Mapping the Sudanese Civil War

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Two years into Sudan’s civil war, the country remains gripped by a humanitarian catastrophe and a relentless power struggle that has devastated lives and reshaped its landscape. What began on April 15, 2023, as a clash between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has since escalated into a nationwide conflict. With over 14 million people displaced Maps Mania… more →
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Mapping the Red Sea Attacks

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The International Crisis Group has released an interactive story map, The Red Sea Attacks Explained, that does a great job of breaking down the background and consequences of the Houthis’ attacks on cargo ships in the Red Sea.The map uses Mapbox’s Story Map template to great effect, illustrating the Houthis’ strategic strongholds and their disruptive impact on global trade routes. I Maps Mania… more →
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Bluesky Mapping

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Update: I got busy and created a second map. Social Media Locations (comment below with suggestions for a better name). This map allows you to search for real-time Bluesky mentions of locations around the world. To start a search you just need to click on a map label for a country, state, city, town or neighborhood. Once you click on a place name messages will (often very slowly) begin to Maps Mania… more →
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Mapping the Political Landscape

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Waves of Interest is a deep dive into Google search trends during election years. This beautiful data visualization maps out which political topics capture the attention of Americans during US election years. And where!By using the clever visual metaphor of a topographic map Waves of Interest transforms political interest into an intuitive landscape. The visualization reveals the fall Maps Mania… more →
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Mapping with Leaflet

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If you missed my <Code><Br> episode earlier this week you missed (imo) a great episode. I’ll share a link to the video at the end, but I spent the session raving about how great the Leaflet JavaScript library is for maps. I had it on my list to look into for a few months now and while having a layover recently I took the time to dig into it. I was – blown away. I’ve got a lot of experience over the years working with maps on the web. I really dig Google Maps, both the JavaScript library and APIs, and I spent some time as a developer evangelist for HERE helping others learn about their offerings. I’m obviously a bit biased but I really dug their offerings as... more →
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John Snow’s Proximity Mapping

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I’ve probably seen over 100 modern interactive visualizations of John Snow’s famous map of cholera victims during the 1854 cholera outbreak in Soho. John Snow’s map shows the locations of cholera deaths clustered around a water pump in Broad Street. The map helped to disprove the prevailing miasma theory on the spread of diseases and establish that cholera was actually spread by contaminated Maps Mania… more →
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Mapping the Big Map Index

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The Economist’s Big Mac Index compares the purchasing power parity between the currencies of different countries by examining the price of a Big Mac hamburger sold at McDonalds’ restaurants in each country. The Index “is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity, the notion that in the long run exchange rates should move towards the rate that would equalize the prices of an identical Maps Mania… more →
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Mapping a Global Coral Bleaching Event

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Last week the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that the ‘world is currently experiencing a global coral bleaching event’. The Earth has experienced 10 consecutive months of global heat records,  and in the last year the average global temperature has exceeded pre-industrial levels by 1.58C. These unprecedented sudden rises in air surface temperatures are Maps Mania… more →
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