Where Europe Is Emptying / / No Comments CORRECTIV’s latest story map, Where Europe’s Population is Shrinking, is a superb example of how large-scale spatial data and clear visual design can come together to tell a nuanced geographic story. In this case, the story is one of Europe’s rural depopulation and how emigration and demographic decline have reshaped entire regions since the end of the Cold War.The map draws on newly harmonised Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Emptying, Europe
Google Night View / / No Comments To ensure the highest quality Street View imagery for navigation, Google almost exclusively captures the world in broad daylight. But as any seasoned map-nerd knows, every system has its glitches. La Noche Cíclica is a fascinating Google Map project that highlights the rare, eerie, and often accidental moments when Street View goes dark. You can view the project’s documented night views simply Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Google, night, View
what1tune – Musical Addresses / / No Comments Over the years, we’ve seen countless ways to navigate our world using various geohashing solutions. These systems – such as the popular what3words (which assigns three random words to every 3-meter square), or Google’s Plus Codes – aim to provide a simplified, human-readable way to identify precise locations where traditional street addresses fall short, such as in Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Addresses, Musical, what1tune
How Livable is Your Street? / / No Comments Strado is a new interactive mapping tool designed to provide objective livability scores for 50 major European cities, powered entirely by OpenStreetMap data. By clicking on any street on the Strado map, users receive a Livability Score and an Activity Score derived from an assessment of 22 different categories.How it WorksStrado analyzes the density of Points of Interest (POIs) to rank Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Livable, Street
Legible Rude Places Map / / No Comments This morning I was browsing Gary Gale’s Vaguely Rude Places map and realised that thanks to my deteriorating eye-sight I could no longer read all the hilariously rude place-names around the world. Instead of simply diving into my browser settings and magnifying the page I decided it would be far more satisfying to create my own map. Luckily for me Gary has provided links to easily download the Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Legible, Places, Rude
The World in Motion / / No Comments This animated map displays worldwide air temperatures over the past week. It illustrates how temperatures shift daily, warming progressively from east to west as the Sun rises and sets across the globe.You might also be able to spot other patterns, such as the effects of jet streams, periods of intense summer heat, and sharp temperature drops during winter when polar air moves southward.Recently Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Motion, World
ASCII Mapping of Live Data / / No Comments There’s something oddly satisfying about seeing the world reduced to text. The new ASCII OSM Viewer leans fully into that aesthetic, turning modern web mapping into something that looks like it belongs on a terminal from the 1980s.Built by Lionel Lim, this browser-based experiment takes data from OpenStreetMap and renders it entirely using ASCII characters. The result is a playful but Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: ASCII, data, live, Mapping
Sentient Street View / / No Comments Sentient Street ViewSince Google first launched Street View in 2007, its mission has been simple: to provide a window into every corner of the globe – from the peaks of Mont Blanc to the depths of the Great Barrier Reef.Throughout that journey, Pegman has been your faithful, silent guide – a cursor with a purpose, but no voice of his own.But looking toward the future of mapping, Google began to Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Sentient, Street, View