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The New York Public Library Has a “Digital Time-Travel Service” For Its Historical Maps
The New York Public Library's NYC Space/Time Directory is a "digital time-travel service" for their collections of maps and geospatial data.
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America’s new tobacco crisis: The rich stopped smoking, the poor didn’t
The nation has largely won the war on smoking, unless you’re uneducated or live in a rural area.
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A Very Modern Map of Britain's Ancient Roman Roads
Let's take the VII from Londinium to Letocetum.
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These 360° Drone Maps of California’s Wildfire Damage Are Horrifying
10,000 photos of a charred neighborhood, stitched together. By Samantha Cole.
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Startling maps show every terrorist attack worldwide over the last 20 years
Data from the Global Terrorism Database compiled into a stunning data visualization puts two decades of terrorist activity into startling perspective.
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Flight Stream
Experiment to map many of the airline flights between world airports. It's <strong>not</strong> showing real time positions (which would be amazing but I don't have that data) but rather, great-circle routes between major airports based on flight data from the Open Flights
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Four Centuries of Mapping the Subterranean World
Boston Public Library's Leventhal Map Center is exhibiting maps of volcanoes, catacombs, mines, subways, sewage systems, and other underground cartography.
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This revealing map shows the world's ships in real time
The ocean is a big place, which makes it a pretty difficult thing to wrap our brains around. It covers over 70% of the Earth’s surface, is home to millions of species of life, and it makes up 97% of all water on the planet. But, with this massive size and ubiquity also comes a significant challenge for humans interested in trade: it must be constantly traversed in order for us to move goods around.
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World health rankings.
The most comprehensive listing of country health profiles and world health rankings for all leading causes of death ever assembled in one place. (2014-WHO)
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Pangea Supercontinent With Modern Countries Labeled
This is a map of the Pangea supercontinent created by digital artist Massimo Pietrobon with all the modern countries labeled.
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Strava has published details about secret military bases, and an Australian was the first to know
A fitness tracking app is revealing potentially sensitive military information thanks to its global heatmap.
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Your Mobile Phone Can Give Away Your Location, Even if You Tell It Not To
US military officials were recently caught off guard by revelations that service members' digital fitness trackers were storing the locations of their workouts – including at or near military bases and clandestine sites around the world.
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The Geeks Who Put a Stop to Pennsylvania's Partisan Gerrymandering
Pennsylvania's congressional map has long been aggressively gerrymandered, silencing Democratic voters. These are the experts who helped change that for good.
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Billions of Birds Migrate. Where Do They Go?
Migratory birds have made their thousand-mile flights for millennia, but we are just now learning to map their mesmerizing journeys.
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Everyone Wants To Go Home During Extra Innings — Maybe Even The Umps
The team that’s closer to winning tends to get more favorable ball and strike calls when the game goes into extras.
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The Least Likely Places to Be Struck By Lightning, Mapped
Where to go if you don't enjoy sudden electric bolts from the sky.
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What do The Matrix and data sharing have in common?
It's the question that drives us.
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Is the US Leaning Red or Blue? It All Depends on Your Map
Self-proclaimed "cartonerd" Ken Field published a gallery of alternative election maps designed to reveal markedly different stories about the US.
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The World's Newest, Most Gloriously Designed Maps
Cartographers, rejoice. By Anika Burgess.
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How the world sees the U.S. and Trump in 9 charts
America’s global image today is complicated. On balance, people around the world continue to give the United States favorable ratings and say it respects the individual liberties of its people. More countries also prefer the U.S. as the world’s leading power over China. At the same time, many express frustration about America’s role in the world and say they have little confidence in President Donald Trump to do the right thing in world affairs, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of 25 nations.
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