#929: hemisphere, malaria, distances, pesticides, leon, barcelona, bitcoin, flights, wrecks, painting
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Almost all humans live in the same Earth Hemisphere
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/almost-everyone-on-earth-lives-in-the-same-hemisphere -
The Malaria Atlas provides several tools to explore data about this disease
https://map.ox.ac.uk/ -
World Maps are not as you know them: they are really distorted and most of the shortest distances cross the poles
http://www.partir.com/carte/des-cartes-pour-comprendre-le-monde.html -
A preservation project for future generations is also producing a map of France pesticide victims
http://victimes-pesticides.fr/ -
"León Emergente" is a digital crowd-sourced atlas of the León city in Nicaragua
http://emergenteleon.org/ -
"Barcelona + Sostenible" is a map of the contributions to make the city more sustainable, from small emerging initiatives to big sustained projects
http://bcnsostenible.cat/ -
A map of places where Bitcoin is accepted as currency, including also ATM locations
http://coinmap.org/#/map/41.38320050/2.16433883/16 -
How to gather and process flight data to create detailed trace maps
http://mapsmith.net/2018/06/16/flight-data-visualization/ -
The Irish wreck catalog
https://dahg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=89e50518e5f4437abfa6284ff39fd640 -
An art project using phones to paint traces of the logged movements
https://painted.earth/
Raf