Have You Earned Your Air Pollution Stripes? / / No Comments Ed Hawkins’ Climate Stripes visualization of global heating has quickly become a data visualization classic. Climate Stripes (sometimes known as Warming Stripes) are a visual representation of the long-term increase in global temperatures due to climate change. Ed’s striking Climate Stripes visualizations consist of colored vertical stripes, with each stripe representing a single year and Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Earned, Pollution, Stripes
One Million Screenshots. One Map! / / No Comments Over the years a number of people have used the popular Leaflet.js mapping library to map image datasets. For example Nathan Rooy’s Visual Book Recommender uses Leaflet to map the images of 51,847 book covers. The Pudding has also mapped images of 5,000 book covers on its 11 Years of Top-Selling Book Covers, Arranged by Visual Similarity. Mapping libraries have also been used in the Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Million, Screenshots
Turning Gaza to Rubble / / No Comments This week the Gaza health ministry reported that 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel started attacking the territory in October. Over a third of those killed have been children. Much of Gaza itself has also been turned to rubble.According to Bloomberg Israeli air strikes on Gaza have created 42 million tonnes of debris in the Strip. That is “enough rubble to fill a line of Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: 'turning, Gaza, Rubble
Virtual Indian Independence Day / / No Comments Today is Indian Independence Day. On this day India celebrates its independence from the United Kingdom. On 15 August 1947 Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, raised the Indian flag above the Lahori Gate of the Red Fort in Delhi. Since then every year on Independence Day the incumbent Prime Minister repeats the ceremony by raising the flag over the Red Fort and by addressing Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Independence, Indian, Virtual
Real-Time Radiation Maps / / No Comments Yesterday a fire broke out at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Russian occupied southern Ukraine. On hearing the news of the fire I almost immediately rushed to the Real-Time Radiation World Map in search of any detected spikes in radiation in the area.The Real-Time Radiation World Map visualizes radioactivity levels from Geiger counters around the world. Luckily, as you can see from the Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: maps, Radiation, realtime
Tripgeo Cities / / No Comments A few months ago Map Channels kindly offered to create a json feed for my Guess This City game. I had been complaining about having to add a new city to the game every day. Map Channels then volunteered to create a feed for the game which gives the name, coordinates, population and a description of a different city each and every day. The result is that Guess This City now updates daily without Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: cities, Tripgeo
Pixel View / / No Comments I’ve created a simple game using images from Mapillary (and a couple of images from Wikimedia).Mapillary is a crowd-sourced ‘Street View’ service that allows users to capture, share, and explore street-level imagery from around the world. Developers are allowed to use images submitted to Mapillary under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Mapillary ‘street view’ images can be a great resource for Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Pixel, View
Exploring London Through the Artist’s Eye / / No Comments “… this tide is always moving! Always! When all those people we now see in such activity are in their graves, the same hurried activity will still continue here …” – Hans Christian AndersenWhen Hans Christian Andersen visited London in June 1847 he was obviously impressed by the pace of London life. In his autobiography he called the English capital,”London, the city of cities! … Here is Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Artist's, Exploring, London, through