The City Map Game / / No Comments I really like the game SF-Street-Names, which I reviewed Monday in the post The Streets of San Francisco Game. In fact I liked SF-Street-Names so much that I immediately started trying to see if I could replicate the game for a different city. In Monday’s post I linked to my quick demo map Denver Street Names, which was a very quick hack of a SF-Street-Names type game for Denver.Today I decided Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: City, Game
Geolocating General Surovikin / / No Comments The investigative journalists at Bellingcat have been developing some important tools and methodologies for geolocating images. On Wednesday they applied their investigative geolocating powers to identify the location of General Sergey Surovikin. On September 4th a photograph of Surovikin was posted online, accompanied by the message “General Surovikin has emerged. He’s alive and well, home Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: General, Geolocating, Surovikin
Mapping the Great Kantō Earthquake / / No Comments 100 years ago yesterday, on September 1st 1923, the Great Kantō earthquake struck Japan. The earthquake struck near midday, at a time when many people were cooking lunch. In Tokyo, during and after the earthquake, fires spread across the city. In the 46 hours after the quake around 40% of Tokyo burned to the ground. Japanese newspaper Nikkei has marked the 100th anniversary of the Great Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: earthquake, GREAT, Kantō, Mapping
NIMBY Mapping / / No Comments In July the German government introduced a draft bill to legalize cannabis for personal use. However, under the draft bill, the consumption of cannabis will remain prohibited within a 200-meter radius of schools, children’s and youth facilities, playgrounds, publicly accessible sports facilities, and in pedestrian zones between 7 am and 8 pm. According to the Berliner Morgenpost these Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Mapping, NIMBY
A New Google Map of the Brain / / No Comments If you’ve ever wanted to look inside someone’s brain then you might like the European Commission’s new ‘Google Map’ of the human brain. This new 3D map allows you to take a look inside a human skull and explore atlases of the brain’s regions and neural connections.The European Brain Research Infrastructure (EBRAINS) is funded by the European Commission to accelerate brain research and Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Brain, Google
The AI Diplomacy Map / / No Comments According to the interactive map Deeplomacy the “relationship between Iraq and the United States has been turbulent, complex, and marked by periods of conflict and cooperation.” Deeplomacy also informs me that the relationship between Russia and Ukraine has recently “drastically worsened”.Deeplomacy is a new map tool which can explain the historical and current diplomatic relationships between Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Diplomacy
Neighborhood Colors / / No Comments Kiezcolors is an interactive map which shows the distribution of land use in Berlin neighborhoods. On the map areas are colored to show whether they are used for business, housing, roads, nature etc. Alongside the street map a tree-map is also used to show the percentage of land used by each category within the highlighted area (the circle of ‘undefined’ radius). You can use the map’s Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Colors, neighborhood
Mapping 3D Game Worlds / / No Comments noclip is an amazing website which lets you move around and explore some of your favorite computer games in glorious 3D. The term ‘noclip’ is a common command used to debug computer games. It refers to the process of turning off collision detection in a game world so that the player may pass through solid objects in the rendered environment. This is exactly what the noclip website allows you to Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Game, Mapping, world's