Right now,7 billion people are awake while 2 billion are fast asleep. 🌍✨ Awake Globe is a stunning, interactive 3D map that visualizes the Earth's shifting rhythm of sleep & wakefulness in real time, tracking daylight, time zones, and population data. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/08/7-bi...

TripGeo has carried out a complete redesign of my Sonar City game. I'm not sure why but it has made it a lot more fun to play. www.tripgeo.com/sonarcity

Transforming the traditional tourist guide into an interactive adventure - with Bigfoot! googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/bigf...

The hidden geography of friendship 🌍 Why do St. Louis and Bosnia & Herzegovina share such remarkably strong social ties? The answer lies in history - and in this map that visualizes the friendship connections of social media. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...

Can You Date the Map? Date the Globe challenges you to guess the exact year of a historical map using shifting borders and changing country names as your clues. 🌍 googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/can-...

SimCity Meets AI NYCSim is an incredible browser-based digital twin of Manhattan, featuring 305k building footprints, live transit tracking, and 10,000 synthetic AI residents who react to real-time weather and news. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/simc...

🌍🌾👇 Over 640M people live in regions where food production has dropped by 10%+. By 2050, that could affect half the global population. This map uses the new CADI index to show exactly how - and where - climate change is leading to agricultural decline. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

Waterworld - what level of sea level rise would we need until only the Andes and the Himalayas Islands are left? googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/wate...

This brilliant mapped explanation of how Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) works has to be the Map of the Week. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/how-...

See how daylight changes across the globe? 🌍 ☀️ Sunrise and Sunset is a neat interactive map that visualizes sunset & sunrise times, solar altitudes and seasonal contrasts for any location on Earth. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/mapp...

The British Empire governed a quarter of the world, and established a global bureaucracy. Using LLMs and OCR, this project transforms thousands of service records into interactive maps tracing the lives of 46,000 British Empire officials. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

Share your journey with TikTok-ready video maps. 🗺️✨ AniMaps requires no coding and lets you easily animate your travel routes. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/06/make...

How did the world build its railway networks? And where did they vanish? 🗺️🚂 These interactive timeline maps track the growth, contraction, and evolution of global rail infrastructure in countries around the world. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...

There are eight million rodents in the naked city. Here are some of them ... ... on the real-time rat tracking map. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...

Mapping the Lone Star's Northern March - visualizing how the lone star tick's habitat is expanding northwards. #climatechange googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/06/mapp...

The Ambient Sound Map - this map analyses OpenStreetMap data and then uses BBC Sound Effects to create ambient sound. Pan around the map and the ambient sound changes to match its background. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-...

Ever wondered why the Sahara is a desert or why London is milder than Moscow? 🌍 Building Earth is a stunning 3D simulation that explains how the Earth's climate developed over millions of years. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-...

Time Traveling with OHM - using OpenHistoricalMap data to create a map of shifting country borders over time. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/05/time...

METs Do the Time Warp Again! The map of New York warped by travel times on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority network. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/05/mets...

🚲 Animating thousands of daily bike journeys. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/05/mapp...

Telling time with Street View: a clock that uses numbers found on Google Maps Street View. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/05/tell...

What's the Jet Stream doing today? Find out with the Global Jet Stream Forecast. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/05/mapp...

⚪ Marble Madness - drop a ball anywhere on Earth to see where it rolls. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/05/marb...

Who's dancing at the global disco? googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/04/crea...

The Art of Data googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/04/data...

6 tools for making your own map posters! googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/04/addr...

A Day in the Life of the New York Subway - googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

Meet me in the middle - by plane. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/04/this...

Follow the passage of the Sun around the Earth (I know) through the rise & fall of air temperature. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

Follow the moon mission in real-time - on YouTube and in 3D on the Artemis II Mission Tracker. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/04/real...