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25 September 2021
10:35
High Vaccination, Low Hospitalization
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Kenneth Field has posted a nice critique of a Washington Post bivariate choropleth map showing America’s hospitalization and vaccination divide.The Post's bivariate map uses colors to visualize two different variables on one map - the Covid-19 vaccination rate and the Covid-19 hospitalization rate in every U.S. health region.Kenneth's Cartoblography post praises the map for making it very clear
24 September 2021
10:49
Your Probable Future
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Climate change is likely to seriously effect your life in the coming decades. Many of these effects are hard to predict. However scientists are able to predict with some certainty how global heating is likely to effect such things as the temperature, extreme precipitation and the occurrence of droughts around the world. Probable Futures has mapped out how different climate change scenarios
23 September 2021
11:01
1914 Street View of New York
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Chris Whong has mapped out a collection of vintage photos from the New York Historical Society to create a virtual Stroll Down Flatbush Avenue circa 1914. Chris recently discovered the society's Subway Construction Photograph Collection, 1900-1950". This collection of vintage photographs of New York includes a continuous series of photographs taken on Flatbush Avenue, from Grand Army Plaza to
22 September 2021
10:41
The La Palma Volcano Eruption
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On Sunday the Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma erupted. The lava flow from this eruption has already destroyed over 200 homes and led to the evacuation of 5,000 people. Like all of the Canary Islands the island of La Palma was originally formed from volcanic activity. Along with Tenerife La Palma is one of the most volcanically active of the Canary Islands. Mapbox's Jonni Walker has used data
21 September 2021
18:00
America's Falling Prison Population
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The Marshall Project has used 2020 census data to compare the incarceration rates of different U.S. counties and to visualize the trend in incarceration rates since the 2010 census. The headline story in the Marshall Project's analysis of the data is that There Are Fewer People Behind Bars Now Than 10 Years Ago.The Marshall Project's analysis includes two maps. One (pictured above) uses
10:12
Canadian Election Maps
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Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party has won a third term as a result of Monday's election in Canada. The Liberals will probably win 156 seats overall, which is one less than in the 2019 election and some way short of the 170 seats needed to form a majority government. For the second election in a row it looks like the Conservative Party has won the popular vote but won fewer electoral districts than
20 September 2021
10:14
The Russian Election Map
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Russia has just held a parliamentary election. However, when the main opposition leader has been thrown in prison and most opposition candidates have been banned from standing, there really isn't much point in creating an election map of the Russian election results. What is far more interesting is Karta Narusheniy (Violation Map), an interactive map of voting irregularities reported in the
18 September 2021
11:29
The Traffic Simulation Game
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A/B Street is a fun traffic simulation game which lets you explore how changes to your streets could effect the traffic in your neighborhood. The game allows you to experiment with adding or removing bus lanes, traffic signals, street parking, bike lanes, sidewalks and other road infrastructure and then simulate how these changes might effect your local traffic. A/B Street can be played in
17 September 2021
10:48
Brussels' Grand Canal Plan
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The Brussels–Charleroi Canal runs through the city of Brussels for about 14km.This canal was once an essential part of the city's industrial infrastructure and was home to thousands of warehouses, factories and other businesses. However following the arrival of the automobile and the de-industrialization of the city in the second-half of the 20th Century the canal fell into disuse. Consequently
16 September 2021
10:33
Norwegian Election Maps
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The Labor Party was the biggest winner in Monday's general election in Norway, bringing to an end the center-right government, led by Erna Solberg’s Conservative Party. Jonas Gahr Støre of the Labor Party will become Norway's next Prime Minister, if he can successfully negotiate a coalition of left-wing parties. Aftenposten's 2021 Norway Election Map allows you to view the party which won the
15 September 2021
18:00
Two Months of the Dixie Fire
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The Dixie Fire has been raging for over two months and is now the second largest wildfire in California's history. Since the beginning of July the fire has destroyed more than a thousand homes and over $540 million has been spent on fighting the blaze.To help readers visualize the sheer scale of the Dixie fire the Washington Post has created an animated map which shows the spread and reach of
10:47
Denver's KKK Members
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This is a map of Ku Klux Klan members living in Denver in the 1920s. The home addresses of these racists comes from two Ku Klux Klan membership books owned by History Colorado. Around one third of white U.S. born men in Denver were members of the KKK During the 1920s. During that decade the party successfully infiltrated and took over Denver's power structures. In fact the Colorado governor,
