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How Writers Map Their Imaginary Worlds
A new book collects fantastic literary geographies.
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How mapmakers help indigenous people defend their lands
With help from cartographers, native peoples’ hand-drawn maps of their own territory become a tool against exploitation.
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The Neighborhoods Where Kids Have a Better Shot at Escaping Poverty
New research shows that neighborhoods just miles apart that look similar may offer vastly different chances to climb up the economic ladder.
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Wizards, Moomins and pirates: the magic and mystery of literary maps
From Moominland to the Marauder’s Map, writers Robert Macfarlane, Frances Hardinge and Harry Potter cartographer Miraphora Mina unfold their favourite maps
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The World's Newest, Most Gloriously Designed Maps
Cartographers, rejoice. By Anika Burgess.
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Google Maps now (accurately) shows that Earth is round
Google Maps now offers a refreshing new angle of Earth. That is: a more accurate one. Google recently announced that its map would now depict a round Earth, according to The Verge. Now, when you zoom all the way out, Earth appears to be round, not flat. So far the change is only for the program’s desktop version, it will still be flat on a mobile device.
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Google Maps is no longer #flatearth
Go to Google Maps and zoom out. Halfway out, the map’s perspective changes from a traditional flat map view to an interactive globe. Zoom all the way out and the Earth is presented as a globe with landmasses of the appropriate size.
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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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How Mars’s Close Encounters Helped Us Map the Red Planet
National Geographic’s archive has maps of Mars dating back to when some scientists still thought there might be Martian-made canals on its surface. By Betsy Mason.
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Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up
I’m not sure if you’re aware, but the launch of Apple Maps went poorly. After a rough first impression, an apology from the CEO, several years of patching holes with data partnerships and some glimmers of light with long-awaited transit directions and improvements in business, parking and place data, Apple Maps is still not where it needs to be to be considered a world class service. Maps needs fixing.
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Apple Maps to Be Rebuilt 'From the Ground Up' With Street-Level and Satellite Data Over the Next Year
Apple today announced that it will be rebuilding its Maps app "from the ground up" with street-level data collected from its fleet of Apple Maps vehicles, high resolution satellite imagery, and anonymized, random segments of navigation sessions from iPhone users, which Apple refers to as "probe data."
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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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Olaus Magnus’ Sea Serpent
The terrifying Great Norway Serpent, or Sea Orm, is the most famous of the many influential sea monsters depicted and described by 16th-century ecclesiastic, cartographer, and historian Olaus Magnus. Joseph Nigg, author of Sea Monsters, explores the iconic and literary legacy of the controversial serpent from its beginnings in the medieval imagination to modern cryptozoology.
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What the World Would Look Like if All the Ice Melted
If we keep burning fossil fuels indefinitely, global warming will eventually melt all the ice at the poles and on mountaintops, raising sea level by 216 feet. Explore what the world’s new coastlines would look like.
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‘Earth’ in European languages
The English word "Earth", German "Erde", Swedish "jorden", and similar expressions in other Germanic languages come from Proto-Germanic *erþō, which meant, well, "earth". They are shown in brown
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Google Plus codes - Open Location Codes
Plus codes are a global short code system for locations. These codes can be used on Google Maps to get directions to a home or business.
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True World Stories Map
Find and read true short stories from real people by locating the place where they took place on the world map. All stories are related to a country, a city, or even a specific neighborhood or street. How good would it be to fill the map with stories from all over the world? Collaborate and share your own stories!
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α.vez | Making the World From Scratch
Javascript has a fun and easy-to-use way to create graphics in the browser called Canvas. Canvas has a relatively simple 2D API and a complex 3D API (webGL). I’ve been particularly interested in the 2D API because it’s simple; when I started using it I was able to create some pretty interesting and complex things quickly. In an effort to try to understand something about 3D graphics and how they work on a computer I decided to create a globe using the 2D Canvas API. You might ask, why would you use the 2D API to create a 3D graphic like a globe?
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Google Maps is Different in Other Countries
A lot of the disputed borders in the world are islands that multiple nations claim ownership of. The problem is there’s no differences on Google Maps as the borders are visually the same. For the purposes of this video I have assumed that Google is politically neutral. There are a lot of good arguments against that assumption, but that’s a video for another day.
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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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