Mapping the Medals: Olympic Medal Distribution

Medal distribution across the globe on 2012 Summer Olympics.

http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/mappingthemedals/

Antarctica Time Zones And Stations

Time zones and research stations in Antarctica.

 

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Centered asymmetrically around the South Pole and largely south of the Antarctic Circle, Antarctica is the southernmost continent and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean; alternatively, it may be considered to be surrounded by the southern Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans, or by the southern waters of the World Ocean. (wp)

Produced by the Australian Antarctic Data Centre.

Wikipedia Recent Changes Map

A real-time world map of Wikipedia edits by unregistered users.

http://rcmap.hatnote.com/#en

Vaguely Rude Place Names

Vaguely rude place names of the world.

http://maps.geotastic.org/rude/

Locations Of Boston Marathon Explosions

The 2013 Boston Marathon bombings occurred on April 15, 2013, when two bombs were detonated during the Boston Marathon at approximately 2:50 p.m. EDT (18:50 UTC) on Boylston Street near Copley Square, just before the finish line. A third explosion at JFK library 3,5 miles away.

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Social Classes in UK

Where the new classes are clustered in England, Wales, Scotland and London.

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More info: Can I have no job or money and still be middle class?
 
Source: @BBCNews

Billionaires World Map

The wealth Forbes' billionaires mapped.

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Map of the countries that are most and least welcoming to foreigners

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Buried several hundred pages into a new World Economic Forum report on global tourism, past the sections on air travel infrastructure and physician density (by which they mean the number of physicians per capita, not the mass-per-cubic-meter of individual doctors), are some very interesting numbers. The WEF has compiled survey data from 140 countries estimating the attitude of each countries’ population toward foreign visitors.

Source: Washington Post

Every meteorite fall on earth mapped

After the meteor explosion in the sky above Russia's Ural Mountains the Guardian Data Blog:created a map with every meteorite falls.

Or at least those we know about. And where are the known meteorite landing places on earth? These impact zones show where scientists have found meteorites, or the impact craters of meteorites, some dating back as far as the year 2,300BC. The data is from the US Meteorological Society and doesn't show those places where meteorites may have fallen but not been discovered .

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2013/feb/15/meteorite-fall-map

Simulate a nuclear explosion in your city

Select a place on the map, set the yield of the nuclear weapon and see the destruction.

 http://www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

New York Snowfall Reports

An interactive map with snowfall reports in New York area.

http://project.wnyc.org/snowfall-map/embed.html#9.00/41.1293/-73.4160

Interactive map of world's most liveable cities

This interactive map shows the quality of living rankings for the top city in countries around the world from the Mercer survey. Please note that only those countries and cities are included for which information was made publically available. It includes all countries which have cities in the top 50 ranking, as well as the top cities in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Middle East and Africa regions.

 http://www.statsilk.com/maps/quality-living-worlds-most-liveable-cities-interactive-map

Census Dotmap

A map of every person counted by the 2010 US Census. The map has 308,450,225 dots - one for each person.

http://bmander.com/dotmap/index.html

American Oil Imports

Oil imports to the United States. The top 10 exporting countries of oil to the US in thousand barrels per day (June 2009).

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Source: NG Oil and Gas

Africa Population Density

Map of population density in Africa.

The population of Africa has grown rapidly over the past century, and consequently shows a large youth bulge, further reinforced by a low life expectancy of below 50 years in some African countries. (Wikipedia)

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The separatist map of Africa

When African states gained independence, the continent's new leaders agreed to respect the old colonial borders to avoid endless wars. But separatist movements still abound. (The Guardian)

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2012/sep/06/africa-map-separatist-movements-interactive

Natural Resources in Australia

Map of natural resources in Australia.

Natural Resources: bauxite, coal, iron ore, copper, tin, gold, silver, uranium, nickel, tungsten, rare earth elements, mineral sands, lead, zinc, diamonds, natural gas, petroleum. Australia is the world's largest net exporter of coal accounting for 29% of global coal exports. (CIA: The World Factbook)

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Map of World's Resources

World's natural resources by top countries.

Natural resources are commodities that are considered valuable in their relatively unmodified (natural) form. A commodity is generally considered a natural resource when the primary activities associated with it are extraction and purification, as opposed to creation. Thus, mining, oil extraction, fishing, and forestry are generally considered natural-resource industries, while farming is not. (Wikipedia)

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Russian scientific stations in the Arctic

Russian scientific stations in the Arctic. In 1875, an Austrian geophysicist named Karl Weyprecht proposed polar stations to conduct year-round observations using consistent methods and instruments. 

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Locations of TV series

Locations of  TV series in the United States.

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