14 September 2021
18:00
Global Heating Predictions
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Bread for the World has released an interactive map which visualizes estimated temperatures around the world by the end of this century. The map is based on climate change models developed by NASA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.The August 28, 2100 interactive map shows the predicted maximum temperatures around the world in the year 2100. If you hover over the map you can also
11:53
The Anti-Democracy Party
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Urged on by Neo-Nazi Steve Bannon far-right extremists have begun a fifth column campaign to infiltrate the Republican Party and ultimately overturn American democracy. Since President Biden's election ProPublica has been tracking the rising number of far-right extremists enlisting as precinct officers. They are then signing-up as Republican nominees to be poll workers, with the ultimate aim of
13 September 2021
18:00
Mapping 9/11
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The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera has released an impressive and graphic 3D map which recounts the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York. The Attacks of 11 September 2001 commemorates the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack by providing a chronological account of the day's events in New York. As you scroll through the 'Attacks of 11 September 2001'
9:19
The Human Development Index
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The Human Development Index (HDI) was developed by the United Nations to provide a more comprehensive measure of a country's development than purely economic measures (such as the gross domestic product GDP). The HDI looks at health, education and living standards to measure the individual performance of countries and to provide a means to compare how development differs between the countries
11 September 2021
10:34
The 1864 Bird's Eye View of Glasgow
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Thirty four years before the invention of the airplane illustrator Thomas Sulman drew a bird's eye view map of Glasgow, depicting the city from a unique perspective somewhere high above the southern neighborhoods of the city. It is believed that Sulman probably used a hot air balloon to create this intricate map, which was originally published in the Illustrated London News on 26th March 1864.
10 September 2021
9:47
The Urbanization of France
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Calum Loftus has created an impressive animated map which visualizes the dramatic urbanization of France since the middle of the 19th Century. In France: Population Density Through History Calum uses historical census data to map population density in France in every year that the census has been held from 1876 to 2017. The result is an animated map which dramatically shows the urbanization of
09 September 2021
18:00
The Sounds of Caracas
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Caracas can be a very noisy city. It's streets are full of the sounds of busy traffic, of cars and motorcycles zooming by. The streets are also full of the sounds of the city's inhabitants talking, playing music and going about their everyday business. Listen carefully and you may even hear some sounds of nature, made by dogs, frogs and crowing roosters.You can experience the various
9:11
Interactive Train Sets
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Mapbox with Trains is a very impressive interactive map which allows you to watch a 3D train moving around on top of a map of Oakland, California. This fun interactive virtual train set includes a number of user options which allow you to control the number of carriages on the train and the camera's point of view.In essence Mapbox with Trains animates a 3D model of a train on top of a Mapbox
08 September 2021
18:00
The Average Seasonal Colors of the USA
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Earlier this summer Erin Davis published a series of interesting maps showing the average colors of countries around the world based on Sentinel satellite imagery. The Average Colors of the World includes maps of each continent and a map of the world on which each country is colored based on its average satellite color.In my June post on Erin's Average Colors of the World maps I noted that the
10:44
The Battle of Medusa Map
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Operation Medusa was one of the most significant land battles ever fought by NATO. The 2006 battle was a Canadian-led offensive during the war in Afghanistan (which has very recently ended with the withdrawal of American-led troops). The Battle of Medusa led to NATO establishing government control over the area of Kandahar Province west of Kandahar city.Although the operation was a success it
07 September 2021
18:00
Talking About Climate Change
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Hopefully most people would agree that there has been too much talk about climate change and far too little action to stop it.More talking is planned for November, when world leaders will meet for the United Nations COP26 conference. Despite the environmental disasters currently taking place a round the world I am not very hopeful that our politicians are suddenly going to acknowledge that
10:43
Singapore 2030
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Land is scarce on the small island city-state of Singapore. To ensure that this limited resource is exploited to the full the authorities have developed meticulous long-term development plans. These plans include a number of major infrastructure projects designed to boost the economy, provide housing and protect the environment.The Straits Times has released a very impressive scrollytelling map
