#929: hemisphere, malaria, distances, pesticides, leon, barcelona, bitcoin, flights, wrecks, painting

Fri, 17 Aug 2018

• 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