover the jewels and return them to London. Google
12:43
The Record Shops of the World
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Record Shops are an endangered species. It didn't always used to be this way. Once upon a time record shops were everywhere and the streets of the world were filled with the glorious sounds of phonographic music and the pitter-patter of dancing feet. Take Paris as an example. In days of yore on nearly every rue and avenue, in every arrondissement of the capital you could find a disquaire or
12 March 2019
20:00
The History of Maps
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Forma Urbis Romae (203-211) - a plan of a Pompeii amphitheater In Instead of Writing a Thousand Words Lapham's Quarterly takes a detailed look at the history if maps around the world. Using the Esri Story Map format Lapham's Quarterly explores how geographical space has been visualized throughout history, from the earliest known maps painted on the walls of caves right up to maps created in the
18:00
Mapping Changes in Global Light Pollution
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Radiance Light Trends allows you to view how nighttime light emissions have changed worldwide since 1992. This interactive map uses data collected from satellites to show the current light emissions around the world during non-daylight hours. The map also allows you to examine how light pollution has changed over time. Radiance Light Trends allows you to select any area in the world to see the
12:07
The Dot Map of Britain
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GIS for Thought has released an interactive dot map showing every single person in Great Britain as a single dot. The Every Person in Great Britain Mapped map uses the latest Scotland and England & Wales census data to show the number of people living in every postcode area. The map has roughly 62 million dots - one dot for every single person living in Scotland, England & Wales. If you can't
11 March 2019
21:30
Video Journey Mapping
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Videomapia is a search engine to find video journeys which have been synced with an interactive map. Using the site you can find videos of journeys which have been shot around the world. Each of these videos can be viewed alongside an interactive map which is synced to automatically follow the journey as it is shown in the video. You can get a good idea of Videomapia's results in this map and
19:30
Mapping the Slave Trade
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The newly updatedÂ Slave Voyages website maintains databases of the Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slave trade. These databases include information on 36,000 slave trading voyages from Africa to the New World carried out between 1514 and 1866; 11,000 voyages from one part of America to another; and personal details about 91,491 Africans who were forced into the slave trade. Slave Voyages
17:30
Mapping Iran-U.S. Tensions in the Middle East
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The Middle East is a powder keg that could easily explode. The geo-political ambitions of Iran coupled with the USA's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal has resulted in the spread of instability and conflict in the region. You can view the locations of possible flashpoints in the area on Crisis Group's new interactive map The Iran-U.S. Trigger List. The Iran-U.S. Trigger List map shows
10 March 2019
23:00
Australia's Mass Killings Map
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In 2017 the University of Newcastle in Australia released an interactive map of Colonial Frontier Massacres in Central and Eastern Australia 1788-1930. The map is part of the university's efforts to record and document the massacres of native Australians in Australia between the years 1788-1930. For example the map records that on the 1st May 1838 at Slaughterhouse Creek fifteen heavily armed
09 March 2019
19:00
Trump's Wall and the Rio Grande
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There have been a lot of interactive maps which visualize the scale of Trump's border wall between the USA and Mexico. These include USA Today'sÂ The Wall - an in-depth examination of Donald Trump's border wall, Reveal'sÂ The Wall and the Intercept's Visualizing the U.S.-Mexico Border. The Border Wall and the Rio Grande takes a different approach to these three maps. This Esri Story Map, created
08 March 2019
18:00
The 2018 Cities with the Worst Air Pollution
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According to the 2018 World Air Quality Report the worst air pollution in the world can be found in Delhi in India, followed closely by Dhaka in Bangladesh and Kabul, Afghanistan. The 2018 World Air Quality Report ranks the cities of the world based on their levels of air pollution. The report uses data from governments and from air quality monitors owned by individuals and organizations. 64%
13:11
Unequal Germany
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The pay gap between men and women is larger in Germany than in almost every other European country. The gap between the average male salary and the average woman's salary is 21% in Germany, compared to 16% in Europe as a whole. The pay gap between men and women in Germany depends on where you live. For example the pay gap is not so bad for women living in the former East Germany as it is for
07 March 2019
22:00
Mapping Horizontal Fracking
