Tag: maps

  • Cancelling the Cincinnati Streetcar Project

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    Brendan Barry
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    So Cincinnati was going to have a streetcar. Now it won’t because the recently elected mayor, John Cranley, campaigned on killing the streetcar. I won’t get into the whys and the why nots mostly because I’m not from Cincinnati and others can do it better. Suffice it to say that costs and budget battles played…

  • Speeding on Chicago’s Tollways

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    The Illinois Tollways will be raising speed limits starting 1 January. Part of that process includes researching current driving habits and patterns. This graphic by the Chicago Tribune looks at some of the results. While the map part is necessary to show the routes themselves and the limits on those routes, the more interesting part…

  • The Tallest of the Tall (in Los Angeles)

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    Brendan Barry
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    I have always had an interest in architecture. And so this piece from the Los Angeles Times is just because I like to indulge myself every so often, a look at the five tallest buildings in Los Angeles. Credit for the piece goes to Scott J. Wilson, Matt Moody, and Anthony Pesce.

  • Internet Explorer in South Korea

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    Brendan Barry
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    The Washington Post had an interesting story on how, in South Korea, Internet Explorer dominates the internet. I won’t spoil the story, it is kind of fascinating and worth a short read, but the accompanying graphics show just how dominant the browser has been in a leading technology country in Asia. Credit for the piece…

  • The Origin of Beer

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    Brendan Barry
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    Today’s post comes via Business Insider. They linked to work by reddit user sp07 who mapped out words used for common objects across Europe and then looked at those words by their origin. But of all words, this is probably the most important. Credit for the piece goes to sp07.

  • The Sinking of the Bounty

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    Brendan Barry
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    This time last year, the Northeast began to pick up what was left from Hurricane Sandy. There was a lot of rain, a lot of wind, flooding, and electrical outages. But not all the damage was ashore. In an excellent long-form narrative piece, the Tampa Bay Times covered the story of the Bounty, a functional…

  • Haiyan’s Destruction in Tacloban

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    Brendan Barry
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    On 8 November, Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Philippines, killing what may well be 10,000 people. The New York Times covered much of the damage in Tacloban, perhaps the hardest hit city, in this interactive graphic. Credit for the piece goes to the New York Times graphics department.

  • Banksy Works in New York

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    Brendan Barry
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    The English artist Banksy has been in New York the past month. Consequently, the interest in his work prompted the New York Times to map the works across the city. Credit for the piece goes to the New York Times graphics department.

  • Scale of Syria’s Refugees

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    Brendan Barry
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    So that civil war in Syria thing, yeah, it’s still going on, folks. And lots of people—7,000,000 of them—have been forced to flee to either external or internal locations. Al Jazeera has attempted to put that number into context for Americans using US census data and maps. Here is a look at both Philadelphia and…

  • Virginia Election Results

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    Brendan Barry
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    Last night was election night. Okay, maybe not the big midterm, but there were still a few interesting races. The one I want to look at it, however, is the gubernatorial race in Virginia. Maps are pretty much the default in big, statewide races like these and it is no surprise that the three screenshots here…