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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A Year of Lightning Another stunning visualization from Mapped Earth googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/10/a-ye...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mapping the satellites of the Earth, the moon and Mars. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

💡Lighthouses - with real-world flashes, colours and ranges. This map even shows where light beams are blocked the terrain. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/09/shin...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Mapping 3 million buildings constructed in LA since since 1880. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/09/buil...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Discover where your neighborhood was 540 million years ago. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

GeoWhisperer Shows How the World has Changed Enter a location and GeoWhisperer uses Esri's World Imagery Wayback archive to create before & after visualizations. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/09/geow...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ice Age - the Movie googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/09/mapp...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Blowing up the world just became more fun. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/09/blow...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

GeoGuessr as an antipodean time machine. Two new geoguessing inspired games - googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/09/geog...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Which Country is Bigger? The Mercator vs Equal Earth edition. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/09/whic...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Mercator vs Equal Earth - this comparison tool works a little better I think. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/09/merc...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Everything you never knew you wanted to know about the New York subway - in 8 interactive maps. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/08/15-m...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yes, it's another animated train map - but this one actually uses a proper schematic transit map. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

GTA San Francisco - run, drive or hang-glide across the Bay Area on this 3D map. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/08/gta-...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

58 Seconds a Minute The entire Swiss rail network runs on a synchronized clock system. A clock whose second hand takes only 58 seconds to complete a rotation. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/08/mapp...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Inception maps for the dreamers. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/08/bend...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Area = People An animated population cartogram showing countries sized by relative population 1800-2100. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/08/wher...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Trains and Termini It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a city in possession of a good railway network, must be in want of an animated train map. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/08/trai...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Mapping Musk's rocket strike on the moon. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/08/find...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Right now,7 billion people are awake while 2 billion are fast asleep. 🌍✨ Awake Globe is a stunning, interactive 3D map that visualizes the Earth's shifting rhythm of sleep & wakefulness in real time, tracking daylight, time zones, and population data. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/08/7-bi...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

TripGeo has carried out a complete redesign of my Sonar City game. I'm not sure why but it has made it a lot more fun to play. www.tripgeo.com/sonarcity

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Transforming the traditional tourist guide into an interactive adventure - with Bigfoot! googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/bigf...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The hidden geography of friendship 🌍 Why do St. Louis and Bosnia & Herzegovina share such remarkably strong social ties? The answer lies in history - and in this map that visualizes the friendship connections of social media. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Can You Date the Map? Date the Globe challenges you to guess the exact year of a historical map using shifting borders and changing country names as your clues. 🌍 googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/can-...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

SimCity Meets AI NYCSim is an incredible browser-based digital twin of Manhattan, featuring 305k building footprints, live transit tracking, and 10,000 synthetic AI residents who react to real-time weather and news. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/simc...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

🌍🌾👇 Over 640M people live in regions where food production has dropped by 10%+. By 2050, that could affect half the global population. This map uses the new CADI index to show exactly how - and where - climate change is leading to agricultural decline. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Waterworld - what level of sea level rise would we need until only the Andes and the Himalayas Islands are left? googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/wate...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This brilliant mapped explanation of how Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) works has to be the Map of the Week. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/how-...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

See how daylight changes across the globe? 🌍 ☀️ Sunrise and Sunset is a neat interactive map that visualizes sunset & sunrise times, solar altitudes and seasonal contrasts for any location on Earth. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/mapp...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The British Empire governed a quarter of the world, and established a global bureaucracy. Using LLMs and OCR, this project transforms thousands of service records into interactive maps tracing the lives of 46,000 British Empire officials. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Share your journey with TikTok-ready video maps. 🗺️✨ AniMaps requires no coding and lets you easily animate your travel routes. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/06/make...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

How did the world build its railway networks? And where did they vanish? 🗺️🚂 These interactive timeline maps track the growth, contraction, and evolution of global rail infrastructure in countries around the world. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

There are eight million rodents in the naked city. Here are some of them ... ... on the real-time rat tracking map. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Mapping the Lone Star's Northern March - visualizing how the lone star tick's habitat is expanding northwards. #climatechange googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/06/mapp...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The Ambient Sound Map - this map analyses OpenStreetMap data and then uses BBC Sound Effects to create ambient sound. Pan around the map and the ambient sound changes to match its background. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Ever wondered why the Sahara is a desert or why London is milder than Moscow? 🌍 Building Earth is a stunning 3D simulation that explains how the Earth's climate developed over millions of years. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Time Traveling with OHM - using OpenHistoricalMap data to create a map of shifting country borders over time. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/05/time...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

METs Do the Time Warp Again! The map of New York warped by travel times on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority network. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/05/mets...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

🚲 Animating thousands of daily bike journeys. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/05/mapp...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Telling time with Street View: a clock that uses numbers found on Google Maps Street View. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/05/tell...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

What's the Jet Stream doing today? Find out with the Global Jet Stream Forecast. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/05/mapp...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

⚪ Marble Madness - drop a ball anywhere on Earth to see where it rolls. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/05/marb...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Who's dancing at the global disco? googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/04/crea...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The Art of Data googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/04/data...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

6 tools for making your own map posters! googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/04/addr...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A Day in the Life of the New York Subway - googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Meet me in the middle - by plane. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/04/this...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Follow the passage of the Sun around the Earth (I know) through the rise & fall of air temperature. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Follow the moon mission in real-time - on YouTube and in 3D on the Artemis II Mission Tracker. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/04/real...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

miniLondon3d - using London Transport's live prediction data to create a real-time diorama of the tube network. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/03/mini...

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