The World is Your War Zone / / No Comments There are quite a few ugly buildings in my town that I’d like to demolish. Now I have the chance to actually knock them down (if only virtually) with World Strike. World Strike is a fun new open-world, real-time multiplayer tank game where the arena is literally the entire planet – and every single building can be reduced to rubble. So if you’ve ever looked at a building and thought, “This would benefit from some high-explosive ordnance,” then World Strike is the browser game you’ve been waiting for. From a web mapping perspective, World Strike is an impressive technical showcase of Three.js integrated directly inside MapLibre GL JS. Rather than rendering standard... more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: World, Zone
GeoWhisperer – See How the World Has Changed / / No Comments Since 2012, the London Legacy Development Corporation has gradually transformed the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park from an essential local green space into a high-density residential hub driven by foreign investment. The before-and-after aerial imagery above provides a striking illustration of how the landscape of the Olympic ‘park’ is being built over. This before and after image was created in a matter of seconds by GeoWhisperer. GeoWhisperer is a new tool from Henk van Ess that attempts to take some of the guesswork out of comparing satellite imagery. Designed for OSINT researchers, journalists and visual mappers, it automatically searches historical satellite imagery and uses... more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Changed, GeoWhisperer, World
A World of Plane Crashes / / No Comments If you are already afraid of flying then you might want to give CrashAtlas a miss. This interactive map of aircraft accidents is unlikely to do much for your aerophobia. On the other hand, if you’ve ever wondered whether a plane has crashed near your home, then CrashAtlas may prove to be a fascinating, if slightly macabre, diversion.CrashAtlas is a global interactive map dedicated to documenting Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Crashes, plane, World
The World is Your Canvas / / No Comments Pixtera is a brand new browser-based collaborative pixel art map that turns the whole world into a shared canvas. Built on MapLibre and OpenStreetMap data, it lets users zoom into real locations and start drawing directly onto the map in pixel form.New players begin with 100 free pixels in their energy store, which can be placed on the map one by one. Used pixels gradually regenerate at a Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: canvas, World
The World in Motion / / No Comments This animated map displays worldwide air temperatures over the past week. It illustrates how temperatures shift daily, warming progressively from east to west as the Sun rises and sets across the globe.You might also be able to spot other patterns, such as the effects of jet streams, periods of intense summer heat, and sharp temperature drops during winter when polar air moves southward.Recently Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Motion, World
The History of the World Map / / No Comments It has been a boom week for Wikipedia-sourced history maps. In the last five days I’ve reviewed Landnotes & Globe of History, and I’ve now stumbled on another Wikipedia based history map – the Time Travel App.Time-Travel App is a world history explorer that uses Mapbox, OpenHistoricalMap, and data from Wikipedia to let you browse historical events, important people, cultural realms, and even Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: History, World
A Guided Street View Tour of the World / / No Comments StreetWhip If you’ve ever lost an hour (or five) wandering the globe via Google Street View, you’re not alone. There’s something uniquely thrilling about virtually dropping into a faraway town and soaking in the details — the architecture, the people, the colors of everyday life. But what if you could do more than just look? What if you had a knowledgeable, curious local guide whispering in Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: Guided, Street, tour, View, World
Donald Trump Surrenders the World to China / / No Comments The China Index is an interactive map that ranks the expanding influence of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) across the globe. Using 99 distinct indicators – from media sponsorships to academic partnerships – the index tracks Beijing’s deepening reach, updated annually to highlight its accelerating dominance.The map ranks countries around the world based on how much they are under the Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: China, Donald, Surrenders, Trump, World