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    • 09 October 2024

    • sur Animal Migration Tracking

      Posted: 9 October 2024, 9:34am CEST by Keir Clarke
      The Atlas of Ungulate MigrationUngulates, large herbivorous mammals with hooves, are a vital part of many ecosystems across the globe. These animals, including species like wildebeest, caribou, elk, and zebra, often migrate seasonally over vast distances. These migrations play a crucial role in maintaining the resilience of ecosystems, supporting biodiversity, and even sustaining local economies
    • 08 October 2024

    • sur The American Election & the Rest of the World

      Posted: 8 October 2024, 12:20pm CEST by Keir Clarke
      With the world closely watching the U.S. 2024 election, what could a Trump or Harris presidency mean for international stability? From rising tensions in Eastern Europe to critical climate action, the global implications of the U.S. election stretch far beyond American borders.The European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) has been exploring "how a Trump or a Harris presidency
    • 07 October 2024

    • sur Guess Where You Are

      Posted: 7 October 2024, 9:05am CEST by Keir Clarke
      I am currently ranked Number One in the world in the game GuessWhereYouAre. However, I suspect I won't stay on top of the leaderboard for long, especially after other players discover this exciting new Street View game. GuessWhereYouAre is a fun and engaging location-based game that places players in random spots around the world using Street View. Your goal is to explore your surroundings and
    • 05 October 2024

    • sur The Nicknames of America

      Posted: 5 October 2024, 11:26pm CEST by Keir Clarke
      Some U.S. cities have very quirky nicknames. Apparently, the citizens of Auburn, Alabama like to call their town the 'Armpit of the Confederacy'. While their nearby neighbors in Gordo, Alabama call their home the 'Armpit of Civilization'. Elmwood and Belleville in Wisconsin both claim to be the 'UFO Capital of the World' (presumably because of all the strange, alien-looking folk living in
    • 04 October 2024

    • sur Finding Your Coordinate Twins

      Posted: 4 October 2024, 9:39am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Did you know San Francisco shares the same latitude as Fukushima, Japan? Or that Chicago lines up with Rome? These surprising global connections can now be explored with a fun new interactive map that reveals your latitude and longitude twins from across the world!Introducing LatLon Connect - an interactive tool that lets you discover cities around the globe that sit on the same latitude or
    • 03 October 2024

    • sur Mapping Every US Election Since 1840

      Posted: 3 October 2024, 10:45am CEST by Keir Clarke
      The Republican Party has won the popular vote in only one Presidential Election in the last 35 years. Since 1989 only George W. Bush (in 2004) has won the popular vote for the Republicans - and in that election Bush benefited from being the incumbent.A newly released visualization from the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab highlights the dwindling appeal of the Republican Party
    • 02 October 2024

    • sur Mapping the Political Landscape

      Posted: 2 October 2024, 10:00am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Waves of Interest is a deep dive into Google search trends during election years. This beautiful data visualization maps out which political topics capture the attention of Americans during US election years. And where!By using the clever visual metaphor of a topographic map Waves of Interest transforms political interest into an intuitive landscape. The visualization reveals the fall
    • 01 October 2024

    • sur Tracking Satellites in 3D

      Posted: 1 October 2024, 9:51am CEST by Keir Clarke
      searching & zooming in on individual satellitesExploring the Final Frontier with Keep TrackKeepTrack is an innovative platform that allows users to monitor satellites orbiting Earth in real-time. At its core is a 3D interactive map that not only shows you where satellites are at the moment but also provides advanced analytics and visualizations to study their orbits and interactions in
    • 30 September 2024

    • sur The U.S. Supermarket Wars

      Posted: 30 September 2024, 10:30am CEST by Keir Clarke
      According to the Washington Post, "Walmart, Kroger, Aldi (Süd) and Albertsons own a third of all U.S. grocery stores locations." But who is winning the supermarket wars in your area?Hot on the heels of Japan's ConbiniWars interactive map, the Post has divided the United States based on which supermarket chain owns the most stores in each county. Whereas the ConbiniWars map used a Voronoi layer
    • 28 September 2024

    • sur The Geotastic Daily Challenge

      Posted: 28 September 2024, 10:28am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Can you beat me on today's Geotastic Daily Challenge? I am currently 89th in the Geotastic Daily Challenge with a combined score of 24,263. Do you think you have what it takes to claim a higher spot on the leaderboard than the mighty 'gmap'?Geotastic is yet another online geography game that challenges players to identify locations around the world using Google's Street View imagery. Every day
    • 27 September 2024

    • sur Cryptic Crossword Map

      Posted: 27 September 2024, 11:49am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Cryptic World is a new unique map game that fuses the thrill of a geography quiz with the brain-teasing fun of a cryptic crossword! Play Cryptic World and discover how much of the world you can unlock!Click on the question mark pins scattered across the Cryptic World map and solve the uncovered cryptic clues. Every time you correctly answer a clue you will reveal the name of a hidden location.&
    • 26 September 2024

    • sur VersaTiles Free Map Tiles

      Posted: 26 September 2024, 10:17am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Looking for a free, flexible way to create custom maps? You’re in luck! Having only recently discovered one free source of interactive map tiles in OpenFreeMap, I have now uncovered VersaTiles. VersaTiles provides a full open-source toolkit for creating and sharing map tiles, all powered by OpenStreetMap data - and with no corporate strings attached!VersaTiles map tiles can be used in most
    • 25 September 2024

