A Little Map Fun x 3 / / No Comments If you want to celebrate New Year’s Eve in style then you should boogey on down to the Map Disco. The animated GIF above really doesn’t do Map Disco justice – because this GIF is missing sound. Visit Map Disco yourself and you can watch the countries of the world lighting-up to the amazing sounds of the Bee Gee’s classic ‘Staying Alive’. Slightly more ambient sounds can be enjoyed on Steve Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Little
Santa Tracker Maps / / No Comments Santa has begun work on his busiest day of the year. This year you can follow Santa’s journey around the world, as he delivers presents to all the world’s children, on both the Google Santa Tracker and the NORAD Santa Tracker.The Official NORAD Santa Tracker uses NORAD’s geo-synchronous satellites to detect the heat signature of Rudolph’s red nose. It is then able to track Santa’s sleigh as it Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: maps, Santa, tracker
Santa’s Map of the World / / No Comments A World of Good Wishes at Christmastime is a pictorial map which was published by the General Drafting Company in 1950. The map shows Santa Claus participating in a range of ‘local’ activities around the world. As you might imagine the map relies on a number of perceived Western stereotypes. For example in Scotland Santa is depicted playing the bagpipes, in Australia he is seen boxing with a Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Santa's, World
Scrolling the Mekong River / / No Comments Reuters has created a very impressive scrollytelling map which is being used to illustrate how dams are having a devastating impact on the farms and livelihoods of people living on the Mekong River Delta. In How Dams Starve the Mekong River of Vital Sediment Reuters explores how the construction of hydroelectric dams has blocked the flow of sediment in the Mekong River. Sediment which is needed Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Mekong, River, Scrolling
Land Doesn’t Vote / / No Comments After nearly every U.S. election a Republican will produce a map of the USA with electoral districts colored to show the winning party. This map is normally accompanied by a claim that the Unied States is a majority Republican country. Democrats will then reply with the traditional response, ‘Land doesn’t vote. People do.’The problem with using a traditional geographic map to visualize election Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Doesn't, land, Vote
The National Fast Food Index / / No Comments If you buy a MacDonald’s Big Mac in Lee, Massachuesetts you will have to pay a whopping $ 7.89. That is over twice as expensive as buying the very same burger at a MacDonald’s in Eufaula, Oklahoma, where a Big Mac costs just £3.39. The price of a MacDonald’s Big Mac in the towns of Lee & Eufaula, and in the other 13,271 MacDonald’s outlets in the United States can be explored on the Fast Food Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Fast, food, Index, National
The World’s Largest Polluters / / No Comments The footprintMap is an interactive mapped visualization of the CO2 footprint of 118 countries around the world. Using the map you can discover the per capita CO2 output of each country and see which countries contribute the most and least to global heating. According to this map Singapore has the highest per capita CO2 footprint of any country. The United States has the 9th highest per capita Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Largest, Polluters, world's
Earthquakes with Depth / / No Comments Earthquakes with Exaggerated Depth is an interactive globe which visualizes one year’s worth of earthquake activity around the world. The map was created by Esri’s Raluca Nicola using data from the USGS.On Raluca’s transparent globe earthquakes which occurred between July 2017 and July 2018 are shown with their depth exaggerated by a factor of eight. Each earthquake is shown on the map using a Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Depth, Earthquakes