06 September 2021
18:00
The Human Slavery Map
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It is estimated that around 40.3 million people around the world are currently living in slavery. The Freedom Map uses data from the 2018 Global Slavery Index to map the prevalence of slavery in countries around the world. Individual countries on this Global Slavery Map are colored to show the modern levels of slavery. The map also contains a number of map markers which link to 'Field Reports'
10:46
The Life Expectancy Map
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People in Mississippi on average die six years younger than people in California. Mississippi has the worst average life expectancy of any state. At birth a Mississippian can expect to live on average 74.9 years. The average Californian can expect 81.3 years on Earth. The CDC's Life Expectancy at Birth interactive map shows you how long (on average) people in your neighborhood will live. The
05 September 2021
21:48
Segregated Vaccination Rates
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At the beginning of the Covid-19 vaccination roll-out in Australia the government set a target of inoculating the whole country by October. So far (at the beginning of September) just over 35% of the population are fully vaccinated. Among First Nation Australians the rate is even lower, with just over 21% fully vaccinated.Last week the Australian government released data showing the percentage
04 September 2021
10:22
Covid Trends in America
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Esri's Which Way Are Things Going interactive map visualizes the week on week trend in Covid-19 cases at the county level. The map can show you at a glance whether the number of cases in your area has risen or fallen in the last week.The map can therefore help you to quickly assess whether things are getting better of worse in your county.The color and direction of the arrow symbols on the map
03 September 2021
10:36
New Orleans' Blackout from Space
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NASA has published satellite imagery which shows a nighttime view of New Orleans on August 31st, after Hurricane Ida hit the city. In Satellite Observes Power Outages in New Orleans an interactive map allows you to swipe between two nighttime satellite views of New Orleans, one dated August 9th and one dated August 1st. The comparison of the two images clearly shows where power outages were
02 September 2021
18:00
All of US
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Ben Schmidt's All of US is an interactive dot map which allows you to compare population data from 2020 and 2010 US censuses.However this 'dot' map actually doesn't use colored dots but represents data in the United States as Wee People. Last month the Census Bureau released the first detailed data from the 2020 U.S. census. In 2020 Census Statistics - Local Population Changes and Nation’s
10:02
Poles of Inaccessibility
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A Pole of Inaccessibility is the location in a country which is furthest from the sea. A Pole of Inaccessibility can be defined as being the center point of the largest circle that can be drawn within a country without encountering a coastline. You can discover the furthest point from the coastline in every single country on Karim Douïeb's Observable notebook the Pole of Inaccessibility of
01 September 2021
18:00
Wet & Dry America
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Around half of the United States is currently experiencing drought conditions. Parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska are facing extreme drought conditions. This drought isn't exactly unexpected. In recent years the western half of the United States has seen ever decreasing levels of precipitation leading to increasing incidence of drought. Not something that has
10:48
The Battle of Hong Kong
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On the very same morning that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor they also attacked the British Crown colony of Hong Kong. The Hong Kong garrison (consisting of British, Indian and Canadian units, the Auxiliary Defence Units and Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps) managed to hold out for a little over two weeks. However on Christmas Day 1941 the colony finally surrendered to the Japanese.The
31 August 2021
18:00
The Birth of Boston
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A large part of Boston is built on man-made land. In the 17th Century the citizens of the Shawmut peninsula (which was less than 800 acres of land, began to use landfill and dams to make the city of Boston larger. The city has been reclaiming land from the Boston Harbor ever since. Negotiating the Shoreline is an interactive story map from the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston
9:35
Exploring the Underbelly of Pixlton
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There is something weird and foreboding about the town of Pixlton. I'm not sure if it is the suicidal cows or the town's permanent fog which scares me the most. Of one thing I am sure. I wouldn't want to live in Pixlton.If you are intrigued by these strange goings on then you can explore the town further on the Pixlton interactive map. Pixlton is a digital town inhabited by the Pixls, a small
30 August 2021
18:00
Hurricane Ida's Forecast Path
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Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane. It is now moving northwards through the state as a Category 1 storm. The satellite image animation above showing Hurricane Ida hitting Louisiana comes from NOAA's GOES Image Viewer. NOAA's National Hurricane Center features a regularly updated static map showing Hurricane Ida's forecast path. This map includes 12 hourly
