Real-Time 3D Mapping / / No Comments Kaiwen Song and Juyong Zhang of the University of Science and Technology of China claim to be “the first to achieve real-time rendering of large-scale scenes” through the use of neural rendering. They have presented their findings to the world in their paper City-on-Web: Real-time Neural Rendering of Large-scale Scenes on the Web (the website of which includes three live demos). Neural Radiance Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Mapping, realtime
Subway Specs – Part III / / No Comments Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station is the world’s busiest train station. Its is used by over 3.5 million passengers every day. To cope with that amount of traffic the station has to be very big. It has 35 platforms, while another 17 platforms can be accessed through hallways to 5 directly connected stations without traveling outside. With over 35 million platforms and over 200 station exits it can be Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: part, Specs, Subway
Where Might I Live? / / No Comments There are 3,143 counties in the USA. One of them is probably perfect for you. But which one?What makes a perfect home can depend on a number of factors. Those factors are likely to be different for every single person. Where Might I Live can find your perfect US home based on your own personal criteria. Tell Where Might I Live what factors are important to you in choosing a home and it will Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: live, might
Destroying People’s Homes in Gaza / / No Comments The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has begun creating interactive 3D models of destroyed homes, hospitals and businesses in order to help convey the devastation that ongoing military conflicts can have on ordinary people’s lives. Using photogrammetry the ICRC has managed to create harrowing 3D models of an apartment block in Gaza destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in 2021, a Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Destroying, Gaza, home's, People's
Coins Hoards from the Roman Empire / / No Comments Ancient Rome had significant trade links with India, particularly during the Roman Empire under the rule of Augustus and onwards. The Silk Road and Indian Ocean trade routes facilitated the exchange of goods to Rome from India, including textiles, spices, gems, and other luxury items. You can find evidence of this trade between the Roman Empire and India on this interactive map of Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Coins, Empire, from, Hoards, Roman
How Well Do You Know New York’s Subway? / / No Comments Following the huge success of his London Tube Memory Game Benjamin Tran Dinh released a New York subway version of the game, called the New York City Subway Memory Game.Benjamin’s game requires you to name all 472 New York City subway stations. The game is therefore more of a marathon than a sprint and I suspect will take you at least a few hours to complete. If you don’t have that much time to Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: know, Subway, Well, York's
Racial Profiling in Redlining Maps / / No Comments The University of Richmond has released a large update to its amazing Mapping Inequality project. This update includes introductions to the redlining maps produced for around 80 cities, written by scholars and historians and the addition of around 100 new cities to the project.Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal black homeowners were discriminated against by redlining maps. These Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: maps, Profiling, Racial, Redlining
Discover Your Neighborhood Tree Score / / No Comments The Woodland Trust has released a new interactive map which reveals the amount of tree canopy cover available in thousands of UK neighborhoods. Using the map you can discover the ‘tree equity score’ of Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. If you click on your neighborhood on the Tree Equity Score UK map you can discover its ‘tree equity score’, Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Discover, neighborhood, score, Tree