Tag: World

• What the world grows: farmland and crops on one map

  

  The leading crop on every 10 km square of the world’s farmland, and sixty years of change in how much land we farm. Wheat, maize, rice and soya beans cover 50% of the harvest, and half of it grows on 6.4% of the world’s land.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  FAOSTAT, Farming, food and drink, Land use, landscape, maps, Present day, Twentieth century, World, world maps

• Faith on the map: religion around the world and across the UK

  

  Christianity’s centre has moved to sub-Saharan Africa, the unaffiliated are growing fast, and in Scotland 51.1% now say they have no religion. A map of religion in 201 countries, every UK neighbourhood and 1,624,818 places of worship.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, Census, maps, OpenStreetMap, population, Present day, religion, UK, World, world maps

• Styles in stone: the world’s architectural styles on a map, century by century

  

  180,451 buildings with an architectural style in Wikidata, sorted into 25 families and mapped through time. Romanesque gives way to Gothic, Baroque and the revivals, Gothic Revival sails to Toronto and Melbourne, and the gaps show who keeps the records.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Animated timeline, buildings, Classification, Europe, Heritage, history, Long view, maps, Wikidata, World, world maps

• Where the animals are: the world’s cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and chickens on one map

  

  35.3 billion farm animals for 8.1 billion people, mapped every 10 km. Chickens have multiplied 7.1 times since 1961, farm mammals outnumber people in 40 countries, and New Zealand has lost two thirds of its sheep.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  maps, wildlife, food and drink, world maps, FAOSTAT, Farming, Present day, Twentieth century, World

• 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

  Africa, Europe, Flow map, maps, Migration, Present day, wildlife, World, world maps