Where Students Travel to Study Abroad / / No Comments The European Commission’s Erasmus programme allows university students across Europe to study abroad as part of a continent-wide student exchange scheme. Under the programme students can study at a foreign university for up to one year of their undergraduate studies. Over the years more than 9 million European students have used the scheme to travel and study abroad.The Erasmus Network Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: abroad, students, Study, travel
US Car Fatality Hotspots / / No Comments The U.S. Department of Transportation has released a series of interactive maps which visualize where fatal road accidents are a problem on America’s roads. The number of roadway fatalities and the fatality rate on U.S. roads increased in 2020 and 2021. In Our Nation’s Roadway Safety Crisis the DoT has created a series of maps which visualize fatality hotspots, fatalities compared to the Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Fatality, Hotspots
The Map of Reddit Now Has Street View / / No Comments The Map of Reddit now has a ‘Street View’ option which allows you to explore this organisational network map of the world’s subreddits as a 3D environment. The Map of Reddit is an interactive map which organizes and plots subreddits based on their similarity. Subreddits are individual subject forums on the social news forum Reddit. On this Map of Reddit individual subreddits are positioned near Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Reddit, Street, View
Population Stripes / / No Comments Julien Gaffuri, a cartographer at Eurostat, has created an interactive map which allows you to place stripes of any size and orientation on a map of Europe and discover the percentage of the continent’s population living within the area covered by the stripe.Julien’s Population Stripe map uses population data from the statistical office of the European Union, and provides some very iinteresting Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Population, Stripes
Mapsaws – Jigsaws Made from Maps / / No Comments Jigidi is a free online jigsaw game. On Jigiidi you can choose to play thousands of online interactive jigsaw puzzles. If you join Jigidi you can also create your own interactive jigsaw puzzles. Many members of Jigidi have of course already made some fun jigsaw puzzles out of maps.Here are three OpenStreetMap jigsaw puzzles for you to try created by Karlos. These include a 330 piece jigsaw of a Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: from, Jigsaws, Made, maps, Mapsaws
Dot Maps of the Chicago Mayoral Race / / No Comments Brandon Johnson is set to become the new mayor of Chicago. Johnson beat Paul Vallas in Tuesday’s runoff election with 51.44% of the vote. You can see where people voted for each of the candidates at the neighborhood level thanks to two different dot density maps created from the results of the Chicago Mayoral election.CBS in Breakdown of Chicago mayor vote by precinct has created a combined dot Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Chicago, maps, Mayoral, Race
The 100 Most Boring People in America / / No Comments Who is the most unnotable person in your town?I asked ChatGPT to find me the most unnotable people in America’s biggest towns and cities. The results can be seen on my Unnotable People map. On this map the placename labels of the 100 largest towns and cities in the USA have been replaced with each town’s most insignificant person.Using ChatGPT to find each town’s most unnotable person means Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: America, Boring, most, people
The Electric Vehicle Driving Test / / No Comments Electric vehicles are becoming increasingly popular, as people look for ways to reduce their environmental impact. But what are the pros and cons of electric vehicles compared to gas cars? And are all electric vehicles created equal? The San Franicisco Chronicle has created an interesting route planning tool which can help drivers compare the likely travel time and cost of taking any car Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: driving, Electric, test, Vehicle