The Riskiest Places to Live in America

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Los Angeles County is a dangerous place to live. According to the National Risk Index the residents of Los Angeles County are more likely to suffer from a natural hazard than anywhere else in the United States. The residents of Los Angeles County are more likely to experience an earthquake than any other US location. They also have one of the highest chances of experiencing a landslide and Maps Mania… more →
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France Surrenders to Facism

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The far-right National Rally has won 33% of the vote in the first round of France’s parliamentary elections. You can view the results in each constituency in Le Monde’s French elections: Map of the first round’s results.Le Monde’s map is a sea of brown, revealing that the National Rally has managed to become the most popular party in electoral districts across the whole country. There is a Maps Mania… more →
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1000+ Streets Called Washington

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George Washington has more streets named after him in America than any other person in history. There are 1,399 streets named for the Founding Father in the United States, including George Washington Memorial Parkway in Washington DC and a number of Washington Streets in the state of Washington.At the other end of the scale Babe Ruth has only 3 U.S. streets named in his honor. There are 11 Maps Mania… more →
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Who is Your Closest Team?

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If you have ever wondered which baseball team you should support then you need Maptitude’s Closest Major or Minor League Baseball Stadium by Drive Time map. The map shows you which affiliated major or minor baseball stadium you can drive to in the quickest time in the contiguous United States.The map is a sort of combination of a voronoi diagram and an isochrone map. However, Maps Mania… more →
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Find Your Future Climate Zone

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In fifty years time Los Angeles will no longer be in a temperate climate zone. As a result of climate change the climate in LA in 2070 will closely resemble the climate of New Delhi today. The average temperature will increase from 59.8°F to 65.2°F and LA can expect hot and arid summers.You can discover if your city will be changing climate zones in the near future (it will) on The Pudding’s Maps Mania… more →
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Mapping the Big Map Index

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The Economist’s Big Mac Index compares the purchasing power parity between the currencies of different countries by examining the price of a Big Mac hamburger sold at McDonalds’ restaurants in each country. The Index “is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity, the notion that in the long run exchange rates should move towards the rate that would equalize the prices of an identical Maps Mania… more →
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Some More Maps of Sounds

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Yesterday Hacker News featured a thread on Sounds of the Forest, an interactive map of sound recordings made in forests around the world. Also linked in the Hacker News thread was the wonderful Radio Aporee, which, like Sounds of the Forest, has featured on Maps Mania before. Also mentioned in the thread were two interactive sound maps which I haven’t seen (or heard) before.Audiomapa Maps Mania… more →
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The Treats of San Francisco

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The California Migration Museum is celebrating one of the wonderful benefits of living in a multi-cultural city with a new interactive map of San Francisco’s food scene. Melting Spots: An Immigrant Map of San Francisco Food showcases some of the many immigrant-inspired dishes in the city which have added richer flavors to the city’s food scene.Did you know, for example, that the Mai Tai, the Maps Mania… more →
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