Road Orientations Map / / No Comments Road Orientations Map The topic for day 8 of the #30DayMapChallenge is Urban. For this challenge I decided to go old-school and convert Vladimir Agafonkin’s original Road Orientations from Mapbox to Maplibre. The original code analyzes street orientations and visualizes them as a polar histogram. I’ve just adapted Vladimir’s approach to work with MapLibre GL JS.What the Map ShowsThe Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Orientations, road
New York Mayoral Election Maps / / No Comments A number of elections took place yesterday, but by far the most talked-about was the race for New York City mayor – where Zohran Mamdani emerged victorious, securing over 50% of the vote.According to The New York Times’ interactive map, The Most Detailed Map of the N.Y.C. Mayoral Election (paywalled), Mamdani dominated in much of the city, outpacing former Governor Andrew Cuomo in a wide Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: election, maps, Mayoral, York
Lines of Population / / No Comments County StripesPopulation Density Shown as Longitude and Latitude Stripes 🗺️ County Stripes – Exploring America’s Data in Stripes The theme for the second day of the #30DayMapChallenge is Lines. For this theme I’ve created a map that colors longitude and latitude lines based on population density.County Stripes is an interactive map that visualizes U.S. county data not just by county Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Lines, Population
What’s Missing from Human History? / / No Comments The Globe of History is a new interactive map that recounts 6,000 years of human events. In fact, not only does it recount history – it reinterprets it as well.For example, it reveals that what most historians have considered one of the most revolutionary and significant periods in human history was, in fact, a new dark age. That’s right – according to The Globe of History, only one significant Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: from, History, Human, missing, What's
Watch the USA Grow, State by State / / No Comments The Library of Congress has launched a new animated map, The United States at a Glance, that lets you literally watch the nation growAt its core, the map is a powerful educational resource, allowing you to click on any point to access the foundational legal documents that established, admitted, or incorporated that state or territory. Much of the legal content is drawn from the Library’s massive Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Grow, State, Watch
The Destruction of American Democracy / / No Comments Thanks to Soar you can watch the destruction of American democracy in near real-time. The animated GIF above shows satellite imagery from before and after Trump’s illegal demolition of the East Wing of the White House. The republic that built a White House of reason and restraint is now being demolished by its would-be king. Only one man could believe that the neoclassical and Palladian Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: American, Democracy, Destruction
County Stripes / / No Comments County Stripes I was reading the comments on a time-lapse map of power outages in the US posted on Reddit yesterday. Many of the comments focused on the sizes of U.S. counties, particularly noting how counties appear to get noticeably larger as you travel westward across the country.I therefore decided to take a closer look at the size of U.S. counties across the country, carrying out some Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: County, Stripes
No Kings, No Tyrants & No Dictators / / No Comments The No Kings interactive map is not particularly interesting in itself – except as a visualization of the huge geographic sweep of anti-Trump sentiment in the United States. The map is ostensibly just a simple interactive map that shows you the locations of today’s protests against the escalating authoritarianism of the Donald Trump administration in the United States.As well as showing the Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Dictators, Kings, Tyrants