Pixel View / / No Comments I’ve created a simple game using images from Mapillary (and a couple of images from Wikimedia).Mapillary is a crowd-sourced ‘Street View’ service that allows users to capture, share, and explore street-level imagery from around the world. Developers are allowed to use images submitted to Mapillary under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Mapillary ‘street view’ images can be a great resource for Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Pixel, View
Exploring London Through the Artist’s Eye / / No Comments “… this tide is always moving! Always! When all those people we now see in such activity are in their graves, the same hurried activity will still continue here …” – Hans Christian AndersenWhen Hans Christian Andersen visited London in June 1847 he was obviously impressed by the pace of London life. In his autobiography he called the English capital,”London, the city of cities! … Here is Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Artist's, Exploring, London, through
The Best Graphics Team in the World / / No Comments The Straits Times has the best graphics department in the world – probably. The Washington Post and New York Times might be contenders but because of their paywalls most of their work is hidden away from most of the world.The latest astonishing demonstration of the graphic skills of the Straits Times comes in an article celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the construction of the Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: best, Graphics, Team, World
The US Road Fatality Map / / No Comments Last week I posted a link to the NYC Congestion Zone Live Crash Tracker, an interactive map of car crashes in New York City. If you live outside of New York then you might prefer Roadway Report instead, which is a visualization of American roadway fatalities in the 21st Century.The Roadway Report map uses road traffic accident data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Fatality, road
Your Daily Map Trivia Game / / No Comments TripGeo Trivia is a new daily geography quiz which requires you to identify ten cities based on a number of clues. Every day ten new random cities from around the world need to be identified. To help you in this task you can view three clues as to the identity of each city.Every day you get to identify ten new cities. For each city you get three clues and a choice of possible answers. Using the Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Daily, Game, Trivia
Virtual Reality OpenStreetMap / / No Comments osm4vr is a virtual reality world built using OpenStreetMap map tiles and building footprints. Using osm4vr with a VR headset you can explore the world in virtual reality. Alternatively, if you don’t have access to a headset you can simply fly around the world in your browser instead.Most of the 3d buildings are created using OSM building footprints with building heights, so the graphics can be Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: OpenStreetMap, reality, Virtual
30 Days of Crashes in New York City / / No Comments Between June 16th and July 15th, 149 people were injured by cars in the planned New York congestion zone and 4 people were killed.At the beginning of June New York Governor Kathy Hochul canceled New York City’s planned congestion zone. Under the planned congestion zone vehicles traveling into or within the central business district of Manhattan would have been charged a fee. In response to Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: City, Crashes, Days, York
Your Urban Heat Island Score / / No Comments Climate Central has mapped out the urban heat island hot-spots in 65 major U.S. cities. Each city map on Climate Central’s Urban Heat Hot Spots shows an Urban Heat Island (UHI) Index score for each census tract, revealing where UHI boosts temperatures the most and least in each city.As well as providing individual UHI maps for 65 cities Climate Central has also released a national interactive Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Heat, Island, score, Urban