Lightship Earth / / No Comments Dutch broadcasting company KRO-NCRV has released an interactive map which visualizes light pollution in the Netherlands. Spaceship Earth allows you to enter any address in the Netherlands to discover how many stars can be seen from that location. The map also explores some of the most (and least) light polluted areas in the country.Spaceship Earth begins with a little scrollytelling tour of the Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Earth, Lightship
Southerners Have Poor Credit & Poor Health / / No Comments Every single person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying. https://t.co/gPtdUguRYi— Hannah Fry (@FryRsquared) February 13, 2023 I’ve never given a Tweet a standing ovation, but last week I did nearly stand-up and applaud this Hannah Fry’s witty response to a British MP. However, even though correlation does not imply causation, causal analysis can still try to establish Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: credit', health, Poor, Southerners
Twittens, Ginnels and Jitties / / No Comments In December Mapping Urban Form and Society published a fascinating article exploring how language and mapping intersect in the names people use to refer to a ‘narrow walkway between buildings.’ In the UK these walkways or alleys might also be called a ‘passage’ ‘cut’, ‘entry’, ‘gennel’. ‘ginnel’, ‘jitty’, ‘snicket’ or ‘twitchel’. Which one of these terms is used is normally determined by where Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Ginnels, Jitties, Twittens
24 Hours of Ship Traffic in the Bay / / No Comments Every day hundreds of container ships, high speed ferries, and pleasure boats navigate the San Francisco Bay. The job of orchestrating much of this marine traffic falls to the Coast Guard’s vessel traffic service, based on Yerba Buena Island. You can get a great idea of what this job entails on Mapbox’s interactive map Ships in the San Francisco Bay.Ships in the San Francisco Bay animates 24 Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: hours, ship, Traffic
Global Population Density / / No Comments Top Row: Paris, Barcelona, New York, Bottom Row: London, San Francisco, Los AngelesUS cities tend to have lower population densities than cities in most other countries in the world. The maps above show the populations living within a 5km radius of the centers of a number of major cities. As you can see San Francisco and Los Angeles have significantly lower population densities than Paris and Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Density, global, Population
The Distribution of Surnames / / No Comments The superbly named Namensverbreitungskarte is an interactive map which can show the distribution of surnames in Germany. Enter a family name into the map and you can see where people with that name lived in 1996 and in 1890. The distribution is based on German casualty lists of the 1st World War and the German phone directory from 1996.One neat feature of Namensverbreitngskarte is that you can Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Distribution, Surnames
The Global Contrail Map / / No Comments Global air travel is a significant contributor to climate change. A recent study revealed that aircraft contrails contribute over half of the sector’s global warming impact. The study shows how contrails (the icy clouds that form in the wake of aircraft) effectively trap heat in the atmosphere, heat which would otherwise be released into space.The Contrail Climate Initiative’s Contrail Map Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Contrail, global
Forever Chemicals in Freshwater Fish / / No Comments A new study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) has found harmful levels of PFAS in freshwater fish throughout the United States. The study measured the harmful levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in freshwater fish collected across the United States. PFAS are known as ‘forever chemicals’ because they never break down in the environment. They have entered freshwater bodies across the United Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Chemicals, Fish, Forever, Freshwater