Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Weedmap Denver


For a few years instantly Weedmap has been mapping dispensaries selling medical marijuana inwards the United States. Now that Colorado has legalized the recreational piece of occupation as well as the sale of cannabis Weedmap has updated their map of Colorado to too exhibit non-medical retail outlets, where cannabis tin hold out legally purchased.

If you lot zoom inwards on Denver on WeedMap you lot volition instantly encounter novel 'A-Okay' map markers that exhibit the locations of responsible marijuana retail stores inwards the city. 'Users' tin conduct whatever of the stores displayed on the map to sentiment the store's amount address as well as the WeedMap rating for the store.

Sunday, October 30, 2022

Mapping Boston's Gas Leaks


The Conservation Law Foundation has released an in-depth study into Massachusetts’ antiquated natural gas distribution system. Much of the ageing Massachusetts’ gas pipeline organisation is rattling one-time in addition to prone to leaks, creating a pregnant world security in addition to environmental hazard.

The Conservation Law Foundation's study into Massachusetts' Triple Threat discusses inwards especial the security threat of gas leaks, the direct chances to the surroundings in addition to the terms to gas customers. Each of these original sections of the study is illustrated amongst an accompanying interactive map.


The 3 maps visualize gas leaks past times flat level, marsh gas emissions in addition to where gas leaks accept been repaired.

One frequent work that I come upward across inwards online long course of educational activity journalism is embedded maps that are squeezed into a pocket-sized infinite to relieve on valuable covert real-estate. The Massachusetts' Triple Threat study manages to neatly overcome this work past times providing a full-screen pick on each map.

Saturday, October 15, 2022

Mapping Hiv/Aids Inward San Francisco


The San Francisco Department of Public Health has released an Atlas of HIV/AIDS inwards San Francisco. The map helps position areas of the urban heart amongst relatively high rates of novel infection too assist direct the placement of prevention services.

The map reveals that the Castro remains abode to the largest unwrap of those living amongst HIV/AIDS too those newly infected. The map includes information from 2003-2010 too tin live on filtered past times year, sex, historic stream too race. It likewise possible to explore survival rates inwards each of the San Francisco neighborhoods.

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

The Historic Menses Of Chicago's Buildings Mapped

Mapping the Age of Buildings for like maps of New York, Portland, Reykjavík, the whole of the Netherlands together with Ljubljana.

Thursday, April 21, 2022

San Francisco's Literature Mapped


'Occasionally a cable machine passed, trundling heavily, amongst a strident whirring of jostled drinking glass ...' - from McTeague (1899) a new past times Frank Norris

Ever since the days of the Californian gilt rush San Francisco has held a particular lay inwards the myths as well as literature of America. To celebrate San Francisco's condition every bit 1 of the close vibrant literary cities inwards the footing the San Francisco Chronicle has created The Bay Area Literature Map.

The map features locations of booksellers, writers' passages related to locations inwards the city, literary landmarks as well as highlights 300 authors who alive inwards the Bay Area. The map likewise shows the dates as well as locations for events taking placing inwards the metropolis during this month's Litquake literary festival.


During this month's Litquake you lot tin dismiss likewise accept a cycling tour of the city's literary history using the Bikes to Books map. This 7.1 mile cycling tour takes inwards the 12 San Francisco streets named for authors as well as artists as well as a release of other of import locations inwards the city's literary heritage.

Monday, April 18, 2022

Mapping The Super Zips


The Washington Post has mapped the zip-code areas inwards the USA that seat highest for income in addition to college education. The map displays the nation’s 650 Super Zips, those are the zip-code areas where people seat highest on a combination of income in addition to education.

The Washington: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 World Apart map shows a long corridor of affluence running from New York to Washington DC. The accompanying article from the Post looks inwards item at the 3rd of zip-code areas inwards D.C. which seat inwards the meridian five percent for income in addition to education.

Users of the map tin search the map past times whatsoever zip-code to honor out the zip-code ranking for their area. If you lot click on a zip-code surface area on the map you lot tin persuasion the median family income in addition to the per centum of college graduates inwards the area. It is too possible to persuasion a breakdown of the percentages inwards each family grouping in addition to the percentages inwards each educational attainment group.

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Polluting America's Schools


USA Today has published a especial study into the lawsuit of industrial pollution on schools together with the children who study there. For the study USA Today mapped the locations of nearly 128,000 schools together with used an EPA model to rail the path of pollution to scope upward one's demand heed the levels of toxic chemicals exterior each school.

