The Washington Post looked at the many satellites orbiting our planet. A globe…
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Thousands of satellites orbiting Earth
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Listen to radio around the globe
Here’s a fun piece called Radio Garden. It’s exactly what the title says.…
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Satellite time-lapse of Earth
Charlie Loyd, who works with satellite imagery at Mapbox, put together a 12-second…
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Experimentation with globes in Blender 3D →
There’s also a collection of video tutorials on how to use QGIS to greater effect.
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Homicide Monitor shows distribution of violence worldwide
It’s difficult to grasp the severity of homicide around the world. Homicide Monitor…
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Misery index based on perceived temperature →
Late last year, Cameron Beccario made a wind map for earth, inspired by…
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A Globe Hack and Good Old Mercator
A Globe Hack and Good Old Mercator. An illustration of the Mercator map projection using pennies. There’s some distortion.
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Giant globe display
Hawt. [Tokyotek via @datapointed]…
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Google Map Maker edits in real-time
Google Map Maker is a simple tool that lets you draw your own…
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Global search volume by language
To show off their new toy that is WebGL, a 3D graphics API…