    • sur OpenFreeMap Map Styles

      Posted: 25 September 2024, 12:16pm CEST by Keir Clarke
      One very important feature I overlooked in the launch of OpenFreeMap is the ability to customize the styles of OpenFreeMap map-tile sets using the Maputnik open-source visual editor for the MapLibre Style Specification. If you have ever wanted to make your maps stand out, reflect your brand, or just look completely unique you can now do that for free by editing OpenFreeMap map tile styles
    • 24 September 2024

    • sur Konbini Wars

      Posted: 24 September 2024, 10:09am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Imagine being able to walk down any street and being only minutes away from your next snack, a freshly brewed coffee, or even a place to pay your bills. This is the magic of konbini - Japan's beloved convenience stores that have become an integral part of Japanese daily life. In Japan, you don’t have to travel very far before encountering a konbini convenience store. These compact stores are
    • 23 September 2024

    • sur The 2024 GeoGuessr World Cup

      Posted: 23 September 2024, 11:41am CEST by Keir Clarke
       Do you think you’ve got what it takes to be the next GeoGuessr World Champion?This year's GeoGuessr World Cup was won by Blinky, who defeated the U.S.'s mk, to become the 2024 GeoGuessr World Champion. The dramatic final was a tense affair. Blinky took an early 2-0 lead, but mk made a stunning comeback winning the next two games, to take the competition into the fifth and final game.
    • 21 September 2024

    • sur Urban Planning in 3D

      Posted: 21 September 2024, 10:44am CEST by Keir Clarke
      The Studio Carto is a French design company dedicated to creating innovative experiences in the visualization of architectural, urban, and territorial projects. The company uses interactive maps to explore the challenges involved in transforming environments.The Studio Carto - Urban Project is a beautifully realized interactive presentation of the planned redevelopment of the Bois du Château
    • 20 September 2024

    • sur Free Maps for All

      Posted: 20 September 2024, 11:21am CEST by Keir Clarke
      All my recent personal map projects (Backdrop, World Level Zero, Guess This City) are available for free online. However, because I make zero money from my maps, I cannot afford to host them myself or pay a provider for the map tiles that they use. This means I have to be a little creative in publishing my maps online.Thanks to the amazing Glitch and the generosity of TripGeo I am able to host
    • 19 September 2024

    • sur Crowdsourcing Neighborhood Borders

      Posted: 19 September 2024, 11:29am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Is your neighborhood where you think it is? In a world where cities are constantly changing, the power of crowdsourcing is helping redefine neighborhood borders. While official maps draw static lines, the people who live in these urban spaces often see things differently. What one person considers the "end" of their neighborhood could be another's starting point, creating a patchwork of local
    • 18 September 2024

    • sur 15 Minutes Cities by Sony CSL

      Posted: 18 September 2024, 10:29am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Rome have released a new interactive map which provides 15 Minute City accessibility scores for nearly every city in the world. The '15-minute city' is an urban planning concept aimed at designing cities in a way that ensures residents can access most of their daily needs—such as work, shopping, healthcare, education, and recreation—within a 15-minute walk
    • 17 September 2024

    • sur World Level Zero

      Posted: 17 September 2024, 10:37am CEST by Keir Clarke
      How well traveled are you?My new map World Level Zero turns your travel experiences into a global achievement tracker. Whether you've been globetrotting for years or are just getting started, World Level Zero allows you to plot your personal journey across the globe and turn your wanderlust into a tangible score.What Is World Level Zero?At its core, World Level Zero revolves around a simple
    • 16 September 2024

    • sur Every Basketball Court on Google Maps

      Posted: 16 September 2024, 9:30am CEST by Keir Clarke
      The Pudding has mapped Every Outdoor Basketball Court in the U.S.A.. I'm not sure why The Pudding decided to collate satellite imagery of every basketball court visible in Google Maps' aerial imagery but it is quite fun to play with.My guess is that Every Outdoor Basketball Court in the U.S.A. is an experiment by The Pudding in using computer vision to detect, recognize and classify objects in
    • 14 September 2024

    • sur Scrambled Maps on Toast

      Posted: 14 September 2024, 3:30pm CEST by Keir Clarke
      I have a new favorite daily breakfast map game. Everyday my espresso and avocado toast is now served with a side dish of Scrambled Maps.Scrambled Maps is a new daily map challenge. Everyday Scambled Maps presents you with a map of a different city of the world. The only problem is that all the map tiles on this city map have been mixed up. Your task is simply to drag the tiles back into the
    • 13 September 2024

    • sur Create an AI Poster for Your Location

      Posted: 13 September 2024, 10:59am CEST by Keir Clarke
      The Global Culture Map is a fun little tool which uses AI to create a poster for any location chosen on an interactive. Simply click on the Global Culture Map and it will use a generative AI to design a poster based on that location.Currently I would say that the Global Culture Map is an interesting fun experiment rather than a completed, fully-realized AI poster creation tool. At the moment the
    • 12 September 2024

    • sur The EJAtlas: A Map for Environmental Justice

      Posted: 12 September 2024, 8:49am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Around the world the ever demanding quest for economic growth and profit is having an impact on natural environments. The result is that local communities and groups are often forced into fighting governments and multinational companies in order to try to save their local environments from the eternal forces of 'progress'.The Environmental Justice Atlas has set itself the task of documenting
    • 11 September 2024

    • sur The Map to the White House

      Posted: 11 September 2024, 11:20am CEST by Keir Clarke
      NBC has launched the 2024 edition of its Road to 270 interactive electoral college map. The map visualizes the current likely, possible and fantastical outcomes of the 2024 U.S. Presidential race. Last night Kamala Harris and Donald Trump went head-to-head in their first presidential debate. The Philadelphia debate was a hugely significant opportunity for both Harris and Trump to present their
    • 10 September 2024

