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TripGeo Air is an impressive new browser-based flight simulator that lets you fly over a photorealistic 3D model of the real world.What makes TripGeo Air particularly fun - besides the thrill of flying over your favorite landmarks - is the game's progression tasks. New pilots begin with simple circuit training before unlocking a series of paid jobs, including sightseeing flights, cargo

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If you've ever looked at a railway map and wondered which routes are truly worth travelling, then TrainRouter has the answer. The interactive map showcases 767 of the world's greatest train routes across 118 countries, covering around 372,500 kilometres of railway.Rather than simply displaying rail networks, TrainRouter acts as a curated railway atlas. Every highlighted line has been selected

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Launched in late 2025, Prakrit Ojha's War Atlas is an interactive map that visualizes more than 8,500 historical battles. Spanning from 1500 BC to the present day, it offers an immersive, guided tour through the history of human conflict.Now there’s another War Atlas on the scene. Not only does this new map share the same name, a very similar URL, and a nearly identical thematic DNA, it also

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My house disappears under water at around 2 metres of sea level rise. So, hopefully- barring an exceptional storm surge or tsunami - I should be safe for the rest of my lifetime (a global average sea level rise of roughly 0.3-1.0 metres is projected by 2100).You can discover when your own home will be claimed by rising seas using the Sea Level Rise Interactive Map. There are already oceans

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Fifty thousand people were killed on February 6, 2023, when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck southern and central Türkiye and northern and western Syria. The Night the Earth Shook, Strangers Started to Draw tells the story of how the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and thousands of volunteers responded by rapidly creating detailed maps to support rescue efforts. The Night the Earth

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Stories of New York City, Mapped is an interactive map of the New York Times' long-running Metropolitan Diary column. For nearly fifty years, the Metropolitan Diary has been the Times’ home for reader-submitted vignettes, eccentric anecdotes, and overheard snippets of conversation that define life across the five boroughs. By geolocating thousands of these stories, the map creates a fascinating

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This world map may look like an interactive map but it is actually an image. It is an SVG map of the world that I created in a couple of seconds using Polygrid Map2SVG.One of the great advantages of vector graphics is that they can be scaled to any size without losing quality. Whether you're designing a poster, preparing artwork for print, or producing illustrations for the web, SVG is often the

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Sunrise and Sunset is an interactive map that displays the sunrise and sunset times for any location on Earth, for any day of the year. It also visualizes the sun's altitude throughout the seasons.By moving the white dot around the calendar ring, you can change the date to view how daylight hours shift across the year. A yellow curve tracks the sun's altitude above the horizon from dawn to

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According to Haudenosaunee tradition, the Earth was once entirely covered by water. One day a muskrat swam to the bottom of the great sea and surfaced with a tiny clump of mud. This mud was placed on the back of a giant turtle, where it grew until it became the earth.This is just one of dozens of creation stories that you can explore on the Origin Myth Map, an interactive atlas of the myths that

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The New York Times has published An American Mosaic, an interactive map visualising the self-identified ancestry of Americans using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey. The map is accompanied by an article which explores how today's America reflects centuries of immigration and migration.The map uses colour to show the dominant ancestry in each census tract, drawing on

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This interactive map traces the journeys of thousands of civil servants who travelled across the globe to administer the British Empire. It turns out that extracting the wealth and resources from the rest of the world required an astonishing amount of bureaucracy.The British Empire was the largest empire in history, at its height governing around a quarter of the world's land surface and

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Have you ever ridden the thermals above the Alps, gliding silently over some of the world's most spectacular mountain scenery? Thanks to OGN 3D Viewer, you can now experience something very close to that -virtually.This new interactive map lets you replay real glider flights in an immersive 3D landscape. Simply enter an airfield's ICAO code (try LFMX, EGHL, KME or CN12) and pick a date to watch

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This morning I listened to the song Geographical Overlord by MastaMic and Titus Chan. What immediately grabbed my attention was that the song's lyrics are a series of questions and statements that might be found in a school geography exam about Hong Kong, e.g.,"Is Lion Rock higher than Fei Ngo Shan?Is Tai Mo Shan higher than Phoenix Mountain?...Gascoigne Road to Hung Hom Tunnel is incredibly

