Bluesky Mapping / / No Comments Update: I got busy and created a second map. Social Media Locations (comment below with suggestions for a better name). This map allows you to search for real-time Bluesky mentions of locations around the world. To start a search you just need to click on a map label for a country, state, city, town or neighborhood. Once you click on a place name messages will (often very slowly) begin to Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Bluesky, Mapping
Mapping the Political Landscape / / No Comments Waves of Interest is a deep dive into Google search trends during election years. This beautiful data visualization maps out which political topics capture the attention of Americans during US election years. And where!By using the clever visual metaphor of a topographic map Waves of Interest transforms political interest into an intuitive landscape. The visualization reveals the fall Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Landscape, Mapping, Political
Mapping with Leaflet / / No Comments If you missed my <Code><Br> episode earlier this week you missed (imo) a great episode. I’ll share a link to the video at the end, but I spent the session raving about how great the Leaflet JavaScript library is for maps. I had it on my list to look into for a few months now and while having a layover recently I took the time to dig into it. I was – blown away. I’ve got a lot of experience over the years working with maps on the web. I really dig Google Maps, both the JavaScript library and APIs, and I spent some time as a developer evangelist for HERE helping others learn about their offerings. I’m obviously a bit biased but I really dug their offerings as... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Leaflet, Mapping
John Snow’s Proximity Mapping / / No Comments I’ve probably seen over 100 modern interactive visualizations of John Snow’s famous map of cholera victims during the 1854 cholera outbreak in Soho. John Snow’s map shows the locations of cholera deaths clustered around a water pump in Broad Street. The map helped to disprove the prevailing miasma theory on the spread of diseases and establish that cholera was actually spread by contaminated Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: John, Mapping, Proximity, Snow's
Mapping the Big Map Index / / No Comments The Economist’s Big Mac Index compares the purchasing power parity between the currencies of different countries by examining the price of a Big Mac hamburger sold at McDonalds’ restaurants in each country. The Index “is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity, the notion that in the long run exchange rates should move towards the rate that would equalize the prices of an identical Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Index, Mapping
Mapping a Global Coral Bleaching Event / / No Comments Last week the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that the ‘world is currently experiencing a global coral bleaching event’. The Earth has experienced 10 consecutive months of global heat records, and in the last year the average global temperature has exceeded pre-industrial levels by 1.58C. These unprecedented sudden rises in air surface temperatures are Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Bleaching, Coral, Event, global, Mapping
Mapping SpaceTime / / No Comments I recently stumbled upon Time Map, an interactive map which attempts to show points of interest around a location by walking time. Enter a location into the Time Map and a venue category (eg pizza restaurants) and the map will display a series of concentric circles around your location, each of which represents a minute of walking time. All the nearby points of interest are overlaid on top Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Mapping, SpaceTime
Mapping the History of the Railway / / No Comments Martin Brake has created a number of interactive maps which visualize the historical development of transport networks in Germany, London, Paris and Barcelona. His Timemap Timelines project provides an animated map for each featured city which shows how its transit network has grown over time. For example the screenshot above shows the development of the London Underground between 1858 and 1947. Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: History, Mapping, Railway