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Over the years, we’ve seen countless ways to navigate our world using various geohashing solutions. These systems - such as the popular what3words (which assigns three random words to every 3-meter square), or Google’s Plus Codes - aim to provide a simplified, human-readable way to identify precise locations where traditional street addresses fall short, such as in

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NYC Riders is a striking animated map that visualizes the 4.3 million NYC subway trips taken on an average Wednesday in September 2025. The map uses scaled circles to show trains moving on the network based on the MTA timetable. The size of the circles is determined by how many (estimated) passengers are on each train.As you watch the animation unfold, the daily rhythm of the city becomes

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Apparently yesterday was International Scrabble Day, and to celebrate the occasion the Map Design Commission of the International Cartographic Association decided to create a Scrabble Map for its #365DaysOfMaps Campaign.Scrabble Map is a very simple but also quite addictive map game. A country is randomly selected, and players are given a scrambled set of letters. Your task? Drag and arrange

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Strado is a new interactive mapping tool designed to provide objective livability scores for 50 major European cities, powered entirely by OpenStreetMap data. By clicking on any street on the Strado map, users receive a Livability Score and an Activity Score derived from an assessment of 22 different categories.How it WorksStrado analyzes the density of Points of Interest (POIs) to rank

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Over the years there have been many attempts to create interactive maps that help friends discover the best place to meet - somewhere roughly equidistant from all their starting points. Tools like Whatshalfway have become popular for exactly this reason, offering a simple way to find a convenient halfway location.These tools work well if you’re walking, cycling or driving. But they quickly fall

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This morning I was browsing Gary Gale's Vaguely Rude Places map and realised that thanks to my deteriorating eye-sight I could no longer read all the hilariously rude place-names around the world. Instead of simply diving into my browser settings and magnifying the page I decided it would be far more satisfying to create my own map. Luckily for me Gary has provided links to easily download the

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If there were an Interactive Mapping Hall of Fame, Bert Spaan’s Netherlands Building Age map would undoubtedly hold a place of honor. In 2013, Spaan achieved the monumental task of mapping 9,866,539 individual building footprints across the country. By utilizing a vibrant, data-driven color palette, he created a visual standard that not only captured the public’s imagination but also inspired a

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Inspired by Census Dots the interactive racial dot map of the 2020 U.S. Census - the Ancestry Dot Map applies a similar visual language to a different, and arguably more nuanced, dataset: reported ancestry.Like its predecessor, the Ancestry Dot Map uses colored dots scattered across the landscape of the United States. But instead of visualizing race at the individual level, each dot here

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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

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I’m really bad at BallotGuessr. The object of the game is very simple: you’re shown a Street View image and have to use the visual clues to decide whether the area voted Republican or Democrat - think GeoGuessr for psephology fans.If BallotGuessr were set in the UK, I’m confident I could correctly guess how a neighbourhood votes 99% of the time. But in the U.S., I really

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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has published a fascinating visualization exploring the language of rivers in the United States - a map that doesn’t just show waterways, but the words we use to describe them. Their Map that Glows with the Vocabulary of Water reveals how terms like arroyo, bayou, creek, and marsh are not randomly distributed, but instead cluster in ways that reflect the

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There’s something oddly satisfying about seeing the world reduced to text. The new ASCII OSM Viewer  leans fully into that aesthetic, turning modern web mapping into something that looks like it belongs on a terminal from the 1980s.Built by Lionel Lim, this browser-based experiment takes data from OpenStreetMap and renders it entirely using ASCII characters. The result is a playful but

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As part of NASA’s Artemis program to return humans to the Moon, Artemis II is sending four astronauts on a crewed journey around our nearest neighbor - an important step toward future lunar landings. I’m one of the many thousands of people currently hooked on NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage on YouTube. It’s incredible to see live footage coming straight from the spacecraft and

