Collaborate Disseminate
Most maps and educational materials for teaching geography are highly visual in nature. For those with a visual impairment, it can make learning more difficult when suitable resources are not available. After visiting a boarding school in Moscow, [Sergei] set out to build an interactive map to teach students geography …read more
Continue reading 3D Printing Interactive Maps For The Visually Impaired
This is the result of a 20-year collaboration of several hundred scientists from around 30 different institutions worldwide. Continue reading Astrophysicists Have Made the Largest-Ever 3D Map of the Universe
A bathymetric map is one concerning the floor or bottom of a body of water. It’s the wet equivalent of a topographical map. Combine this with humanity’s inherent taste in seaside real estate, and they can be quite attractive when done correctly. We’d say this effort from [pubultrastar] hits the …read more
Continue reading Bathymetric Map Uses Edge Lighting To Stunning Effect
Have you ever taken a look at all the information that Google has collected about you over all these years? That is, of course, assuming you have a Google account, but that’s quite a given if you own an Android device and have privacy concerns overruled by convenience. And considering …read more
Continue reading The Heat Of The Moments – Location Visualization In Python
For quite a long while now, latitude and longitude has been the way humankind has navigated the globe. This is a perfectly workable system, but it’s a little overwrought for daily use by the layperson. What3Words seeks to provide a simpler solution.
The system is based on splitting the surface …read more
Maps can be a great way to get a message across when the data you’re dealing with affects people on a country’s population scale. [jwolin] works for a non-profit organization, and wanted a way to help people visualize the extent of their operations and the causes they deal with. To …read more
Continue reading Smart Map Puts on a Show Thanks To Arduinos and DMX
A map will display the snail-slime trails that we all leave behind in our daily travels and through which background tracking apps follow us. Continue reading iOS 13 will map the apps that are tracking you
Through a novel marrying of different tools, Kamerka can take an address, landmark, or coordinates and display exposed internet connected cameras on a map. Continue reading This Tool Shows Exposed Cameras Around Your Neighbourhood
Mapping rural areas is a barrier to autonomous vehicles operating in those areas, but cars might not need maps at all. Continue reading MIT Invented a Tool That Allows Driverless Cars to Navigate Rural Roads Without a Map
Outrider’s interactive nuclear blast map is the best way to find out how you’ll die if a nuke hits your city. Continue reading Use This Map to See How Dead You’ll Be If a Nuke Hits Your City