    • sur Tracking Russia's 'Dark' Shadow Ships

      Posted: 10 September 2024, 11:34am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Asya Energy's AIS track places it in the Norwegian Sea, at the same time satellite imagery shows it at the ALNG2 plantIn response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine the West has imposed sanctions on the sale of Russian oil. In an attempt to avoid these sanctions Russia has been operating a shadow fleet of covert oil tankers. The West has been working on strengthening international cooperation to try
    • 09 September 2024

    • sur AI Search of San Francisco

      Posted: 9 September 2024, 12:18pm CEST by Keir Clarke
      AI and machine learning are revolutionizing the field of remote sensing. The ability of machine learning algorithms to automatically detect and identify objects in satellite images has enhanced our abilities to monitor deforestation, identify illegal fishing, track wildlife, and more quickly implement disaster response.Thanks to AI it is now also possible to see who owns a Tesla car in San
    • 07 September 2024

    • sur China vs America - World Influence Map

      Posted: 7 September 2024, 11:10am CEST by Keir Clarke
      The Global Influence Index (GII) shows the influence of the United States and China on 191 countries around the world based on 28 different economic, security, and political criteria. Using the GII's new 3D globe you can tell at a glance where in the world either the U.S. or China has the greatest influence.Individual countries on the GII globe are colored to show whether they are aligned more
    • 06 September 2024

    • sur 2024 Fall Foliage Map

      Posted: 6 September 2024, 8:55am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Autumn is nearly upon us. Although the Autumn Equinox is not until the 22rd September the 2024 Smoky Mountain Fall Foliage Map shows that the most northern counties of the United States will already have begun to notice the colors of the leaves changing.Every year Smoky Mountain releases an interactive Fall Foliage Map, which plots the annual progress of when and where leaves change their colors
    • 05 September 2024

    • sur The Book Banning Map of America

      Posted: 5 September 2024, 9:16am CEST by Keir Clarke
      The American Library Association (ALA) reports that attempts to ban books "surged 65% in 2023 compared to 2022 numbers, reaching the highest level ever documented by ALA." Nearly half of the books targeted for banning were related to issues of LGBTQ+ communities or race.Now the ALA has partnered with Little Free Library and PEN America to release an interactive map which shows
    • 04 September 2024

    • sur Write Your Name in Landsat

      Posted: 4 September 2024, 8:20am CEST by Keir Clarke
      the word 'love' in Landsat images Soon after the emergence of Google Maps, a short while after getting bored zooming in on their house in satellite view, some people began searching for satellite images of Earth forms and patterns which resembled letters of the alphabet - when viewed from above.The first pareidolia sufferer that I can remember becoming hooked on discovering typefaces in nature
    • 03 September 2024

    • sur Mapping Moving Borders in Real-Time

      Posted: 3 September 2024, 11:56am CEST by Keir Clarke
      The international border between Italy and Switzerland & Austria in the Alps largely follows the path of the watershed line. Unfortunately due to global heating and shrinking glaciers the Alpine watershed line keeps on moving. The result is that the border between Italy and its Alpine neighbors is also constantly moving.In 2016 the Italian Limes project attempted to track the movement of the
    • 02 September 2024

    • sur Land doesn't vote, people do!

      Posted: 2 September 2024, 10:05am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Engaging Data has updated its US County Electoral Map – Land Area vs Population map so that you can now zoom in and explore the election results in each state. The map allows you to see the 2020 Presidential Election election results at the county level based on land area or population size.If you select the 'Population' button on the map then the colored proportional circles change size to
    • 31 August 2024

    • sur Anime Pilgrimage Maps

      Posted: 31 August 2024, 4:44pm CEST by Keir Clarke
      Apparently many enthusiastic fans of anime like to go on anime pilgrimages, in order to visit the real-world locations that have featured in their favorite shows. Fans of anime, manga, or other animated media often embark on these pilgrimages to connect with the stories they love and to experience the places that inspired their favorite characters and scenes.A number of interactive mapping
    • 30 August 2024

    • sur 245 Russian Military Targets at Risk

      Posted: 30 August 2024, 9:54am CEST by Keir Clarke
      The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and Critical Threats have identified hundreds of Russian military sites that are in range of Ukrainian ATACMS. Currently the United States will not allow Ukraine to use US supplied tactical ballistic missiles for long-range deep strikes into Russia. According to the ISW its new map shows "the extent to which US restrictions on Ukraine's use of ATACMS
    • 29 August 2024

    • sur The Money Mountains of Los Angeles

      Posted: 29 August 2024, 7:52am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Nick Underwood has visualized the average median household income in each Los Angeles neighborhood using the analogy of elevation. On his The Topography of Wealth in L.A. map city each neighborhood is displaced 'vertically based on median annual household income'. The map uses census data to show the average household income in each Los Angeles neighborhood as a 3D tower. Sea level on
    • 28 August 2024

    • sur Text Search for Street View

      Posted: 28 August 2024, 10:29am CEST by Keir Clarke
      all text for nyc (brooklyn) is a very impressive search engine which allows you to search Google Maps Street View imagery for any word. In the words of its developer it is "a unique digital archive of Brooklyn's typography. Users can search and visualize every sign, notice, and street art captured in street images".Enter any word (or combination of words) into 'all text for nyc' and it will
    • 27 August 2024

    • sur WorldGuessr on Street View

      Posted: 27 August 2024, 11:03am CEST by Keir Clarke
      My seemingly endless quest to find an alternative to GeoGuessr may be finally over. GeoGuessr is (rightly) by far the most popular Google Maps game on the internet. Unfortunately GeoGuessr's subscription charges mean I can't afford to play it very often. Which means I'm always on the look-out for free alternatives.GeoGuessr is an online geography game that challenges players to identify
    • 26 August 2024

    • sur How Smooth is the Earth?

