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Have you ever watched a film and thought, “Wait, I know that street” ? A new interactive mapping project makes it easy to find out which iconic movie scenes were filmed right around the corner from your house. Movie Scene Map turns the globe into an open-air film set. It allows you to explore real-world locations from
The 15-Minute City has become one of the most influential ideas in contemporary urban planning. Popularised by urbanist Carlos Moreno, the concept is beautifully simple: cities should be designed so that people can reach the things they need for everyday life - shops, healthcare, schools, green spaces, culture and leis
My home town of Crawley is apparently the undisputed heavyweight champion of British music. At least, that is what you might conclude from the UK Music Cities Explorer . When the interactive map's results are normalized by population, Crawley appears as the largest circle on the map, giving it the highest Spotify-liste
MapDraw I use Organic Maps every day. Currently, I'm using it to follow the London Loop , with the route loaded as a GPX track on the map. I often get annoyed with the London Loop route - particularly when it takes me along a busy road when I can see what looks like a much more pleasant alternative just a few metres aw
Aside from maps, I would say my next biggest obsession is coffee. For the last couple of months, my favourite bean, Finca La Bolsa, has been out of season and unavailable from my local roasters. I've therefore been using the opportunity to experiment with beans from different regions, different taste profiles and diffe
One Day on Rails maps more than 70,000 train journeys across Europe during one single day this summer. It also maps 5,737 journeys across the USA, 34,206 journeys in Tokyo and 11,075 journeys in London. One Day On Rails visualizes an entire day's railway activity on one single animated interactive map. Rather than show
How long is the coastline of Great Britain? Go on. Have a guess. It sounds like the sort of question that should have a straightforward answer. Surely someone, at some point, has walked around Britain with a very long tape measure and worked it out. Unfortunately, the coastline has other ideas. The problem is that Brit
DrillerDB Underground is very different from a conventional map, which presents the Earth's surface as a flat 2D view from directly above. Instead, it offers a striking oblique 3D view where the surface of the earth has been sliced open like a layer cake. Rising above the horizon is standard aerial imagery draped over
Anyone who has ever flown from America to Europe has probably noticed that the outward flight usually takes considerably less time than the return journey. The reason is the jet stream - fast-moving winds high in the atmosphere that generally blow from west to east. Flying east, aircraft can get a significant push from
SmokyMountains.com has been producing its fall foliage maps for more than a decade. The Smoky Mountains 2026 Fall Foliage Prediction Map has now been released to visualize this year's expected progression of fall foliage across the contiguous US. Rather than simply highlighting where autumn is happening now, the intera
What would the world look like if countries were resized according to the number of people living in them? You can explore that question in Gapmover , an map that shows how the relative size of countries has changed from 1800 and is projected to change through to 2100. Unlike a conventional map, this animated populatio
If you want to take a trip through the history of Richmond, Virginia, Yesterdays is a wonderful place to start. This interactive map brings together thousands of historical photographs and pins them to the places where they were taken. You can simply browse the map and see what photographs have been recorded in differe
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