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Something new washes up every time: pages from all kinds of people, made with all kinds of tools. Beachcomb shows you what it found, then gets out of the way.
Pick a few topicsTerragen
Photorealistic 3d terrain generator. Some versions are free for noncommercial use
From Tiny Tools Directory
Spectral Codex
Photo essays, road trips, and a geospatial database with a particular emphasis on the history and culture of Taiwan.
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GPS - Global Positioning System
A detailed interactive explanation on how the Global Positioning System works.
From Awesome Explorables
Max Dietrich
Hi, I'm Max Dietrich. I currently work as Teamkoordinator GIS-Applikationsmanagement at Bayernwerk (E.ON). Beside that I ride my mountain bike in the alps, code and design my website and publish new content whenever I can.
From personalsit.es
How arbitrary is the Electoral College?
Redraw state boundaries with 2016 US election data.
From Awesome Explorables
Even Littler Johns
The incredible Small Numbers in Color, 1959, that Jasper Johns loaned to the Philadelphia Museum for the 2021 retrospective is [again?/still?] on view there. We saw it last weekend after the Duchamp show, and it was [again?/still?] fantastic. I have done nothing to find out what the back of the wood…
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Independent Vet – Find locally owned vets (and corporate ones) near you
Find locally owned veterinary practices near you and see which clinics are verified independent or corporately owned.
From Show HN
AI Heat Map Sourced from over 140 News Feeds
An interactive map of the AI companies, models, products, people and ideas getting the most attention in English-language news over the last 7 days.
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Archie G. Norcross’ Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22)
Circular maps custom-made for the fire towers that once dotted the American wilderness.
From The Public Domain Review
Surprise! Largs Community Garden (hidden in the train station)
There’s a definite phenomenon arising from NOT crawling around a place you visit, and examining it in detail. Although I’ve walked from the northern extend of the town, where I found various things, including Lord Kelvin’s house, and gone as … Continue reading →
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Diagrams for Travel from the Qanoon-e-Islam (1832)
Diagrams from a now-lost Urdu manuscript illustrating the propitious days and directions for travel.
From The Public Domain Review
Weedon Island Preserve
Weedon Island Preserve is a 3100-acre county park located in St Petersburg, Florida. It is a wildlife refuge encompassing a series of islands in Tampa Bay, consisting mostly of mangrove swamp and slash pine/cabbage palmetto scrub. But its primary importance is as an archaeological site, centered…
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Visualizing Map Distortion
visualizing map distortion. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
From Awesome Explorables
NYC's Urban Textscape
What if you could search every visible word on New York City’s streets?
From The Pudding
terrain.party
nice interface for getting terrain heightmaps anywhere in the world
From Tiny Tools Directory
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