      Posted: 26 August 2024, 10:01am CEST by Keir Clarke
      One of the most interesting facts that I learned from the BBC TV series QI was that the Earth is smoother than a billiard ball. Unfortunately, like nearly every other fact I've remembered from that show, it is a load of bull (or should that be balls).Shri Khalpada has created a three.js powered 3D globe of the Earth which allows you to view the Earth's elevation profile to scale (and when
    • 24 August 2024

    • sur Have You Earned Your Air Pollution Stripes?

      Posted: 24 August 2024, 11:13am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Ed Hawkins' Climate Stripes visualization of global heating has quickly become a data visualization classic. Climate Stripes (sometimes known as Warming Stripes) are a visual representation of the long-term increase in global temperatures due to climate change. Ed's striking Climate Stripes visualizations consist of colored vertical stripes, with each stripe representing a single year and
    • 23 August 2024

    • sur 200 Years of Irish Map

      Posted: 23 August 2024, 10:54am CEST by Keir Clarke
      The first ever large-scale survey of an entire country was started nearly 200 years ago. From 1825 to 1846 the Irish Ordnance Survey undertook a highly detailed survey of the whole of Ireland in order to create maps primarily at the 6 inch scale.To celebrate 200 years of Irish mapping the University of Limerick and Queen’s University Belfast has created OS200. The OS200 website is a digital
    • 22 August 2024

    • sur Population Flags

      Posted: 22 August 2024, 9:18am CEST by Keir Clarke
      World Population Flags is a Dorling cartogram in which country flags are sized by population. The cartogram is used to visualize where people live around the world and the relative size of each country's population.A Dorling cartogram is a thematic map that is used to visualize quantitative data. On a Dorling cartogram areas are represented by circles rather than their actual geographic
    • 21 August 2024

    • sur One Million Screenshots. One Map!

      Posted: 21 August 2024, 9:52am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Over the years a number of people have used the popular Leaflet.js mapping library to map image datasets. For example Nathan Rooy's Visual Book Recommender uses Leaflet to map the images of 51,847 book covers. The Pudding has also mapped images of 5,000 book covers on its 11 Years of Top-Selling Book Covers, Arranged by Visual Similarity. Mapping libraries have also been used in the
    • 20 August 2024

    • sur How to Make Your Own Map Jigsaw Puzzle

      Posted: 20 August 2024, 10:03am CEST by Keir Clarke
      I've been having a lot of fun over the last few days playing the map puzzles created by the Map Puzzle Factory. However I have been a little frustrated by the Japanese place-names used in the puzzles. I therefore decided to try to create my own map jigsaw puzzle using a map in which the place-names are displayed in English.My Scrambled City game is a simple map of the City of London. Press
    • 19 August 2024

    • sur Piecing the World Back Together

      Posted: 19 August 2024, 9:55am CEST by Keir Clarke
      The world is fractured and divided like never before. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to put the Earth back together.The Map Puzzle Factory is a huge collection of map puzzles. Each puzzle is a map of a part of the world which has been divided into a collection of small squares. You simply have to drag the squares into their correct position on the map. In other words - each game
    • 17 August 2024

    • sur Turning Gaza to Rubble

      Posted: 17 August 2024, 9:03am CEST by Keir Clarke
      This week the Gaza health ministry reported that 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel started attacking the territory in October. Over a third of those killed have been children. Much of Gaza itself has also been turned to rubble.According to Bloomberg Israeli air strikes on Gaza have created 42 million tonnes of debris in the Strip. That is "enough rubble to fill a line of
    • 16 August 2024

    • sur How the World Powers Itself

      Posted: 16 August 2024, 9:33am CEST by Keir Clarke
      You can learn a lot about how the world powers itself from the Global Energy Monitor's Power Tracker. This interactive map shows the locations of nearly 18,000 power stations in 200 countries around the world, categorized by power sector.Using the map's filter controls it is possible to explore where different types of power stations are distributed around the world. This allows you, for
    • 15 August 2024

    • sur Virtual Indian Independence Day

      Posted: 15 August 2024, 10:45am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Today is Indian Independence Day. On this day India celebrates its independence from the United Kingdom. On 15 August 1947 Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, raised the Indian flag above the Lahori Gate of the Red Fort in Delhi. Since then every year on Independence Day the incumbent Prime Minister repeats the ceremony by raising the flag over the Red Fort and by addressing
    • 14 August 2024

    • sur Mapping Train Connections

      Posted: 14 August 2024, 9:34am CEST by Keir Clarke
      For ecological reasons I haven't taken a flight in over 30 years. Consequently I have probably spent many, many hours traveling across Europe by train. One of my retirement plans is to spend winters in Southern Italy. I have begun therefore to research how best to travel by train to southern Italy.According to TrainConnections the best plan is probably to break the journey into two - to take one
    • 13 August 2024

