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24 February 2020
19:00
The Origin of Crops
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Despite his very many achievements and exploits Sir Walter Raleigh is perhaps most celebrated in the UK for introducing the potato to Europe. This celebration owes much to the British love of fried potatoes and perhaps to the poor standard of geography teaching (it is now believed that Raleigh never visited any locations where he could have discovered the potato). According to the Origin of
17:00
Burnt Australia
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Australia's ABC has used historical and recent satellite imagery to explore the causes, the extent and the damage caused by this summer's bushfires, particularly in south-east Australia. How Heat and Drought Created a Tinderbox uses the scrollytelling format and satellite imagery to explore the huge effect of this season's wildfires on Australia's eastern seaboard. ABC's account of the recent
15:00
A Bad Day for the Right in Hamburg
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Germany's center-left Social Democratic party (SPD) and the Green party both had a good day in yesterday's state election in Hamburg. It was a very bad day for Angela Merkel's Christian Democrat party (CDU), who plummeted into third place with little more than 11% of the vote. It was also a very bad day for the extreme far-right AfD party, who only just managed to get over 5% of the vote. You
23 February 2020
15:00
Covid-19 Maps
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One month ago, on 23 January 2020, the John Hopkins' Wuhan Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Global Cases interactive map was reporting 17 deaths from Covid-19 and 555 total known cases. One month later the John Hopkins map is reporting 2,462 deaths and 78,823 total known cases. This week there appears to be the first major outbreak of Covid-19 outside of Asia. In the last few days more than 100 cases of
22 February 2020
17:00
Airlines Hit in the Pocket by Coronavirus
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The New York Times has created an impressive side-by-side animated map comparison which visualizes the huge drop in both domestic and international flights over China since the outbreak of coronavirus. In response to last month's outbreak of the virus airlines have canceled more than 200,000 flights - both domestically, within the country, and internationally, to & from China. In 13,000
15:00
Wales Is Smaller Than You Think It Is
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In the UK the country of Wales is often used as a unit of measurement. According to the BBC Wales has been used to describe things as varied as :- the area an asteroid could wipe out how much damage a nuclear bomb could destroy the levels of deforestation in the Amazon Using Wales as a unit of measurement isn't new. According to Google Book's Ngram Viewer the phrase something is the '....
21 February 2020
17:00
Get Me Geodata!
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Hans Hack is on a bit of a creative blitz. In the last couple of weeks he has released the impressive How Big size comparison map tool and the equally impressive shape comparison tool, Reprojector. Both of these tools can be used to get the GeoJSON data needed to compare different locations or sized objects on top of an interactive map. Now Hans has released yet another interactive mapping
15:00
Where's the Border?
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Earlier this month I created a little map survey tool which can be used to gather data on whether people can point to a named location on a map. That survey tool is intended to be used to collect geographical knowledge for stories such as Morning Consult's Can You Locate Iran? story. You can see the application in action on my Where's Null Island map on Glitch. This map asks you to point to
20 February 2020
17:00
The Migratory Patterns of Birds
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The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is running the largest citizen science project in the world. For fifteen years bird watchers across the globe have been reporting their observations to eBird. The result is a huge database of over 750 million observations, recording dated sightings of thousands of species of birds. The eBird Science team has used the observations made in North America to create
19 February 2020
19:00
The Arctic is Melting
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The rate of global warming in the Arctic is about twice as fast as the global average. You can see how this global heating is affecting sea ice extent on this impressive map visualization from Aftenposten. The article accompanying the map is in Norwegian but you don't need to speak Norwegian to appreciate the impressive interactive map. As you scroll through The Arctic is Melting a map of
17:00
Where in the World - Map Games
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Map games can be a lot of fun to play. They can also be a lot of fun to make. The following three interactive map games are all fun to play. They are also all on GitHub. This means that each of these games is easy to clone and adapt if you want to create your own map based geography game. Quizzity Play the Game & Clone the GitHub In this simple map game you are given six different cities to
18 February 2020
17:00
Mapping Urban Sprawl
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Urban planning around the world seems to have become obsessed with the idea of creating gated communities and disconnected street networks. This is extremely bad news for people who like to walk and for the environment. Urban sprawl and disconnected streets create barriers to and discourage walking. Cul de sacs and gated communities make it very difficult to make journeys without a car. They
15:00
Where are New York's Hoods?