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Last year West Virginia issued over 5,000 permits for horizontal fracking wells. Horizontal fracking allows companies to drill for miles underground in any direction from one single point. Although horizontal wells only require a single point to drill these single points need large gravel clearings. In West Virginia's mountainous terrain this often requires flattening hilltops, new roads and
20:00
Open Street View
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One of the biggest draws of the Google Maps API is having access to Google's impressive Street View access around the world. If you want to provide your users with street level panoramic images then the Google Maps API is probably your best choice. However if you only need static street level images there are other options. One such option is OpenStreetCam. OpenStreetCam is a platform for
18:00
Following Migrant Journeys to Europe
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Migration Trail is an impressive interactive map about the frightening journeys that migrants experience in searching for a better life. The map visualizes the journeys of two fictional migrants traveling to Europe. The stories are told in real-time over a period of ten days. While the migrants portrayed in the map are fictional the stories are based on true events. Using the Migration Trail
06 March 2019
22:00
The Global Peace Index
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The world is getting less peaceful. According to the Global Peace Index, produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace, the world is less peaceful now than at any time in the last ten years. Vision of Humanity has been mapping the levels of peacefulness in countries around the world using the GPI since 2008. The 2018 Global Peace Index shows that the global levels of peace have fallen for
20:00
Canada's Winters Are Changing
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CBC/Radio Canada has used weather data from Environment Canada to visualize how Canada's winters are getting warmer and less snowy. Forget the Snowy Winters of Your Childhood includes a number of great visualizations of Canada's snowfall and temperature data since the 1970's. CBC/Radio Canada's visualizations include maps which show how Canada's winter temperatures have risen over the years
18:00
The American West - From Oil to Tourism
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Bloomberg has been investigating the shift from oil and gas extraction to outdoor recreation and tourism in the American West. Outdoor recreational pursuits now contribute more to the U.S.'s GDP than mining, oil and gas. The outdoor recreation economy also tends not to be so susceptible to the boom and bust cycle of the energy industry. The boom and bust nature of the energy industry is
15:00
Are Ambulances Getting Slower?
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In 2015 Totally Communications created an interactive map of ambulance response times in the UK. TheÂ Ambulance Response Times map shows the median response times for ambulances responding to 'life threatening calls' in every postcode area in the UK. The map was created from Freedom of Information requests sent to each Ambulance Trust in the UK. The response times shown on the map are from 2011
05 March 2019
20:00
Mapping Political Intolerance
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The residents of Florida are extremely intolerant towards each other's political views. According to the Atlantic's Geography of Intolerance map every county in Florida has a population which openly discriminates against people who have opposing political views to their own. The Atlantic's map rates the political intolerance shown by people in every county in the USA based on the political
18:00
How Prosperous is Your County?
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The eastern seaboard of the United States from Boston down to Washington D.C. is economically vibrant at the moment. The western coast of California, from Sonoma County down to San Diego is also looking very prosperous. You can view your state and county's vitality rating on the Hamilton Project'sÂ Exploring the Geography of ProsperityÂ interactive map.Â The Hamilton Project's Vitality Index rates
15:00
Neighborhood Ratings
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OneDome is a UK real-estate website which has developed a number of online tools which are designed to make it easier to find and buy property. One of these tools is Explore & Score, an interactive map which rates neighbourhoods in a number of different areas. Enter a UK postcode into Explore & Score and you can find out how the area rates for transport, education, groceries, greenery, safety,
12:41
Switching Map Provider
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Last year Google caught many developers out with a huge increase in the fees charged for using their maps API. Many websites couldn't absorb the costs and switched map providers. switch2osm is a great help if you want to make the switch to using OpenStreetMap for your interactive maps. However there are still costs involved with using OSM, particularly in serving the map tiles to your map. You
04 March 2019
22:00
The Most Common Job in Every State
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This interactive map provides some interesting insight into the changes in the American economy and employment over the last four decades. The Most Common Job in Each State uses data from the Census Bureau to show which jobs were the most commonly performed by individuals in each U.S. state for every two year period from 1978 to 2014. In 1978 the most popular job in many states was secretary.
