In my office hangs an old black-and-white USGS geothermal map of Alaska from the 1980s. Most of the map is nearly blank — white space with just a few major rivers and roads transecting the landscape. The only color delineates Alaska’s known geothermal systems and their relative importance for future development: green for low to […]
In the continuous arms race between Apple and Google for GPS mapping, Apple may have taken the lead where its 3D imagery is concerned. Among the upcoming features presented at the WWDC keynote on Monday, Apple showed its next generation of 3D rendering for its Apple Maps app, complete with vastly-improved models, realistic trees, and […]
The popular wildfire tracking app is adding flood monitoring to its platform. It’s the first new disaster alert on the service, with many more to come.
Gupta considers how maps shape our understanding of Stanford's campus.
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The K6 Project aims to record and map red telephone boxes in the United Kingdom, these being a much-loved vestige of an earlier era in telecommunications. Unlike in other countries, some effort has gone into preserving the distinctive (mostly cast-iron) kiosks (and the similarly-painted postboxes), infrastructure for which the street has often found other uses. — Read the rest
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Hengefinder is an app that, given times and places, can help you experience "stunning moments when the sun or moon aligns perfectly with city streets and buildings."
A "henge" is when the sun or moon is perfectly framed by a street or appears to sit on top of a building … Astronomical calculations combined with road data deliver instant results.
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If I know a person's location, that's enough for me to estimate distances in my head using timezones faster than Google Maps loads.
Whether as a player or a DM a word-map can help you understand your fantasy world better than without a map at all.
This World History Timeline (2016) shows how nations, empires, and ruling groups shifted and evolved across the globe from 3000 BCE to the present. It takes a second to understand what you’re looking at — I thought it was a sort of stretched geographical map at first. Get your own here.
The chart is based on Joseph Priestley’s A New Chart of History (1769):
Priestley is best known for his…
It’s not a huge or feature-rich update, but it’s got some nice bug fixes and a few nifty goodies. Apple on Monday rolled out its macOS Tahoe 26.5 operating system update. The update offers the following fixes and changes along with dozens of security fixes: As usual, the update can be located, downloaded, and installed […]
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The website for the Abolitionist Guide to NYC is just getting started, but the site does house an Abolitionist Map of NYC.
The Abolitionist Map of NYC offers a geographic survey of incarceration and anti-carceral resistance in Manahatta from the Dutch colonization of Lenapehoking to the present day. The map highlights some of the first jails and prisons to exist in the area, the movement of…
A new NASA map shows how the sinking of Mexico City is uneven, with areas registering up to 2 centimeters per month.
Along with the distribution of the macOS Tahoe 26.5 release candidate build, Apple on Monday also seeded release candidate versions of its iOS 26.5 and iPadOS 26.5 mobile operating systems. Per Macworld, the updates are expected to bring the following fixes, changes, and new features: If you’re interested in testing the builds but aren’t a […]
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Algoe, New York, was a fake town at the heart of a legal dispute between two mapmakers.
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Nowhere on XKCD’s map of The Contiguous 41 States does it say that you need to find the missing seven states, but that’s immediately where my mind went. And it was a little more challenging than I anticipated — all of New England is present & accounted for somehow?
The answer key is here, along with this tidbit:
The United States did have exactly 41 states for a few days in 1889, from the…
I recently did some work around postal code and location search through my contribution with Civic Dashboard. Because of this, I came across the City of Toronto REST services for their geospatial data. Looking through Github code search and Google, I found very little information or other projects using those APIs. I got in touch […]
Legal Walls is a free global directory of spots where you can spray without getting arrested. The website plots each location on a world map with clickable markers — zoom in on any one to pull up a Google Street View, read community notes, and see whether the wall is still active. — Read the rest
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This is a map published in 1927 by Paramount Studios showing the areas of California & Nevada that doubled as shooting locations for far-flung locales, including Siberia, Wales, the Nile, New England, the Red Sea, and the Alps.
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About three weeks ago, Apple quietly released updates for its older watchOS 5 and watchOS 8 operating systems. The updates featured renewed security certificates and enabled iMessage and FaceTime to carry on working. Unfortunately, a number of users across various channels have reported that the watchOS 8.8.2 update is causing problems with their Apple Watches. […]
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8 éve csináltam egy ilyet, 4 éve azt hittem csak lusta voltam frissíteni, de aztán rájöttem, hogy azért nem csináltam mert nem volt kint az adatsor a valasztas.hu-n. Aztán most se volt, de kiadatigényeltem.
Itt térképre van véve az, hogy melyik külképviseletre honnan jöttek szavazni az emberek. A honnan az itt azt jelenti ahol a lakcímkártyájuk szerint tartózkodtak…
Google Maps has rolled out new features centered on photos, including one that can scan photos and videos on a user's phone to find the most relevant images for a particular location.
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Originally published July 21st 2023
this is still wip and needs more detailing but it's good enough for the game I am running in like 11 and a half hours.
The crowdsourced website and app Mahsa Alert provides citizens in Iran with crucial information amid the country’s ongoing war with the US and Israel—and an internet blackout.
"Often the places we grow up in... influence how we perceive and conceptualize the world, give us metaphors to live by, and shape the purpose that drives us."
Of the current 200 nations in the world, the British have invaded all but 22 of them. The lucky 22 include Sweden, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Bolivia, and Belarus. The full analysis is available in Stuart Laycock’s book, All the Countries We’ve Ever Invaded.
Stuart Laycock, the author, has worked his way around the globe, through each country alphabetically, researching its history to establish…
“Ask Maps,” rolling out today to Google Maps on mobile, lets you ask Gemini questions about locations and even to plan trips on your behalf.
Frustrated by fragmented war news, Anghami’s Elie Habib built World Monitor, a platform that fuses global data, like aircraft signals and satellite detections, to track conflicts as they unfold.
Per Betteridge’s law of headlines and also the map above, my answer is clearly no. You can try it yourself here…you draw them one at a time and it adds them to the map automagically. I’m going to blame my trackpad use a little, but I’m not sure I would have done much better had I drawn with a pencil and looked a map beforehand.
Update: Your periodic reminder that Senator Al Franken can draw…
The UWS looks calm and collected, and even carved from wood and glued together, it manages to ooze nostalgia.
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Even if modern trains are getting more and more friendly to passengers, many of them are still terribly lacking if we consider this aspect, at least in Italy. As I’m writing this post I’m travelling t...