Maps Mania

I really, really like North Up Daily.

Will there be fair elections on November 3rd?

Cartographers generally agree that there are significant benefits to viewing at least five maps or globes every day.

Do you remember the World's Most Notable People Map.

One of the biggest trends in online mapping this year has definitely been pixelating the world.

London is twice as big as Colorado on the Actual Scale map.

There are 89,603 registered dogs in New York City.

Walk Score provides address-level walkability scores, neighborhood maps, transit reports, and bike scores for virtually every city, town, and neighborhood in the U.S. and Canada.

Ever wondered what North America would look like if the oceans rose by a staggering 690 meters?

There are travel blogs and then there is Three Steps Off the Coast.

The new era of building age maps has begun.

There are quite a few ugly buildings in my town that I'd like to demolish.

Want to explore the night sky?

Ever wished you could turn your holiday GPS track into one of those slick animated maps you see in travel videos?

FactMap is the latest map game to be a little like GeoGuessr.

In September, we were graced with the Movie Scene Map, an interactive map that makes it easy to find where iconic movie scenes were filmed, and the World Cinema Atlas, which allows you to discover movies by where they were set Now, a new interactive map l…

What if Czechia had become part of the British Empire?

Are you ready for the 2026 #30DayMapChallenge?

This animated map shows a year's worth of lightning strikes across the United States.

On April Fool’s Day 2015, a button was added to Google Maps which, when selected, turned the streets of the current map view into a fully functioning game of Pac-Man.

Bert Spaan has taken Mapterhorn's global terrain data to create an interactive global Relief map.

Much has been written about how this year's El Niño is already breaking records.

There are lots of 3D maps that visualize the tens of thousands of human-made satellites orbiting the Earth, such as SatelliteeXplorer and James Darpinian's See a Satellite Tonight, which uses Google's Street View imagery to show you exactly where to look…

Bosphore 1819 is an interactive version of a beautiful 1819 topographical map of the Bosphorus.

You would think that interactive mapping platforms are the perfect tool for building territory expansion games.

There are plenty of maps that show you where the world's lighthouses are.

I recently featured New York in 1.67 Million Buildings - a building age map created by Block and Paper, who have developed similar animated timelines for 80 other US cities and lots of other cities around the world.

These are the countries of the world as drawn by over 3,000 people on the Borderline country border game.

Since January 2025, the United States has deported at least 25,447 people to countries that are not their own.

This animated map shows the movement of the land that now makes up the United States (outlined in red) over the course of 540 million years.

Since 2012, the London Legacy Development Corporation has gradually transformed the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park from an essential local green space into a high-density residential hub driven by foreign investment.

During the Last Glacial Maximum, the European landscape looked radically unrecognizable compared to today.

Maps such as Pack Lightly's Best Time to Travel and Find the Best Time to Travel translate complex historical weather data into interactive heatmaps.

I recently reviewed the Movie Scene Map, an interactive map that makes it easy to find which iconic movie scenes were filmed right around the corner from your house.

Blowing up the world has now become even more fun.

Continuing my quest to catalog every GeoGuessr spinoff in existence, today's menu features two fresh location-guessing challenges: TimePin and Oppocity.

Isometric NYC has definitely started a new trend for developing pixelated interactive city maps.

What is the world listening to today?

The craze for ;building age maps seems to have faded in recent years, which is a shame because I think they can reveal a surprising amount about how a city has grown and changed over time.

Since the UN General Assembly voted to promote equal-area projections such as Equal Earth as an alternative to the familiar Mercator projection, there have been a number of interesting attempts to show just how much our perception of the relative size of…

TripGeo Snaps is a new GeoGuessr type game with a difference.

How closely related are the world's populations?

The UN General Assembly has just endorsed a new position on world maps that aims to represent the relative size of the world's land masses more accurately, with the difference being particularly obvious when you compare Africa and Greenland.

Yesterday the UN General Assembly voted to replace its traditional world maps - based on Mercator - with a map that more accurately reflects the size of Africa - based on the 2018 Equal Earth map.

MapDraw I use Organic Maps every day.

My home town of Crawley is apparently the undisputed heavyweight champion of British music.

Have you ever watched a film and thought, “Wait, I know that street”?

Aside from maps, I would say my next biggest obsession is coffee.

How long is the coastline of Great Britain?

The 15-Minute City has become one of the most influential ideas in contemporary urban planning.