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I’ve just discovered that my brother's house is right in the sweet spot for a total solar eclipse in August. Almost immediately afterwards I discovered that my mother has already bagged his spare room for the occasion.My solar eclipse discovery was made thanks to the Solar Eclipse Map, a smart new interactive tool that helps you explore the paths of every solar eclipse visible between 1900 and

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WenWare is a fun, time-travel twist on GeoGuessr. The hook? You aren’t just guessing your location - you’re guessing the date.The game drops you into AI-generated panoramas of famous historical events, asking you to identify both the “where” and the “when.”Sounds simple enough, right? In practice, however, the game’s success feels tied to the modern era. While the Modern period features

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I live in a Victorian terrace in London where the houses lack front gardens, leaving my sitting room wall less than 10 feet from the road. While my street is quiet, this proximity to the curb makes noise pollution a constant threat in busier areas. To visualize this urban reality, OSM House to Street offers an interactive map that calculates the exact distance between building exteriors and the

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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

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In February I experimented with ways to bring extruded buildings to life on a map using a range of visual effects. My Polygon Effects map focused on a single building, which lights up, oscillates, and changes color to create a series of animated displays.Rainbow now takes this idea worldwide. Zoom to almost any location on the Rainbow map and you can watch extruded 3D buildings pulse in

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Yesterday I visited the new V&A museum at East Bank. In all honestly I was more impressed with the museum building than the actual exhibits but - for obvious reasons - I was drawn to Aaron Koblin's Flight Patterns visualization. Aaron Koblin's Flight Patterns BTW - if the V&A want me to curate an exhibition of Data Art I am always available: earth :: a global map of wind

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CORRECTIV’s latest story map, Where Europe’s Population is Shrinking, is a superb example of how large-scale spatial data and clear visual design can come together to tell a nuanced geographic story. In this case, the story is one of Europe’s rural depopulation and how emigration and demographic decline have reshaped entire regions since the end of the Cold War.The map draws on newly harmonised

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There are already loads of online tools available to help you create your own map posters. Many of these, such as Mapiful and Mapness, allow you to design your poster, pay a fee, and receive a high-quality print by mail.However, you can also use these free alternatives to create and print your own customized map posters at home:Figuregrounder prettymapp MapToPoster JS

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Mapterhorn is an open-source terrain data pipeline. Its core idea is deceptively simple: take the best available open elevation datasets from around the world, normalize them, and deliver them as a single, seamless, web-ready product.From this unified dataset, Mapterhorn provides a ready-to-use map tile service designed for modern web mapping workflows. The terrain is packaged into PMTiles

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To ensure the highest quality Street View imagery for navigation, Google almost exclusively captures the world in broad daylight. But as any seasoned map-nerd knows, every system has its glitches. La Noche Cíclica is a fascinating Google Map project that highlights the rare, eerie, and often accidental moments when Street View goes dark. You can view the project's documented night views simply

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Unstoried: Send a Message in a Bottle is a beautifully simple idea executed as a playful WebGL globe: a place where anyone can drop a virtual message into the ocean and see what drifts back from strangers around the world.Unstoried is meant to be a modern, planet-scale revival of early web guestbooks - except instead of signing a page, you cast a single bottle adrift upon a virtual 3D globe and

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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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