tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-121582902024-03-19T04:11:01.306-05:00Maps ManiaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12098125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-76391873989584896002024-03-19T04:10:00.000-05:002024-03-19T04:10:17.955-05:00A Total Scrolly Eclipse
In three weeks time, on April 8, people across large parts of the USA will be able to watch a total solar eclipse. The path of totality, where the Moon's shadow completely falls during a total solar eclipse and where the view of the sun is completely obscured by the moon, will travel around 4,000 miles over North America from the Pacific Ocean west of Mexico, through 15 U.S. states, to the Keir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-26046014549080007662024-03-18T03:58:00.000-05:002024-03-18T03:58:02.685-05:00Mapping the History of the Railway
Martin Brake has created a number of interactive maps which visualize the historical development of transport networks in Germany, London, Paris and Barcelona. His Timemap Timelines project provides an animated map for each featured city which shows how its transit network has grown over time. For example the screenshot above shows the development of the London Underground between 1858 and 1947.Keir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-13190304989076524002024-03-16T05:14:00.001-05:002024-03-16T05:14:22.834-05:00Visit a Virtual Medieval Farm
Havrå is a collection of 36 medieval buildings in Western Norway. It is now a living museum which allows visitors to explore a traditional Norwegian cluster farm, a traditional community settlement where multiple individual farms and their houses were built close together.If you can't visit the Havrå living museum in person you can now explore the farm in virtual reality instead. The Keir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-60591826449174990012024-03-15T03:47:00.005-05:002024-03-15T03:48:42.268-05:00The 100 Most Segregated School Districts in AmericaIn the United States school district boundaries drawn onto economically and racially segregated neighborhoods ensure that most poor and non-white students receive a much worse education than students in the more affluent school districts.Back in 2016 NPR examined how school funding in the USA is used to ensure that the rich get the best schools. They created an interactive map which visualized Keir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-42206349278000034162024-03-14T05:32:00.002-05:002024-03-14T05:32:32.174-05:00Flip Off the World with Street View
AI and Street View seems like the perfect match. Last month panoramai released a fun tool which allowed users to change the appearance of Google Maps Street View images based on their own AI prompts. The app became so popular it had to be turned off because of the costs being incurred by the developers (you can still browse the example images created with the app).Now a new Ai and Street View Keir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-40701853338200586322024-03-13T03:56:00.004-05:002024-03-13T03:56:46.123-05:00Climate Resilient Crops
The Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS) has released an interactive map which visualizes how different crops will be affected by climate change in Africa. The visualization focuses on climate-resilient crop varieties in order to help identify the most promising crops for the changing climate.The VACS Explorer maps out where in Africa climate-resilient crops will likely have bigger and Keir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-46101671767202735852024-03-12T04:41:00.001-05:002024-03-12T04:41:18.202-05:00Real-time Air Pollution Alerts
In February the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) launched an Aerosol Alerts service to provide warnings about upcoming air pollution. You can view an animated map of today's alerts on the Aerosol Alerts interactive map.Aerosols are tiny particles that are suspended in the air, which can come from both natural and human-made sources. Natural sources of aerosols include dust Keir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-43116726690049307692024-03-11T05:23:00.002-05:002024-03-11T05:23:52.535-05:00Virtual Rewind Machinesurban development of the Summerline West neighborhood in Las Vegas since 2014Esri's World Imagery Wayback is a virtual rewind machine which allows you to create animated GIFs of locations showing how they have changed over time. The World Imagery Wayback interactive map provides access to satellite imagery captured over a period of years, currently stretching back to February 20, 2014.Keir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-91987521061222223382024-03-09T04:00:00.005-05:002024-03-09T04:00:30.866-05:00Not Everyone Commutes by Car
In Canada and the United States 95% of journeys to and from work are made by car. Elsewhere in the world people often walk, cycle or use public transport in order to get to work.Cities Moving is a research project by the Complexity Science Hub of the University of Vienna, which analysed the mode of transport most commonly used for commuting to work in 794 cities in 61 countries around the Keir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-51379469660790981652024-03-08T03:40:00.004-05:002024-03-08T03:40:59.533-05:00Global Climate Change Impacts
We have just experienced the warmest February on record. That makes it nine months in a row which have broken all previous record global temperatures. This means that over the last twelve months the world has exceeded 1.5 °C global heating compared to pre-industrial temperatures. The goal of 1.5 °C was set by the 2015 Paris Agreement because scientists believe that global heating above 1.5°C Keir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-12163639282550373532024-03-07T04:16:00.000-05:002024-03-07T04:16:06.353-05:00The Distressed Communities of America
The Distressed Community Index from the Economic Innovation Group reveals the levels of economic well-being in all US neighborhoods. The Index uses seven different metrics to give every zipcode area a score out of 100, ranging from the most prosperous (0) to the most distressed (100).You can explore which neighborhoods in your city are the most and least distressed on the 2024 Distressed Keir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-90075622490033035542024-03-06T04:04:00.000-05:002024-03-06T04:04:22.745-05:00There are 2,773 stories in the Naked City
The 1960's procedural police series the Naked City used to conclude every episode with the line: "There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them." If there are eight million stories in New York then The City has got quite a long way to go before it is finished reporting on them. So far it has managed to find only 2,773 stories in NYC.The City asked ChatGPT to find Keir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-39008703043872024672024-03-05T03:37:00.002-05:002024-03-05T12:14:46.444-05:00Attacks on the Press Map 2023
More journalists have been killed in the Israel-Gaza war zone in the last three months than have ever been killed in a single country over the course of an entire year. In fact according to the Committee to Protect Journalists' annual report, Attacks on the Press, nearly 75% of journalists killed around the world in 2023 died in Israel’s war on Gaza.You can explore the results of the CPJ'sKeir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-26361091084907226082024-03-04T03:55:00.003-05:002024-03-06T04:10:21.650-05:00Can you Draw Europe?
