How arbitrary is the Electoral College?
Redraw state boundaries with 2016 US election data.
From Awesome Explorables
Discover
Wander the web like a shoreline.
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 topics
Spectral Codex
Photo essays, road trips, and a geospatial database with a particular emphasis on the history and culture of Taiwan.
From personalsit.es
Visualizing Map Distortion
visualizing map distortion. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
From Awesome Explorables
I built a map of billboards and banners in Poland (gpy.pl)
Punkty reklamowe w całej Polsce - billboardy, ekrany LED, bannery i citylighty. Znajdź lokalizację dla swojej kampanii albo wystaw własną powierzchnię i znajdź najemcę.
From Show HN
NYC's Urban Textscape
What if you could search every visible word on New York City’s streets?
From The Pudding
Terragen
Photorealistic 3d terrain generator. Some versions are free for noncommercial use
Something different
What it’s like to walk across Massachusetts
A visually-aided journal of a very long walk home.
From The Pudding
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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OpenTaxRate – open-source US sales tax rates by street address
US sales tax rates by street address, from the states' own published data. - equated-org/opentaxrate
From Show HN
I Made a Public Transit Optimization Puzzle Game
A daily transit-map puzzle. Draw the lines, pick up the riders.
From Show HN
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
Diagrams for Travel from the Qanoon-e-Islam (1832)
Diagrams from a now-lost Urdu manuscript illustrating the propitious days and directions for travel.
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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
A Road Trip To The Alps and Dolomites
About three years ago I watched a YouTube video of a couple of trail runners running the Alta Via 2 in the Dolomites. It’s a 100 mile route through the Dolomite mountains in northern Italy and as soon as I watched them I realised I had to go there. Not to run the route, but … Read more
From Kagi Small Web
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.
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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.
From Show HN
Medieval Fantasy Town Generator
Generates a random medieval city layout of a requested size & can export to JSON.
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That's this stretch.
Walk on