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Santa Claus Travel Time Map - Europe

Santa Claus Travel Time Maps

2020-12-22
By: TheMole19
On: December 22, 2020
In: gis, My Maps, Uncategorized
Tagged: africa, arcgis, cartography, christmas, culture, data visualisation, europe, geography, geospatial, holidays, map, mapping, maps, OriginalContent, qgis, santa claus, travel, UK, usa, world
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‘Memorable’ year (for mapping too) To quote many a commercial from 2020, this year has been “different” and “unprecedented” for all of us. With the Covid-19 pandemic changing our lives, it would be remiss to not mention the impact it has had on us and thank the tireless work key workers have done to protect and take care of us. Data and mapping has come into its own during this time, helping to track the spread of the pandemic, and where possible, to help plan and protect us. Data and mapping has also been vital to perhaps the other two major news headlines – theRead More →

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UK 2019 Pre General Election Map Cartogram

UK General Election 2019 – Maps and Cartograms

2019-12-11
By: TheMole19
On: December 11, 2019
In: gis, maps, My Maps, News
Tagged: canada, cartography, data, data visualisation, economics, england, europe, geography, geospatial, gis, map, mapbox, politics, UK, usa, Wales
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For the many (maps) not the few   You can associate many things with politics. Tiresome. Frustrating. Distrust. Divisive. Controversial.  But there are more positive things which always come around during election time – maps and cartograms (graphical representations of geographical realities). The turbulent nature of British politics has led to another general election on 12th December 2019, which on the one hand has been exhausting and depressing, regardless of political allegiances. However, on the other hand it does provide an opportunity to create some maps and explore political geography of the UK, which is a reflection of socioeconomic histories. Every election, particularly with recentRead More →

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Top 10 Most Expensive Rail Routes by Price per km

Global Rail Fares or Unfair?

2019-08-21
By: TheMole19
On: August 21, 2019
In: gis, maps, My Maps, News
Tagged: africa, australia, austria, botswana, brazil, canada, china, data, data visualisation, data visualization, europe, France, geography, geospatial, germany, gis, india, Italy, Japan, netherlands, norway, OriginalContent, poland, politics, rail, railway, railways, russia, south africa, spain, sweden, train, transport, travel, UK, usa, world
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Rail pricing – a global comparison There are some things in life you can be sure of – death, taxes and UK rail fares going up every year. By coincidence, I was just finishing up a quick bit of research on rail journey prices and cost over distance, when news of the latest price hike broke. In this article, the claim that the UK has the highest rail fares in Europe is investigated. It is something I’ve often thought about, and how it compares globally, but is this true? The take from the ‘Reality Check’, is that the UK is the most expensive bought onRead More →

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Capitals and Centres Map

Capitalizing on Geography – Historical and Strategic Capital

2019-07-24
By: TheMole19
On: July 24, 2019
In: gis, maps, My Maps
Tagged: africa, Asia, Burundi, culture, data visualisation, europe, geography, geospatial, gis, greece, history, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, map, OriginalContent, Pakistan, politics, world
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This part three of series on capital cities, exploring influences on their location and history. There will be maps. For the first part click here and for the second part click here. Historical Capital Whilst moves to new capitals and new geography is a strong pattern here, history plays its part too. The most recent country to change its capital is Burundi in 2018, when it moved its capital from the more populous Bujumbura, to the more central location Gitega, the seat of the kingdom of Burundi until its abolition in 1966. Similarly, when Italy became a unified country, the weight of history played itsRead More →

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Map of USA for Washington DC, 1791,A New Capital for a New Nation

Capitalizing on Geography – Political Capital Cities

2019-06-27
By: TheMole19
On: June 27, 2019
In: gis, maps, My Maps
Tagged: africa, culture, europe, geography, geospatial, gis, history, india, old maps, OriginalContent, politics, russia, tanzania, UK, urban, usa, washington dc, world
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This part two of series on capital cities, exploring influences on their location and history.  There will be maps. For the first part click here.  Continuing to break new ground Continuing a post independence from Britain theme, is the US planned capital of Washington D.C., designated by its namesake George and officially made the capital of the young United States in 1800. Its strategic position on the Potomac river in a trans-state location between Virginia and Maryland reflected, not just a central location in the then 13 newly independent colonies; but a compromise between Southern and Northern colonies, i.e. slave holding and free states. TheRead More →

