Real-Time 3D Mapping / / No Comments Kaiwen Song and Juyong Zhang of the University of Science and Technology of China claim to be “the first to achieve real-time rendering of large-scale scenes” through the use of neural rendering. They have presented their findings to the world in their paper City-on-Web: Real-time Neural Rendering of Large-scale Scenes on the Web (the website of which includes three live demos). Neural Radiance Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Mapping, realtime
The Live Music Mapping Project / / No Comments The combination of the Covid epidemic, inner-city gentrification and austerity has had a hugely negative impact on live music venues and the live music networks of many cities. The Live Music Mapping Project has been launched to help overcome these challenges by creating detailed maps of the local live ecosystem in individual cities. Currently the project has released interactive maps for seven Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: live, Mapping, Music, project
Mapping the Oct 7 Hamas Attacks / / No Comments Over the last three weeks news organizations around the world have produced many maps in their efforts to help explain the 2023 Israel-Hamas war. Many of these have been curated in the Data Vis Dispatch. Unfortunately the paywalls of many of the major news websites make a lot of these maps inaccessible to many.The current attacks on the Palestinian people by Israel are in response to the events Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: attacks, Hamas, Mapping
Mapping the Growth of America / / No Comments This animated map shows the growth of built-up areas in San Francisco from 1860-1930. It visualizes the rapid growth of the city following the California gold rush in the second half of the 19th Century.This animated GIF was made using the interactive map Historical Built-Up Areas, 1810 – 2015. This amazing map uses data from the HISDAC-US: Historical Settlement Data Compilation for the United Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: America, Growth, Mapping
Mapping the Great Kantō Earthquake / / No Comments 100 years ago yesterday, on September 1st 1923, the Great Kantō earthquake struck Japan. The earthquake struck near midday, at a time when many people were cooking lunch. In Tokyo, during and after the earthquake, fires spread across the city. In the 46 hours after the quake around 40% of Tokyo burned to the ground. Japanese newspaper Nikkei has marked the 100th anniversary of the Great Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: earthquake, GREAT, Kantō, Mapping
NIMBY Mapping / / No Comments In July the German government introduced a draft bill to legalize cannabis for personal use. However, under the draft bill, the consumption of cannabis will remain prohibited within a 200-meter radius of schools, children’s and youth facilities, playgrounds, publicly accessible sports facilities, and in pedestrian zones between 7 am and 8 pm. According to the Berliner Morgenpost these Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Mapping, NIMBY
Mapping 3D Game Worlds / / No Comments noclip is an amazing website which lets you move around and explore some of your favorite computer games in glorious 3D. The term ‘noclip’ is a common command used to debug computer games. It refers to the process of turning off collision detection in a game world so that the player may pass through solid objects in the rendered environment. This is exactly what the noclip website allows you to Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Game, Mapping, world's
Mapping Loch Ness Monster Sightings / / No Comments The best place to spot the Loch Ness Monster is on or around Loch Ness in Scotland. In When, where and how to see the Loch Ness Monster – based on 1,500 years worth of data! the Press and Journal has mapped the locations of Loch Ness monster sightings over the last 83 years in order to determine the best location where you are most likely to spot Nessie. After hours of analysis the newspaper Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Loch, Mapping, Monster, Ness, Sightings