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Back in 2015 DNAInfo asked New Yorkers to draw their neighborhood boundaries on an interactive map. More than 12,000 people drew outlines where they thought their neighborhood's borders existed. Unfortunately the map which DNAInfo created from the results no longer seems to exist. Luckily Adam Pearce appears to have access to the data and has created his own map of New York Neighborhoods Drawn
12:00
Noise Pollution Maps
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One in every four people in Europe live near a road which is responsible for noise levels in excess of 55 decibels. The NOISE Observation & Information Service for Europe map allows you to explore the levels of noise pollution across Europe. The interactive map provides an overview of the levels of noise pollution across the continent created by road traffic, railways, airports and industry.
17 February 2020
17:00
Driving While Distracted
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Bloomberg has created an animated map to visualize the number of cars driving on our roads controlled by drivers using mobile phones. In the USA around 3,000 people a year are killed as a result of drivers being distracted while using their phones. In How Bad is Distracted Driving? Bloomberg has managed to visualize the scale of the distracted driving problem in New York and Los Angeles using
15:00
Become a Virtual Pilot
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The UK's air traffic control service, NATS, has released a fantastic visualization which allows you to experience a virtual plane journey from London to Manchester. During the take-off, flight and landing you can listen in on the conversations which take place between the pilot and ground & air control. The whole journey is designed to show you how NATS Air Traffic Controllers safely guide a
12:00
Mapping Family Names
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I am a big fan of the Inspector Montalbano television series. One reason why I like the show so much is because it is set and filmed in some beautiful locations in southwest Sicily. The television program is based on the series of detective novels written by Andrea Camilleri, who originated from the province of Agrigento, Sicily. While growing up in southwest Sicily Camilleri may well have
15 February 2020
17:00
How Big is a Swarm of Locusts?
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1,500 square miles Data visualization expert Hans Hack has developed two interactive mapping tools which are great if you need to explain the size of something by showing it on a map. His How Big tool uses scaled circles or squares to visualize simple area sizes and his Reprojector tool can be used to show the size of areas with more complex shapes. Massive swarms of locusts are currently
14 February 2020
19:00
California's Slum Landlord King
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Mike Nijjar's property empire is huge. Much of it is also dirty and dangerous to live in. LAist has mapped out the extent of Mike Nijjar's property empire in Southern California and how it is built on the suffering of California's poorest citizens. An interactive map in Deceit, Disrepair and Death Inside a Southern California Rental Empire shows just how many properties Nijjar's PAMA company
17:00
Comparing Coronavirus to SARS
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A new interactive map from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine London School allows you to compare how Covid-19 compares to previous virulent epidemics. The Covid 2019 Tracker map visualizes the spread of Covid-19 around the world and allows you to compare this outbreak with the 2003 SARS, 2014 Ebola and 2009 Swine Flu epidemics. The Covid-2019 Tracker map helps to visualize how
13 February 2020
17:00
Viewing National Parks From Your Car
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Millions of Americans make at least one visit to a National Park every year. According to an analysis of geotagged photographs submitted to Flickr very few of those visitors ever venture far from a road. Nick Underwood, Clare Sullivan and Peter Newman analyzed 800,000 Flickr photographs taken within America's National Parks and discovered that a large majority of park visitors never stray more
15:00
Who is Happy?
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Nigerians are the happiest people in the world. The Greeks are the most stressed. People in Mozambique worry more than the people of any other country. And the people of Paraguay get the most enjoyment out of life. The polling company Gallup has carried out a global survey to discover the emotional state of people across the world. In What Is the World's Emotional Temperature? the company
12 February 2020
17:00
Exploring the Beauty of Planet Earth
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The premise of Earth View is very simple. Earth View wants to show you the beauty of planet Earth by introducing you to some of the most striking images found on Google Earth. Google's Earth View application and website is a showcase of some of the most beautiful satellite / aerial views of planet Earth, all of which can be found on Google Maps and Google Earth. This showcase includes more
15:00
The New Hampshire Primary Results
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The results are nearly all in from yesterday's Democratic primary in New Hampshire. Bernie Sanders has narrowly won the primary, just ahead of Pete Buttigieg. CNN's Primaries & Caucuses interactive map allows you to view the results in each caucus already run (Iowa and New Hampshire so far). If you select a state from the map you can view a choropleth map of the selected state which shows the
11 February 2020
17:00
Where the World Wants to Holiday
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Italy is the most popular holiday destination in the whole world. This sunny country full of history and art, surrounded by warm seas is, for some strange reason, the most popular country to visit for most people living in America, China, India and most of Europe. It appears that Italy has an almost universal appeal for people around the world when they start thinking about their next holiday
15:00
Trainspotting Trains Stopping
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The biggest cause of delays on the Dutch railway is broken down trains. 18.5% of all train disruptions in the Netherlands, since 2011, have been caused by trains breaking down. The next biggest cause of disruption to rail services is signal failure. 10.4% of train disruptions are caused by signal failure, closely followed by people being hit by trains, which caused 9.27% of all disruptions.
