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
Mapping the Drift-backing of Refugees / / No Comments ‘Drift-back’ is a controversial practice which is used by some coast guard services, particularly in the Aegean Sea, to deter asylum seekers and prevent them from reaching their intended destination. It involves intercepting boats carrying asylum seekers within EU territorial waters, then forcing them back towards the country they departed from. This is sometimes allegedly done by loading Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Driftbacking, Mapping, refugees
Mapping Conflicts Around the World / / No Comments At the beginning of 2024 the specter of military conflicts haunts the world. Israel is engaged in conflict in Gaza, Russia continues its illegal invasion of Ukraine and the Syrian civil war is now in its thirteenth year. In response to the spreading threat of global conflicts a number of organizations have now released interactive maps dedicated to tracking the progress of military action around Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: around, Conflicts, Mapping, World
Real-Time 3D Mapping / / No Comments Kaiwen Song and Juyong Zhang of the University of Science and Technology of China claim to be “the first to achieve real-time rendering of large-scale scenes” through the use of neural rendering. They have presented their findings to the world in their paper City-on-Web: Real-time Neural Rendering of Large-scale Scenes on the Web (the website of which includes three live demos). Neural Radiance Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Mapping, realtime
The Live Music Mapping Project / / No Comments The combination of the Covid epidemic, inner-city gentrification and austerity has had a hugely negative impact on live music venues and the live music networks of many cities. The Live Music Mapping Project has been launched to help overcome these challenges by creating detailed maps of the local live ecosystem in individual cities. Currently the project has released interactive maps for seven Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: live, Mapping, Music, project
Mapping the Oct 7 Hamas Attacks / / No Comments Over the last three weeks news organizations around the world have produced many maps in their efforts to help explain the 2023 Israel-Hamas war. Many of these have been curated in the Data Vis Dispatch. Unfortunately the paywalls of many of the major news websites make a lot of these maps inaccessible to many.The current attacks on the Palestinian people by Israel are in response to the events Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: attacks, Hamas, Mapping