The Live Amtrak Train Map / / No Comments Trains.fyi is a live interactive map which shows the real-time locations of passenger trains in the U.S. and Canada. The map uses colored markers to show the near real-time positions of trains from a number of different train companies in North America. The arrow on the markers show a train’s direction of travel and the colors indicate the transit operators of individual trains. If you click on Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Amtrak, live, train
The World’s Largest Snow Dome / / No Comments This morning I discovered MapTheClouds, which features a whole host of impressive interactive map visuals. I’m sure a lot of the maps featured on MapTheClouds are very useful but as ever I’m drawn to the fun, experimental maps, to the maps that apparently serve no other purpose than they were fun to create and are even more fun to play with.Here are a few links to my personal favorites, but check Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Dome, Largest, snow, world's
Where Your Food Comes / / No Comments When you begin to prepare your Thanksgiving dinner you may wonder about where all that food comes from. Well a new interactive map from CU Boulder and The Plotline, can help show you where. The Food Twin shows you where food is grown and consumed in America and how crops travel from producers to consumers.Click on your county on the map and you will see colored dots flowing into your county Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Comes, food
Introducing the Sunderland Collection / / No Comments The Sunderland Collection of antique maps has been digitized in full and can now be explored in detail on the new virtual platform Oculi Mundi (Eyes of the World). The Sunderland Collection was started by Dr Neil Sunderland in the 1990s. The collection now consists of around 130 vintage globes, maps and atlases which date back to as early as the 13th century. The new Oculi Mundi platform takes Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: collection, Introducing, Sunderland
The Rise & Fall of National Rail Networks / / No Comments The Berliner-Morgenpost has visualized the rise and fall of the German rail network from its rapid growth in the 19th Century right up to its 21st Century post-privatization contraction. The German Rail Network from 1835 Until Today uses an interactive map to show all the active rail lines in Germany for every single year from 1835 until 2022.On December the 7th 1835 a six-kilometer rail line Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Fall, National, Networks, Rail, Rise
Standing on Top of the World / / No Comments If you want an uninterrupted view towards the horizon in all directions then you need to stand on top of a mountain. But not just any mountain. What you need is an ‘on top of the world’ mountain. On Top of the World Mountains An “on top of the world” mountain, also known as an OTOTW mountain, is a mountain that is so high that no other mountains can be seen above the horizon from its summit. Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: standing, World
Peering into the Heart of Darkness / / No Comments This week the European Space Agency released the first full-color images from the Euclid telescope. Euclid is a space telescope (situated in a halo orbit at an average distance of 1.5 million kilometers beyond Earth’s orbit) which has been tasked to explore dark energy and dark matter. The telescope is capturing highly detailed astronomical images across a large area of the sky. The first five Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Darkness, heart, into, Peering
The Interactive Pathfinding Map / / No Comments The Pathfinding Visualizer is an interactive pathfinding tool that allows you to discover the most direct route between any two points in the world, using a number of different pathfinding algorithms. A map pathfinding algorithm is a way to find the shortest or most efficient route between different points on a map. It helps you find the best path to go from one location to another, considering Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Interactive, Pathfinding