Brilliant Maps
Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time.
By Ian Wright.
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Population Along The Danube River
Map created by Sebastian Gräff at theeuropeancorrespondentThe map above shows the population density within a 50km band along the Danube river: Here are the cities shown: Regensburg ~145,000 Ulm ~130,000 Vienna ~2,000,000 Bratislava ~475,000 Budapest …
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ckochis.com | Craig Kochis
Engineering articles by Craig Kochis.
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Serve Protomaps Tiles with NodeJS
How to serve protomaps tiles with NodeJS.
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
The David Rumsey Collection includes 18th and 19th century historical North and South American atlases, globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and separate maps including wall, pocket, and manuscript.
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A Mile Long Map At Burning Man 2024
Can a map be a mile long? Kevin Kelly (founding editor of Wired Magazine) and David Rumsey created one with The Speed of The Earth art installation, a roughly one mile long line of 30 …
By David Rumsey, 305 words
Doug McCune - Data Artist
I'm an Oakland artist who embraces data exploration and map making in an attempt to come to terms with the chaos of urban environments.
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Friends
20246″ x 6″ x 1″Bronze, black patina The post Friends first appeared on Doug McCune.
Imagico.de | blog
By Christoph Hormann.
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Drawing the line #4 – Plumbing
This post adds another chapter to my previous series of posts on line signatures in maps. Back in the first part of the series i explained and illustrated how the sophisticated techniques in using line …
KnowWhere - GIScussions
Combines my thoughts and observations on UK geobusiness, with some largely irrelevant endeavours to incorporate my love of Arsenal with geography.
By Steven Feldman.
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Updated 7 months ago
W3W – It’sGetting.Better.AlltheTime
Excuse the corny title and associated video but I couldn’t resist it. What3Words’s accounts for 2023 have just been published and the cynics who have doubted W3W’s commercial model were confounded by the outstanding progress …
Lat × Long
A weblog exploring and documenting geospatial technology, data and standards on the Web.
By Oliver Roick.
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"GeoAI: key developments & insights"
Link: https://anitagraser.com/2024/11/04/geoai-key-developments-insights/ Off the back of a specialist meeting on GeoAI, Anita Graser shares a summary of recent research from scholars in the field.
Mapping London
Highlighting the best London maps.
By Ollie O'Brien, James Cheshire.
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Mapping the Tube: 1863-2023
The Map House, a wonderful gallery in Knightsbridge in central London which is itself over 100 years old, has just launched a month-long exhibition specifically
The Map Room
Blogging about maps since 2003.
By Jonathan Crowe.
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Karen Wynn Fonstad’s Belated NYT Obituary
Karen Wynn Fonstad, the cartographer of fantasy worlds best known for her Atlas of Middle-earth, died in March 2005 aged 59. Nearly twenty years later, she gets a comprehensive obituary in the New York Times,… …
By Jonathan Crowe, 42 words
Maps Mania
Dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.
By Keir Clarke.
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LA Fires Damage Inspections Dashboard
Around 105,000 Los Angeles residents remain under mandatory evacuation orders, with an additional 87,000 under evacuation warnings. Many of these residents are uncertain and deeply concerned about the safety of their homes. So far, more …
mvexel's Diary | OpenStreetMap
Recent diary entries.
By Martijn van Exel.
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A note on old imported landuse=quarry in the United States
In the early days of OSM, when the map was formless and empty, mappers in the United States conducted data imports without much discussion, because there were just not a lot of people to discuss …
somethingaboutmaps
My name is Daniel Huffman, and I am a cartographer.
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Journey’s End
Nearly five years ago, I completed a project that, to my mind, remains the most significant of my cartographic career: An Atlas of Great Lakes Islands, manually printed in cyanotype, with a hand-stitched binding. I …
By Daniel Huffman, 663 words
Stats, Maps n Pix
This blog features posts about statistics, maps and images.
By Alasdair Rae.
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Thanks for stopping by
It's time to bring the curtain down on Stats, Maps n Pix now, after 1.5 million page views and 150 posts. I'll leave the blog archived here, but if you're looking for me, you can …
By Alasdair Rae, 505 words
Strange Maps - Big Think
A special series by Frank Jacobs.
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Cosmic first: supermassive black hole caught “turning on” in real-time
At the center of practically every galaxy lies a supermassive black hole. The one in our Milky Way is about four million times the mass of our Sun, but others can be billions or even …
By Ethan Siegel, 2,584 words
Transit Maps
A site devoted to the design and social impact of transit maps - subway maps, metro maps, bus maps, rail maps, ferry maps and more!
By Cameron Booth.
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Submission – Official Map: Madrid Cercanías Rail Network, December 2024
Submitted by Juan, who says: I send the new version of the Renfe-Madrid Cercanías network. It seems to me that it has improved quite a lot the previous version. This previous version had crossroads, angles, …
By Cameron Booth, 420 words