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, which is why Mini Tokyo 3D cannot stop blushing right now.In 2019, Mini Tokyo 3D revolutionized the world of real-time transit mapping. By simulating Tokyo’s massive public transit system using stylized, 3D colored blocks, it allowed users to watch the city pulse in real-time.It is an aesthetic which has become much admired and replicated

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Artemis 2: Experience the Complete Moon Mission Here I don't usually link to paywalled maps, but I'm making an exception for Die Zeit’s extraordinary 3D scrollytelling visualization of humanity's return to the moon.Their Artemis 2 simulation is a triumph of interactive journalism. It transforms a complex, $100 billion engineering feat into a visceral, cinematic journey. For most of us, this

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Sentient Street ViewSince Google first launched Street View in 2007, its mission has been simple: to provide a window into every corner of the globe - from the peaks of Mont Blanc to the depths of the Great Barrier Reef.Throughout that journey, Pegman has been your faithful, silent guide - a cursor with a purpose, but no voice of his own.But looking toward the future of mapping, Google began to

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Back in the distant mists of 2009, Andy Woodruff created Ohio is a Piano - an interactive map where the state’s 88 counties function as the 88 keys of a piano. Clicking a county on the map triggers a unique note, literally transforming the map into a playable instrument.Now, in honor of Piano Day - fittingly held on the 88th day of the year - Ian Muehlenhaus has introduced Map Melody. It’s

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Regular readers of this blog and participants in Topi Tjukanov's annual #30DayMapChallenge will probably be familiar with Topi's Notable People map, which shows the birthplaces of famous people around the world. Over the weekend I decided to extend the concept of the notable people map by creating a notable persons game:Pin the PastThe goal of the game is simple: you’re given the name of a

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lucent.earth is a 'real-time visualization of global live streams and radio stations'. Which makes it sound a bit more exciting than it really is. Mapping live video streams is hardly an original concept. However, now we've entered the 'influencer age' - defined by 24-hour real-time oversharing - perhaps the time for lucent.earth has finally come. lucent.earth is essentially a 3D globe

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This interactive Mars Map includes an intriguing "ocean simulation" layer that allows you to explore how liquid water might once have carved the Martian landscape. By toggling the "ocean simulation" option in the map layers menu, an adjustment panel appears that allows you to manipulate the theoretical sea level across the planet’s unique topography. It’s a fascinating way to visualize where

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In the last week, I’ve added two new daily challenges to my bookmarks. The first, Parseword, isn’t map-related at all. It’s the latest game from the inventor of Wordle, and if you like cryptic crosswords, it’s dangerously addictive.The other new addition is StreetSeekr, a fun geo-guessing-style game. If you’re reading this blog, there’s a good chance you’re already familiar with

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Yesterday, the World Meteorological Organization released its 2025 State of the Global Climate report. The report confirms that last year was among the three hottest years on record, with global temperatures about 1.43 °C above the 1850-1900 average.The report includes an interactive map visualising last year’s extreme climate events - the 2025 Extreme Events Dashboard. This map

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Esri's Dance of the Continents allows you to travel 600 million years back in time to view the Earth during the Cambrian period - when complex multicellular life first began to flourish. From there, you can scroll forward to watch the slow, rhythmic movement of tectonic plates as they shift to form the world we know today.As you move through the timeline, you’ll see the supercontinent Pangaea

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I Was Here is a great idea that, at least for now, doesn’t quite live up to its full potential.At its core, the app uses panoramic imagery to create virtual graffiti walls around the world. Users can select a Street View-style panorama and draw directly onto the image. Those drawings persist, meaning anyone else who visits the same panorama will see what’s been left behind. In that sense, it

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When The Pudding launched its Cultural Borders of Song map in 2018, it offered a compelling snapshot of global music tastes. But the map stalled in 2021 - and hasn't been updated since. For a truly up-to-date view, the new Cultural Borders map delivers a live glimpse of what the world is listening to right now.Cultural Borders is an interactive map of global music trends. Click anywhere on the

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