What is Your Neighborhood Scare Score?

The Spookiest ZIP Codes in the U.S.As Halloween approaches, many of us are stocking up on candy, preparing costumes, and decking our homes with spooky décor. But did you know that how much candy, costumes, and Halloween decorations you buy might reveal just how into Halloween your neighborhood is? That’s the concept behind Instacart’s brand-new interactive map, Explore America’s Haunts, which Maps Mania… more →
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Florida’s Waffle House Index Score

In the wake of Hurricane Milton, which made landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast with devastating winds and flooding, emergency responders are working to assess the damage. One unconventional but, some argue, effective tool for gauging the situation is the “Waffle House Index,” a metric used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to evaluate the severity of storms and guide disaster Maps Mania… more →
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Your Urban Heat Island Score

Climate Central has mapped out the urban heat island hot-spots in 65 major U.S. cities. Each city map on Climate Central’s Urban Heat Hot Spots shows an Urban Heat Island (UHI) Index score for each census tract, revealing where UHI boosts temperatures the most and least in each city.As well as providing individual UHI maps for 65 cities Climate Central has also released a national interactive Maps Mania… more →
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Discover Your Neighborhood Tree Score

The Woodland Trust has released a new interactive map which reveals the amount of tree canopy cover available in thousands of UK neighborhoods. Using the map you can discover the ‘tree equity score’ of Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. If you click on your neighborhood on the Tree Equity Score UK map you can discover its ‘tree equity score’, Maps Mania… more →
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China trials ‘Deadbeat Map’ app to monitor citizens’ debts as part of social credit score system – The Telegraph

China trials ‘Deadbeat Map’ app to monitor citizens’ debts as part of social credit score system  The Telegraph China Focus: Chinese map app holds debtors in check – Xinhua | English.news.cn  Xinhua Is someone in debt nearby? Court uses chat app to alert people  South China Morning Post China tests opening up social credit scores to social media platform WeChat with debt map  ABC News View full coverage on Google News “map app” – Google News… more →
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