9:59
Russia's Building Age Maps
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How Old is This House is a fantastic collection of building age maps of Russian Cities. Currently the project includes eight interactive maps which visualize the ages of all buildings in the cities of Moscow, St Petersburg, Kalinngrad, Penza, Voronnezh, Vladimir, Nizhny, Novgorod, Kazan and Yekaterinburg. Each individual city map in How Old is This House colors individual building footprints to
28 August 2021
13:06
Make Your Own Map Posters
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Maposaic is a fun interactive tool for creating your own colorful maps. The application is being marketed as a way to create random colorful map mosaics. However Maposaic has a number of settings which can be adjusted that allow you to choose your own colors and map any location in the world.At the heart of Maposaic are Mapbox's customizable vector map tiles. The Mapbox API allows users to
27 August 2021
18:00
The 2021 Fall Foliage Map
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Although the Fall equinox is not until 22nd September (in the northern hemisphere) the Smoky Mountain Fall Foliage Map has already appeared. The first date on the 2021 Fall Foliage Map (30th August) is in just three days time. Every year Smoky Mountain releases their interactive Fall Foliage Map, which plots the annual progress of when and where leaves change their colors across the United
11:44
The Supertunnel Simulator
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A direct flight from John F Kennedy Airport in New York to Sydney Airport in Australia would involve flying for a distance of 16,013 km. Although we tend to use the expression 'as the crow flies' as an idiom for the most direct route between two points, a direct flight is hardly ever the shortest distance between two points on Earth. Because the Earth is a globe a tunnel is the shortest way to
26 August 2021
10:18
The CCTV World Cup
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China has beaten India 6-3 in the final of the CCTV World Cup. China has six cities in the top 10 list of cities with the highest density of CCTV cameras. India only has three cities in the top ten. London is the only city outside of Asia to make the top 10.Surfshank's Surveillance Cities examines the density of surveillance cameras in cities around the world. By calculating the number of CCTV
25 August 2021
18:00
Name that City
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Dérive is a map based geography game which requires you to identify a series of city locations based on an unlabelled road map. The name of the game comes from Guy Debord's Theory of the Dérive. A Dérive (Eng: 'drift') is an unplanned journey through a (usually) urban environment. The term is often used interchangeably with 'psychogeography' and often involves randomly exploring a city while
10:23
Make Your Own Coloring Maps
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The Coloring Book Generator is a clever application which can turn any of the thousands of maps in the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library into a bitonal image, which is perfect for printing and coloring in.If you go to the Leventhal Map & Education Center's Digital Collections you can search for maps in the library's huge collection of vintage and historical maps.
24 August 2021
18:00
The Age of Humans
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Living in the Age of Humans is a series of Story Maps from Esri which explores the impacts of the human race on planet Earth. Human Beings have inhabited the Earth for only 10 million of the planet's 4.5 billion years. In just the last two centuries, since the beginning of the industrial age, the human race has managed to alter the Earth's ecosystem and devastate the planet's climate.You can
11:17
Where Does Your Name Come From?
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The impressionist painter Claud Monet was born in Paris, France.The fact that Monet was born in Paris isn't that surprising. A map showing the distribution of people in France with the surname 'Monet' reveals that Paris has the second highest number of Monets of all French departments. The Nord has the most. If you are French, or have a French surname, you can explore the distribution of your
23 August 2021
18:00
50 Years of Landsat
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Landsat 9 is scheduled to launch next month. The very first Landsat satellite was launched on 23 July 1972. Since that time Landsat satellites have captured millions of images of the Earth. These images provide an invaluable resource for Earth sciences, helping scientists in disciplines as diverse as agriculture, cartography, geology, forestry, regional planning, surveillance and education.To
11:36
How Covid-19 Conquered the World
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Olivia Jack at the Department of Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin has created an interactive animated map which shows the spread of the coronavirus across the world. The COVID-19 Geographical Animation uses data from Johns Hopkins University to visualize the rise of the epidemic and the continuing waves of cases around the globe.Animated maps showing the spread of an epidemic over time
22 August 2021
13:32
Animated Street View Tours
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Team Maps is a new easy to use application for creating animated maps of a route. These animated maps could be of a walking route, a drive or a guided tour. The route can include multiple placemarks or points of interest which can visited on the tour. Once you've created your route the playback options allow you to see the route being animated on a Google Map. This animation can include
21 August 2021
11:27
Who Owns the North Sea?
