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A large part of Boston is built on man-made land. In the 17th Century the citizens of the Shawmut peninsula (which was less than 800 acres of land, began to use landfill and dams to make the city of Boston larger. The city has been reclaiming land from the Boston Harbor ever since. Negotiating the Shoreline is an interactive story map from the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston

 There is something weird and foreboding about the town of Pixlton. I'm not sure if it is the suicidal cows or the town's permanent fog which scares me the most. Of one thing I am sure. I wouldn't want to live in Pixlton.If you are intrigued by these strange goings on then you can explore the town further on the Pixlton interactive map. Pixlton is a digital town inhabited by the Pixls, a small

Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane. It is now moving northwards through the state as a Category 1 storm. The satellite image animation above showing Hurricane Ida hitting Louisiana comes from NOAA's GOES Image Viewer. NOAA's National Hurricane Center features a regularly updated static map showing Hurricane Ida's forecast path. This map includes 12 hourly

How Old is This House is a fantastic collection of building age maps of Russian Cities. Currently the project includes eight interactive maps which visualize the ages of all buildings in the cities of Moscow, St Petersburg, Kalinngrad, Penza, Voronnezh, Vladimir, Nizhny, Novgorod, Kazan and Yekaterinburg. Each individual city map in How Old is This House colors individual building footprints to

Maposaic is a fun interactive tool for creating your own colorful maps. The application is being marketed as a way to create random colorful map mosaics. However Maposaic has a number of settings which can be adjusted that allow you to choose your own colors and map any location in the world.At the heart of Maposaic are Mapbox's customizable vector map tiles. The Mapbox API allows users to

Although the Fall equinox is not until 22nd September (in the northern hemisphere) the Smoky Mountain Fall Foliage Map has already appeared. The first date on the 2021 Fall Foliage Map (30th August) is in just three days time. Every year Smoky Mountain releases their interactive Fall Foliage Map, which plots the annual progress of when and where leaves change their colors across the United

A direct flight from John F Kennedy Airport in New York to Sydney Airport in Australia would involve flying for a distance of 16,013 km. Although we tend to use the expression 'as the crow flies' as an idiom for the most direct route between two points, a direct flight is hardly ever the shortest distance between two points on Earth. Because the Earth is a globe a tunnel is the shortest way to

China has beaten India 6-3 in the final of the CCTV World Cup. China has six cities in the top 10 list of cities with the highest density of CCTV cameras. India only has three cities in the top ten. London is the only city outside of Asia to make the top 10.Surfshank's Surveillance Cities examines the density of surveillance cameras in cities around the world. By calculating the number of CCTV

Dérive is a map based geography game which requires you to identify a series of city locations based on an unlabelled road map. The name of the game comes from Guy Debord's Theory of the Dérive. A Dérive (Eng: 'drift') is an unplanned journey through a (usually) urban environment. The term is often used interchangeably with 'psychogeography' and often involves randomly exploring a city while

The Coloring Book Generator is a clever application which can turn any of the thousands of maps in the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library into a bitonal image, which is perfect for printing and coloring in.If you go to the Leventhal Map & Education Center's Digital Collections you can search for maps in the library's huge collection of vintage and historical maps.

Living in the Age of Humans is a series of Story Maps from Esri which explores the impacts of the human race on planet Earth. Human Beings have inhabited the Earth for only 10 million of the planet's 4.5 billion years. In just the last two centuries, since the beginning of the industrial age, the human race has managed to alter the Earth's ecosystem and devastate the planet's climate.You can

The impressionist painter Claud Monet was born in Paris, France.The fact that Monet was born in Paris isn't that surprising. A map showing the distribution of people in France with the surname 'Monet' reveals that Paris has the second highest number of Monets of all French departments. The Nord has the most. If you are French, or have a French surname, you can explore the distribution of your

Landsat 9 is scheduled to launch next month. The very first Landsat satellite was launched on 23 July 1972. Since that time Landsat satellites have captured millions of images of the Earth. These images provide an invaluable resource for Earth sciences, helping scientists in disciplines as diverse as agriculture, cartography, geology, forestry, regional planning, surveillance and education.To

Olivia Jack at the Department of Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin has created an interactive animated map which shows the spread of the coronavirus across the world. The COVID-19 Geographical Animation uses data from Johns Hopkins University to visualize the rise of the epidemic and the continuing waves of cases around the globe.Animated maps showing the spread of an epidemic over time

