Old World Maps

World maps through history. Al-Idrisi’s world map in an 1154 atlas with Arabia on top: Pietro Vesconte's world map, oriented to the east at the top, 14th century: A map based on Ptolemy's Geographia, 1482: Johann Ruysch's map, 1507: Clavdii Ptolemaei Geographicae enarrationis libri octo Bilibaldo Pirckeym hero interprete Annotationes Ioannes de Regio Monte

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.

World GDP forecast, 2014

GDP forecasts for 2013 and 2014 by countries, according to IMF. THE world economy will grow by 2.9% this year and 3.6% in 2014, according to the latest estimates from the IMF. (The Economist) GDP % change in 2013 (click to enlarge) GDP % change in 2014 (click to enlarge)  Source: The Economist

Distribution Of World Population

A interesting visualization of world population distribution around the globe. http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/globe/

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/

Billionaires World Map

The wealth Forbes' billionaires mapped. Click to enlarge For the 27th annual Forbes billionaires list, our team of reporters spent months tracking down the wealthiest people around the globe. Ultimately, we found 1,426 billionaires who are together worth a total of $5.4 trillion — a record sum. The combined wealth of billionaires from the United States, $1.87 trillion, is larger than the

The Muslim World, old map

An 1900's map and infographic of the Muslim world with population data of "countries having 2,000,000 or more Mohammedan population". Click to enlarge Source: S.M. Zwemer, The Moslem World, Student Volunteer Movement For Foreign Missions, Publishing House of the M.E. Church, South, 1908

Extent of German Occupation in World War 2

Europe and the maximum extent of German occupation. Click to enlarge  Collins Australian Clear School Atlas, Europe.  Published 1940. Overprinted 1945.

Run Around the World on Google Maps

Australian Tom Denniss ran around the whole world in just 622 days. This is a new world record. In total Deniss ran 16,300 miles and passed through 18 countries. 40 Million Steps: A Run Around the World is a story map put together by Runner's World which allows you to follow Denniss' route around the world. While following his journey you can also view some of the photos, videos, audio clips

The World Divided, 1941

The World divided during World War 2 (July 1941). Click to enlarge The political alignments of the world are here shown, centering geographically around the North Pole but ideologically and economically around the U.S. The classification keyed below is necessarily simplified and does not of course meet all the subtleties of politics and diplomacy - for instance, the peculiar position of

The Washing Machine Capital of the World

Atlas Obscura had a lot of success last year with their Punny Businesses in America map. The map was a crowd-sourced map of local businesses which use a little word play in their titles (such as the Slim Chickens restaurant in Fayetteville, AR). Atlas Obscura's latest map is an attempt to locate towns and cities around the world which try to claim a little notoriety through the use of a 'World

Explore the World from Above

The View from Above is a very beautifully realized promotional website from the Emirates airline. The website consists of a number of aerial videos of locations around the world, which you access from a 3D interactive globe. The aerial videos are themselves pretty wonderful but what I really like about this site is the map markers and the transition between the markers and the actual videos.

A World Without Water

XG - Earth Bathymetry is a WebGL globe showing planet Earth after someone has pulled out the plug and drained the world of all its water. The globe uses data from NASA's Blue Marble to provide a view of the undersea land surface and water depth. The shading of the sea floor indicates changes in slope or depth. If the blue coloring of the oceans' floors confuses you then you can click your

NYT: The New World

Interactive map of what could possibly be the world’s newest international borders, by The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/23/opinion/sunday/the-new-world.html IT has been just over 20 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the last great additions to the world’s list of independent nations. As Russia’s satellite republics staggered onto the global

World Debt Comparison

Interactive map with national debt comparison and global debt clock The clock is ticking. Every second, it seems, someone in the world takes on more debt. The idea of a debt clock for an individual nation is familiar to anyone who has been to Times Square in New York, where the American public shortfall is revealed. Our clock (updated September 2012) shows the global figure for almost all