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Over the last three years Who Owns England has been diligently trying to map who owns what land in England (and also to a lesser extent in Scotland and Wales). Another really important question, especially considering the current climate crisis, is 'Who owns the sea?'.Who Owns the North Sea is an interactive map and database documenting the owners of oil and gas licenses in the North Sea. The
20 August 2021
18:00
Driving Directions for Birds
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If you are planning a long car journey then it is important that you take frequent breaks. The UK's Highway Code recommends taking a break of at least 15 minutes every two hours when driving. Probably the most relaxing way to break a long car journey is by doing a little bird-spotting. Which is where BirdTrippin comes in.BirdTrippin is a route planning map which can not only show you how to get
10:20
The Map of Female Composers
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How many female composers can you name? I'm guessing that you can't name many. For example, have you heard of Clara Josephine Schumann? Clara Schumann was one of the most distinguished pianists of the 19th century. She was also a prolific composer. If you haven't heard of Clara then you might have heard of her husband Robert Schumann. If you haven't heard of Clara then you probably also haven't
19 August 2021
10:11
Great Balls of Fire
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NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has published an interactive map which shows the impact energy of all the meteors detected by government sensors between 1988 and 2021. Each fireball event is shown on the map by its marker's size and color.The Fireballs Reported by US Government Sensors map allows you to explore the impact energy and the date & time of each recorded fireball
18 August 2021
18:00
What Two Numbers
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Yesterday Mapbox announced that they were integrating the controversial global addressing system What3Words with their Mapbox Dash navigation system.This immediately led to a lot of people on Twitter to question why Mapbox don't just use the latitude and longitude geographic coordinate system. You know the coordinate system which Mapbox uses in its own mapping APIs. The latitude and longitude
9:37
The Manga Map
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Steve Attewell's Manga Map is a Mapbox powered interactive 3D map which has a cartoon like cel-shaded effect. Cel shading gives an image a flatter look by using limited shading colors and by not using a shade gradient or tints and shades. A cel shading effect is often used to mimic a comic style and to create a paper-like texture. From what I understand Steve's map creates a cel-shading effect
17 August 2021
18:00
Mapping the Unknown
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There are many ways that cartographers can cover up or hide their lack of geographical knowledge. Traditionally cartographers have just hidden their ignorance by making shit up. Lots of pre-modern maps include references to imaginary locations. For example Hanns Rüst's Mappa Mundi (c1480) includes a mountain labelled, "Caspian Mountains gog and magog", which purports to show the location of the
12:53
The Globalization of the Premier League
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The image above compares the birthplaces of all the Arsenal football players of the 1980's with the birthplaces of all the Arsenal players of the 2010's. It is very noticeable that in the 1980's the majority of Arsenal players were born in the UK or Ireland. The only Arsenal players born outside the UK or Ireland in the whole of the 1980's were Vladimir Petrovi? (Serbia) and Sigurður Jónsson (
16 August 2021
10:31
Mapping the Advance of the Taliban
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The Taliban has taken control of the presidential palace in Kabul and the Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has left the country. Despite President Biden's claims that a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was not inevitable it has taken the insurgents only a matter of weeks to take control of the country after this summer's withdrawal of American troops. The New York Times has used a small
14 August 2021
11:25
The New Racial Dot Map of America
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On Thursday the Census Bureau released the first detailed data from the 2020 U.S. census. In 2020 Census Statistics - Local Population Changes and Nation’s Racial and Ethnic Diversity the Census Bureau has published data from last year's census on population changes and on the racial and ethnic demographics of the United States.CNN has used the newly released 2020 census data to create a
13 August 2021
10:39
America's Growing Racial Diversity
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The Census Bureau has released the first detailed data from the 2020 U.S. census. The data in 2020 Census Statistics - Local Population Changes and Nation’s Racial and Ethnic Diversity reveals which areas of the United States have seen a rise or fall in population since 2010 and how the racial diversity of local populations has changed in the last ten years.Population Change Overall the United
12 August 2021
18:00
Mapping Wildfire Evacuation Risk
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2021 is set to become yet another record breaking year for the number and intensity of wildfires in the United States. As this week's worrying IPCC report on climate change shows the threat from wildfires is likely to increase even further in the very near future. In order to help residents in Oregon and Washington the US Forest Service has released a new interactive map which provides wildfire
9:15
The Geography of Facebook Friends
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The Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung has been busy mapping out where people's Facebook's friends live. The interactive maps in How friendships on Facebook are redrawing the Swiss borders allow you to see the geographical connections made on Facebook in each of Switzerland's 26 cantons. Enter the name of a canton into NZZ's map and you can view a choropleth visualization of where people in
11 August 2021
18:00
The San Francisco Covid Burglary Map
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Here/Say Media has been inspired by claims that burglary is on the rise in San Francisco to map out the change in the number of burglaries in San Francisco since the start of the Covid epidemic. Here / Say's Interactive Map of SF COVID Burglaries shows which census tracts have seen a rise in burglaries and which tracts have seen a fall (comparing the period March 16 2020 to June 1 2021 with Jan
9:52
Urban Sprawl in America
