Category Archives: Maps

One Man Single-Handedly Added Zimbabwe to Google Maps Street View

“I found it quite jarring that a lot of the countries in the region were not on the map…We should do more to make sure that those communities are represented.” Have you checked out your childhood home on Google Maps … Continue reading

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Population Mountains | Pudding

This is a story about how to perceive the population of cities. By Matt Daniels   […] From my perspective (albeit a US-centric one), it was eye-opening to see how the world’s population is so unevenly distributed. For example, compare … Continue reading

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NASA Is Naming Landmarks Discovered on Mars in Navajo Language

Canyon de Chelly National Monument (“Tséyi’” in Navajo) in Arizona is located on Navajo Nation land. (Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech)   “We hope that having our language used in the Perseverance mission will inspire more of our young Navajo people to understand … Continue reading

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This Diagram of Earth Is a Lie

When you learned about the Earth’s interior in school, you were probably shown a diagram that looked like a perfect layer cake. But we’ve known for a long time that that diagram is… inaccurate at best, and leaves out information … Continue reading

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Maps That Help You Understand The World

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“Spready Mercury” and Other Scottish Snow Plow Names | Kottke

This is a map showing the real-time location of Scotland’s fleet of snow plows (which they call “road gritters”). As Jackie Sojico discovered, Scotland names their plows and some of them are hilarious. Some of the plows are named things … Continue reading

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NYC’s New Digital Subway Map | Kottke

New York City has a new digital subway map that reflects the current status of the subway lines. And you can even see the trains moving, right on the map. (Finally!!) Visually, the new map combines the styles of two … Continue reading

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Animated Maps: Submarine Cables

Deep on the ocean floor you will find communication cables made to carry signals from one land to another. The first undersea communications cables, laid in the 1850s, carried telegraphy. Now these cables carry our phone and Internet traffic. Yet, … Continue reading

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Stamps, Scientific Charts, and Hand-Drawn Maps Occupy Every Inch of Travel Notebooks by José Naranja

Author and artist José Naranja ensures he won’t forget any detail of his year-round travels across the globe through a meticulous and unique documentation process. Formerly an aeronautic engineer, Naranja now archives his thoughts while visiting foreign countries by hand-crafting journals … Continue reading

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193 – The Border Between the ‘Two Englands’ | Map, Uk history, England

  In Great Britain as in the US, two cultural sub-nations identify themselves (and the other) as North and South. The US’s North and South are quite clearly delineated, by the states’ affiliations during the Civil War (which in the … Continue reading

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