10 February 2020
15:00
Mapping Climate Change in Europe
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Many coastal regions in Europe are in danger from rising sea levels - even under the most optimistic climate change models. It isn't just rising sea levels that Europe has to worry about. Climate change will also lead to longer and more frequent severe droughts in southern Europe, increasing and more severe forest fires in western-central Europe and southern Europe and an increase in the
13:08
2020 Ireland Election Maps
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On Saturday the people of Ireland voted in the 2020 Ireland General Election. With about half of the seats already declared the emerging story is of the dramatic end of two-party politics in Ireland, due to the incredible rise of Sinn Féin. At the time of writing Sinn Féin has the largest percentage of first preference votes of all the political parties. The party has increased its share of the
08 February 2020
15:12
Old Weather & Shrinking Arctic Sea Ice
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Visualizing the shrinking sea ice extent in the Arctic has become a very powerful method of demonstrating the effect of global heating on planet Earth. For example the National Snow and Ice Data Center's interactive animated map, Sea Monthly Mean Sea Ice Concentration Anomalies, uses satellite data to show how the extent of sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk since 1979. One problem with using
07 February 2020
13:00
Exploring Romantic London
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Romantic London is a website which allows you to explore various aspects of life and culture in London as it existed at the turn of the Nineteenth Century. The site uses Richard Horwood’s pioneering Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster to present a number of artistic images of London. It also maps a number of historical textual descriptions of places around London, for example from
06 February 2020
17:00
Modeling Migration from Rising Seas
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Earlier today we explored how the rate of sea level rise is increasing around the United States. That post ended with news that nearly 40% of the U.S, population lives near a coastline. If sea levels rise by 5 feet 11 inches then 13.1 million people in America will be at risk of losing their homes. A new study by scientists from the University of Southern California, the Georgia Institute of
15:00
The Increasing Rate of Rising Seas
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The rate at which sea levels are rising is increasing on both the east and west coasts of the United States. This increasing rate can clearly be seen in the 2019 data from NOAA tide stations. NOAA operates tide stations on all U.S. coasts in order to measure and record data on tide heights, current speeds and current directions. Data from 32 of those tide stations, positioned around the coast
05 February 2020
17:00
Is Your Country Ready for the Coronavirus?
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Thirteen days ago I posted a link to Johns Hopkins University's Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Global Cases interactive map. On that day (January 23rd) the map was reporting 555 confirmed cases of the Coronavirus and 17 deaths. Today the map is reporting 24,597 confirmed cases and 942 deaths. In the last thirteen days confirmed cases of the Coronavirus have been reported in many more countries
15:00
At Last - The Iowa Results Map
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On Monday the New York Times published what it called The Most Detailed Map of the Iowa Democratic Caucus. Then for 24 hours the NYT had to suffer what I'm calling ' the most desperate levels of hubris ever', as their map, remained as blank as every other 'less detailed' map of the Iowa Democratic Caucus. However the wait is now finally over. The Democrats have finally managed to count the
04 February 2020
16:43
Google Maps is not the Territory
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You may rely on Google Maps for directions but it is important to remember that Google Maps does not portray a single objective reality. In fact the Google Map that you see depends on where you live. If you live in China then you will see a different version of the world than if you live in India. Use Google Maps in Ukraine and you will not see the same Google Map as someone in Russia. As long
15:00
The Dammed River Nile
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The Nile is the disputed longest river in the world (Brazilians say the Amazon is longer). 280 million people from 11 different countries live along the Nile and largely depend on it for water. Any disruption to the Nile's ecosystem could have devastating consequences not only for the Nile but for the millions of people who depend on it for their survival. Since 2011 Ethiopia has been
03 February 2020
16:20
Where's Null Island?
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Yesterday Donald Trump congratulated the Kansas City Chiefs for representing the 'Great State of Kansas'. The only problem for the president is that the Chiefs' stadium is located in Kansas City, MISSOURI and not in the state of Kansas. This isn't the only time that Trump has revealed that he has a very poor grasp of geography. During the last three years there has been a distinct rise in the
10:19
This Google Maps Hack Will Change Your Life
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If you've ever used Google Maps in your car then you will know that the current level of traffic is shown on Google Maps with green, yellow and red colored roads. But have you ever wondered how Google knows how much traffic is currently on those roads? One way that Google determines the level of traffic (which it then feeds back into its suggested route recommendations) is by historical
01 February 2020
18:50
Where's the Water?
