Tag: Flow map
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Named after somewhere else: mapping the places named after other places
I mapped the 3,981 settlements Wikidata says are named after another place. Most names come from a river or the town next door, but 14% crossed an ocean, and Britain gave away more names than anywhere else.
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Ships before steam: the trade-wind highways of the age of sail, drawn from real logbooks
6,524 passages from British, Dutch, Spanish and French ships’ logbooks, 1750 to 1850. Drawn as lines, they show ships running out with the trade winds, looping home past the Azores and racing east through the roaring forties to Java.
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The Nobel brain drain: where laureates were born, and where they won
I drew a line from birthplace to prize for 760 Nobel prizes in the sciences and economics. 31% went to someone working outside their birth country, the United States gained 131 more laureates than it grew, Germany’s share fell from 31% to 7% after 1933, and Japan became a late riser that keeps its laureates.
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Where the storks go: four migratory birds on one hand-inked map
I followed 228 tagged birds across three continents. Young storks flew 0.6% of their distance over the sea and squeezed through Gibraltar and the Bosporus; ospreys and cuckoos cross the open sea without a second thought.
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The Known World
A dark world that lights up as travellers wrote it down. From 681 journeys: Europe’s recorded world covered 20% of the land in 1492 and 67% in 1900, and much of the dark had been recorded by China, the Islamic world or Polynesian voyagers first.