20:00
The Over-Tourism Map
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The Disneyfication Map visualizes the number of tourists visiting the countries of the world, in proportion to the local population. The map is an attempt to show where over-tourism could be having a negative impact on the local population and the visited areas. The map uses data from the World Bank to show which countries have the most tourists in comparison to each country's population. The
18:00
A Game of Flags
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Esri has released a new map based game for all the vexillologists of the world. The World Country Flags Game is a fun way to test how well you know the flags of the world. The rules are simple. There are ten country flags displayed above an interactive map. All you have to do is drag each flag onto the correct country on the map. If you place a flag on the correct country that country will now
15:00
Public Land Sold by Your Council
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As a result of the government's austerity programme councils in the UK are being forced into selling off publicly owned land and property. Local amenities such as libraries, community centres and playgrounds have been closed and sold across the country. Around a third of the money that has been raised from this national asset stripping has been spent on redundancy payments. The Bureau of
02 March 2019
20:00
The Wine Regions of the World
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Do you know your Bordeaux from your Burgundy? Do you know which grape varieties are grown in which wine regions? Whether you can answer these questions or not, if you care about wine, you should have a look at the Biarritz Wine Academy Map. The Biarritz Wine Academy Map is an interactive map of the wine regions of the world. The Biarritz Wine Academy Map is very much a work in progress. At the
18:00
The Inequality Atlas
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The Atlas of Inequality is a new interactive map which shows the income inequality of customers who visit stores and establishments in the Boston metro area. The map shows the place inequality score of each establishment. This score shows how unequal the store's customer's incomes are. The atlas reveals some interesting patterns as to which type of establishment are most equal and which are
01 March 2019
20:00
How Many Miles do You Scroll Online?
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Have you ever wondered how many miles your fingers scroll when you browse the internet? Digital Detox did so s/he created a Google Chrome extension to track their personal scrolling distance on all the websites they visit. The data is then sent in real-time to a Leaflet map. Marco Land is an interactive map which shows the path of the Camino FrancÃ©s, the most popular pilgrimage route of the Way
18:00
Shopping on Street View
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Retailers Fred Perry and Raf Simons have released a virtual reality shopping experience. Fred Perry x Raf Simons is a custom Street View scene which you can navigate around just like you can move around in Street View on Google Maps. However, unlike Google Maps, on these virtual panoramas you can click on the people and buy their clothes. All the models that appear in Fred Perry x Raf Simons
28 February 2019
18:00
The Language of Data Visualization
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Last year the Financial Times released a poster designed to help people create data visualizations. The FT's poster provides a guide to lots of different methods of visualizing data (including different types of mapped visualization) and advice on when each method should be used. The Github page of theÂ Visual Vocabulary poster includes external links to advice elsewhere on the internet on using
16:00
The People's History Map of Paris
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The history of the world is so often told through the stories of the rich and powerful. LibÃ©ration has decided that it wants to tell the story of Paris' workers, peasants and insurgents. They have therefore released an historical map of Popular Paris from 1830 to 1980. Paris has often been the center of popular movements and protests. From the French Revolution of 1830, through the student and
11:10
Mapping the World's Power Plants
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Over 50% of electricity in the Asia-Pacific region comes from coal fueled power plants. The next biggest source of electricity is natural gas, which produces 17.9% of the region's electricity. The renewable energy power sources of solar, wind and tide only contribute 3.99% of the region's electricity. The Asia Pacific Energy Portal has released an interactive map which visualizes over 7,000
27 February 2019
20:30
Living and Dying in Texas
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The average Texan can expect to live until they are 78.5 years old. Of course life expectancy in the state can vary dependent on where you live and your sex and race. Life Expectancy in Texas is an interactive map which allows you to see where people can expect to live longer or shorter lives in Texas. Enter your zip-code into the map and you can view details on life expectancy in your
18:30
Permafrost is Becoming Permanently Lost
