Tag: GeoNames

• Every Tour de France, mapped: from a lap of France to a race that hops

  

  I mapped all 2,427 stages of the Tour de France since 1903, start to finish. For thirty years it was one unbroken loop round the edge of France; now 88% of stages start somewhere new, the race is 42% shorter than in 1926 and faster than ever.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  France, maps, data visualisation, open data, sport history, Tour de France, cycling, GeoNames

• The middle of nowhere: the places on Earth farthest from any town

  

  I measured how far every point on land is from the nearest town of 1,000 people. A quarter of the land outside Antarctica is more than 100 km from one; the most landlocked place on Earth is just 65 km from one; and Britain’s middle of nowhere is near Cape Wrath.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  data visualisation, geography, GeoNames, maps, Natural Earth, pole of inaccessibility, remoteness, wilderness