Botanical Imperative: Why Cellular Network Towers Get Disguised as Trees
99% Invisible
Engineers at Bell Labs first envisioned a modern cellular communications network back in the 1940s. Wireless towers, they imagined, would create biological cell-like coverage areas. But that was the extent of their organic metaphor — they never would have guessed that the towers themselves would be designed to look “natural.”
Mapping Poverty in Victoria, Australia
Maps mania
774,000 Victorians live in poverty. That is more than 1 in 10 of the entire population, and rates of poverty are even higher in some neighborhoods. VCOSS Poverty Maps allows you to view overall poverty rates for each suburb and to view the poverty rates by gender, age, employment status, housing tenure and household type.
Map of the week
Map of the week’s curated list of the best cartographic coverage of the disastrous California wildfires.
Mapping Armistice Day: 11 November 1918
Worlds Revealed: Geography and maps at the Library of Congress
At 11 am on November 11, 1918, the long and terrible fighting that was known as the Great War ended. The final hour of the final day of World War I, as it is known today, was documented by the United States Army on a large 36″ x 32″ map sheet.
Maps mania
Authorial London is an interactive map of references to London locations which can be found in the works and biographies of the writers who have lived there. The map allows you to explore the places where authors lived in London and the locations which they wrote about.
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