How Accurate Is Your Mental Globe? / / No Comments Can you name the missing city in this diagram? If you can then you could be the potential daily champion of City Angle – a fun new geography puzzle game.If you think you know your global geography because you can point out Italy on a blank map, City Angle is here to completely shatter your confidence.At its core, this game flips the standard “point-and-click” map trivia template on its head. Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Accurate, Globe, mental
The White House’s Conspiracy Theory Map / / No Comments The White House has launched a new interactive map intended to showcase ICE operations across the United States. Normally, the release of a government map would be a fairly mundane affair involving data sources, methodology notes, and perhaps a few carefully chosen statistics.However The Enemy Within appears to have been written by someone who spent the weekend binge-reading conspiracy Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Conspiracy, Houses, Theory, White
The Sunny Coffee Map / / No Comments There are lots of maps that can help you find a good cafe in Paris. But Sunny Coffee answers a much more important question: which café terraces are actually in the sun right now? Created by developer Paul Baron, Sunny Coffee is an interactive map that shows which Paris café terraces are currently sunny – and which are sitting in the shade. The map combines Paris open data, 3D Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: coffee, Sunny
Metro Melodies / / No Comments I’ve developed a slight obsession with Tokyo’s train station melodies. Known as Hassha Melodies (literally ‘departure melodies’), these carefully composed seven-second jingles are designed to guide commuters onto departing trains on the city’s vast, sprawling transit network.Before their introduction, Japanese stations used harsh electric buzzers to signal departures. In the late 1980s, new Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Melodies, Metro
The Big Baguette Index / / No Comments The United States has The Economist’s Big Mac Index to measure purchasing power through burgers, but France now has a more culturally appropriate metric. Enter the Baguette Index, a data project that tracks and analyzes the price of the baguette de tradition to map the true cost of living across l’Hexagone.How the Data Was GatheredTo map out the geographic variations in the cost of France’s most Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Baguette, Index
PubCrawlr – the Global Pub Crawl Generator / / No Comments If you want to plan your next wild night out then you need my new global pub crawl generator – PubCrawlr.The map lets you click anywhere in the world to instantly generate a walking pub crawl between nearby bars. You can also search for any city, neighborhood, or address using the built-in location search box.After selecting a location the app:Finds nearby barsOptimizes the walking orderDraws Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Crawl, Generator, global, PubCrawlr
Drawing Custom Population Polygons / / No Comments Tom Forth’s Population around a Point is one of those wonderfully simple map tools that instantly invites exploration. Click anywhere on the map, choose a radius, and it estimates how many people live within that circle. Under the hood, it uses the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) population grid for 2024, querying population points stored in a massive SQLite database.Now Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: custom, Drawing, Polygons, Population
METs Do the Time Warp Again / / No Comments NYC Commute POV takes the familiar geography of New York and stretches it into something far more emotionally accurate: a city shaped by time rather than distance.Inspired by classic transit cartograms, the map reimagines New York according to subway accessibility. Midtown Manhattan shrinks into a compact, hyper-connected core, while transit deserts balloon outward into distorted peripheries. Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Again, METs, time, Warp