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Redlining maps show racism and white supremacy "in 1930s technicolor"
"But then you find the maps", such as this one of the Chicago Metropolitan Area in 1940. This is how Robert Gioielli describes the insight and specificity of the maps highlighted in the post, "The...
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Age of Sail-style map of the Mandelbrot Set
Bill Tavis's beautifully-drawn "map" of the Mandelbrot Set [via Kottke] looks like a chart from the age of sail. Like other maps of yore, it's been widely ripped-off by imitators, but the original...
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The art of map-making design for tabletop wargames
I was first drawn to tabletop wargames and RPGs, not by the themes or the gameplay. The first things that captured my attention were the cool-looking hex maps of wargames and the polyhedral dice of...
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Curious about your neighborhood's climate impact?
Luckily, The New York Times has you covered. Three journalists have created a detailed, helpfully color-coded heatmap of major American cities, allowing you to compare the climate footprint of your...
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Trans rights map of USA shows where the law is headed
Erin Reed is a researcher, mother, content creator, activist, and writer. As a trans woman who uses she/her pronouns, Reed works "to achieve gender justice for queer and marginalized people through...
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Time-lapse map of the colonization (and decolonization) of Africa
Maps help me learn. Visualizing historical processes with geographic representations and symbols can help tell different stories and facilitate remembering details about those new stories. Visualizing...
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New survey reveals land under Antarctica
A team led by scientists at the University of California, Irvine, developed high-precision maps of the land under Antarctica's immense volume of ice and snow. Among the most striking results of the...
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See what the White Collar Crime Early Warning System (WCCEWS) thinks of your...
George Zimmerman profiled Trayvon Martin by making assumptions about his appearance and clothing, negative meanings intended to criminalize and then justify Zimmerman killing Martin, while claiming...
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Spy Balloon Simulator lets you watch your floaty baby ride the wind currents...
Spy Balloon Simulator lets you clicks a point on the map and watch as your virtual balloon floats on waves of wind over the sea and land. Naturally, setting one off from Chinese territory offers it a...
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Mapologies is a website full of interesting cultural and linguistic maps
Here's a website full of really interesting maps. It's called "Mapologies" and has the tag line "maps & other fictions." The website states that it focuses on "a range of interests like languages,...
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Collection of vintage maps of Akihabara
Matt Sephton's been collecting maps of Akihabara for years and now has a collection spanning from the 1970s to the 21st century. It starts out in the radio era, grows into the age of personal computing...
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Map of medieval murders in London, with the known history of each
The London Medieval Murder Map has 142 of the city's greatest hits, as chronicled by Coroner's rolls, which are surprisingly detailed and approachable. The cases displayed on this map are derived from...
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Google Maps "directed man to drive off collapsed bridge"
The family of a man who drove into a creek and drowned following directions provided by Google Maps in darkness is suing the company. At the heart of their lawsuit: Google failed to update their map...
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American? Don't go to these countries: Russia, Belarus, Iran, Syria,...
The U.S. State Department has published new guidance, and a handy map, of the counties Americans should not go to. Getting you home again might be expensive. Iran has been assigned the highest warning...
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Amtrak Explorer: online interactive map of the U.S. passenger train system
Amtrak Explorer is an interactive map of America's public railway network created by Rachel Binx, a creative technologist specializing in data visualization, mapping, and other things. You can click on...
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Explore Toyko's subway system in 3D
Mini Tokyo 3D is a real-time 3D map of the city's very large subway system. At the time of writing, it is 11:24 p.m. on Tuesday, October 10th, 2023, and the westbound local line train is about to pull...
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A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (1860)
I'm delighted to imagine Victorian readers scandalizing themselves with the Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, published in London in 1860. [via Hacker News] Could you have learnt to...
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Need some solitude? Here's a map of the loneliest road in every US state
Need some solitude? Here's a map of the loneliest road in every US state. This map/list, presented by Atlas Obscura and created by telematics specialists at Geotab, is perfect if you're looking to hit...
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A free, open-source interactive world map
Protomaps is a free and open-source map of the world for use in your websites, apps, and other projects: an alternative to hosted services, freer than Google Maps and simpler to adapt than...
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Live map of passenger train locations in North America
Trains.fyi is a real-time map of train in the U.S. and Canada. This project amalgamates data from train GPS tracking and displays all trains on one map. Data is updated every minute, and the map...
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An interactive map of tiny islands around the world
The Obscure Islands website contains a map of them around the world, and it's so much fun to explore. Each island on the map comes with a description about its land and history. Today I learned of...
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Aldi price map
Aldi Price Map shows the prices of various goods at Aldi in the U.S. Note there are two Aldis, which split after the family quarreled over whether to sell tobacco, and this is Aldi South. Aldi North is...
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Zoomable, explorable online version of Fra Mauro's 15-century world map
Fra Mauro's World Map is a zoomable, explorable online version of his 15th-century mappa mundi. It comes complete with exhaustive resources, videos and texts about the historical context, too. The...
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Oculi Mundi: online collection of ancient maps
Keep an eye on the world as our ancestors saw it at Oculi Mundi, an interactive collection of ancient maps you can explore and zoom into. It includes atlases of both Earth and sky. Oculi Mundi is a...
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Why what3words is the best location app you're not using
What3words is the best location app, but people aren't using it enough. Everyone has GPS on their phones, so they may see a new way of identifying locations as unnecessary. However, there are instances...
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Map of ships sunk during World War II
15,399 ships were sunk in World War II, with a tonnage of 43,658,518 and 567,618 casualities. Sunken Ships of the Second World War presents the data as a handsome single-serve site. You can click on...
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From wall art to wallet fattener: The world of old maps
When I was a kid, I loved old maps — there was something incredibly evocative about imagining how people of a bygone era lived, comparing the streets of then to the streets of now. It felt like the...
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