Bluesky Mapping / / No Comments Update: I got busy and created a second map. Social Media Locations (comment below with suggestions for a better name). This map allows you to search for real-time Bluesky mentions of locations around the world. To start a search you just need to click on a map label for a country, state, city, town or neighborhood. Once you click on a place name messages will (often very slowly) begin to Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Bluesky, Mapping
Your Global Local Radio Map / / No Comments I’m currently listening to XEFO-AM from Mexico City, a radio station that seems to exclusively play classic, early 20th-century Spanish-language songs. The station is just one of about 100 local radio stations in Mexico City that appear on the Radiocast interactive map.Radiocast is an interactive globe featuring over 7,000 radio stations broadcasting from around the world—all of which can be Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: global, local, Radio
Welcome to the Metaverse / / No Comments Imagine a digital world layered seamlessly over our own, where every street corner and landmark is brought to life in 3D by a global community of gamers. This is Niantic’s vision for the real-world metaverse, and it’s already starting to take shape.For several years, AR gaming company Niantic has been leveraging its hugely popular games, such as Pokémon GO and Pikman Bloom, to gather location Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Metaverse, Welcome
No Local News / / No Comments “There are 206 counties in the United States with no news outlets. There are 1,561 counties with only one. More than two newspapers a week are closing, and print frequency is shrinking. Some 7,000 newspaper jobs were eliminated in the past year, almost 2,000 of them in newsroom positions.” – The 2024 State of Local News ReportThe Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University has Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: local, News
Dressing Miku / / No Comments tldr: miku-earth is an interactive map of people’s drawings of the virtual idol Hatsune Miku dressed in the national costumes of countries and subcultures around the world.I like to imagine that Hatsune Miku is just the first step in a new era of virtual celebrities, paving the way for the likes of William Gibson’s Rei Toei to suddenly emerge as real virtual beings. Both Miku and Rei Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Dressing, Miku
How Big is Your Country’s CO2 Footprint? / / No Comments Jo Wood, a professor of visual analytics, has released an impressive cartogram visualizing each country’s annual CO₂ emissions over the past 200 years. The map was created for the #30DayMapChallenge.Press ‘play’ on the Global C02 Emissions map to view an animated timeline of annual CO₂ emissions by country, from 1800 to 2022. This dynamic visualization offers fascinating insights into the Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Country's, Footprint
Scrambled Hex Maps / / No Comments Fresh from creating a mobile friendly update for Scrambled Maps, Tripgeo has now released an even trickier puzzle, called Scrambled Hex Maps. If you love puzzles that challenge your spatial reasoning and problem-solving skills, Scramble Hex Maps is a game you won’t want to miss! This engaging daily challenge invites players to rearrange scrambled hexagonal maps into their correct Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: maps, Scrambled
Free Map Data Grabbers / / No Comments The Overture Maps Foundation, founded in 2022 by Microsoft, Meta (formerly Facebook), Amazon, and TomTom, aims to provide accessible, interoperable open map data. At the time of its launch I remarked that ‘hopefully in the future the Overture Maps Foundation will develop more user-friendly methods to access the data’. The Overture Maps Explorer (Beta) is exactly that. The Explorer allows Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: data, free, Grabbers