Destroying People’s Homes in Gaza / / No Comments The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has begun creating interactive 3D models of destroyed homes, hospitals and businesses in order to help convey the devastation that ongoing military conflicts can have on ordinary people’s lives. Using photogrammetry the ICRC has managed to create harrowing 3D models of an apartment block in Gaza destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in 2021, a Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Destroying, Gaza, home's, People's
Coins Hoards from the Roman Empire / / No Comments Ancient Rome had significant trade links with India, particularly during the Roman Empire under the rule of Augustus and onwards. The Silk Road and Indian Ocean trade routes facilitated the exchange of goods to Rome from India, including textiles, spices, gems, and other luxury items. You can find evidence of this trade between the Roman Empire and India on this interactive map of Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Coins, Empire, from, Hoards, Roman
How Well Do You Know New York’s Subway? / / No Comments Following the huge success of his London Tube Memory Game Benjamin Tran Dinh released a New York subway version of the game, called the New York City Subway Memory Game.Benjamin’s game requires you to name all 472 New York City subway stations. The game is therefore more of a marathon than a sprint and I suspect will take you at least a few hours to complete. If you don’t have that much time to Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: know, Subway, Well, York's
Racial Profiling in Redlining Maps / / No Comments The University of Richmond has released a large update to its amazing Mapping Inequality project. This update includes introductions to the redlining maps produced for around 80 cities, written by scholars and historians and the addition of around 100 new cities to the project.Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal black homeowners were discriminated against by redlining maps. These Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: maps, Profiling, Racial, Redlining
Discover Your Neighborhood Tree Score / / No Comments The Woodland Trust has released a new interactive map which reveals the amount of tree canopy cover available in thousands of UK neighborhoods. Using the map you can discover the ‘tree equity score’ of Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. If you click on your neighborhood on the Tree Equity Score UK map you can discover its ‘tree equity score’, Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Discover, neighborhood, score, Tree
Is Light Pollution Getting Better? / / No Comments David J. Lorenz’s Light Pollution Atlas 2006, 2016, 2020 includes global light pollution layers for three different years. It also includes a layer which shows where light pollution around the world has become better or worse during 2014-2020.This 2014-2020 light pollution trend layer shows that light pollution in most of the UK and France and in the eastern U.S. significantly reduced from Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: better, Getting, Light, Pollution
Global Heating / / No Comments In 2023 the Earth’s global temperature was 1.05°C warmer than normal. This is extremely alarming as we are quickly approaching what many environmental scientists believe will be the tipping point for global heating. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has identified 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming above pre-industrial levels as a critical threshold. Beyond this point, the risks Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: global, Heating
The Live Music Mapping Project / / No Comments The combination of the Covid epidemic, inner-city gentrification and austerity has had a hugely negative impact on live music venues and the live music networks of many cities. The Live Music Mapping Project has been launched to help overcome these challenges by creating detailed maps of the local live ecosystem in individual cities. Currently the project has released interactive maps for seven Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: live, Mapping, Music, project