Kangaroos Don’t Vote – People Do

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If ever an election needed a cartogram map, it was the 2025 Australian federal election. If you were to view The Australian’s Electorate Map – 2025, you could be forgiven for thinking the Liberals had cruised to a landslide victory. This traditional cartogram election map is visually dominated by the blue of the Liberal Party. It also appears as if the Labor Party (shown using salmon pink) Maps Mania… more →
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Mapping the Sudanese Civil War

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Two years into Sudan’s civil war, the country remains gripped by a humanitarian catastrophe and a relentless power struggle that has devastated lives and reshaped its landscape. What began on April 15, 2023, as a clash between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has since escalated into a nationwide conflict. With over 14 million people displaced Maps Mania… more →
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19th Century Street View of Chicago

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Imagine stepping straight into the heart of history – and finding yourself surrounded by the wonders of 1893. The Chicago 00 Project makes it possible, weaving authentic vintage photographs of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago into a breathtaking, time-traveling Street View adventure!For example, click on the White City Court of Honor map marker, and you are transported into Maps Mania… more →
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Find Your Birthday Tree

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Every year, the city of San Francisco plants a tree to celebrate my birth. Well, not just one – each year, it plants several. So far, the city has planted 455 trees on my birthday. And now, thanks to the thoughtful residents of San Francisco, there’s an interactive map that shows the exact locations of all my birthday trees.If you’re curious, you can view the locations of all my birthday trees Maps Mania… more →
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The Walk Management System

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🥾 The Walk Management System: I’ve decided to walk the length of the Jubilee Line on the London Underground. But before setting off, I figured I needed a WMS (Walk Management System) to help plan and document each stage of this epic hike.With a little help from ChatGPT and MapLibre GL, I’ve built a lightweight web app that lets me create, edit, and view walking routes – complete with Maps Mania… more →
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The Hotness Map No One Needed

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LooksMapping is a digital map that rates restaurants not by food or service, but by the attractiveness of their clientele. It scrapes millions of Google Maps reviews, runs each reviewer’s profile photo through an AI model trained to score “hotness” out of ten, and then color-codes restaurants accordingly – red for hot, blue for not.LooksMapping feels like a relic from a digital past – with the Maps Mania… more →
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The Tariff Busting Map Game

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Introduction: The Egg CrisisIn a world where breakfast has become a luxury, an evil empire has imposed crippling tariffs on eggs, sending prices skyrocketing. Omelettes are now a distant memory for the average citizen, and scrambled eggs are a delicacy only the wealthy can afford. But hope is not lost! Rebel forces have uncovered a loophole in the empire’s trade barriers – by launching eggs Maps Mania… more →
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Spinning at a Thousand Miles an Hour

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I’m currently sitting in London, spinning at 640 miles per hour. My friend Sofía lives in Quito, Ecuador, and because of the equatorial speed bonus, she’s currently spinning much faster than me – at 1,037 mph. The Earth rotates once every 24 hours (roughly), and we all rotate with it. The circumference at the equator is about 24,901 miles, so at the equator, you’re spinning at about 1,037 Maps Mania… more →
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