    • sur Russia's Secret Nuclear Targets in China

      Posted: 13 August 2024, 9:39am CEST by Keir Clarke
      The Financial Times has obtained secret Russian military files which detail how Russian forces train to use tactical nuclear weapons against both NATO and China.A story-map in the article Russian navy trained to target sites inside Europe with nuclear-capable missiles (paywalled) shows a number of target locations in Europe and the Pacific for Russian conventional and nuclear missiles. In the
    • 12 August 2024

    • sur Real-Time Radiation Maps

      Posted: 12 August 2024, 9:38am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Yesterday a fire broke out at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Russian occupied southern Ukraine. On hearing the news of the fire I almost immediately rushed to the Real-Time Radiation World Map in search of any detected spikes in radiation in the area.The Real-Time Radiation World Map visualizes radioactivity levels from Geiger counters around the world. Luckily, as you can see from the
    • 10 August 2024

    • sur Memorial Day Weekend Helicopter Flights

      Posted: 10 August 2024, 8:40am CEST by Keir Clarke
      The Gothamist has mapped out helicopter flights over New York City during the Memorial Day Weekend. The map accompanies a story on the rise in residents' complaints about helicopter noise in the city and the news that the City Council is introducing two bills aimed at reducing helicopter traffic.The interactive map in NYC Council bills aim to soar above helicopter noise complaints uses data
    • 09 August 2024

    • sur Tripgeo Cities

      Posted: 9 August 2024, 8:46am CEST by Keir Clarke
      A few months ago Map Channels kindly offered to create a json feed for my Guess This City game. I had been complaining about having to add a new city to the game every day. Map Channels then volunteered to create a feed for the game which gives the name, coordinates, population and a description of a different city each and every day. The result is that Guess This City now updates daily without
    • 08 August 2024

    • sur The Presidential Medal of Cartography

      Posted: 8 August 2024, 9:59am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Kamala Harris' Vice-Presidential pick Tim Walz loves maps. As a former high school geography teacher it should come as no surprise that Walz has an interest in cartography, but it appears that he is in act a full blown GIS nerd who only last year called for November 15th to be 'GIS Day'. According to Politico Tim Walz has also "addressed the geographic information systems software company
    • 07 August 2024

    • sur The Indoor CO2 Map

      Posted: 7 August 2024, 8:09am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Over the years I have posted links to a number of interactive maps which visualize the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Human activities such as burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and industrial processes help to increase the concentration of CO? in the atmosphere. Higher concentrations of CO? enhance the greenhouse effect, leading to more heat being trapped in the atmosphere.
    • 06 August 2024

    • sur Pixel View

      Posted: 6 August 2024, 9:04am CEST by Keir Clarke
      I've created a simple game using images from Mapillary (and a couple of images from Wikimedia).Mapillary is a crowd-sourced 'Street View' service that allows users to capture, share, and explore street-level imagery from around the world. Developers are allowed to use images submitted to Mapillary under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Mapillary 'street view' images can be a great resource for
    • 05 August 2024

    • sur The Manhole Card Collectors Map

      Posted: 5 August 2024, 9:46am CEST by Keir Clarke
      In the 1980s as a way to promote local culture and tourism local authorities in Japan began designing distinctive and artistic manhole covers. Each municipality often has its own unique manhole cover designs, featuring local landmarks, historical events, flora, fauna, and other culturally significant symbols. In Sumida Ward in Tokyo you can find a man hole cover featuring "The Great
    • 03 August 2024

    • sur Exploring London Through the Artist's Eye

      Posted: 3 August 2024, 10:33am CEST by Keir Clarke
      "... this tide is always moving! Always! When all those people we now see in such activity are in their graves, the same hurried activity will still continue here ..." - Hans Christian AndersenWhen Hans Christian Andersen visited London in June 1847 he was obviously impressed by the pace of London life. In his autobiography he called the English capital,"London, the city of cities! ... Here is
    • 02 August 2024

    • sur The Olympic Medals Map

      Posted: 2 August 2024, 9:20am CEST by Keir Clarke
      In the past seven days you've almost definitely seen numerous tables of Olympic medal winners. Now it is time to view the map.Giorgio Comai creates interactive maps of Olympic Medal winners based on which NUTS region they were born in. This means that you can look past the traditional country led rankings used in most Olympic medal tables to explore the medals won by different regions.
    • 01 August 2024

    • sur 170 Years of American Immigration

      Posted: 1 August 2024, 8:54am CEST by Keir Clarke
      The Pew Research Center has analysed census data to map the changes in the immigrant population over the last 170 years. An animated map in How America’s source of immigrants has changed over time shows the top country of birth of immigrants in each state from every census since 1850 (except 1890 - the census data for this year was destroyed in a fire).The animated map clearly illustrates the
    • 31 July 2024

    • sur The Best Graphics Team in the World

      Posted: 31 July 2024, 8:39am CEST by Keir Clarke
      The Straits Times has the best graphics department in the world - probably. The Washington Post and New York Times might be contenders but because of their paywalls most of their work is hidden away from most of the world.The latest astonishing demonstration of the graphic skills of the Straits Times comes in an article celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the construction of the
    • 30 July 2024

    • sur Rat-Town, Massachusetts

      Posted: 30 July 2024, 10:36am CEST by Keir Clarke
      A new interactive map of Boston seems to indicate that Beantown has become Rat-town. Rats! Boston shows rat sightings around the Massachusetts city made by concerned citizens.Self-appointed Rat Czar Viviano Cantu is using 311 reports to map all the recent sightings of rats around Boston. The sightings are taken from non-emergency 311 calls to the city. The Rats! Boston map also shows the
    • 29 July 2024

