There are 89,603 Dogs in New York City / / No Comments There are 89,603 registered dogs in New York City. Dog owners are required to obtain a license for their pets, registering details including the dog’s name, breed and birth year, along with the owner’s ZIP code. Every Dog in New York is an interactive map that puts this canine census on the map, revealing which breeds dominate individual neighborhoods, where particular dog names are most popular, and how the city’s dog population has changed over time. Using the map you can search for a breed, a dog’s name, or a neighborhood to discover where your pooch would fit in – and where they would stand out from the crowd. The map is colored by the most common dog breed... more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: 89603, City, Dogs, there, York
PIxel City Maps Are Here / / No Comments Isometric NYC has definitely started a new trend for developing pixelated interactive city maps. In the last few weeks it has inspired Isopolis in San Francisco and London, drawn in London. Now a new project is taking the idea to Brazil – and suggests that we could soon be seeing a lot more of these pixelated cities. EARTH TO PIXELS earthToPixels has now transformed aerial imagery of João Pessoa, a coastal city in northeastern Brazil, into a sprawling, SimCity-style isometric pixel-art map. Like the earlier maps, the pixelated map of João Pessoa is a joy to explore. Buildings, roads, parks and coastline are transformed into a giant isometric pixel-art landscape that you can... more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: City, Here, maps, Pixel
The Real-Time 15 City Map / / No Comments The concept of the ’15 Minute City’ aims to make urban living more livable and sustainable by ensuring that all essential individual needs can be met without reliance on a car or public transport. It’s a very simple idea: ideally, an individual’s essential needs should be accessible within a short travel distance.Such a simple concept deserves a suitably simple-to-understand map. CThood Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: City, realtime
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
Guess This City – Daily Challenge / / No Comments Unveil the World with ‘Guess This City’: A New Daily Map-Based GameGet ready to embark on a new global adventure from the comfort of your home with the launch of ‘Guess This City,’ a new daily map-based game. Every day brings a new test of your geographical knowledge and deduction skills as you are challenged to identify hidden cities by revealing parts of a map, one click at a time.Discover Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: challenge, City, Daily, Guess, this
Slim City / / No Comments For a number of years I’ve had the idea of creating an incremental game which involves slowly creating a city map by adding different map elements over time. This week I decided to try and put that idea into action. The result is Slim City, an idle game which requires you to click on building footprints on an interactive map to build and create a map of a city neighborhood.In Slim City the more Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: City, Slim
There are 2,773 stories in the Naked City / / No Comments The 1960’s procedural police series the Naked City used to conclude every episode with the line: “There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.” If there are eight million stories in New York then The City has got quite a long way to go before it is finished reporting on them. So far it has managed to find only 2,773 stories in NYC.The City asked ChatGPT to find Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: 2773, City, Naked, Stories, there
The City Map Game / / No Comments I really like the game SF-Street-Names, which I reviewed Monday in the post The Streets of San Francisco Game. In fact I liked SF-Street-Names so much that I immediately started trying to see if I could replicate the game for a different city. In Monday’s post I linked to my quick demo map Denver Street Names, which was a very quick hack of a SF-Street-Names type game for Denver.Today I decided Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: City, Game