The Cedid Atlas, 1803

The Cedid Atlas is the first comprehensive atlas compiled by the Ottoman Empire and published in Istanbul in 1803. World Asia Africa America Europe United States Greece Turkey and the Middle East Egypt Hemispheres England Scotland French Kingdom French Republic Poland Spain and Italy Low Countries Germany

Top 20 football stadiums in the world

The 20 biggest football stadiums in the world, on a single infographic.   preview  Click to enlarge Infographic made by Find Hold.

End of the Soviet Union

An infographic visualising the dissolution of the Soviet Union.   Click to enlarge Source: The Guardian

Storm St Jude batters the UK

The airmass RGB imagery shows a massive outbreak of cold air over the eastern Atlantic causing the strong development of a depression over western Europe, resulting in violent winds. In the imagery the white cold frontal cloud band of storm St Jude can be seen extending from south-western England across the Channel in to the Gulf of Biscay and beyond. The red colour in its rear marks a very

The Size Of Australia

Comparing Australia with other continents and countries. Australia and North America   Australia and Europe   Australia and Africa   Australia and Russia   Australia and China   Australia and South America Maps generated by OverlapMaps.

North Colorado: The 51st U.S. state

Officials in eight northern Colorado counties united in opposition to the state’s new gun control laws and oil and gas regulations are reportedly considering forming a 51st U.S. state called North Colorado. North Colorado would have a population of more than 300,000 people, and it would be the 42nd largest state in the country by land area. (The Economic Collapse)

Is a Sleeping Climate Giant Stirring in the Arctic?

Flying low and slow above the wild, pristine terrain of Alaska's North Slope in a specially instrumented NASA plane, research scientist Charles Miller of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., surveys the endless whiteness of tundra and frozen permafrost below. On the horizon, a long, dark line appears. The plane draws nearer, and the mysterious object reveals itself to be a

Mapping the Medals: Olympic Medal Distribution

Medal distribution across the globe on 2012 Summer Olympics. http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/mappingthemedals/

The Netherlands in the 16th Century

An old german map of the Netherlands, 1559-1600. Click to enlarge Putzgers, F.W., Historischer Schul-Atlas, Bielefeld, 1929, via The Thirty Years’ War

Exploring Israel & Palestine with the NYT

Roots of the Recent Violence Between Israelis and Palestinians is a New York Times interactive exploring the causes behind a series of recent attacks against Israel. The interactive is in the form of a story map, which provides a step-by-step guide to some of the historical and geo-political reasons for the conflict. The map itself consists of a number of aerial views of Jerusalem and East

The 3D OpenStreetMap World of New York

CubicPower appear to be creating a 3d Doom type game world from OpenStreetMap data. CubicPower's New York Maze map is a series of thousands of small block size 3d maps of New York locations, which you can explore using your keyboard. The CubicPower website doesn't appear to have any information about these 3d maps. They appear to be made with a WebGL powered 3d engine, with OpenStreetMap map

Nuclear Capabilities and Potential Around the World

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has been signed by 189 nations since its creation in 1968. It has become the international standard by which nations are judged on their commitment to nuclear non-proliferation. But the treaty has not had a perfect record. Learn more about the pread and containment of nuclear capabilities around the world. http://www.npr.org/news/graphics/2008/feb/

The Twitter Search Map

The Mapd Tweetmap allows you to search for the geographical and temporal distribution of words used in Twitter messages around the world. Using the map you can search for any term used on Twitter and view where the word has been tweeted around the world. For example you can enter the word 'Trump' and view a dot map of all the locations where people have been tweeting the word Trump. You also

Mapping the Battle of Jutland

This year is the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland. The battle was the largest naval battle of the First World War and was fought between the British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet. As a result of the battle the British lost 6,784 lives and the German's lost 3,039 men. 36 Hours: Jutland 1916, The Battle that Won the War is an interactive map

Tilting at Windmills - The Life of Cervantes

Cervantes' novel Don Quixote is "the best book in the world". However the imagined chivalric adventures of Don Quixote are as nothing compared to the real-life adventures of the novel's author Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes was born in Spain. In his early twenties he moved to Rome to work in the house of a cardinal. He then enlisted as a Spanish soldier and was injured at the Battle of

Maps of the Week

This week my clear favorite map was this wonderful looking map of the Grand Canyon. The Geologic Map of the Grand Canyon and Vicinity is a beautiful Leaflet.js based interactive map of the Grand Canyon. The map is based on data gathered by the U.S. Geological Survey. The map uses different colors to show the different rock units and geologic strata in the Grand Canyon and surrounding area. The

Exploring the Solar System

Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the GIS specialists Esri. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to map out new planets and new civilizations, to boldly go where no cartographer has gone before. Esri has got a little bored with having to continually map the Earth, so they have now decided to turn their attention to the rest of the universe. The Solar System

The Stonehenge History Map

Historic England's 2002 National Mapping Project of Stonehenge added another 539 important archaeological sites around Stonehenge. About thirty percent of the newly discovered sites were prehistoric or Roman in date. These included ring ditches, field systems, round barrows and enclosures of various forms dating from prehistory. You can now explore and download research reports from the

Mapping Terrorism in the United States

The Oregonian has mapped all terrorist attacks in the United States from 1970-2014. The data for the map comes from the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database. The Terrorism in the United States, 1970-2014 map uses circular markers to show the location of each terrorist attack. The color of the markers indicate where deaths, injuries or no injuries resulted from the attack. The

Interactive Geologic Map of the Grand Canyon

The Geologic Map of the Grand Canyon and Vicinity is a beautiful Leaflet.js based interactive map of the Grand Canyon. The map is based on data gathered by the U.S. Geological Survey. The map uses different colors to show the different rock units and geologic strata in the Grand Canyon and surrounding area. The map also includes contour lines. If you hover over the map the geologic strata at