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This century urban sprawl has already contributed to the equivalent of 5 new Delawares in the United States. The Washington Post has analyzed data from the U.S. Geological Survey to discover where fracking, retirement communities and new industrial development has led to urban scrawl in many American cities. An interactive map in Where America’s developed areas are growing uses two different
10 August 2021
18:00
The IPCC Climate Apocalypse Maps
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Yesterday the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its landmark report into climate change. The warnings in the report couldn't be more stark. Climate scientists say that we are about to witness increasingly extreme heatwaves, large scale flooding events and more severe droughts. According to the report we are likely to pass the catastrophic milestone of 1.5 degrees
10:25
50 Years of Change
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The UK's Office of National Statistics has been comparing data from the 1961 and 2011 censuses to see how life in England & Wales changed over the course of those 50 years. In Census unearthed: explore 50 years of change from 1961 a number of interactive maps allow you to directly compare how life has changed in the UK over half a century. According to the 1961 census returns around 7% of
09 August 2021
18:00
A Scrollytelling Climb of Mt Fuji
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Hiroya Kato has written up an interesting tutorial on how to create a Scrollytelling map which uses Mapbox's Free Camera API to follow a route on a 3D map. You can see what this scrollytelling approach involves by viewing Hirova's demo map Climbing Mount Fuji.As you scroll through Climbing Mount Fuji you are taken on a journey along Mt Fuji's Yoshida route from the fifth station to the summit.
10:11
Bike Collisions in London
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Every week the Makeover Monday community works on creating data visualizations of a different data set. This week the community is working on visualizing London's Bike Collisions in London (2005-2019). This means that if you explore the Twitter hashtag #MakeoverMonday over the next few days you will find lots if links to interactive maps which show where and when bike accidents occurred on
07 August 2021
10:18
The Global Heating Predictor
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Climate Impact Lab's Climate Impact Map shows you how climate change is likely to effect the climate where you live. Using the map you can see how global heating will increase annual temperatures where you live in the nxt 20 years, by the middle of this century and by the end of the century. The Climate Impact Map uses a number of global climate models to show predictions as to how the climate
06 August 2021
9:48
The Big Butterfly Count
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So far over a million butterflies have been counted in this year's Big Butterfly Count. Every year in the UK the Butterfly Conservation organization asks the public to take part in a national survey into the health of the UK's butterfly species by spending 15 minutes counting butterflies. This year's Big Butterfly Count is from the 16th July to the 8th August. Since 1976 76% of UK butterfly
05 August 2021
18:00
Moving Away From Work
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Lock-down and the rise of home-working is having a big impact on the property market as home-owners begin to change their property expectations and priorities. Online real estate company Zillow has been looking at where house prices are rising fastest, in order to determine where it is that people now want to live.The simple assumption that many people have been making is that the flexibility
9:49
The Morphocode Explorer
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The Morphocode Explorer is a useful interactive mapping tool for visualizing spatial and demographic data in New York. The tool allows you to drag a pedshed circle (a circle with a walking distance as the radius) around a map of New York City to explore multiple different data sets at the same time.Using the tool you can explore different social and spatial aspects of New York neighborhoods,
04 August 2021
18:00
516 Million Building Outlines in Africa
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Google’s Open Buildings is a new open dataset containing the location and geometry of 516 million buildings across Africa.The data includes the polygon outline of each building, its size in square meters and a confidence score of it being a valid building.Anyone can download the full dataset of over 500,000,000 buildings or download smaller datasets for individual level 4 S2 cells. The full
9:55
No Fly Zones for Drones
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The Federal Aviation Authority receives over 100 reports a month of unauthorized unmanned aircraft (UAS). Flying drones around aircraft and airports is both dangerous and illegal. Which is why there is mounting concern over the dramatic increase in incidents involving authorized drones over the last two years.UAV Geography's Map of Drone Incidents plots the location of all the UAS sighting
03 August 2021
18:00
Where You Should Stll Wear A Mask
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Last week the CDC updated its Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated People. This guidance includes the recommendation for "fully vaccinated people to wear a mask in public indoor settings in areas of substantial or high transmission."You can use the CDC's own COVID-19 Integrated County View interactive map to find out if your county is currently one of these areas of 'substantial'
9:55
Zelda's Hyrule Street View
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The Legend of Zelda takes places predominantly in the land of Hyrule. There are many well-known landmarks in the Kingdom Hyrule, including, Hyrule Castle, the Lost Woods, Kakariko Village, Death Mountain and Lake Hylia.For over 35 years video game players have been exploring the world of Link and Princess Zelda in Nintendo's Legend of Zelda franchise. They can now also explore Hyrule using
02 August 2021
18:00
Google & Facebook Under Water
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Both Google and Facebook are spending millions of dollars expanding their shiny campuses along the waterfront of San Francisco Bay. Campuses which thanks to climate change could be underwater within a few decades. Now you might be struggling to find a downside in this scenario but both Google and Facebook could be saved by hugely expensive anti-flooding measures. The costs of which are likely
9:43
Segregating Highways
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Urban Labs has been exploring how the construction of highways through city neighborhoods in the 20th Century consistently involved the destruction of thriving black businesses and communities. The legacy of these highways has been to divide and permanently blight many traditional black neighborhoods in America's cities.The Interstate Highway System was championed by President Dwight D.