Google Maps are used throughout the study to present the place of schools together with the place of polluting companies. Users tin click on private schools on the maps to thought the national grade of the schoolhouse inward damage of which percentile it resides inward for the levels of toxic chemicals institute exterior the school.

If you lot click on the school's cite inward its data window you lot tin thought a to a greater extent than detailed breakdown most the private school's exposure to cancer causing chemicals together with to other toxic chemicals. For each schoolhouse at that spot is besides a breakdown listing the chemicals most responsible for the toxicity exterior the schoolhouse together with the companies most responsible for the toxic pollution institute exterior the school.

Monday, April 11, 2022

Live Real-Time Map Of Amtrak Trains


Amtrak has today launched a real-time map of its to a greater extent than than 300 daily trains. The Amtrak Track a Train map shows the alive put of all the network's trains.

Passengers tin search for private trains past times develop discover or develop refer or search for private station. If you lot direct a train's marking on the map you lot tin stance details well-nigh its electrical flow speed, side past times side station as well as estimated fourth dimension or arrival.

Users tin likewise click on private stations to stance station details as well as the station address.

Banksy Inward Novel York Maps


The view of the pop street creative someone Bansky seems to accept caused a chip of a stir inwards New York this week. If y'all haven't managed to location whatever of Banky's "Better Out Than In" industrial plant withal in addition to then y'all mightiness involve a map.

Luckily both The Village Voice in addition to The Telegraph accept created Google Maps showing the locations of Banksy's novel masterpieces dotted roughly the city. Fans of graffiti in addition to street fine art mightiness too desire to banking enterprise check out these maps of world in addition to street art:

The Big Art Mob - worldwide map of world street art
ArtAround - world fine art map for Washington DC
Mural Locator - a worldwide mural map
Arte Fora create Museu - São Paulo world fine art map
Pittsburgh's Murals in addition to Public Art Map

Sunday, April 10, 2022

Where Non To Purchase & Consume Nutrient Inwards Novel York


The New York World has mapped the New York State Department of Agriculture as well as Markets supermarket inspections from Jan 2008 to July 2013.

Inspectors catch every grocery shop at to the lowest degree in 1 lawsuit a year. The New York World has mapped all the supermarkets that had 'critical deficiencies' flagged inward the inspections. Users tin search the map past times neighborhood, zipcode or address to detect the local supermarkets to a greater extent than or less them that convey been shown to convey issues deemed every bit "an immediate threat to the populace wellness as well as welfare."

 has mapped the New York State Department of Agriculture as well as Markets supermarket inspectio Where Not to Buy & Eat Food inward New York
The NYC BigMaps has used the Your Mapper map creation tool to map eatery inspections as well as 311 service calls inward New York City.

The eatery inspections map displays New York City Department of Health inspections across five boroughs since Jan 2008. You tin search the map past times category, engagement range, keyword, as well as location. The map as well as then displays restaurants on the map at the place y'all searched.

Green map markers betoken restaurants amongst no wellness violations.

Friday, April 8, 2022

American M Prix Street View


The showtime occupation session of the American Grand Prix is virtually to start at the Circuit of Americas inward Austin, Texas. You tin right away race some the circuit on Street View. Google visited the Circuit of the Americas inward May of this twelvemonth together with the Google Street View car had a lot of fun driving some the track.

Clicking your means some the whole rail tin endure a lilliputian tiring, hence I've stitched together virtually 200 of the Street View images together with so y'all tin sit down dorsum together with simply sentinel equally nosotros race some one-half of the track.

So spot belts on together with teach attain to Race Around the Circuit of Americas.

Thursday, April 7, 2022

Mapping Pinnacle Clandestine America


The Washington Post has used the Google Maps API to map the ascent of domestic counter-terrorism organizations inwards the the United States since 9/11.

The Top Secret America map allows users to search for counter-terrorism organizations past times address, past times the type of organization, past times jurisdiction in addition to past times whether the organisation was established earlier or afterwards 9/11. H5N1 bar nautical chart beneath the map equally good shows the release of organizations established inwards each state.

The map shows both regime organizations in addition to private-sector companies that create domestic counter-terrorism in addition to top-secret work.

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Mapping Ellis Act Evictions Inwards San Francisco


The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project has created a bully animated timeline map of Ellis Act evictions inward San Francisco from 1997 to 2013.

The Ellis Act Map includes a elementary 'play' option to stance animated map markers displayed on the map inward chronological guild from 1997 through to August of this year. The map besides features a slide command that allows yous to command the timeline manually.

