The National Stereotypes Maps – Part Two / / No Comments Buzzfeed has started a new mapping trend with their AI generated images of state stereotypes. Last week Buzzfeed asked a generative AI image model to create a photograph of a person from each U.S. state, as typically perceived by a European. You can view the results in the post This is What Europeans Think of Us. I was inspired by the Buzzfeed post to create my own National Stereotypes Map. To Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: maps, National, part, Stereotypes
Which Country Most Resembles Your Country? / / No Comments The political scientist Anders Sundell has posted a Twitter thread which reveals “the countries that look the most like each other”. For example (according to Anders) the country which most resembles the United States is Saudi Arabia. According to the text on each country comparison an “algorithm checked the shapes of all countries in order to find the most similar shapes. All countries were Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Country, most, Resembles
Divorced, Befriended, Married or Died / / No Comments Madrid’s Almendra Central is an island of bachelors surrounded by a sea of married couples. Spanish newspaper El Confidencial has used 2021 census data to map out whether there are more single people or married couples in every census tract in Spain. An interactive map in the paper’s Singles in Your Area, Street by Street colors every neighborhood in the country depending on whether the Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Befriended, Died, Divorced, Married
Mapping Loch Ness Monster Sightings / / No Comments The best place to spot the Loch Ness Monster is on or around Loch Ness in Scotland. In When, where and how to see the Loch Ness Monster – based on 1,500 years worth of data! the Press and Journal has mapped the locations of Loch Ness monster sightings over the last 83 years in order to determine the best location where you are most likely to spot Nessie. After hours of analysis the newspaper Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Loch, Mapping, Monster, Ness, Sightings
You Don’t Know Africa / / No Comments Let’s face it your geographical knowledge of African countries is woefully inadequate. If you had to identify the location of Burkina Faso on a map you would probably end up pointing to the Philippines. Well it’s time to change that. Today you are going to improve your knowledge of Africa and have fun while doing so. You Don’t Know Africa is a collection of three online map games which will Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Africa, don't, know
Discovering the Dissolution / / No Comments I live near Abbey Road in East London. The road is named for Langthorne Abbey, which used to be one of the largest Cistercian abbeys in England. At the beginning of the 16th Century the abbey owned most of the land in East London. It also owned a number of local mills and controlled a number of local industries including brewing, shearing, weaving, tannery and farming. Then came the Dissolution Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: discovering, Dissolution
The Kessler Syndrome / / No Comments Steve Wozniak and a host of other Silicon Valley luminaries have launched a new company called Privateer, whose mission is to track and map space debris in Earth’s orbit. In 1978 NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler published a paper which argued that if the number of satellites in Low Earth Orbit reached a certain critical level, then even a small collision could create enough debris to cause a Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Kessler, Syndrome
AI Map Search / / No Comments I am trying to keep track of developments in the use of artificial intelligence in mapping. At the moment the most interesting experiments seem to involve using AI to help answer geospatial queries. This is leading to some interesting maps which use AI to map answers to users’ queries. Over the last few months I’ve been reading with interest on Twitter how developers have been using AI models ( Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: search