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Tool comparing london’s geography through different historical maps from 1746, 1869-80 and current google maps & satellite views. There’s also the possibility of adding data to the map from the website on things like the grocers alley, which I think is an interesting way to look at how the city has transformed

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http://www.urbanobservatory.org/compare/index.html?group%3Df4373b6eae144e26a634937269d336ec%26noun%3DPeople%26theme%3DPopulation%2520Density%26cities%3DNew%2520York%26cities%3DLondon%26cities%3DTokyo%26minLevel%3D8%26level%3D11%26maxLevel%3D16%26dualPane%3Dfalse

Super detailed comparison tool for cities- what’s really great about this is the ability to look at it through different variables and the linked zoom of different cities

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High-definition Maps of Urban Perception

An MIT CityLabs project (PlacePulse) had people report their perceptions of safety in different places. StreetScore is a project by another MIT team of researchers & students who mapped the scores given to places from the PlacePulse project with green corresponding to safest and going through yellow and orange until red-representing most unsafe areas. Clicking on any point in the map gives the score and an approximate address.

PlacePulse (http://pulse.media.mit.edu/) is interesting in that it’s basically a game that compares two pictures of places and asks questions like which looks livelier or cleaner? I’m not sure how accurate this is / if there’s another methodology that would produce the same volume of response but be more accurate

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Usually, when we say “American slavery” or the “American slave trade,” we mean the American colonies or, later, the United States. But as we discussed ...

Animated map of slaveships carrying slaves from Africa to the Carribean, Americas& Europe from 1545-1860. The animation’s projection (Gall-Peters) puts the focus on Africa and the speed&volume of the balls gives a lot of weight to the force of the slave trade - it would be great to see where exactly the ships were coming from/going to

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This interactive map allows users to track the scope and type of weapons trafficking over time (both imports and exports) to each country in the world.

Erik (el2723)

Europe is experiencing the biggest refugee crisis since World War II. Based on data from the United Nations, we clarify the scale of the crisis.

This interactive map depicts refugee flows toward Europe in a visualizing appealing way. Data are drawn from UN statistics. The website does a nice job offering comparisons that make it easier for users to grasp the number of refugees (e.g. the number of Syrian refugees in Europe can fit on 14 soccer fields)

-Erik (el2723)

xkcd’s Worst Hurricane memory map and California Droughts diagram.

- Zach (zaz2001)

The elevators to the observatory atop 1 World Trade Center show an animated time lapse that recreates the development of New York City’s skyline, from the 1500s to today.

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The U.S. housing market has recovered from the crisis that plunged the country into recession. But a new analysis by The Washington Post shows that the recovery has been deeply uneven.

Nice data visualization from the Washington Post on the spatial inequalities of the housing market since 2004. Uses maps both on the macro-scale and broken out by zip code for individual cities.

- Zach (zaz2001)

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Explore locations from the hidden London in the Skyscraper Throne trilogy by Tom Pollock with this interactive map.

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‘Mapping female vs. male street names’

Aruna Sankaranarayanan and her team in Bangalore developed a series of map to illustrate the gender disparity among street names in a handful of major cities (Bengaluru, Chennai, London, Mumbai, New Delhi, Paris, and San Francisco). Street names were gathered through OpenStreetMap and parsed by NamSor, which supposedly guesses “ the likely country of origin of a personal name, based on the sociolinguistics of the name (language, culture)”. Blue roads were, according to the project, named after men, and pink were named after women. All cities mapped so far are overwhelmingly represented by streets named after men. (eh2699).

Mapping the Footprints of Paris’ Buildings

The project Histoire du bâti Parisien shows the evolution of Paris’ buildings throughout the ages. The legend - which is categorized by specific time frames (which are followed by the number of units built in that duration) allows the users to toggle for different eras, and the zoom-in function reveals more details about the structures. A very interesting project with a beautiful design. (eh2699)

This interactive, designed and built by Slate’s Andrew Kahn, gives you a sense of the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade across time, as well as the flow of transport and eventual destinations. The dots represent individual slave ships and correspond to the number of enslaved people on each voyage. If you pause the map and click on a dot, you’ll learn about the ship’s flag, its origin point, its destination, and its history in the slave trade. The interactive animates more than 20,000 voyages cataloged in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. The graph at the bottom accumulates statistics based on the raw data used in the interactive and only represents a portion of the actual slave trade—about one-half of the number of enslaved Africans who actually were transported away from the continent.

- Zach (zaz2001)

Tulare Lake, California

Here's another piece by Matthew Rangel - this one is a representation of the pool contours of Tulare Lake in San Joaquin Valley, California. The contours of the lake is filled by prints of the species that used to be local to the region, but are all either extinct or rarely migratory to the area - in a way, representing a form of an extinct civilization. The map could be read as a a heat map, representing the concentration of these species back when it flourished, or it could also be a representation of the topography of the lake.

Source: http://www.rangelstudio.com/images/tulare-lake

- Nadia (nas2174)

Laliderer Wande

I thought this piece by Matthew Rangel is quite intriguing because it is an intersection between a few different forms of visual representation. At first, your attention is drawn to the sketch/photograph of the mountain range - but the closer you look, you will see that there is a sketch of the topographic map of the same mountain range. There is also another form of path represented by the red line overlaying the topographic map and the sketches, which reads as some sort of timeline - I assume it to represent the journey taken by the artist/cartographer during his time there. To go to his online studio: http://www.rangelstudio.com/images/laliderer-wande#PhotoSwipe1461549685320

- Nadia (nas2174)

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