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The Rent is Too Damn High

In: Housing Interactive Maps

7 Feb 2013

Heat maps of apartment rental prices in DC:

and Boston:

and many many other cities using a tool created by Jeff Kaufman.

(via welovedc)

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Fancy Big Mac Index

In: Food Global Economy Interactive Maps

7 Feb 2013

This year, in interactive format, allowing you to select a base currency and see the changes over time.

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California for Beginners

In: Humor Maps

25 Jan 2013

Amusing and accurate. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the original source to link back to.

update: created by Julian Lozos. Nice work!

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Travel Speed (1800-1930)

In: History Maps

11 Jan 2013

Sure, the internet and the information revolution has been fun. But before that there was the communication revolution. And before that, it was transportation:

(original source: 1932 Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, which has a number of other cool historical maps)

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More Hotness

In: Environment/weather Maps Source: NYT

10 Jan 2013

Apparently the forecasts for the current heat-wave in Australia are so hot that the Bureau of Meteorology had to add two new colors to it’s forecasting map:

And here is the NYT version of of the 2012 temperature map. I like the city histograms at the bottom.

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California Shooting Location Map

In: Culture Maps

2 Jan 2013

An amusing map from 1927, showing which areas of California could be used to film movies that you wanted to look like other parts of the world.

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Helical Orbits

In: Maps Science Video

26 Dec 2012

We’ve seen some takes on this before (here, here, and here), but this one seems the most accurate. Man, we’re small.

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Interesting analysis of metro traffic. But I am always left wanting by ordinal rankings. Perhaps coloring the stations themselves in a heatmap manner while desaturating the line colors would have been more useful.

On the same site is the awesome “Evolution of Metrorail” utility that let’s you cycle through the opening of new stations since 1976:

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What’s Killing People

In: History Interactive Maps Science

18 Dec 2012

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation collects detailed information on global health issues, and produces a number of interesting visualizations.

How people died in 2010 – by cause, age, and filterable by sex and region:

Life expectancy in the US (1989-2009). Who knew it varied so much?

Drill-downable US Causes of Death (1970-2006)

and many many more.

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London Underground 1932-33

In: Graphic Design (general) Maps

12 Dec 2012

I’ve always read how well designed HC Beck’s 1933 version of the London underground was. It only occurred to me the other day that I never had seen the old version for comparison. There are definitely significant improvements (…improvements that have proven very useful as the system grew further), but I can’t say it blows me away. Of course, that might be because we now view those design features as commonplace.

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