Bending the Chart to Fit the Road / / No Comments Mapping Collision Density Along the A1 More than 350 years ago, cartographer John Ogilby transformed the way travellers navigated Britain. His famous strip maps turned the nation’s principal highways into continuous journeys on the page, allowing travellers to follow routes such as the Great North Road stage by stage across the country. Today’s A1 follows much of that same historic Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Bending, Chart, road
Metro Music Maps / / No Comments Over a decade ago, Alexander Chen’s iconic MTA.me turned Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 New York subway map into a live, plucking string instrument. On this map every time an MTA train crosses the track of another line, it twangs like a musical string, transforming the frantic energy of New York’s transit grid into a delicate, real-time composition.The itch to turn transit data into music has recently Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: maps, Metro, Music
How Much Room Does a Mushroom Need? – About 110 Quadrillion Kilometres / / No Comments Beneath your feet is a vast network of fungi. Not merely “quite large” vast, but vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly vast. If every strand of these underground fungal networks were laid end-to-end, they would stretch from Earth to the Sun about a billion times.To put that into perspective, if you could travel at the speed of light, it would take you nearly 12 years to cover that distance. Yet Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: about, Kilometres, Much, Mushroom, Need, Quadrillion, Room
Mapping Every Russian Casualty in Ukraine / / No Comments Vladimir Putin is determined to conceal the enormous human cost of Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine. As a result, Russians are largely denied an accurate accounting of how many of their friends, relatives, and fellow citizens have been killed.To cut through this fog of war, the independent Russian media outlet Mediazona and BBC Russian Service created 200.zona.media, an interactive mapping Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Casualty, every, Mapping, Russian, Ukraine
Dual Maps Goes 3D / / No Comments Dual Maps, an old Maps Mania favorite, has undergone a bit of a makeover this week. As you may have heard, Google recently removed its classic 45° bird’s-eye aerial imagery from the Maps JavaScript API. This oblique aerial perspective was one of the core synchronized views offered by Dual Maps. The removal of the bird’s-eye view has therefore prompted Map Channels to undertake a ground-up revamp Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Dual, goes, maps
Name that traffic cam! / / No Comments GeoGuessr has inspired countless spin-offs over the years, but NYCGuessr adds a clever twist to the formula by replacing Street View imagery with live traffic cameras from across New York City.The premise is simple. You’re shown a live feed from an NYC traffic camera and have 40 seconds to work out where it is. Drop a pin on a map, submit your guess, and score points based on how close you are Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: name, Traffic
The Cheap Eats Map / / No Comments With the cost of living becoming a major concern for many people, finding affordable places to eat has become increasingly important. While restaurant review platforms often emphasize ratings, trends, or premium dining experiences, there is relatively little focus on helping people quickly locate genuinely low-cost meal options. Fooglemap hopes to address this gap by making budget-friendly Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Cheap, Eats
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