Team Maps is a new easy to use application for creating animated maps of a route. These animated maps could be of a walking route, a drive or a guided tour. The route can include multiple placemarks or points of interest which can visited on the tour. Once you've created your route the playback options allow you to see the route being animated on a Google Map. This animation can include

Over the last three years Who Owns England has been diligently trying to map who owns what land in England (and also to a lesser extent in Scotland and Wales). Another really important question, especially considering the current climate crisis, is 'Who owns the sea?'.Who Owns the North Sea is an interactive map and database documenting the owners of oil and gas licenses in the North Sea. The

If you are planning a long car journey then it is important that you take frequent breaks. The UK's Highway Code recommends taking a break of at least 15 minutes every two hours when driving. Probably the most relaxing way to break a long car journey is by doing a little bird-spotting. Which is where BirdTrippin comes in.BirdTrippin is a route planning map which can not only show you how to get

How many female composers can you name? I'm guessing that you can't name many. For example, have you heard of Clara Josephine Schumann? Clara Schumann was one of the most distinguished pianists of the 19th century. She was also a prolific composer. If you haven't heard of Clara then you might have heard of her husband Robert Schumann. If you haven't heard of Clara then you probably also haven't

NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has published an interactive map which shows the impact energy of all the meteors detected by government sensors between 1988 and 2021. Each fireball event is shown on the map by its marker's size and color.The Fireballs Reported by US Government Sensors map allows you to explore the impact energy and the date & time of each recorded fireball

Yesterday Mapbox announced that they were integrating the controversial global addressing system What3Words with their Mapbox Dash navigation system.This immediately led to a lot of people on Twitter to question why Mapbox don't just use the latitude and longitude geographic coordinate system. You know the coordinate system which Mapbox uses in its own mapping APIs. The latitude and longitude

Steve Attewell's Manga Map is a Mapbox powered interactive 3D map which has a cartoon like cel-shaded effect. Cel shading gives an image a flatter look by using limited shading colors and by not using a shade gradient or tints and shades. A cel shading effect is often used to mimic a comic style and to create a paper-like texture. From what I understand Steve's map creates a cel-shading effect

There are many ways that cartographers can cover up or hide their lack of geographical knowledge. Traditionally cartographers have just hidden their ignorance by making shit up. Lots of pre-modern maps include references to imaginary locations. For example Hanns Rüst's Mappa Mundi (c1480) includes a mountain labelled, "Caspian Mountains gog and magog", which purports to show the location of the

The image above compares the birthplaces of all the Arsenal football players of the 1980's with the birthplaces of all the Arsenal players of the 2010's. It is very noticeable that in the 1980's the majority of Arsenal players were born in the UK or Ireland. The only Arsenal players born outside the UK or Ireland in the whole of the 1980's were Vladimir Petrović (Serbia) and Sigurður Jónsson (

The Taliban has taken control of the presidential palace in Kabul and the Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has left the country. Despite President Biden's claims that a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was not inevitable it has taken the insurgents only a matter of weeks to take control of the country after this summer's withdrawal of American troops. The New York Times has used a small

On Thursday the Census Bureau released the first detailed data from the 2020 U.S. census. In 2020 Census Statistics - Local Population Changes and Nation’s Racial and Ethnic Diversity the Census Bureau has published data from last year's census on population changes and on the racial and ethnic demographics of the United States.CNN has used the newly released 2020 census data to create a

The Census Bureau has released the first detailed data from the 2020 U.S. census. The data in 2020 Census Statistics - Local Population Changes and Nation’s Racial and Ethnic Diversity reveals which areas of the United States have seen a rise or fall in population since 2010 and how the racial diversity of local populations has changed in the last ten years.Population Change Overall the United

2021 is set to become yet another record breaking year for the number and intensity of wildfires in the United States. As this week's worrying IPCC report on climate change shows the threat from wildfires is likely to increase even further in the very near future. In order to help residents in Oregon and Washington the US Forest Service has released a new interactive map which provides wildfire

The Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung has been busy mapping out where people's Facebook's friends live. The interactive maps in How friendships on Facebook are redrawing the Swiss borders allow you to see the geographical connections made on Facebook in each of Switzerland's 26 cantons. Enter the name of a canton into NZZ's map and you can view a choropleth visualization of where people in

Here/Say Media has been inspired by claims that burglary is on the rise in San Francisco to map out the change in the number of burglaries in San Francisco since the start of the Covid epidemic. Here / Say's Interactive Map of SF COVID Burglaries shows which census tracts have seen a rise in burglaries and which tracts have seen a fall (comparing the period March 16 2020 to June 1 2021 with Jan