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Parts of the Upper Midwest are currently experiencing very high levels of saturation. There is much more natural water in the region compared to the normal historic levels in this part of the USA. The heavy rains of 2019 have led to record river levels in both Minnesota and Wisconsin and many rivers are flowing at levels not normally seen until late spring. These extraordinary natural water
0:48
Brexit and the Lying British Press
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One hour ago, as the rest of the world shook its collective heads in incredulity, the UK finally left the European Union. If you are struggling to understand why the UK would voluntarily withdraw from one of the world's largest trading blocks then you should probably ignore the British press and read a German newspaper instead. Zeit has published an interesting interactive map consisting of
31 January 2020
17:00
Who Will Win the 2020 US Election?
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To defeat Trump in the 2020 Presidential election the Democrats only have to flip Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. To become President a candidate needs to win at least 270 electoral votes. In 2016 Trump won 306 electoral votes. This means that (if all else remains the same) the Democrats only need to flip Pennsylvania (which the Republicans won by 0.72%), Michigan (which the Republicans
15:00
The USA is Hell On Earth
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For 37 years the French artist Auguste Rodin worked on creating a monumental sculpture called the Gates of Hell. The sculpture was inspired by Dante's Inferno and represents the entrance to his vision of hell. A number of bronze casts have been made of Rodin's original Gates of Hell. Two of these bronze casts exist on opposite sides of the United States, one on the west coast at Stanford
30 January 2020
17:00
Mapping 70 Years of Global Protests
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An analysis of civil protests around the world over the last 70 years has determined that non-violent protests have been much more effective in achieving their goals than protests which have involved violence. Harvard University has launched a new interactive map which plots where mass uprisings have taken place across the globe between 1945 and 2014. The map seems to prove that nonviolent
29 January 2020
17:00
Making Election Maps with Mapbox
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Mapbox Elections data being styled in Mapbox Studio to show 2016 Democratic vote percentage Yesterday Mapbox released a new resource for mapping U.S. election data. Mapbox Elections is a set of tilesets for visualizing U.S. election data from 2004–2016. The tilesets in Mapbox Elections include data for the 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 elections. A number of different datasets are available for
28 January 2020
17:00
The Geography of Employment
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A new interactive map reveals the huge role that geography plays in the American economy. The map uses Bureau of Labor Statistics data to show which counties gained and lost jobs during 2019. One of the most surprising revelations from the map is how many neighboring counties on either side of state borders had vastly different fortunes last year in terms of employment. The Daily Yonder's map
15:00
How Far Can You Travel?
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The city of Amsterdam has created a useful tool which visualizes travel times around the city. MapItOut is an interactive isochrone map which shows you how far you can travel by foot, bike, public transport or car in Amsterdam, within 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes. To discover how far you can travel in Amsterdam you just need to click on your location on the map and select your mode of transport.
27 January 2020
17:00
Can you point to Ukraine on a map?
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The big geopolitical question of the week is: Can you point to Ukraine on a map? On Friday Mike Pompeo was asked by NPR's Mary Louise Kelly, whether he, as Secretary of State, owed Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, an apology. Marie Yovanovitch was the American ambassador to Ukraine who Trump ordered removed from her position because he believed she was hampering his
15:00
Maps of Planned Cities Can Be Very Pretty
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By far the most popular map of last week was City Roads, a new online tool which allows you to make road maps for any city in the world. City Roads uses OpenStreetMap data to create simple monochrome maps created just from a city's roads. Road maps of planned cities can be very pretty. Which is perhaps why Mike Bostock has created a number of maps showing The Roads of Planned Cities (Mike's
25 January 2020
17:00
The Global Sports Atlas
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Zeit's Small Sport Atlas uses OpenStreetMap data to explore where different sports are played around the world. Sports pitches, courts and fields are tagged on OpenStreetMap to show which sports are played on them. This means that OpenStreetMap data can provide a rough guide to where different sports are played in which countries across the globe. Looking at which countries play different
24 January 2020
17:00
Fun with Graph Theory & Maps
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Mathigon has a neat introduction to graph theory which includes some fun interactive map problems. The Graphs and Networks lesson requires you to try coloring maps with as few colors as possible and to try to solve Euler's famous Bridges of Königsberg challenge. What makes Graphs and Networks such a great introduction to graph theory is that it includes a number of interactive map based
15:00
How the EU Pays Farmers to Pollute
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The New York Times has exposed how the European Union's farm subsidies are being used to create pollution. In Killer Slime, Dead Birds, an Expunged Map: The Dirty Secrets of European Farm Subsidies the Times reports on a map which the EU has tried to cover up. The EU's censored map shows how pollution in northern Italy relates very closely to the amount of European Union subsidies paid to
23 January 2020
17:00
The First People's Map of B.C.