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New lakes have started to appear from nowhere on the Tibet Plateau. These new lakes are being formed from the melting of the plateau's permafrost. The world's permafrost is thawing. This is very bad news. The amount of carbon held in permafrost is four times that of the carbon already released into the atmosphere. Releasing all that compressed carbon and methane into the atmosphere will
16:32
Observing Global NO2 Emissions from Space
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This animated map uses data from the European Space Agencyâ€™s Sentinel-5P satellite to show NO2 emissions around the world. The Sentinel 5P satellite is dedicated to monitoring air pollution. The satellite is able to sense ultraviolet, visible, near and short-wavelength infrared to monitor the amount of ozone, methane, formaldehyde, aerosol, carbon monoxide, NO2 and SO2 in the atmosphere. This
26 February 2019
20:00
Mapping Countries by Similarity
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The Grand Prize winner in the World Data Visualization Prize 2019 was an interactive visualization which groups the world's countries using artificial intelligence. This interactive visualization, created by Interacta, shows the connections and similarities between different countries based on a number of different factors. The Country t-SNE map rearranges the countries of the world so that
18:14
Detroit Foreclosures on Street View
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One in three homes in Detroit has been foreclosed in the last 15 years. The result of all those lost homes is physically evident on the city's streets. It is also very evident when exploring the city on Google Maps Street View. GooBing Detroit uses the historical imagery function in Google Maps Street View to show how Detroit has changed over the years. By juxtaposing Street View images of the
11:20
A Journey Through Famine in India
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"All this day our noses were infested and our bodyes almost infected with a most noysome smell, which after search, wee found to come from a great pitt, wherein were throwne 30 or 40 persons, men, weomen and children, old and younge confuseldy tumbled in together without order or Coveringe" - 1630, Peter Munday, Itinerarium Mundii In 1631 around 3 million people died of starvation & disease in
25 February 2019
20:00
The Rise in American Hate Groups
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Last year the number of hate groups operating in the United States reached another new record. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center there are now 1,020 hate groups in action across the country. Lat week the Southern Poverty Law Center released an updated version of its hate groups interactive map. This updated map provides users with more details, including which states have the most
18:00
Wheelchair Accessible New York
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The New York Times has created a map of Where the Subway Limits New Yorkers with Disabilities. The map shows all the areas of the city that are within a ten minute walk from a wheelchair accessible subway station. It also shows where the most people with problems walking live in New York. The map reveals that Manhattan is the most easily accessible area of New York for people with disabilities.
15:30
Making Map Quiz Infographics
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Earlier this month the Berliner Morgenpost posted an infographic of 12 Berlin location using OpenStreetMap building footprint data. It then asked its readers if they could name the 12 locations based purely on these small circular maps.Â Erkennen Sie die Gegend? includes 12 small circular maps and a clue to each location. If you need a little help then the answers are given (upside down) at the
24 February 2019
23:01
Australia's First Language Maps
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First Languages Australia is working with regional language centers across the country to build an interactive map of Australian languages. A map that uses the names and groupings favored by the speakers of each language. The Gambay - First Languages Map shows first languages on the map using colored map labels. The first languages are also listed in alphabetical order in the map sidebar. If
23 February 2019
20:00
Mapping Real-Time Road Traffic
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This interactive map of Palo Alto shows the live status of traffic signals. The map also uses live data to show how many vehicles are waiting at different intersections and how many pedestrians are waiting to cross at each intersection. The live traffic data on the map comes from TrafficWare's streaming TidalWave API. The colored traffic approach lanes on the Traffic map show the color of the
18:00
Dissecting Planet Earth
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Earth Elevation provides an interesting view of the elevation of the Earth along circles of latitude. That sounds more complicated than it actually is. You can see Earth Elevation in action in the screenshot above, which shows the elevation & ocean depth around the world at 30Â° north of the Equator. This cross-section shows the relative height of the Rockies in America and the Himalayas in Asia.
