Meet Language Explorer: Google’s New Open-Source Linguistic Atlas / / No Comments Google Research’s Language Explorer, is a new interactive map that anyone can use to explore the world’s languages.Mapping the World’s TonguesThe interface of the Language Explorer is built around a highly responsive interactive map. Users can dive into the data in several ways:Spatial Discovery: You can use the map to zoom into a specific region – like the Highlands of Papua New Guinea or the Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: atlas, Explorer, Google's, Language, Linguistic, meet, opensource
War Atlas: Mapping 3,500 Years of Conflict / / No Comments War Atlas is an interactive, web-based map that visualizes 8,500+ historical battles spanning from around 1500 BC to the present day – providing users with a guided historical tour of human conflict.At its core, War Atlas is an interactive timeline-driven map. Users can select a specific war, explore through time using a slide control or through inputting a specific year, and see battles Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: 3500, atlas, conflict, Mapping, Years
The Atlas of American Gun Violence / / No Comments The Trace’s An Atlas of American Gun Violence is an interactive map that uses data from the Gun Violence Archive to visualize gun homicides and assaults across the contiguous United States.The map has drawn a fair amount of criticism on the MapPorn subreddit, with many dismissing it as “just a population density map.” I think this criticism is somewhat unfair. If you were to zoom Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: American, atlas, violence
The Bird Migration Atlas / / No Comments The European Turtle Dove is a relatively small bird, weighing only about 100 grams (3.5 ounces). Despite its size, the European Turtle Dove undertakes an incredible long-distance migration of around 5,000 kilometers (3,000 miles) from Europe to sub-Saharan Africa every year. This remarkable journey, along with the migratory routes of hundreds of other bird species, can be explored in detail on Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: atlas, Bird, Migration
The Car Free Cities Atlas / / No Comments The cyclists of Helsinki have the best access to protected bike lanes of any citizens in the world. 94% of people in the city live within 300m of a protected bikeway. This means that Helsinki scores number one out of the 1095 cities ranked in the Atlas of Sustainable City Transport.The new Atlas of Sustainable City Transport ranks and maps cities around the world based on how easy Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: atlas, cities, free
The fitness map of world: Interactive atlas reveals the routes millions of athletes run and cycle around the world – Daily Mail / / No Comments Daily Mail The fitness map of world: Interactive atlas reveals the routes millions of athletes run and cycle around the worldDaily MailThe data was taken from Strava, an app which uses GPS to track people's activities and can record key metrics about that activity. Users can zoom in to an area on the map and then choose what activity they want to focus in on – cycling, running, water … map app – Google News… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: around, athletes, atlas, Cycle, Daily, fitness, Interactive, Mail, millions, reveals, Routes, World