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There are 203 First Nations communities in British Colombia and an amazing diversity of Indigenous languages. You can learn more about B.C.'s First Nations communities and languages on the First People's Map of B.C.. The new First People's Map of B.C. provides information about the Indigenous languages, cultures and places of British Columbia. The interactive map visualizes the regions where
15:00
The Coronavirus Map
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So far there have been 555 confirmed cases and 17 deaths from the Wuhan Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Most of the confirmed cases have occurred in China, however there have also been a handful of cases in Japan and one confirmed case in the United States. In Wuhan, China the government has shut down public transport in order to help stop the spread of the virus. The Chinese New Year is this
22 January 2020
17:00
A Bad Education Can Lead to an Early Death
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In the United States educational opportunity is one of the best indicators of life expectancy. If you grow up in an area with low educational opportunities then you can expect to live a shorter life on average than someone who grew up in an area with higher educational opportunities. Child Trends has mapped out The Link Between Life Expectancy and Educational Opportunity in cities across the
15:00
The Mother Tongue of Every Canadian
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Canadian company Anagraph has mapped the languages spoken by all 34,504,810 Canadians. In the company's Langues Maternelles 2016 interactive dot map you can see the mother tongue languages spoken in every neighborhood in Canada, according to the 2016 census. The map reveals how in most Canadian cities people with the same languages often live in the same neighborhoods. For example in Montreal
21 January 2020
19:00
Mapping Life Under the Ice
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Last year Ariel Waldman led an expedition to Antarctica to film the extremophile microbes living under the ice. The expedition found microbes living in glaciers, under the sea ice, next to frozen lakes, and in subglacial ponds. You can explore some of the microbes found in Antarctica on Life Under the Ice. Life Under the Ice uses the Leaflet mapping platform to present microscopic videos of
17:00
Internal Migration in the USA
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US County-to-County Migration 2012-2016 is an interactive flow-map showing where people are moving to and from in the USA. The map uses data from the American Community Survey to show the migration levels between different counties. If you hover over a county on the map you can highlight all the flow-lines showing migration to and from the county. The size of the lines represent the relative
15:00
Make Your Own City Road Map
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City Roads is a new online tool which you can use to create your very own road map for any city in the world. Enter a city name into City Roads and it will generate a map of the city using only the city's road network from OpenStreetMap. City Road really is that easy to use. All you have to do is enter a location and City Roads will create your road map. Once finished you can customize the map
20 January 2020
19:00
The American School Achievement Map
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Stanford University's Opportunity Explorer is an interactive map which allows you to explore how your school, school district and county compare in educational attainment. The map uses data from over 350 million standardized test scores to show average test scores in areas across the United States and also school learning rates and trends in test scores. If you click on a school district on
17:00
Collaborative Mapping with Ethermap
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Ethermap is a very easy to use tool for creating and sharing simple interactive maps. You could use Ethermap to map your favourite coffee shops, bars & restaurants. You could it use it to show friends where and when you want to meet. You could even use it to map out places that you want to visit on your next vacation. Creating a map with Ethermap is simplicity itself. Just drop a marker on any
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Germany's Rising Rents
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Germany is a tripartite state when it comes to increasing rents. In southern Germany rents rise much faster than wages. In eastern Germany renting a property costs less and less relative to income. Only in parts of western Germany are wages and rents developing at almost the same pace. The Berliner Morgenpost has mapped Where rents are rising faster than wages in Germany. German regions are
18 January 2020
18:17
The Live Amtrak Train Map
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The Amtrak/VIA Live Map shows the live position of Amtrak and VIA Rail Canada trains. It uses live data from Amtrak's Track-A-Train service and VIA's status service to estimate the real-time location of U.S. and Canadian trains and their current running status. The location of individual trains is shown on the map with colored numbers. The colors indicate the on-time performance of the train
15:00
Number of UK Pubs Increases
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For the first time in ten years the number of pubs and bars in the UK has grown. Since 2007 the number of pubs and bars fell every single year until last year. Between 2018 and 2019 the number of pubs and bars in the UK increased by 315, a 0.8% increase and the first increase for a decade. The slight increase in pubs and bars last year isn't enough to reverse the years of decline in the sector
17 January 2020
17:00
A Drive Back in Time
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The Library of Congress has a huge archive of photographs from across the United States. The collection is a fantastic record of recent American history. The collection also provides a fantastic resource for exploring the United States through its photography. Library of Places is an interactive map which allows you to explore the Library of Congress' photography collection using the analog of
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Pollution from the Notre Dame Fire
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The fire of the Notre-Dame de Paris was one of the most shocking events of 2019. The fire burned for around 15 hours and the cathedral suffered serious damage. Most of the lead-covered wooden roof was destroyed by the fire. 460 tonnes of lead were burnt, which resulted in toxic dust being blown over Paris. Where this dust settled has raised surface lead levels in certain areas. The local
16 January 2020
17:00
Slap it on a Map!