22 February 2019
20:30
Searching for Slums with Machine Learning
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Machine learning techniques are being increasingly used to detect features in satellite and aerial imagery. Artificial intelligence and machine learning can be used to train algorithms to search for familiar patterns in aerial imagery of the Earth. The reasons for searching satellite imagery can be varied and can be for commercial, environmental or social purposes. One example of machine
18:18
The Map of Science Fiction
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In a parallel universe '100 Years of Sci Fi' is called '100 Years of Non-Fiction'. In a completely different parallel universe it is known as '100 Years of SYFY'. We don't live in either of those parallel universes so we shall call it by its given name. 100 Years of Sci Fi is an interactive map of science fiction novels listed on Good Reads. All the sci-fi novels on the map are organized by
13:10
Exploring Britain's History from Above
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You can now explore over 80,000 historical aerial photographs of Britain dating from 1945-2009. Cambridge Universityâ€™s Collection of Aerial Photographs contains thousands of aerial photographs captured by the Universityâ€™s Air Photography Unit since the end of World War II. There are nearly half a million aerial photos in the collection. 80,000 of them have now been digitized and can be found and
21 February 2019
20:00
Satellite Remote Sensing Analytics
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The Earth Observing System's LandViewer application is an online GIS-assistant which provides a set of advanced tools to perform real-time remote sensing data analytics. The site allows you to access and use a constantly updated satellite imagery catalog. One of the coolest features of LandViewer is the ability to create your own time-lapse animations using satellite imagery captured over time.
18:00
The World Map of Shipping Traffic
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This map of global shipping density reveals the world's major shipping lanes and also the areas of the world that the major shipping companies avoid. The reasons why some areas of the world's seas and oceans don't see as much traffic as others can vary from geo-political reasons to the dangers of piracy and local sailing conditions. The live ship tracking map MarineTraffic includes an option to
16:00
The History of Settlements in Hungary
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Partly inspired by the New York Times' popular Map of Every Building in America the Atlo data visualization team decided to undertake a detailed examination of the street patterns of urban settlements in Hungary. In Roads, Buildings, Networks Alto looks at the different types of settlement morphology and the history of urban growth and planning in the country. Roads, Buildings, Networks
20 February 2019
20:00
Navigating the Green Book
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In the 1930's Victor H. Green started publishing an African-American travel guide (first published as 'The Negro Motorist Green Book' and later as 'The Negro Travelers' Green Book'). In the guides Green reviewed hotels and restaurants which welcomed Black customers during the time of Jim Crow laws and racial segregation. Back in 2013 the University of South Carolina created an interactive
18:00
Mapping the Carbon Costs of Flying
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Flying is one of the worst things that you can you do for the environment. Aircraft are just about the worst forms of transport in terms of the CO2 cost per passenger kilometer. The UK's Department for Transport claim that flying is responsible for at least 6.3% of the UK's CO2 emissions. Many environmentalists say that this is an underestimation. The Flight Emissions Map allows you to
16:00
Mapping the Approaching Apocalypse
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MagyarorszÃ¡g HÃºszezer Ã©v MÃºlva (Hungary in 20,000 Years) is a collection of four interactive maps which imagine what a post-apocalyptic Hungary might look like. I have no idea why living under the rule of Viktor OrbÃ¡n would make Hungarians think about the end of the world, but the pessimistic developers of these maps have imagined four different scenarios that could lead to the end of human
19 February 2019
20:00
Exploring the Moon
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The LROC Lunar QuickMap is an interactive map of our nearest neighbor. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) is a system of three cameras mounted on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a robotic spacescraft currently orbiting the Moon. The Lunar Quickmap interactive is created from the high resolution images of the lunar surface captured by the LROC. The LROC QuickMap includes a number
18:00
The Cheapest Flight to Every City in the World
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Three researchers at MIT Senseable's Lab in Singapore have created an interactive map which shows the cheapest flight to every city in the world on any given date from your nearest airport. Using the Great Escape map you can search for any destination across the globe and find the cheapest flights for when you want to travel. Enter a point of departure into the Great Escape and the interactive
14:51
The 2019 Submarine Cable Map
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Drum roll please ... the 2019 Telegeography Submarine Cable Map has arrived. Every year Telegeography releases a new updated version of its map of the global network of undersea telecommunication cables. This year's map highlights the huge recent building boom in submarine cables. This boom will see in the next few years around 107 new submarine cables being laid around the world, adding over
18 February 2019
20:00
Should Your Maps Talk?
