Google Maps Mania

Shinjuku Station has a well-earned reputation as one of the world's largest and most bewildering transport hubs. The  Shinjuku Station Indoor interactive 3D map tackles that complexity by turning the station's official indoor mapping data into a clean, schematic three-dimensional blueprint. This map strips everything back to the essential geometry of corridors, platforms an...

Streetnames by Elo is a fascinating interactive map which colours streets according to how highly the internet rates the people, places or things they are named after. The map combines OpenStreetMap's `name:etymology:wikidata` tags with EloEverything's crowd-sourced Elo rankings to create a surprisingly revealing view of the world's street names.EloEverything asks users to choos...

NYCSim is a truly impressive digital twin for New York City. Part real-time spatial platform and part living sandbox, this browser-based simulator allows you to explore a virtual Manhattan from the comfort of your own home. By pulling in live municipal transit data, real-time air quality metrics, and local weather feeds, the platform transforms a static city plan into a living, ...

This animated map reveals how agricultural productivity is expected to be affected by climate change around the world throughout this century. It uses the new Climate-Driven Agricultural Decline Index (CADI) to show where and how global heating is likely to alter crop-growing conditions.According to the Climate-Driven Agricultural Decline Index, more than 640 million people alre...

Where is Downtown? is an interactive map surveying tool designed to crowdsource the boundaries of "downtown" for any city. The process is very simple:Enter the name of a city into the search barDraw your perceived outline of "downtown" on the mapView a heatmap of all the collective responses submitted so farIf you are only interested in exploring where others think downtown...