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
The City of Women Subway Map / / No Comments Barcelona, like New York and London, now has a reimagined subway map designed to celebrate and recognise the lives of some of the city’s most remarkable women. The Barcelona City of Women subway map highlights the extraordinary contribution of women to the Catalan capital. On the Ciutat de Dones map every station on Barcelona’s metro network and all the stops on the city’s railway network has Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: City, Subway, Women
Do You Live in a 15 Minute City? / / No Comments A 15 Minute City is an urban environment which promotes a sustainable future by ensuring that all the essential needs of individuals can be accessed without having to get in a car or use public transport. These essential needs include such things as grocery stores, health care facilities, cultural attractions, transit stops, educational facilities and leisure activities. Individuals living in a Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: City, live, Minute
Mapping the Growth of a City in 3D / / No Comments Zurich 4D is an interactive 3D map of Switzerland’s largest city. The map was developed by the city’s Building Department in order to provide a freely accessible 3D model of the city. The Zurich 4D map allows you to explore more than 50,000 buildings in Zurich in glorious 3D and is used by the city for planning construction projects, modeling noise pollution, and city planning etc. What Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: City, Growth, Mapping