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Back in 2014 I used the fairly new (at the time) Web Speech API to create a simple Speaking Map. That map used reverse geocoding to speak the address of a location every time someone clicked on the map. What I neglected to add to my Speaking Map was jokes. Which is where Alex wins out. Alex is a talking map which can understand a number of different spoken commands. You can ask Alex to zoom in
18:00
Earth's Light Mountains
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Last year Jacob Wasilkowski released an interactive map which visualized Nasaâ€™s nighttime lights data as as elevation data. In other words the Earth at Night map shows light pollution around the world in 3D as mountains of light. NASA's so called Black Marble map is made by combining the best cloud-free satellite images of every land mass area of the Earth. The result is a map which shows the
16:00
The UK Child Poverty Map
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In some areas of the UK over half of all children are now living in poverty. The levels of child poverty are highest in some of the UK's largest cities, particularly in London, Birmingham and Manchester. For example, in London's Bethnal Green 54.18% of children are living in poverty and in Birmingham's Ladywood neighborhood 53.06% of children are growing up in poverty. The End Child Poverty
16 February 2019
20:00
I ðŸ’›ðŸ’—ðŸ’– Maps
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I saw a few Valentines Day themed maps this week. None of them were that interesting. I did end up writing about Esri's map ofÂ Britain's Most Romantic Roads but that was really only because I wanted to explore the toponym of the 168 Love Lanes on Esri's map - the original meaning of which is maybe not quite as romantic as Esri imagines (John Stow in 1598 said London's 'Love Lane' was "so called
18:00
Amazon's Lord of the Rings Map
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Amazon is busy creating a Lord of the Rings Prime Video series. Little is known about the television series, as of yet, but there is a Lord of Rings on Prime official Twitter account. On Wednesday that account made it's first Tweet, which was a short Tolkien quote, â€œI wisely started with a mapâ€ â€” J.R.R. Tolkien â€” The Lord of the Rings on Prime (@LOTRonPrime) Yesterday that Tweet was
15 February 2019
20:00
Do You Speak the Queen's English?
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The most popular interactive page on the New York Times website in 2013 was How Yâ€™all, Youse and You Guys Talk. This interactive feature asked readers to answer questions about the words they use and how they pronounce them. From the answers given to these language questions the NYT was able to create an interactive map showing where the reader was from in the United States. Now the New York
18:00
America's 2018 Oil Spills
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On average there were around 11 oils spills a month in the United States during 2018. The largest oil spill was in April in Superior, Wisconsin. 11 people were injured in the incident when a storage tank exploded. You can view all the 137 oil spills that occurred in the United States during 2018 on Resource Watch's interactive map. The 2018 Oil Spills MapÂ uses data from NOAA to plot the
12:30
Mapping Asia's Most Powerful Countries
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According to the Lowy Institute the USA is the most powerful country in Asia. I'm not sure I agree that the United States is in Asia but I'm not going to argue that it exercises a lot of influence in the continent. According to the Institute's Asia Power Index the next most powerful country in Asia is China. The Asia Power Index ranks 25 Asian countries and territories in terms of their power
14 February 2019
20:30
The Best Brewery Road Trip Ever
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If you are tired of the usual bog standard Saturday night pub crawl and you want to take on something a little more ambitious then you need Flowing Data's Brewery Road Trip. This map provides you with the shortest possible route that takes in all the best American breweries. If you undertake this mega journey then you will visit all 71 American breweries in RateBeer's list of the top 100
18:00
A Strip Map of Mars
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In 1675 John Ogilby published Britannia, a series of strip maps of roads in England and Wales. In 2019 the New York Times also published a strip map. Only this strip map shows the journey of a robot on Mars. On Wednesday NASA announced that the Mars Opportunity rover was no longer working. In June Opportunity went into hibernation during a dust storm on Mars. It was hoped that after the
15:40
The UK's Most Romantic Streets
