MAPS. Peaks. Peaks is a visualization that explores the origin of mountain names in Switzerland. Visitors can explore the map and interact with the data through the filters on the right. At the bottom, there are three guided narratives. The piece is best experienced in a modern desktop browser (screenshot). If it doesn’t display properly, here’s a 2min walk-through. Exploring the data and finding the story The underlying data is an amazing set of numerous georeferenced names of built infrastructure and topographical features in Switzerland. To make sense of this big dataset (a 50MB text file with 224,369 lines of data), I built custom Node.js tools to filter, analyze, and convert the data into more understandable and manageable forms. During this data exploration phase, I came across countless interesting threads of stories that could potentially be told, and eventually settled on the rich intersection of mountains and languages.
Visual representation and rapid iteration Polish, polish, polish. Roman Roads – Sasha Trubetskoy. If you think this would make a cool poster, follow this link and send me a few bucks. I’ll email you a crisp PDF for printing! It’s finally done. A subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire of ca. 125 AD. Creating this required far more research than I had expected—there is not a single consistent source that was particularly good for this. The lines are a combination of actual, named roads (like the Via Appia or Via Militaris) as well as roads that do not have a known historic name (in which case I creatively invented some names).
How long would it actually take to travel this network? However, no sane Roman would use only roads where sea travel is available. Creative liberties taken The biggest creative element was choosing which roads and cities to include, and which to exclude. Obviously to travel from Petra to Gaza you would take a more or less direct road, rather than going to Damascus and “transferring” to the Via Maris. Mapping cultural heritage in the city of Sofia. A project by Morphocode. American Panorama. Maps Mania. Crowdsourced Architectural Salvage | Trashswag. Energy Maps. Cytoscape: An Open Source Platform for Complex Network Analysis and Visualization. Draw On Maps and Make Them Easily. Inside the Secret World of Russia's Cold War Mapmakers. It’s easy now, in an age when anybody can whip out a smartphone and call up a street map or high-res satellite image of any point on Earth with a few taps, to forget how hard it once was to come by geospatial knowledge.
In post-war Russia, men died in the pursuit of better maps. After World War II, Stalin ordered a complete survey of the Soviet Union. Though aerial photography had reduced the need for fieldwork by then, it didn’t eliminate it entirely, according to the 2002 paper by Alexey Postnikov, the Russian cartographer. Survey teams endured brutal conditions as they traversed Siberian wilderness and rugged mountains to establish networks of control points.
The program involved tens of thousands of surveyors and topographers, and hundreds of cartographers. A surveyor himself, Postnikov writes that on a survey expedition to remote southern Yakutiya in the 1960s he found a grim note scrawled on a tree trunk by one of his predecessors. It’s dated November 20, 1948. Every Tree in New York City, Mapped By Species. This interactive map projects the spread of a zombie apocalypse. Shows like The Walking Dead are great at presenting the overall environment of a zombie apocalypse, but rarely do they convey just how fast an end-of-days contagion would move. A pair of Cornell University grad students took it upon themselves to figure that part out, and now they've created an interactive map that shows you how long it would take for the shuffling undead to reach your front door.
Zombie-Town USA Mike Wehner Zombie-Town USA is extremely easy to use. Simply click anywhere on the map to place a single zombie and watch the mayhem unfold before your eyes. Using several adjustable parameters—including the speed at which infected people move and the likelihood that a bite from a zombie will result in immediate death—you can tweak the strain of the zombie infection and watch pattern change.
Alemi and Bierbaum, along with professors Christopher Myers and James Sethna, have authored a lengthy paper on the creation of the map and the complex algorithms that run it. 15 subway-style maps that explain everything but subways. Geograph’s Quixotic Effort To Get Photos Of Every Square Kilometer Of Great Britain And Ireland | FiveThirtyEight. Want to know what a website looked like in the past — say, this one at its March relaunch? The Internet Archive has you covered. But there’s no Wayback Machine for the world, and how it looked.
There is, however, one for the British Isles. It is called Geograph, and it contains photos of 97 percent of the 244,034 one-kilometer squares of Great Britain and 41 percent of Ireland and Northern Ireland’s 87,933 grid squares. Some are close-ups of fields, roads, buildings or signs. Others zoom out to capture whole villages, beaches or valleys. Geograph was started by geography enthusiasts, sponsored by the government, rescued from a chaotic collapse by its devoted contributors and populated with millions of photos from thousands of people around the island nations it covers. Smartphone and digital-camera owners are collectively carrying out a worldwide data-collection task: photographing every nook and cranny of the world. Snapping pictures is the easy and fun part. Niche appeal Endgame? Out-of-state commuters mapped. Wind map & forecast.
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