GDP per capita in Europe, 2015, estimates

GDP per capita in Europe in 2015. IMF estimates.   Click to enlarge Moldova has the smallest nominal and PPP adjusted GDP per capita in Europe due to corruption, tax evasion and the undiversified economy based mainly on wine and fruit exports to Russia. Other countries not shown on the map: Ukraine: 4,273 Turkey: 10,504 Georgia: 3,949 Azerbaijan: 9,279 Armenia: 3,517 PPP adjusted GDP

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.

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

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

Switching Map Labels in Leaflet

Over the last few days I've been experimenting with Map Panes in Leafet.js. There is a nice introduction to Map Panes in the Leaflet documentation if you want to learn more about how they work in the Leaflet interactive map library. In a post yesterday I looked at how you could use Map Panes to fade map labels in and out on top of a base map. Today I started thinking about why you might want

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

Emerging Markets In The Next Decades

An infographic on why emerging economies will have the biggest role to play in the world economy growth. Source: Jana, How Emerging Markets Will Turn The World Economy on Its Head

NASA Study Projects Warming-Driven Changes in Global Rainfall

A NASA-led modeling study provides new evidence that global warming may increase the risk for extreme rainfall and drought. The study shows for the first time how rising carbon dioxide concentrations could affect the entire range of rainfall types on Earth. Analysis of computer simulations from 14 climate models indicates wet regions of the world, such as the equatorial Pacific Ocean and

Mapping Car Ownersip in Melbourne

A recent map by CityMetric showed that in the UK people who live in city centers are far less likely to own cars than those who live in more rural areas. A map by Monash University suggests that a similar geographical distribution of car ownership exists in Australia. At least it does in Melbourne. The Melbourne Car Ownership Map is a dot map visualizing where Melbourne's one, two, three and

Social Classes in UK

Where the new classes are clustered in England, Wales, Scotland and London. Click to enlarge More info: Can I have no job or money and still be middle class?   Source: @BBCNews

The New Years Eve Attacks in Cologne

Over 500 complaints of sexual assault have now been reported to the police in Cologne, all occurring during the city's New Year's Eve celebrations. This shocking number of attacks, the vast majority carried out by immigrants of Algerian, Tunisian and Moroccan origin, has caused a backlash against Angela Merkel's 'Open Door' policy on refugees (although only three of the 58 men arrested so far

Simulate a nuclear explosion in your city

Select a place on the map, set the yield of the nuclear weapon and see the destruction.  http://www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

Europe in the 16th century

An old map of Europe in the 16th century. Click to enlarge

Mountains in France

Map of France with mountains. Click to enlarge Géographie en images, 1949

Maps in the Age of Cholera

Twenty Years before John Snow famously mapped the locations of cholera victims in Broad Street, London, Robert Baker plotted the deaths of cholera victims in Leeds. Maps in the Age of Cholera is a story map based around Robert Baker's 'Sanitary Map of the Town of Leeds' exploring the 1832 cholera epidemic in the Yorkshire town. Baker never made the link between cholera and contaminated water.

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.

Map Fail: China in North America

China moved to North America on a welcome map. http://studymorechinese.com/photo/geography-fail-qingdao-center-of-universe-map-puts-china-in-usa

Mapping Creationism in Schools

Apparently in the USA the state actively funds the teaching of creationism. Slate's Publicly Funded Schools That Are Allowed to Teach Creationism map shows where public schools are receiving tax payers' money for teaching alternatives to the scientific truth. The map uses three different colored map markers to indicate different types of schools. These are: public schools in states which

Migrant Routes in Europe & South East Asia

MOAS is a charity dedicated to saving the lives of refugees at sea. The charity was established after the October 2013 disaster when 400 men, women and children drowned off the Italian island of Lampedusa, The MOAS website includes a number of interactive maps designed to explain the migration routes into Europe & in the Bay of Bengal, and the work MOAS is doing along those routes to rescue

Natural Resources in Australia

Map of natural resources in Australia. Natural Resources: bauxite, coal, iron ore, copper, tin, gold, silver, uranium, nickel, tungsten, rare earth elements, mineral sands, lead, zinc, diamonds, natural gas, petroleum. Australia is the world's largest net exporter of coal accounting for 29% of global coal exports. (CIA: The World Factbook) Click to enlarge