A tool to plot modern addresses on a map of the Earth. The tool defaults to a view from 240 ma ago, smack in the middle of the Pangaea supercontinent era, but you can select views from 750 ma ago right up to the present.
Tag: visualization
Imaginary cities
A Japanese graphic designer has made it his life’s work to design an improbably realistic and detailed map of a city that doesn’t exist.
Nagomuru City, located in a country called Naira that very closely resembles Japan but isn’t quite the same place, has everything you could want from the city you live in, from house numbers to subways to convenience stores to art colleges to 1970s housing complexes to ancient temples, except the possibly desirable quality of actually existing in 3 dimensions.
Lot Sale
New York City has a tradition of selling property for only $1. This token transaction amount, as we mentioned in a previous post, is often used as a development incentive for potential buyers, who need to show they have plans and the funds to execute their vision. Now, thanks to the $1 LOTS project, we can see all of the city-owned lots of land sold to developers for $1 since Mayor Bill de Blasio took office in January 2014.
Darkness
Darkness is either really good, or really bad. fascinating. lower light levels are both due to better technology and tragedy.
At their core, night lights are a generally human phenomenon. As such, they are tempting proxies for things like standard of living and economic activity. An illuminated place, sufficient to be detected by an orbiting satellite, represents the substantial influence we have on pushing back the darkness of the nighttime sky.
Oumuamua
Astronomers have discovered what seems to be the first “interstellar object” speeding through our solar system at 25km per second.
Satellites
It’s getting packed up there.
There are more than 1300 active satellites orbiting earth right now. The satellites are sized according to their launch mass and are colored by their country
stuffin.space is a real-time 3D map of all the crap floating in circles around planet Earth, much of it put there by us.
Police HUDs
interesting info overlays that the police have access to.
Subway Calories
Created by UK-based pharmacy site, Treated.com, this New York City map shows the calories a person can burn by walking between subway stops. Taking a stroll between 14 St. Union Square to 8 St. NYU, for instance, burns a whopping 45 calories, while a leisurely jaunt from Astor Pl. to Bleeker Street cuts off 31 calories.
Roman Empire subway map
Explore the Peutinger Map presents The Peutinger Map in different ways, including with overlays and lists of geographical features. But what’s The Peutinger Map? Also known as Tabula Peutingeriana, it is a Medieval copy of highly stylized 4th Century map of the Roman road network, extending to India. Jacob Ford explains why it is often compared to modern public transit maps and then redraws 1 section as a New York Metro map.
Mapping NYC Changes
Here’s where New York City’s getting whiter (in green on the map). The red areas are the 25 sub-boroughs with declining white populations—none of which were in the gentrifying neighborhoods identified by the Furman Center. The population of white residents increased in every gentrifying neighborhood from 2000 to 2015. 8 gentrifying neighborhoods logged the biggest increases, topped by Bedford-Stuyvesant, at 1235%.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 