    • sur AI-Powered Satellite Search

      Posted: 29 July 2024, 9:21am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Clay Explore is an interactive map demo of a new open-source AI Earth observation model. The map allows you to search aerial imagery of Southern California, Seoul and Puerto Rico using machine learning.Using Clay Explore you can click on any map tile or draw an area to search the map for similar looking areas. Each of the three searchable maps (Southern California, Seoul and Puerto Rico) comes
    • 27 July 2024

    • sur The US Road Fatality Map

      Posted: 27 July 2024, 9:03am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Last week I posted a link to the NYC Congestion Zone Live Crash Tracker, an interactive map of car crashes in New York City. If you live outside of New York then you might prefer Roadway Report instead, which is a visualization of American roadway fatalities in the 21st Century.The Roadway Report map uses road traffic accident data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's
    • 26 July 2024

    • sur Mapping Power Outages in Kiev

      Posted: 26 July 2024, 10:29am CEST by Keir Clarke
      The Map of Power Outages in Kiev visualizes power outage schedules in the Ukrainian capital. Due to Russia's ongoing attacks on power stations in Ukraine the electric power company Yasno has to schedule times of planned power outages. The Map of Power Outages in Kiev uses this schedule to provide an interactive map at the individual building level of these scheduled power outages.It is
    • 25 July 2024

    • sur Your Daily Map Trivia Game

      Posted: 25 July 2024, 2:03pm CEST by Keir Clarke
      TripGeo Trivia is a new daily geography quiz which requires you to identify ten cities based on a number of clues. Every day ten new random cities from around the world need to be identified. To help you in this task you can view three clues as to the identity of each city.Every day you get to identify ten new cities. For each city you get three clues and a choice of possible answers. Using the

    • sur The Catalan GeoGuessing Game

      Posted: 25 July 2024, 7:33am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Developer Toni Vidal has released a new GeoGuessr inspired game featuring photographs of the stunning and diverse landscapes of Catalonia. His Geoendevina game simply requires you to guess the locations of a series of photos taken in the Catalonia region of Spain.The rules of Geoendevina are very simple. In each round of the game you are presented with a different photograph, each of which
    • 24 July 2024

    • sur Tracking American Spies in Germany

      Posted: 24 July 2024, 8:24am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Bayerischer Rundfunk and netzpolitik have carried out a joint investigation into how our location data is for sale across the world. These days nearly everyone voluntarily carries around their own personal tracking device in the form of a smartphone. These devices record our movements all day long. What most people don't know is that their location data is openly being sold by global data
    • 23 July 2024

    • sur The Retro Gamer's Map

      Posted: 23 July 2024, 10:04am CEST by Keir Clarke
      The Retro.Directory is an interactive map which shows the locations of venues related to retro gaming. These include gaming museums, arcades, cafes, bars, clubs and repair services. The map is designed to help retro gaming enthusiasts discover retro-themed locations nearby and around the world.I am so old that I can actually remember a time before computer games. I can remember the amazing
    • 22 July 2024

    • sur Virtual Reality OpenStreetMap

      Posted: 22 July 2024, 8:19am CEST by Keir Clarke
      osm4vr is a virtual reality world built using OpenStreetMap map tiles and building footprints. Using osm4vr with a VR headset you can explore the world in virtual reality. Alternatively, if you don't have access to a headset you can simply fly around the world in your browser instead.Most of the 3d buildings are created using OSM building footprints with building heights, so the graphics can be
    • 20 July 2024

    • sur 10 Million Street Views

      Posted: 20 July 2024, 9:01am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Street-level imagery such as Google Maps Street View panoramas has become a pivotal resource for many researchers as it can provide a unique perspective on built environments. The ability to access and analyse comprehensive street-level imagery provides researchers with a powerful tool for exploring and understanding urban environments. Accessing comprehensive street level imagery at
    • 19 July 2024

    • sur 30 Days of Crashes in New York City

      Posted: 19 July 2024, 11:19am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Between June 16th and July 15th, 149 people were injured by cars in the planned New York congestion zone and 4 people were killed.At the beginning of June New York Governor Kathy Hochul canceled New York City’s planned congestion zone. Under the planned congestion zone vehicles traveling into or within the central business district of Manhattan would have been charged a fee. In response to
    • 18 July 2024

    • sur The 2024 European Election Map

      Posted: 18 July 2024, 10:00am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Zeit has created an interactive map which visualizes the results in the 2024 European Union elections in 83,000 municipalities. The map in Explore Europe's Most Detailed Electoral Map colors each electoral area in Europe based on the politics of the leading candidate in the election.The map allows you to compare the 2024 European Union election results with the results from 2014 and 2019. By
    • 17 July 2024

    • sur Battles of World War II & American Wars

      Posted: 17 July 2024, 10:29am CEST by Keir Clarke
      HistoryMaps has been very busy in the last few weeks, releasing new interactive maps visualizing the:Battles of World War IIBattles of the American RevolutionBattles of the American Civil War Nono Umasy's HistoryMaps website is a fantastic resource for anyone interested in world history, offering hundreds of interactive timelines and maps that explore historical events across the scope of
    • 16 July 2024

    • sur Your Urban Heat Island Score

      Posted: 16 July 2024, 8:19am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Climate Central has mapped out the urban heat island hot-spots in 65 major U.S. cities. Each city map on Climate Central's Urban Heat Hot Spots shows an Urban Heat Island (UHI) Index score for each census tract, revealing where UHI boosts temperatures the most and least in each city.As well as providing individual UHI maps for 65 cities Climate Central has also released a national interactive
    • 15 July 2024

