Maps Mania
The European Space Agency has released a new interactive map which shows how much of the world has been built upon by the human race.
Map of the week
Data illustrator Eleanor Lutz has created a really nice topographic map of Mercury.
99 percent invisible
Is our blaring modern soundscape harming our health? Cities are noisy places and while people are pretty good at tuning it out on a day-to-day basis our sonic environments have serious, long-term impacts on our mental and physical health.
John Gravois to GeoHipster: “Lift while you climb.”
Geohipster
Interview with John Gravois, a developer at https://showrunner.io. Previously, as a Product Engineer at Esri he helped build ArcGIS Hub, maintained a handful of Leaflet plugins and coordinated with developers across the company to steer Open Source strategy.
Get Your Global Heating Stripes
Maps Mania
Last year Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science at the University of Reading, released a powerful data visualization to illustrate how temperatures have risen around the globe over the last century. His warming stripes visualisation shows the average yearly temperature for every year over 100+ years.
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