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Eurovision points from Finland

Eurovision 2019: Making your points

2019-05-18
By: TheMole19
On: May 18, 2019
In: gis, maps, My Maps, News
Tagged: culture, cyprus, data, data visualisation, europe, geography, geospatial, gis, greece, israel, map, mapping, maps, netherlands, OriginalContent, politics, russia, sweden, UK
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And now the points from… I wasn’t even planning on another post about the Eurovision Song Contest and the voting geography of this crazy contest. However, messing around on data and geospatial visualisation platforms, and the urge became too strong. So twelve months on here I am again, examining the predictability of voting patterns. The Balkans bloc, the Scandinavian bloc, the former Soviet bloc – you know the drill, so I’ll spare going through the context again – I’ve explored this previously in 2018 and 2017.  Data viz for the Euroviz What’s new for this year are interactive data visualisations where you can explore a country’sRead More →

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From Russia with Goals – Maps and the World Cup

2018-06-13
By: TheMole19
On: June 13, 2018
In: gis, maps, My Maps
Tagged: brasil, brazil, culture, data visualisation, economics, england, europe, football, geography, germany, iceland, mapping, maps, OriginalContent, russia, spain, sport, web development
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Surpassing goals With a matter of hours to go before the month long football extravaganza begins in Moscow, it seems an opportune moment to look at the relationship between the beautiful game and the beautiful subject (geography if you were wondering). This is a topic I have looked at previously, examining the relationship between economic power (through GDP at Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)) and footballing prowess (through FIFA World Rankings). On the eve of the World Cup, it is time to revisit the current state of play. With two web maps, we can look at those who have qualified, past successes of countries, travel distances, andRead More →

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Eurovision 2018 - Jury - Public Vote Difference

Eurovision 2018 – Do you need good neighbours?

2018-05-14
By: TheMole19
On: May 14, 2018
In: gis, maps, My Maps
Tagged: australia, culture, europe, geography, gis, israel, map, mapping, maps, music, politics, portugal, russia, ukraine, world
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Overcoming geography While dust settles in Lisbon, after another crazy night of Eurovision revelry, we can now take time to analyse the patterns of this most geographical of contests. Netta Barzilai won the contest with the song “Toy” for Israel, overcoming it’s isolated geography and lack of neighbours, to win the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. Maybe the best song really does triumph over geography and ‘political voting’. This is a topic I have covered in the past, and while it would be naive to think this is a solely music contest – one only had to hear the audible boos when the televoting came fromRead More →

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Global Chocolate Consumption per Capita (2018)

Chocolate Maps? Sweet! – Geography of Chocolate

2018-04-02
By: TheMole19
On: April 2, 2018
In: maps, My Maps
Tagged: africa, agriculture, chocolate, climate, cote d'ivoire, economics, environment, europe, geography, ghana, gis, indonesia, map, mapping, mexico, OriginalContent, politics, swizterland, UK, world
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I Should Cocoa… Ugh. I’ve had too much chocolate. I’m writing this on Easter Sunday, surrounded by temptation in the form of several variations and combinations of chocolate, as is customary in the Western world at this time of year. It turns out you can have too much of a good thing – real ‘first world problems’. Talking of #firstworldproblems, chocolate addiction really is an issue for the developed world, where chocolate consumption is at its highest in this part of world – maps bear this out. So given this time of  year, I thought it would be fitting to look into the geographical patternsRead More →

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Music, Geography and Independence – Independent Venue Week 2018

2018-01-29
By: TheMole19
On: January 29, 2018
In: gis, maps, My Maps
Tagged: culture, europe, geography, gis, mapbox, mapping, music, OriginalContent, UK, usa
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The double act of Music and Geography Firstly, a very belated happy new year, as well as celebrating the first year anniversary of The Map Den! I’ve really enjoyed getting further involved in the geospatial community through this website, sharing interesting developments and content in social media, and hopefully contributing in my own tiny way on here. Geography, the study and the communication of this through maps, GIS and other geospatial forms is a great passion of mine and I believe is inherently relevant to the world around us – perhaps more than ever. Everything happens somewhere. Another strong interest of mine is music, aRead More →

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