    • sur Trains, Balloons and Automobiles

      Posted: 15 July 2024, 8:16am CEST by Keir Clarke
      I have died and arrived in train spotting heaven.The Train Positions map combines a live real-time map of Dutch trains with the locations of traffic webcams. The result is that you can track the positions of trains in real-time and actually see them pass locations on live webcams.Unfortunately a lot of the webcams featured in the Train Positions map are currently offline or have poor views of
    • 13 July 2024

    • sur The D-Day Map Room

      Posted: 13 July 2024, 8:42am CEST by Keir Clarke
      The Map Room at Southwick House in Portsmouth was where Allied Supreme Commander General Eisenhower and General Montgomery spent much of early 1944 planning for D-Day. The walls of the Map Room were hung with huge maps of the English Channel. Maps that are still in place in the Map Room at Southwick House to this day.In particular one wall of the Map Room is covered by a very large map of
    • 12 July 2024

    • sur Your Future Climate Twin

      Posted: 12 July 2024, 11:22am CEST by Keir Clarke
      If you want to know how climate change will affect New York City in 60 years time you just need to travel to Arkansas today. In the town of Ola, Arkansas you can experience today the climate that New York is expected to have in 2080, when summer temperatures will be 12.1°F warmer and 5.3% wetter.The concept of climate analogs is often used in climate science to describe a location whose current
    • 11 July 2024

    • sur Europeans Profiting from American Deaths

      Posted: 11 July 2024, 8:55am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Around a third of the guns used in mass shootings in the United States were manufactured in Europe. In European Weapons, American Victims the German newspaper Tagesspiegel investigates how German and Austrian arms manufacturers are profiting from exploiting America's love affair with guns.Guns are the major cause of children's deaths in the United States, ahead of both traffic accidents and
    • 10 July 2024

    • sur John Snow's Proximity Mapping

      Posted: 10 July 2024, 4:07pm CEST by Keir Clarke
      I've probably seen over 100 modern interactive visualizations of John Snow's famous map of cholera victims during the 1854 cholera outbreak in Soho. John Snow's map shows the locations of cholera deaths clustered around a water pump in Broad Street. The map helped to disprove the prevailing miasma theory on the spread of diseases and establish that cholera was actually spread by contaminated
    • 09 July 2024

    • sur AI Satellite Search

      Posted: 9 July 2024, 9:15am CEST by Keir Clarke
      boats identified by AIIn recent years machine learning and artificial intelligence has revolutionized the way we analyze the world from above. The ability to automatically detect and identify objects in satellite images has unlocked a myriad of possibilities, including monitoring deforestation, tracking wildlife, and enhancing disaster response.Some recent examples of machine learning being used
    • 08 July 2024

    • sur France Defeats the Far-Right

      Posted: 8 July 2024, 10:17am CEST by Keir Clarke
      first round (left) and second round (right) election resultsThe left of center New Popular Front has emerged as the most popular party after France's second round of voting in its national parliamentary election. Le Pen's National Rally party has fallen from its first round triumph to a third placed position, behind both the New Popular Front and President Macron's center-right coalition. 
    • 06 July 2024

    • sur The Car Free Cities Atlas

      Posted: 6 July 2024, 9:41am CEST by Keir Clarke
      The cyclists of Helsinki have the best access to protected bike lanes of any citizens in the world. 94% of people in the city live within 300m of a protected bikeway. This means that Helsinki scores number one out of the 1095 cities ranked in the Atlas of Sustainable City Transport.The new Atlas of Sustainable City Transport ranks and maps cities around the world based on how easy
    • 05 July 2024

    • sur 2024 UK Election Maps

      Posted: 5 July 2024, 8:58am CEST by Keir Clarke
      The Labour Party has swept to power in the UK and the ruling Conservative Party has lost over half of their seats. At the time of writing the new Prime Minister Keir Starmer has 410 seats in the new government (with 11 seats to declare). This means that he has won well over the 326 seats needed to form a majority government.The BBC election map includes a cartogram view which does a very good
    • 04 July 2024

    • sur The Riskiest Places to Live in America

      Posted: 4 July 2024, 8:04am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Los Angeles County is a dangerous place to live. According to the National Risk Index the residents of Los Angeles County are more likely to suffer from a natural hazard than anywhere else in the United States. The residents of Los Angeles County are more likely to experience an earthquake than any other US location. They also have one of the highest chances of experiencing a landslide and
    • 03 July 2024

    • sur Climate Change by Electoral District

      Posted: 3 July 2024, 9:59am CEST by Keir Clarke
      With the UK on the eve of a general election one political issue that has been conspicuous by its absence during the election campaign is climate change. I don't blame the political parties themselves too much for this. They spend a fortune on opinion polls and focus groups. Presumably they therefore know that the voting public are not concerned by climate change.They should be!A new map from
    • 02 July 2024

    • sur Tory Candidates Violently Attacked

      Posted: 2 July 2024, 8:45am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Election riot on 26 June 1865 in NottinghamDisturbing reports of violence, carried out by supporters of the Liberal Party, have been reported across the whole of the UK. In Shoreham a gang of 300 Liberal supporters attacked poll clerks. In Grantham Liberals set polling booths on fire. In Alfreton a crowd of thousands attacked properties 'associated with Conservatives'.These acts of electoral
    • 01 July 2024