Huge Quiz's Europe Country Drawing Challenge has quickly become my new favorite online game. This is despite the fact that I am absolutely terrible at it and have yet to achieve anything other than a totally embarrassing score.The premise of the Europe Country Drawing Challenge is very easy. All you have to do is draw European countries on top of a satellite map of Europe. For each country you Keir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-19993572007846650742024-03-02T03:59:00.002-05:002024-03-02T03:59:38.838-05:00Solar Symbology
The one thing that you are guaranteed to see before a solar eclipse is lots of maps. With just over a month to go before April 8th's total solar eclipse new solar eclipse maps are being released almost daily. Over on the Esri blog Kenneth Field has introduced his new Total Eclipse map. Kenneth's map uses small symbols to visualize the extent of the eclipse possible at different locations Keir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-85393388556377100702024-03-01T04:02:00.003-05:002024-03-01T04:02:52.446-05:00Cities Need TreesTree density in TokyoNew York needs 113.9 million more trees in order to become carbon neutral.Picterra has calculated which cities around the world have the most and least trees. Using their own geospatial AI detection platform with tree counting software and forestry monitoring tools Picterra has mapped and counted the number of trees in 26 global cities. It has then calculated how many more Keir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-86422004095686313882024-02-29T03:25:00.002-05:002024-02-29T03:25:23.575-05:00Who Deserves a Monument Anyway?Distribution of Confederate monumentsThanks to Geochicas and the Mapping Diversity project there has been quite a lot of data analysis undertaken over the last few years into the lack of diversity in the street names of cities around the world. According to Mapping Diversity in the 32 cities which they have analyzed "More than 90% of the streets named after individuals are dedicated to whiteKeir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-78644250311357343652024-02-27T21:30:00.014-05:002024-02-28T09:58:52.500-05:00Online GeoJSON EditorsPlacemark Playgeojson.ioVector GeoJSONGeoman Geojson Editor
I use online geojson editors very regularly to create and edit geographical data. I find online editors particularly useful for tidying up and minimizing third-party data which I have downloaded from elsewhere. For example an editor can be very useful for previewing data exported from overpass turbo, and then manipulating that data Keir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-73377950536563247522024-02-27T04:21:00.000-05:002024-02-27T04:21:32.837-05:00The Supply Chain of Deforestation
Palm oil production is a major contributor to deforestation, particularly in Southeast Asia. To meet the growing demand for palm oil, every year vast areas of rainforests and other ecosystems are cleared and converted into large-scale oil palm plantations. Palm oil is the most widely used vegetable oil globally and it is found in around half of the products in your local supermarket, Keir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-10715610254146478562024-02-26T03:10:00.000-05:002024-02-26T03:10:26.936-05:00Street View Surveillance
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Spot the Surveillance game is a virtual reality game which requires players to identify surveillance equipment in a panoramic image of a San Francisco street scene. Panning around this 360 degree view players are required to detect the every day surveillance equipment which is now routinely used on America's streets, such as body-worn cameras, automated Keir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-26524946772818602662024-02-24T05:11:00.002-05:002024-02-24T05:17:45.989-05:00The Street Names of Budapest
Over 2,600 locations in Budapest have place-names which derive from people. Names and Spaces - Budapest is a fantastic mapped analysis of who Budapest's streets and public spaces were named after and what this reveals about the city's history.The map is in Hungarian but works fairly seamlessly with Google Translate in Chrome. If you don't have access to Google Translate then you can still enjoyKeir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-29764388621072850842024-02-23T03:25:00.002-05:002024-02-23T03:25:38.602-05:00Four Seasons in One Map
Chronolog is an interactive map of timelapse photographs designed to help monitor the environment. It is a citizen science project which encourages organizations and individuals to engage with nature while recording and monitoring the changing environment.The Chronolog map allows you to explore timelapse photos of nature which have been captured around the USA (and one or two in other countriesKeir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-45435279015729429372024-02-22T03:32:00.003-05:002024-02-22T03:32:43.499-05:00The CyclotronThe West Midlands Cyclotron uses cycle counters installed on the roads in the West Midlands to provide a near real-time data visualization of the number of cyclists using individual roads in areas of Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton (and many roads in between).
The most striking aspect of the Cyclotron is the design of the LED themed data dashboard. This dashboard takes its cue from theKeir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-86763994430201865572024-02-21T04:22:00.001-05:002024-02-21T04:22:57.713-05:00The World's First OpenStreetMap
The only thing I love more than exploring historical vintage maps of the world is exploring annotated, interactive versions of ancient world maps. Now thanks to the Museo Galileo I can browse an annotated version of the world's greatest medieval map - the Fra Mauro World Map.The Annotated Fra Mauro World Map is an interactive zoomable version of the famous 1450 Venetian map of the world. The Keir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12158290.post-50147167689439166322024-02-20T03:32:00.001-05:002024-02-20T03:32:05.197-05:00The Chain Restaurants of AmericaMap of McDonald's outlets in the USAThe Georgia Institute of Technology's Friendly Cities Lab has released a new interactive map which reveals which chain restaurants dominate which areas of the United States. The U.S. Chain and Independent Restaurants map shows the locations of over 700,000 restaurants across the country, organized by restaurant chain and by frequency. The map reveals that Keir Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052313829398691711noreply@blogger.com0