29 July 2021
7:00
Peaky Finders
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I first wrote this post 9 years ago. I've decided to bump Peaky Finders to the front page of Maps Mania again in celebration of the fact that these three interactive maps still work. 90% of the interactive maps that I wrote about on this blog a decade ago no longer work. Not only are these three interactive mapping applications still flourishing all three are also really fantastic uses of
28 July 2021
18:00
It's Open Mic Nite
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There are lots of webcam maps which allow you to view live webcam feeds from locations around the world (check-out Earthcam, igoCam and Ivideon TV). Most of the well known sound maps however are not live, and tend to feature prerecorded sound clips rather than allow you to listen to live audio feeds. That is why I have taken a shine to the Locus Sonus Stream Project, which is an interactive map
11:02
The UK's Most Dangerous Roads
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Every year Ageas Insurance and the Road Safety Foundation release an interactive map which rates the UK's main roads based on the number of serious accidents occurring in the past few years. The Dangerous Roads 2021 interactive map uses data from the Department of Transport to rate individual road sections based on the number of serious crashes which happened on them from 2017-2019.On the map
27 July 2021
18:00
A Nation Still Under Fire
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ABC News has created an animated interactive map which shows the location of every shooting incident in the USA last week. Press play on the One Nation Under Fire map and you can watch as all corners of the United States are peppered by over 900 shooting incidents.Reminder: this map shows just one week of shooting incidents in America (July 17-23 2021).Last year there were 43,000 gun deaths in
11:58
The Newspaper Archive Map
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Ancestry's Newspaper.com claims to be the largest online archive of newspapers. The archive includes searchable articles from over 21,000 newspapers dating back to the 1700's (although there seems to be a distinct bias towards English language newspapers). Using Newspaper.com's interactive map you can search for historical newspapers by location and by date. If you pay to subscribe to Ancestry
26 July 2021
18:00
The World is Burning
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In the summer the Northern Hemisphere normally experiences a number of large wildfires. However this year, following record breaking temperatures across large areas of the Northern Hemisphere, the number and size of wildfires has been unprecedented. Wildfires have burned over 1.5 million hectares in Siberia. In Northern California the Dixie Fire has burned an area the size of Chicago. In
11:05
The British Conversation Map
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If you have ever traveled around the UK then you've probably discovered that the natives aren't always friendly.Talking to strangers is one of those 'foreign' activities which is largely frowned upon by your average Brit. Which is why whenever I travel around Britain I take along Cecil W. Bacon's What Do They Talk About? map What Do They Talk About? is a humorous pictorial map of the UK which
24 July 2021
11:23
The Cuckoo Flying the Nest
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Because the European common cuckoo is an obligate brood parasite and lays its eggs in the nests of other birds it is free to migrate south much earlier than other species of birds. In early summer, when most other bird species are busy raising their young (and sometimes the young of cuckoos), the adult cuckoo is able to begin its migration to Africa. Adult cuckoos in Europe are among the first
23 July 2021
18:00
The World's Biggest Cities
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Urban Agglomerations Worldwide is an interactive map which shows the population size of the world's largest cities. The map uses data from the United Nations to show the size of all the urban agglomerations around the world with a population over 300,000. On the map the size and color of the markers show the population size of the city. You can also hover over the circles on the map to discover
9:01
Driving Times from Paris
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Time Distance to Paris by Road 2021 in an interactive isochrone map which shows how long it takes to travel by car from Paris to any other location in France. An isochrone map uses lines on a map to connect points which can be reached in the same travel time. On Nicholas Lambert's Time Distance to Paris by Road 2021 different colors are also used to visualize areas which can be reached in the
22 July 2021
18:00
Canada's Interactive Energy Map
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About 67% of Canada’s electricity comes from renewable sources. The vast majority of that (61%) comes form hydroelectricity. Canada is the third largest hydroelectricity provider in the world.The next largest source of electricity in the country is nuclear, which contributes around 15% of Canada's electricity production. You can learn more about the different types of electricity source in
21 July 2021
18:00
The Smoke Forecast Map
