Rainbow Nation / / No Comments The New York Times has published An American Mosaic, an interactive map visualising the self-identified ancestry of Americans using data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. The map is accompanied by an article which explores how today’s America reflects centuries of immigration and migration.The map uses colour to show the dominant ancestry in each census tract, drawing on Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Nation, Rainbow
Geographical Overlords / / No Comments This morning I listened to the song Geographical Overlord by MastaMic and Titus Chan. What immediately grabbed my attention was that the song’s lyrics are a series of questions and statements that might be found in a school geography exam about Hong Kong, e.g.,”Is Lion Rock higher than Fei Ngo Shan?Is Tai Mo Shan higher than Phoenix Mountain?…Gascoigne Road to Hung Hom Tunnel is incredibly Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Geographical, Overlords
This is Not Normal / / No Comments In the UK, the hottest June day on record has been broken three days in a row. And it’s not just the UK experiencing unprecedented levels of heat. France, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands have also recorded their highest-ever June temperatures in the past week.You can get a sense of the scale of the heat dome currently sitting over Europe with the European Heat Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Normal, this
Bending the Chart to Fit the Road / / No Comments Mapping Collision Density Along the A1 More than 350 years ago, cartographer John Ogilby transformed the way travellers navigated Britain. His famous strip maps turned the nation’s principal highways into continuous journeys on the page, allowing travellers to follow routes such as the Great North Road stage by stage across the country. Today’s A1 follows much of that same historic Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Bending, Chart, road
Metro Music Maps / / No Comments Over a decade ago, Alexander Chen’s iconic MTA.me turned Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 New York subway map into a live, plucking string instrument. On this map every time an MTA train crosses the track of another line, it twangs like a musical string, transforming the frantic energy of New York’s transit grid into a delicate, real-time composition.The itch to turn transit data into music has recently Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: maps, Metro, Music
How Much Room Does a Mushroom Need? – About 110 Quadrillion Kilometres / / No Comments Beneath your feet is a vast network of fungi. Not merely “quite large” vast, but vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly vast. If every strand of these underground fungal networks were laid end-to-end, they would stretch from Earth to the Sun about a billion times.To put that into perspective, if you could travel at the speed of light, it would take you nearly 12 years to cover that distance. Yet Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: about, Kilometres, Much, Mushroom, Need, Quadrillion, Room
Mapping Every Russian Casualty in Ukraine / / No Comments Vladimir Putin is determined to conceal the enormous human cost of Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine. As a result, Russians are largely denied an accurate accounting of how many of their friends, relatives, and fellow citizens have been killed.To cut through this fog of war, the independent Russian media outlet Mediazona and BBC Russian Service created 200.zona.media, an interactive mapping Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Casualty, every, Mapping, Russian, Ukraine
Dual Maps Goes 3D / / No Comments Dual Maps, an old Maps Mania favorite, has undergone a bit of a makeover this week. As you may have heard, Google recently removed its classic 45° bird’s-eye aerial imagery from the Maps JavaScript API. This oblique aerial perspective was one of the core synchronized views offered by Dual Maps. The removal of the bird’s-eye view has therefore prompted Map Channels to undertake a ground-up revamp Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Dual, goes, maps