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There are lots of interactive map tools which allow you to compare the relative sizes of different countries around the world. For example the The True Size of ... and OverlayMaps both allow you to overlay the outline of one or more countries on top of another country on an interactive map. This results in a clear and dramatic illustration of the relative sizes of the selected countries in
15:00
The Predicted Global Electricity Grid
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Gridfinder is a new interactive map which visualizes the predicted global electricity grid network based on night-light satellite imagery. The map predicts the existence of electricity network lines using evidence from night-time views of the Earth from space. 10% of the world's population does not have access to a reliable electricity supply. It is hoped that Gridfinder can be used to
15 January 2020
19:00
Uber's New Bike Trip City Maps
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Today Uber released "a new bike trip data tool that shows where and when cyclists are most active in our cities". Currently there are three interactive maps available showing bike trip data for: San Francisco Washington D.C. Paris All three maps purport to show where and when cyclists are most active using a heat map layer. The bluest lines on the map show the streets with the most cycle
17:00
America's Abandoned Railways
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According to Wikipedia there are 149,910 kilometers of rail track in the United States (although many other sources say it is much larger at 226,000 kilometers or 140,000 miles). At its peak the rail network in America was much larger than it is today and consisted of 409,000 kilometers of track. This means that there are a lot of abandoned railways in the USA. Abandoned and Out of Service
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How to Avoid Roads in London
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London's roads are mostly responsible for the often dangerous levels of air pollution which can be found in the capital. If you want to escape that pollution then your best bet is to get as far away from road traffic as you can. A new interactive map, called Retreat From Streets - London, can help you find the locations in London which are the furthest from roads and from all that polluting
14 January 2020
19:00
Toronto's Geography of Wealth
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In Mapping Our Divisions The Local looks at how Toronto's income inequalities can be observed in the city's streets and polarized neighborhoods. Using an interactive map The Local reveals the income disparities between the rich neighborhoods along the Yonge Street corridor and the low-income suburbs of the city. It also explores the shrinking number of middle-income neighborhoods sandwiched in
17:00
The Chinese Conquest of the World
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China has spent more than 25 billion dollars on its Belt and Road Initiative. This initiative is designed to create the infrastructure to secure China’s trade routes and energy supplies. It is also being used to increase China's influence in the rest of the world. Many western governments see China's Belt and Road investments as an attempt to dominate the global trading network and ensure the
13:00
American Town Planning in England
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Most American cities have a very organized and structured street grid system. In these street grid systems roads run at right angles to each other. In most of these street plans Avenues and Streets are used to indicate which roads run in which direction within the grid system. This grid street pattern is visualized beautifully in Data Stuff's Street Network Orientation by Road Type. In Street
13 January 2020
17:00
The Witcher Interactive Map
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The Continent is a medieval fantasy world created by the Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. It is the fictional realm where his Witcher series of novels take place. The Witcher is set on the 'Continent', mostly in the Northern Kingdoms region. To accompany its new television series 'The Witcher' Netflix has released an interactive Map of the Continent. Netflix's map owes much in style to the
15:00
Land Use in Switzerland
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Only 8% of Switzerland is used for housing and infrastructure (such as roads). In the European Union the average territory used by housing and infrastructure is 11%. In neighboring France 12% of land is utilized by housing and infrastructure, while in Italy 13% of territory is used for this purpose. You can learn more about how land is used in Switzerland on a fascinating new data
12 January 2020
15:00
How Old is Montreal?