This century urban sprawl has already contributed to the equivalent of 5 new Delawares in the United States. The Washington Post has analyzed data from the U.S. Geological Survey to discover where fracking, retirement communities and new industrial development has led to urban scrawl in many American cities. An interactive map in Where America’s developed areas are growing uses two different

 Yesterday the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its landmark report into climate change. The warnings in the report couldn't be more stark. Climate scientists say that we are about to witness increasingly extreme heatwaves, large scale flooding events and more severe droughts. According to the report we are likely to pass the catastrophic milestone of 1.5 degrees

The UK's Office of National Statistics has been comparing data from the 1961 and 2011 censuses to see how life in England & Wales changed over the course of those 50 years. In Census unearthed: explore 50 years of change from 1961 a number of interactive maps allow you to directly compare how life has changed in the UK over half a century. According to the 1961 census returns around 7% of

Hiroya Kato has written up an interesting tutorial on how to create a Scrollytelling map which uses Mapbox's Free Camera API to follow a route on a 3D map. You can see what this scrollytelling approach involves by viewing Hirova's demo map Climbing Mount Fuji.As you scroll through Climbing Mount Fuji you are taken on a journey along Mt Fuji's Yoshida route from the fifth station to the summit.

Every week the Makeover Monday community works on creating data visualizations of a different data set. This week the community is working on visualizing London's Bike Collisions in London (2005-2019). This means that if you explore the Twitter hashtag #MakeoverMonday over the next few days you will find lots if links to interactive maps which show where and when bike accidents occurred on

Climate Impact Lab's Climate Impact Map shows you how climate change is likely to effect the climate where you live. Using the map you can see how global heating will increase annual temperatures where you live in the nxt 20 years, by the middle of this century and by the end of the century. The Climate Impact Map uses a number of global climate models to show predictions as to how the climate

So far over a million butterflies have been counted in this year's Big Butterfly Count. Every year in the UK the Butterfly Conservation organization asks the public to take part in a national survey into the health of the UK's butterfly species by spending 15 minutes counting butterflies. This year's Big Butterfly Count is from the 16th July to the 8th August. Since 1976 76% of UK butterfly

Lock-down and the rise of home-working is having a big impact on the property market as home-owners begin to change their property expectations and priorities. Online real estate company Zillow has been looking at where house prices are rising fastest, in order to determine where it is that people now want to live.The simple assumption that many people have been making is that the flexibility

The Morphocode Explorer is a useful interactive mapping tool for visualizing spatial and demographic data in New York. The tool allows you to drag a pedshed circle (a circle with a walking distance as the radius) around a map of New York City to explore multiple different data sets at the same time.Using the tool you can explore different social and spatial aspects of New York neighborhoods,

Google’s Open Buildings is a new open dataset containing the location and geometry of 516 million buildings across Africa.The data includes the polygon outline of each building, its size in square meters and a confidence score of it being a valid building.Anyone can download the full dataset of over 500,000,000 buildings or download smaller datasets for individual level 4 S2 cells. The full

The Federal Aviation Authority receives over 100 reports a month of unauthorized unmanned aircraft (UAS). Flying drones around aircraft and airports is both dangerous and illegal. Which is why there is mounting concern over the dramatic increase in incidents involving authorized drones over the last two years.UAV Geography's Map of Drone Incidents plots the location of all the UAS sighting

Last week the CDC updated its Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated People. This guidance includes the recommendation for "fully vaccinated people to wear a mask in public indoor settings in areas of substantial or high transmission."You can use the CDC's own COVID-19 Integrated County View interactive map to find out if your county is currently one of these areas of 'substantial'

The Legend of Zelda takes places predominantly in the land of Hyrule. There are many well-known landmarks in the Kingdom Hyrule, including, Hyrule Castle, the Lost Woods, Kakariko Village, Death Mountain and Lake Hylia.For over 35 years video game players have been exploring the world of Link and Princess Zelda in Nintendo's Legend of Zelda franchise. They can now also explore Hyrule using

Both Google and Facebook are spending millions of dollars expanding their shiny campuses along the waterfront of San Francisco Bay. Campuses which thanks to climate change could be underwater within a few decades. Now you might be struggling to find a downside in this scenario but both Google and Facebook could be saved by hugely expensive anti-flooding measures. The costs of which are likely

Urban Labs has been exploring how the construction of highways through city neighborhoods in the 20th Century consistently involved the destruction of thriving black businesses and communities. The legacy of these highways has been to divide and permanently blight many traditional black neighborhoods in America's cities.The Interstate Highway System was championed by President Dwight D.