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There are 168 Love Lanes in Great Britain. You can view them all on Esri Valentine's Day interactive map, Britain's Most Romantic Roads. The Esri map has 1,453 romantic streets in total. As well as showing the location of all 168 Love Lanes Esri's map includes a Kissing Tree Lane in Stratford-upon-Avon, a Partnership Way in Blackburn and a Heartâ€™s Delight Road in Kent. The toponym 'Love Lane'
13 February 2019
20:00
The Weather Forecast for 2080
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In the year 2080 the climate in Washington D.C. will resemble the current climate experienced in the state of Mississippi. Portland will experience a climate similar to California's current climate. And Los Angeles will have a climate which resembles present day Las Palmas in Mexico. You can find out what kind of climate your city can expect in 2080 on the University of Maryland's new
18:05
1.4 Million New York Collisions
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Times Square witnessed more pedestrian injuries from motor vehicle collisions between 2012 and 2019 than any other location in New York. The most cyclists injured during that period was on Delancey Street on Manhattanâ€™s Lower East Side. You can explore more motor vehicle collision trends in New York on the Motor Vehicle Collisions Map. The Motor Vehicle Collisions Map uses New York Police
12:51
Delhi - A City Born of Partition
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After the partition of India in 1947 half a million Hindu and Sikh refugees from Pakistan arrived in Delhi. The arrival of half a million extra citizens changed Delhi for ever. In fact the impact of their arrival on the city itself can be observed by comparing the map of Delhi in 1942 to the map of Delhi in 1956. Delhi - 1942 vs 1956 allows you to directly compare a street map of Delhi in 1942
12 February 2019
20:30
Making Building Footprint Posters
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I have been inspired by Maptime's Street Patterns tool for making street pattern posters to make my own building footprint posters. Maptime's Street Patterns is a wizard for making map posters from street patterns which can be found at different locations around the world. The tool uses data from OpenStreetMap to create small circular images consisting of just the street map of your chosen
18:00
Mapping American Debt
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Medical debt affects many Americans. Nearly 20% of Americans have delinquent medical debt on their credit reports. Even those with health insurance in America can still be burdened with huge medical debts. In fact around 60% of those with medical debt have health insurance. The Urban Institute's Debt in America visualizes medical debt levels in every county in the USA. The map allows you to
15:30
How Green is London?
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The Mayor of London has released an interactive map which visualizes London's green infrastructure. The map shows where Londoner's have good or poor access to open green spaces, such as parks, gardens, trees and rivers. The tool is designed to highlight where there is more and less need for investment in London's green infrastructure. The Green Infrastructure Focus interactive map can be used
11 February 2019
22:30
Sydney No Harbour Bridge
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DX Lab's Pano-scope allows you to view some of the vintage historic panoramic photographs in the New South Wales State Library Collection. The library owns historical panoramic photographs taken in Sydney and elsewhere in New South Wales dating back as early as 1876. Pano-scope is a wonderful way to explore the NSW of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It allows you to see how
20:00
To the Kuiper Belt & Beyond
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Josh Worth's If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel is a scaled model of the Solar System. The model takes you on a 5,906,510,212 km journey from the sun out as far as Pluto. Luckily for us in this model each pixel is 3474.8 km, so we can cut down the journey time a little. If you haven't got the time to travel to Pluto today then perhaps I can interest you instead in a quick journey to Mars.Â How Far is
18:00
How to Make Street Pattern Posters
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Maptime Amsterdam #5: Street Patterns is a great tool for making map posters of the city street patterns which can be found at different locations around the world. The tool uses data from OpenStreetMap to create small circular images consisting of just the street map of your chosen location. You can see an example of the map images that Street Patterns outputs in my little Tokyo map above.
