More Medieval Murder Maps! / / No Comments On Saturday 2 Feb 1297 three Oxford University students decided to celebrate the festival of the purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary by going on a frenzied rampage. On the evening of the festival John de Skurf and his two friends Michael and Madoc ran through the streets of Oxford with swords, bows, and arrows “attacking all passers-by”. One John Metescharp was shot with an arrow by Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: maps, Medieval, More, Murder
Isochrone Maps / / No Comments time2reach is an interactive map that shows you see how far you travel within a set time period using public transit. The map can currently create isochrone visualizations for 6 global cities: New York, Paris, San Francisco, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. If you double-click on the map in any of these six cities an isochrone visualization will show you how far you can travel from that point Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Isochrone, maps
The National Stereotypes Maps – Part Two / / No Comments Buzzfeed has started a new mapping trend with their AI generated images of state stereotypes. Last week Buzzfeed asked a generative AI image model to create a photograph of a person from each U.S. state, as typically perceived by a European. You can view the results in the post This is What Europeans Think of Us. I was inspired by the Buzzfeed post to create my own National Stereotypes Map. To Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: maps, National, part, Stereotypes
Mapsaws – Jigsaws Made from Maps / / No Comments Jigidi is a free online jigsaw game. On Jigiidi you can choose to play thousands of online interactive jigsaw puzzles. If you join Jigidi you can also create your own interactive jigsaw puzzles. Many members of Jigidi have of course already made some fun jigsaw puzzles out of maps.Here are three OpenStreetMap jigsaw puzzles for you to try created by Karlos. These include a 330 piece jigsaw of a Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: from, Jigsaws, Made, maps, Mapsaws
Dot Maps of the Chicago Mayoral Race / / No Comments Brandon Johnson is set to become the new mayor of Chicago. Johnson beat Paul Vallas in Tuesday’s runoff election with 51.44% of the vote. You can see where people voted for each of the candidates at the neighborhood level thanks to two different dot density maps created from the results of the Chicago Mayoral election.CBS in Breakdown of Chicago mayor vote by precinct has created a combined dot Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Chicago, maps, Mayoral, Race
Santa Tracker Maps / / No Comments Santa has begun work on his busiest day of the year. This year you can follow Santa’s journey around the world, as he delivers presents to all the world’s children, on both the Google Santa Tracker and the NORAD Santa Tracker.The Official NORAD Santa Tracker uses NORAD’s geo-synchronous satellites to detect the heat signature of Rudolph’s red nose. It is then able to track Santa’s sleigh as it Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: maps, Santa, tracker
Top 5 Moving Maps / / No Comments Day 23 of the #30DayMapChallenge calls for participants to create a map around the theme of movement. This year the vast majority of the maps I’ve seen posted on social media in response to the #30DayMapChallenge have been static maps. I’m hoping that the theme of ‘movement’ might inspire a few more participants to venture into creating interactive maps on the 23rd. Static maps can certainly Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: maps, Moving
Using Google Maps with Alpine.js / / No Comments It’s been a little while since I’ve blogged about Alpine.js, and I thought an example of integratingGoogle Maps with it would be a good way to continue my path to becoming comfortable with the framework. I imagined it would be fairly simple, but in building a few demos I ran into some interesting issues that helped me learn a bit more about Alpine. Let’s take a look. Raymond Camden… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Alpine.js, Google, maps, using