Where Area Equals People / / No Comments What would the world look like if countries were resized according to the number of people living in them? You can explore that question in Gapmover, an map that shows how the relative size of countries has changed from 1800 and is projected to change through to 2100. Unlike a conventional map, this animated population cartogram continually distorts the shapes and sizes of countries so that their area reflects their share of the world’s population. As you drag through the timeline, countries swell and shrink, offering a striking visualisation of the changing balance of population around the globe. The effect can be quite surprising. China, for example, is the world’s most populous... more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Area, Equals, people
7 Billion People Are Awake Right Now / / No Comments At the moment (as I write), 6.962 billion people are awake, while another 2.1 billion are fast asleep. Awake Globe visualizes this constantly shifting global rhythm of sleep and wakefulness, revealing where people around the world are currently awake, asleep, or somewhere in between.The map presents the Earth as a glowing, rotating globe. Daylight sweeps across its surface at around 1,000 Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Awake, Billion, people, right
Kangaroos Don’t Vote – People Do / / No Comments If ever an election needed a cartogram map, it was the 2025 Australian federal election. If you were to view The Australian’s Electorate Map – 2025, you could be forgiven for thinking the Liberals had cruised to a landslide victory. This traditional cartogram election map is visually dominated by the blue of the Liberal Party. It also appears as if the Labor Party (shown using salmon pink) Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: don't, Kangaroos, people, Vote
Land doesn’t vote, people do! / / No Comments Engaging Data has updated its US County Electoral Map – Land Area vs Population map so that you can now zoom in and explore the election results in each state. The map allows you to see the 2020 Presidential Election election results at the county level based on land area or population size.If you select the ‘Population’ button on the map then the colored proportional circles change size to Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Doesn't, land, people, Vote
The 100 Most Boring People in America / / No Comments Who is the most unnotable person in your town?I asked ChatGPT to find me the most unnotable people in America’s biggest towns and cities. The results can be seen on my Unnotable People map. On this map the placename labels of the 100 largest towns and cities in the USA have been replaced with each town’s most insignificant person.Using ChatGPT to find each town’s most unnotable person means Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: America, Boring, most, people
What Makes People Love Waze More Than Google Maps and Apple Maps? Its Army of Unpaid Human Editors – Fortune / / No Comments What Makes People Love Waze More Than Google Maps and Apple Maps? Its Army of Unpaid Human Editors Fortune “map app” – Google News… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Apple, Army, editors, Fortune, Google, Human, Love, Makes, maps, More, people, than, Unpaid, Waze
China reportedly made an app to show people if they’re standing near someone in debt — a new part of its intrusive ‘social credit’ policy – Business Insider / / No Comments China reportedly made an app to show people if they’re standing near someone in debt — a new part of its intrusive ‘social credit’ policy Business Insider It hopes to get citizens to monitor the so-called debtors and report them to authorities if they behave as if they could repay their loans. “map app” – Google News… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Business, China, credit', debt, Insider, intrusive, Made, near, part, people, policy, reportedly, show, Social, someone, standing, they're
Toronto police app maps out mental health services for people in crisis – CBC.ca / / No Comments CBC.ca Toronto police app maps out mental health services for people in crisisCBC.caOfficers working in the mobile crisis intervention unit, which responds to mental health calls with a nurse or social worker, have been using the app for about four months. So far, the app is seeing about 50 hits a day, Williams said. Toronto police … map app – Google News… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: CBC.ca, crisis, health, maps, mental, people, Police, Services, Toronto