09 February 2019
18:06
The 8-Bit Atlas
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The 8-bit Map of the USA is an animated map of the United States in the style of a vintage 8-bit computer game. This pictorial map features 8-bit representations of popular tourist destinations from across the country. The 8-Bit Map of the USA is just an animated GIF so you can't actually zoom in on areas of the map. If you want to explore locations around the world in a little more detail (as
08 February 2019
18:38
The Polarization of Pennsylvania
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In Pennsylvania, Polarized The Inquirer takes a closer look at the 2018 mid-term elections to show how politics in Pennsylvania is becoming more and more polarized. In its article The Inquirer uses a number of map visualization techniques to explain how November's election results reveal the state's growing divisions. As you progress through The Philly's story the map constantly updates to
16:37
The Bike Paths of Europe
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Roman Kyrychenko has used OpenStreetMap data to create a map showing all of Europe's cycle paths. The map provides an interesting overview of Europe's cycling infrastructure and a reasonable guide to which countries in Europe have the most developed bike path networks. The European Map of Cycle Paths is only a static map but the Random Forest blog has posted it as a large image so you can get
07 February 2019
20:30
Space Debris - the Interactive Map
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Satellites is a THREE.js visualization of the man-made debris which is currently floating in orbit around planet Earth. This 3D globe shows 10,000 orbiting objects that are tracked by the U.S. Space Surveillance Network. There are currently more than 20,000 objects, mostly rocket bodies, debris, and satellites in orbit about our planet. This map simulates around 10,000 of those objects orbiting
18:00
Mapping Chinese New Year
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Every year around 2.8 million trips are made by Chinese people traveling home to spend the Chinese New Year with their families. Thanks to Baidu maps we are able to see when, where and how they traveled. Baidu's mobile map application has over 350 million active users and receives over 10 billion location requests every day. This provides Baidu with a unique insight into the movements of the
06 February 2019
20:30
It's a Watercolor World
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Watercolor World is busy painting the world in oils. Sorry - not oils - watercolours. The site is creating a free online database of documentary watercolour paintings which were painted before 1900. You can explore this database of paintings for yourself by the subject matters depicted or by the locations pictured using the Watercolour World interactive map. The interactive map allows you to
18:00
The New York Eviction Map
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There were over 19,000 people evicted in New York City in 2018. The Acting Public Advocate of the New York City Council has released a number of data visualizations of New York's residential evictions. Evictions: NYC residents are affected by evictions every day allows you to explore New York's eviction rates by year, zip code, or district. If you select individual markers on the interactive
13:47
The Elastic Railway Map
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Travel time is often represented using an isochrone map. On an isochrone map lines can be drawn to connect points to show areas which can be reached from one starting point in an equal travel time. A printed isochrone map is normally restricted to visualizing the travel times from one specific location. For example Francis Galton's Iscochronic Passage Chart, the first known isochrone map,
05 February 2019
18:00
The Irish Border - the Movie
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Yesterday I posted a short tutorial on creating animated movies using aerial imagery from Google Maps. Today someone was kind enough to direct me towards Keith Oâ€™FaolÃ¡in's animated movie of the Irish border, Oh Border Where Art Thou. One result of the UK's exit from the European Union could be the reintroduction of a hard border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Oh Border
13:37
Women's Cultural Contributions to Paris
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In 1971 Linda Nochlin published an article in ArtNews called "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?". In the essay she addressed some of the reasons why female artists are so often overlooked. The creators of Le Matrimoine Parisien also believe that women artists have been ignored and rendered invisible by society. They have therefore decided to make the female artists of Paris more

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