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The devastating wildfires burning in Canada and the USA are contributing to poor air quality conditions, sparking air quality advisories in large areas of both countries. The Smoke Forecast map allows you to view a forecast of where in Canada smoke pollution is likely to occur over the next two days.On the interactive Smoke Forecast map the areas colored brown are forecast to experience high
9:30
360 Degree Panoramic Maps
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The Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library has created some interesting interactive maps from panoramic images in their collection. In Maps that will make your head spin you can view three different historical panoramic sketches as 360 degree panoramic images. The panoramic images in this little virtual reality collection include an 1860 360 degree drawing of the Battle
20 July 2021
18:00
100 Years of Plane Crashes
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The first fatality in a powered aircraft occurred over a century ago in 1908. The pilot was Orville Wright, the co-inventor of the first ever motorized aircraft. The crash of the plane piloted by Wright resulted in the death of his passenger, Signal Corps Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge.The ASN Aviation Safety Database records around 22 thousand airplane crashes since August 2nd, 1919. In One
10:17
The Magic Mushroom Map
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The Liberty Cap mushroom (Psilocybe semilanceata) usually appears around late summer and early Autumn. I've already seen a few sprouting up on my walks around East London (probably because we have had a wet summer). Which may be why over the last couple of days I've seen a lot of people linking to the Magic Mushroom Map on social media. The Magic Mushroom Map shows when and where magic
19 July 2021
18:00
Street Names & Naming Cultures
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Back in 2013 Noah Veltman released his inspired interactive map, the History of San Francisco Place Names.Noah's map provides a fascinating insight into the history of San Francisco street names (click on any of the streets on this map and you can discover how it got its name and who or what it was named for). The History of San Francisco Place Names includes an option which allows you to
11:13
The Future Risk of Flooding
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The recent devastating floods in central Europe, in parts of America and in New Zealand have obviously led many people to wonder about how susceptible their homes are to flooding. One consequence of global heating and rising sea levels are that flood risks are increasing across the world and the kind of lethal floods seen in Belgium and Germany over the last week are going to become much more
17 July 2021
9:15
The Sexist Streets of Italy
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There are roughly 16,500 streets and squares in Rome. 7,892 of those streets and squares have been named for people. The vast majority of the streets and squares which have been named for people have been named after men. 7,364 of the 7,892 streets in Rome named for people are named after men and only 528 streets have been name for women. This inequality in street naming is repeated in every
16 July 2021
9:34
European Flood Maps
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Over recent days high levels of precipitation across parts of Central and Northern Europe have led to devastating levels of flooding. This has resulted in a number of deaths in Germany and Belgium, while parts of Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland have also been effected by dangerous floods. Since Monday a persistent area of low pressure has caused heavy rainfall across Germany,
15 July 2021
18:00
California Wildfires Maps
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California had its worst ever fire season last year. This year's fire season will probably end up being even worse.If you want news on the latest wildfires currently active in the state then you can refer to these California wildfire maps:Fire Activity The University of California's Fire Activity interactive map provides information on the latest wildfire activity in the state of California.
9:54
The Building Heights of the Netherlands
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Bert Spaan's Netherland's Building Age Map, created for the Waag website, is one of my favorite interactive maps. This map visualizes the age of a staggering 9,866,539 buildings in the Netherlands. The amount of data visualized on this map is very impressive in itself but its use of distinct colors for buildings of different construction ages means that the map also has a very striking visual
14 July 2021
18:00
The Building Age Map of Manhattan
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Building age maps provide a useful guide to how cities have developed over time. One of the most interesting cities in the world is New York and the Manhattan Building Age map provides a fascinating insight into the history of construction in one of the most densely packed urban centers in the world. There are over 1 million buildings in New York City. Some of the city's oldest buildings date
9:45
A Tour of the Irish Border
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We need to talk about the border is an interactive story map which takes you on a multi-media tour of the Irish border. Since the Good Friday Agreement in 1988 there has been only a soft border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is the only land border between the UK and the EU. Now that the United Kingdom has

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