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Christopher Nolan's epic film adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey opens soon, bringing to the big screen one of fiction's greatest journeys. From Odysseus' ten-year voyage home after the Trojan War to the road trips, quests and adventures of modern novels and films, the journey has long been one of storytelling's most enduring narrative devices.Reading Maps celebrates these fictional journeys by

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In the UK, the hottest June day on record has been broken three days in a row. And it's not just the UK experiencing unprecedented levels of heat. France, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands have also recorded their highest-ever June temperatures in the past week.You can get a sense of the scale of the heat dome currently sitting over Europe with the European Heat

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3-30-300 Tree Analyzer How green is your neighborhood? Urban forestry researchers have long known that access to nature directly impacts our mental health, local temperatures, and climate resilience. To turn these benefits into actionable urban planning targets, Cecil Konijnendijk proposed the 3-30-300 rule. The formula is simple but ambitious: everyone should be able to see at least 3 trees from

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At first glance, AniMaps appears to be very slick.It’s a route animator with built-in video export, and it feels made for sharing travel clips on social media. Drop in a global route and it turns it into a smooth, cinematic fly-through using MapLibre GL JS. The camera easing is silky, the line animation feels well-timed, and the whole thing lands right in that sweet spot between data

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Mapping Collision Density Along the A1 More than 350 years ago, cartographer John Ogilby transformed the way travellers navigated Britain. His famous strip maps turned the nation's principal highways into continuous journeys on the page, allowing travellers to follow routes such as the Great North Road stage by stage across the country. Today's A1 follows much of that same historic

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If you are tired of standard map-guessing games that rely on scouring satellite imagery or wandering through street-level panoramas, my new interactive game Sonar City offers a refreshing challenge. This game strips away the visual map entirely, plunging the world into shadow and leaving you with a single tactical tool: a glowing radar array. Your mission - if you choose to accept it - is

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Germany - The German Rail Network from 1835 Until Today Ireland - Irish Railway Stations 1834-2000 Switzerland - A Journey Through the History of Swiss Railways Japan - Japan's Railway from 1872 to todayin 1825 George Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 pulled the world’s first steam-powered passenger train along the Stockton and Darlington Railway. Within a decade, the United Kingdom

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Over a decade ago, Alexander Chen’s iconic MTA.me turned Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 New York subway map into a live, plucking string instrument. On this map every time an MTA train crosses the track of another line, it twangs like a musical string, transforming the frantic energy of New York's transit grid into a delicate, real-time composition.The itch to turn transit data into music has recently

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Most maps capture a moment in time. Jerry's Map has spent more than sixty years doing the exact opposite.Jerry's Map is the life's work of artist Jerry Gretzinger, who began drawing an imaginary city in the summer of 1963. What started as a simple doodle gradually expanded into an immense fictional world. Today, Jerry's Map consists of more than 4,000 individual 8-by-10-inch panels arranged in a

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Beneath your feet is a vast network of fungi. Not merely "quite large" vast, but vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly vast. If every strand of these underground fungal networks were laid end-to-end, they would stretch from Earth to the Sun about a billion times.To put that into perspective, if you could travel at the speed of light, it would take you nearly 12 years to cover that distance. Yet

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Reuters has launched a new Climate Monitor, an impressive interactive globe that allows anyone to see how today's temperatures compare with what used to be considered normal around the world. The map visualizes temperature anomalies in real-time, revealing where conditions are unusually hot or cold compared to historical averages.The interface is beautifully simple. Click anywhere on the globe

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Most transit maps show where people travel. RATFLOW NYC shows where the city's other commuters roam.RATFLOW NYC is a fascinating "data-art" project that visualizes New York City's estimated rat population using public data, probabilistic modelling, and a healthy dose of theatrical flair. Built using NYC Open Data, RATFLOW combines rodent-related 311 complaints with the locations of subway

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