Each marking on the map includes a smart animation number that emphasizes its appearance on the map during the timeline playback.

Saturday, April 2, 2022

The Final Moving Painting Household Inwards Harlem


Steven Melendez has mapped the rising together with autumn of film theaters inwards New York over the final 80 years. Movie Theaters of NYC allows yous to sentiment an animated Google Map of film theaters inwards New York since 1940.

The map shows the popularity of film theatre inwards the 1940's together with 1950's together with and thus a gradual refuse from the 1970's to the acquaint day. Each of the markers displayed on the map include links to read to a greater extent than well-nigh the selected film theater.

Thursday, March 31, 2022

Mount Rushmore On Street View


There has been a big novel improver to Street View on Google Maps inwards North America. Google has worked alongside the U.S. of America National Park Service as well as Parks Canada to add together to a greater extent than than 44 beautiful locations to Street View.

You tin move instantly see the blurred heads of Mount Rushmore inwards Street View, Lincoln Memorial Park, the Old Faithful geyser inwards Yellowstone National Park as well as Banff National Park inwards Canada. Visit the Google Views collection for other highlights from this latest improver to Street View.

Thursday, March 24, 2022

Mapping The Grassy Knoll


John F. Kennedy was assassinated 50 years agone inward Dallas, Texas.  ESRI has lay together a 3d map of Dealey Plaza inward Dallas, that should buy the farm on conspiracy theorists busy for the side yesteryear side 50 years.

JFinteraKtif includes 3d buildings, the road of the president's car, the Grassy Knoll, the trajectory of the bullets fired from the 6th flooring window of the Texas School Book Depository edifice in addition to fifty-fifty the trajectories of simply about of the conspiracy theory shootings.

The map was created using data from fundamental witness statements in addition to is overlaid amongst photographs taken at the time. Links below the map allow the user to sentiment the map from the betoken of sentiment of fundamental positions (e.g. from the seat of the Grassy Knoll).

Saturday, March 19, 2022

Pennsylvania Wineries On Google Maps


Pennsylvania Wines has used the Google Maps API to exercise a smart looking map of the state's wineries

The app has been designed to laissez passer on off smartphones, tablets together with desktop computers. The site industrial plant particularity good on mobile devices every bit it uses GPS positioning to recommend nearby wineries together with provides other useful data virtually opening hours, directions together with contact information.

While browsing the map yous tin give the sack add together whatsoever of the wineries to a personal itinerary. Once yous accept completed your itinerary yous tin give the sack hence become the driving directions for your ain personal vino tasting tour. Which alone leaves yous the draw of piece of job of finding someone else to exercise the driving.    

Thursday, March 17, 2022

Tables For 2 Inwards Novel York


The New Yorker's Tables for Two column has been running since 1925. The weekly magazine has forthwith created an online interactive Google Map of simply about of the best Tables for Two reviews from the final few years.

The New Yorker Tables for Two Map shows the locations of restaurants reviewed past times the New Yorker. Users tin click on whatever of the eating theater markers on the map together with read a brusk snippet from the New Yorker's review. Each eating theater includes a link to read the sum review on The New Yorker website.

Sunday, March 13, 2022

Mapping Millennials


The Washington Post has created a map to present where inward Washington DC millennials are living. The Millennials inward DC map includes ii layers that present the alter inward populations inward each district as well as the portion of population inward district. 

The alter inward populations layer shows the districts alongside the largest gains inward population ages 23-34, from 2000 to 2010 as well as the portion of population layer shows the districts alongside the largest portion of millennials, based on the 2010 census.

The Washington Post article besides includes an exam of the working lives of millennials, their incomes as well as their social lives.

Saturday, March 12, 2022

Polluting America's Schools


USA Today has published a especial study into the lawsuit of industrial pollution on schools together with the children who study there. For the study USA Today mapped the locations of nearly 128,000 schools together with used an EPA model to rail the path of pollution to scope upward one's demand heed the levels of toxic chemicals exterior each school.

Google Maps are used throughout the study to present the place of schools together with the place of polluting companies. Users tin click on private schools on the maps to thought the national grade of the schoolhouse inward damage of which percentile it resides inward for the levels of toxic chemicals institute exterior the school.

If you lot click on the school's cite inward its data window you lot tin thought a to a greater extent than detailed breakdown most the private school's exposure to cancer causing chemicals together with to other toxic chemicals. For each schoolhouse at that spot is besides a breakdown listing the chemicals most responsible for the toxicity exterior the schoolhouse together with the companies most responsible for the toxic pollution institute exterior the school.