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The award for the first building age map of 2020 goes to CBC News. Montreal is 375 years old this year and to help celebrate the occasion CBC has released the Montreal Building Age map. On this map Montreal's buildings are colored to show their year of construction. The Montreal Building Age map is a great way to explore the history of Montreal's development. If you are interested in seeing
10 January 2020
17:00
Your 2080 Weather Forecast
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If you want to know what kind of weather you can expect as a result of climate change then this map can help you. What Will the Climate Feel Like in 60 Years is a new interactive map which can tell you which present day city has a climate most similar to the climate your city can expect in 2080. Select a U.S. city and a line will be drawn on the map to the city which currently has a climate
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Small Multiples of Global Heating
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Small multiple maps of global heating seem to have taken over from climate stripes as the most popular way to visualize global heating. Climate stripes are a very effective way to visualize how average temperatures have increased over time. The more recent multiple maps visualizations of average annual temperatures work in exactly the same way, showing how annual average temperatures are
09 January 2020
21:14
How Big Are the Australian Bushfires?
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It is very difficult to appreciate the devastating scale of the wild fires which have been raging across Australia over the last few months. In an attempt to help visualize the size of the bushfires there have been a number of misleading maps published on the internet. However not all the published maps have been misleading. Both the Berliner Morgenpost and the Guardian have created
19:00
Population Change in America
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Population growth in the United States continues to fall. According to the Census Bureau since Census Day (April 1) 2010, the population of the U.S. has grown by 21,476,884 or 6.96%. However in 2019 in forty-two states (and the District of Columbia) there were fewer births than there were in 2018. Only eight states saw a birth increase last year. The falling birth rate and increasing number of
17:00
Deforestation Along the BR-163
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The BR-163 is a 4,476 km long road which runs through the Amazon rainforest. Like a lot of infrastructure in the Amazon its very existence has led to accelerated deforestation in the areas it passes through. Along the BR-163 is an investigation into the effects of the BR-163 road on the Amazonian rainforest. Along the BR-163 uses satellite imagery to follow the route of the road from the Amazon
08 January 2020
19:00
The World's Busiest Space Ports
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The Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia is the world's busiest active spaceport. Since 1957 it has launched 1,577 rockets into space. By comparison Cape Canaveral has had 873 launches in the same period. Aerospace Security's Spaceports of the World interactive map visualizes the history of the space race around the world since the 1950s. The map reveals the cumulative launches of rockets into space
15:00
How to Avoid Cars in Cities
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If you've ever explored your local air pollution map then you already know that the major cause of air pollution in most towns and cities is the automobile. Which means that if you want to avoid air pollution then the first thing you should do is avoid roads. Unfortunately that is often less easy than it sounds. If you live in Brussels you can use Hans Hack's new Retreats from Streets
07 January 2020
17:00
Real-Time Trains on the New York Subway
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The Weekendest is a relatively new interactive map of the New York subway network. The map provides up to the minute information on arrival times, planned service changes and train routing on the MTA. The Weekendest is designed to provide a real-time overview of service on the whole New York subway network. If you click on any of the subway lines on the interactive map you can find out the
11:24
Straats & Grachts
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Last week Giuseppe Sollazzo (@puntofisso) created some very interesting static maps of UK cities, on which roads are colored by their suffixes or name endings (eg Road, Street, Avenue etc). Giuseppe's maps proved very popular and lots of people have been inspired to create their own maps for other cities around the world. By coincidence in December Mapbox created an interactive map to demo
06 January 2020
19:00
All the Countries Attacked by America
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I have a feeling this map might prove a little controversial. Following Donald Trump's assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani (which Republican's insist has nothing to do with the President's impeachment) Quartz decided to map out every country that has ever been attacked by the USA. Quartz's US Armed Operations from 1775 to the Present shows every country in the world which has
15:00
Lead in the Water
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In 2018 20% of the children tested in one Baltimore neighborhood were found to have elevated blood-lead levels. There is no safe level of lead for children and its presence can be very detrimental to a child's health and development. Around half a million children in the USA, between the ages of 1 and 5, have a blood-lead level that exceeds 5 micrograms per deciliter. The problem is most acute
05 January 2020
19:00
How Big Are the Australian Bushfires?