    • sur France Surrenders to Facism

      Posted: 1 July 2024, 10:41am CEST by Keir Clarke
      The far-right National Rally has won 33% of the vote in the first round of France's parliamentary elections. You can view the results in each constituency in Le Monde's French elections: Map of the first round's results.Le Monde's map is a sea of brown, revealing that the National Rally has managed to become the most popular party in electoral districts across the whole country. There is a
    • 29 June 2024

    • sur The 2024 UK General Election Map

      Posted: 29 June 2024, 9:53am CEST by Keir Clarke
      2024 is a year of elections. Next Thursday it is the turn of the UK to go to the polls. Which means next Friday Maps Mania will be featuring a number of interactive maps, visualizing the collapse of the governing Conservative Party's vote.According to the latest opinion polls the Tories could be heading for a loss that might almost rival the collapse of the Canadian Conservative Party in the
    • 28 June 2024

    • sur 1000+ Streets Called Washington

      Posted: 28 June 2024, 10:22am CEST by Keir Clarke
      George Washington has more streets named after him in America than any other person in history. There are 1,399 streets named for the Founding Father in the United States, including George Washington Memorial Parkway in Washington DC and a number of Washington Streets in the state of Washington.At the other end of the scale Babe Ruth has only 3 U.S. streets named in his honor. There are 11
    • 27 June 2024

    • sur Where Immigrants are Settling

      Posted: 27 June 2024, 8:21am CEST by Keir Clarke
      The Washington Post has used immigrant court records from the last ten years to map out where migrants are settling in the United States. The data comes from immigration courts, which are responsible for adjudicating immigration cases. In 4.1 million migrants: Where they’re from, where they live in the U.S. the Post claims that this is "the most detailed publicly available information showing
    • 26 June 2024

    • sur The New Nuclear Arms Race

      Posted: 26 June 2024, 9:00am CEST by Keir Clarke
      As several countries actively expand their arsenals of nuclear weapons, Sweden's SVT has released an investigation into World Nuclear Forces. In recent years, China, Pakistan, India, Israel, and North Korea have all augmented their nuclear stockpiles. In World Nuclear Forces SVT examines the numbers of nuclear weapons owned by countries around the world and the overall and
    • 25 June 2024

    • sur Who is Your Closest Team?

      Posted: 25 June 2024, 10:05am CEST by Keir Clarke
      If you have ever wondered which baseball team you should support then you need Maptitude's Closest Major or Minor League Baseball Stadium by Drive Time map. The map shows you which affiliated major or minor baseball stadium you can drive to in the quickest time in the contiguous United States.The map is a sort of combination of a voronoi diagram and an isochrone map. However,
    • 24 June 2024

    • sur The Dawn Chorus Map of Birds

      Posted: 24 June 2024, 9:01am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Each and every morning birds around the world herald the start of a new day by participating in the dawn chorus. While the aural phenomenon of birds singing at dawn is a global one the songs of the dawn chorus can vary greatly depending on where you live and on the make-up of your local avian population. Now, thanks to a new(ish) interactive map, you can tune into this morning serenade at
    • 22 June 2024

    • sur Find Your Future Climate Zone

      Posted: 22 June 2024, 9:48am CEST by Keir Clarke
      In fifty years time Los Angeles will no longer be in a temperate climate zone. As a result of climate change the climate in LA in 2070 will closely resemble the climate of New Delhi today. The average temperature will increase from 59.8°F to 65.2°F and LA can expect hot and arid summers.You can discover if your city will be changing climate zones in the near future (it will) on The Pudding's
    • 21 June 2024

    • sur The Newest Maps of Mars - in 3D

      Posted: 21 June 2024, 9:43am CEST by Keir Clarke
      The National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences has released a 3D interactive map of Mars, using imagery captured from the Tianwen-1 interplanetary mission. The Gras Mars Map allows you to explore Mars using the navigation tools that you are familiar with using from exploring Earth on Google Maps.The Gras Mars Map uses imagery captured by the 2020 China National Space
    • 20 June 2024

    • sur The Worldwide Breaking News Map

      Posted: 20 June 2024, 9:37am CEST by Keir Clarke
      You can now explore breaking global news stories in real-time on a new interactive map. The Global Alerts Map highlights breaking news stories around the world. Using the map you can filter stories by category, and read the latest news updates. From major political developments to natural disasters, with just a few clicks, you can zoom into any region or country of the world, and read the
    • 19 June 2024

    • sur Mapping the Big Map Index

      Posted: 19 June 2024, 10:21am CEST by Keir Clarke
      The Economist's Big Mac Index compares the purchasing power parity between the currencies of different countries by examining the price of a Big Mac hamburger sold at McDonalds' restaurants in each country. The Index "is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity, the notion that in the long run exchange rates should move towards the rate that would equalize the prices of an identical
    • 18 June 2024

    • sur Where Mountains Rise From Oceans

      Posted: 18 June 2024, 10:18am CEST by Keir Clarke
      Last year PeakJut invented the Jut Score in order to rank mountains based on how sharply they rise above their surroundings. Now they have introduced a new OceanJut score - a unique method of measuring where land most dramatically rises from the ocean around the world.The OceanJut interactive map allows you to see how quickly and dramatically the land rises from the sea all around the globe. In
    • 17 June 2024

    • sur Guess This City 2.0

      Posted: 17 June 2024, 8:01pm CEST by Keir Clarke
      My daily map challenge game Guess This City has now been updated to provide a number of clues which should help you identify each day's new location. At the same time the cities which you have to identify have become a bit more obscure.Thanks to Map Channels the game now uses a json feed for each day's map. I think Map Channels realized that the daily scores I was posting to X weren't exactly
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