Tag: Present day
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A Tolkien-style map of the whole world, drawn from real data
A Tolkien-style map of the whole world, zoomable from continents to single hills: little ink peaks on the real high ground, forests of tiny trees, rippled coasts, red lettering and towns drawn as tiny houses, all generated from open data.
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How high is the world? Mountains, plateaus and height above sea level on one map
A map of the height of the whole planet, sharp from continents to valleys. The world’s land averages 807 m, only 11% of it is above 2,000 m, and only 1.9% of the people in its cities live that high.
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The history of AI, stitched like the Bayeux Tapestry
From Ada Lovelace to AI agents in 35 embroidered scenes: Turing’s curtain, two winters, a comet called attention, Will Smith eating spaghetti, glue on pizza, a king in a leather jacket and the band that was nobody. Scroll it sideways; every scene is sourced.
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Who was big when? 126 seasons of English league football on one map
Every English league club since 1888 on one map, sized by its crowd: 41.2 million at league matches in 1948-49, 16.5 million in 1985-86, a game that moved south, and 39 towns that lost their league club.
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Where the world’s music comes from
I mapped the birthplaces of 283,424 musicians and the home towns of 29,489 bands in Wikidata: New York, London, Paris and Vienna lead, every genre has a home town from Kingston to Seoul, Finland has the most metal bands per head, and women went from 8% of musicians born before 1800 to 42% of those…