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The Guardian has updated its visualization of the Australian bushfires. How big are the fires burning in eastern Australia? is a very simple but very effective visualization of the huge size of the fires currently burning in Australia. The Guardian's map consists of a simple 5.8m hectare sized square which you can overlay on any location on Earth. The map includes a drop-down menu which
04 January 2020
11:12
The Medieval Streets of England
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Over the last few months I have written a number of blog posts, Medieval Streets, Modern Roads In Search of Station Street There Are No Streets in Crawley in which I have developed a theory about the spatial distribution of Streets and Roads in UK towns and cities. Thanks to a recent development by Mapbox I have now been able to tie this theory together and illustrate it in one new story map
03 January 2020
19:00
Ten Years of Paving Paradise
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The New York Times has teamed up with Descartes Labs to visualize A Decade of Urban Transformation in the USA. To find newly developed areas Descartes Labs trained a neural network to identify newly built (either newly paved or new buildings) areas in satellite imagery. It did this by comparing satellite imagery from 2009 with imagery from 2018 & 2019. The result of the NYT analysis shows
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The Ecoregions of North America
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North America encompasses a number of wildly different ecosystems. From the Arctic tundra of the extreme north to the tropical forests of southern Mexico there are many different ecoregions with very different climates and ecological systems within the continent of North America. bplant.org divides North America into 15 distinct ecoregions, which are then divided into 50 level 2 ecoregions.
02 January 2020
17:00
Half of Americans Will Be Obese by 2030
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A new study predicts that by the end of this decade half of all adult Americans will be obese. Already there are ten states in the U.S. with obesity levels over 45%, including Mississippi (the state with the highest obesity rate) where already around half the adult population are obese. Based on the rate of increase in obesity rates over the last few decades by the year 2030 50% of all adult
15:00
Smoking New Zealand
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Yesterday the residents of South Island, New Zealand woke to a new decade. They also woke to the smoke of the Australian bushfires. Smoke from the apocalyptic bushfires in Australia has now blown across the Tasman Sea as far as New Zealand. That is a distance of over 2,000 miles. It is roughly the distance from New York to Dallas or from the UK to Romania. The smoke can be seen drifting
01 January 2020
16:00
A Decade of Global Warming
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The devastating bushfires that are currently raging in Australia are a dramatic portent of the environmental disasters which we can expect in the next decade. Over the next ten years the frequency and scale of climate change related disasters is likely to dramatically increase. Unfortunately, if the last decade is any guide to our future behavior, there appears to be little evidence that the
31 December 2019
16:00
The 2019 Map of the Year
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During December the Maps Mania team usually spends many hours debating which were our favorite maps of the year. This year the choice was very easy. In 2019 there was only one real contender. The 2019 Maps Mania Map of the Year is Donald Trump's Sharpie-gate Map. On Sunday September 1st Donald Trump Tweeted that Alabama was in danger from the approach of Hurricane Dorian. Fortunately for the
11:27
2020 is Conquering the Earth
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You can watch 2020 sweep across the world on the New Year Map. As time progresses today the New Year Map will become grayer and grayer as parts of the world move into 2020. The new decade will first arrive in Polynesia. As time progresses today the New Year will move westward around the globe. New Year will arrive in Hawaii around 24 hours after it first arrives in Polynesia. You can use the
30 December 2019
19:00
Mapping American Poverty
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There are 42,500,000 people in the United States living in poverty. Economic instability is now a matter of course for many Americans. In fact 40% of Americans would be unable to come up with $400 in an emergency. Microsoft News has partnered with Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity to explore the economic hardship which is now confronting millions of Americans. As part of this series on
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The Mercator Map of the Arctic
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I predict that in 2020 we are going to see a lot of maps of the Arctic. It seems almost certain that the worsening global climate crisis will lead to an abundance of new maps visualizing the increasing loss of sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic. It seems somehow appropriate then to end 2019 with an interactive version of the world's oldest separately printed map of the Arctic region. Gerard
29 December 2019
16:00
The Butterfly Map
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Butterflies is a Leaflet powered map which allows you to explore images of butterflies from the Natural History Museum's digital records. The map shows over 150,000 butterflies which have been organized, classified and mapped using deep learning. The butterflies have been classified and mapped using the t-SNE machine learning algorithm for visualization. This type of machine learning algorithm
28 December 2019
16:00
The Martian Joy-Plot Maker
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Last week the wonderful Peak Map was released. Peak Map is a fantastic interactive map which can create a joy-plot map for any location on Earth. Now, thanks to Peaks on Mars, we can make our very own joy-plot maps of Mars. Peaks on Mars is an elevation map of Mars. The map uses a NASA digital elevation model to show the relative height and depth of Mars' canyons, mountains and canyons. It

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