Tag: world maps

• 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.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  maps, wildlife, world maps

• The Wealth of Nations, Mapped

  

  The world economy on one map you can play, from 10,000 BC to 2024. China and India made 45% of the world’s output in 1820, 9% in 1950 and 30% in 2024, and the further back you go the more of the map is guesswork.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  history, industry, maps, world maps

• Could your town fit in its stadium?

  

  Beaver Stadium could seat its township 9.9 times over and Clones could fit in St Tiernach’s Park 15.4 times. I found every sports ground in the world bigger than its town, and checked each one by hand.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  cities, sport, world maps

• Towns with an asteroid: the places on Earth that have a minor planet

  

  I mapped 2,193 asteroids (2,206 namings) named after places on Earth, each with a line to the observatory that found it. Japan has the most, Finland the most per head, and small observatories name the next valley.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  cities, space, world maps

• Every Embassy in the World

  

  15,584 embassies, consulates and missions on one map. Washington hosts 181 embassies, the Holy See runs 88 nunciatures, and the resident embassy turns out to be a Renaissance invention.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  cities, world maps