6 tools for making your own map posters!
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The First Systematic Survey Meets Modern DEM Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.

1747 Cartography 🤝 2026 Terrain Data

Major-General William Roy’s military survey of the Highlands (1747) now with 3D terrain.
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Google Night View Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.

Google Night View - La Noche Cíclica is a project dedicated to mapping and collecting the often accidental moments when Street View was shot at night.
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Drop a Message in a Bottle Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.

Drop a message in a bottle and set it adrift on a virtual globe.
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what1tune - Musical Addresses Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.

You hum it and I’ll ... find it! 🎶📍

what1tune - my new geohashing system turns every location into a unique tune.
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A Day in the Life of the New York Subway -
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Scrabble Map Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.

Scrabble Map

I'm playing Mozambique for 34 points - but it's on a triple word score tile - so that's 102 points to me.

Your turn ...

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How Livable is Your Street? Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.

How Livable is Your Street?

Strado analyzes the density of Points of Interest to give neighborhoods a Livability and Activity ranking.
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Meet me in the middle - by plane.
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Playing with Gary Gale's Rude Places data & I have some questions.
1. Why so many clits in Romania - mapsmania.github.io/aprilfool/ru...
2. Why only two bushes in the UK - mapsmania.github.io/aprilfool/ru...
3. Why are all climaxes in north America - mapsmania.github.io/aprilfool/ru...

Legible Rude Places Map Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.

The Legible Rude Places map -
mapping the world’s most unfortunate place names!
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11 Million Colored Buildings Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.

11 million colored buildings - the Netherlands Building Age Map has been updated with 1.5 million newly constructed buildings. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/04/11-m...

The Ancestry Dot Map of America Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.

The Ancestry Dot Map of America - where Americans say they come from. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

Follow the passage of the Sun around the Earth (I know) through the rise & fall of air temperature.
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The Politics of Street View Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.

Political Street View - can you guess whether a neighborhood is Democrat or Republican just from its Street View imagery?

BallotGuessr is GeoGuessr for psephologists.
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200,000 Rivers Run Through It Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.

Persistent Swamps vs Just Visiting Gulches - mapping the geography of the differing types of river names in the USA.
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ASCII Mapping of Live Data Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.

Relive the 80s - live planes moving on a ASCII Map.
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Follow the moon mission in real-time - on YouTube and in 3D on the Artemis II Mission Tracker.
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miniLondon3d - using London Transport's live prediction data to create a real-time diorama of the tube network. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/03/mini...

Moon Shots & Space Rot

Two impressive 3D visualizations - of the Artemis mission to the Moon and 32,000 satellites orbiting planet Earth.
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Sentient Street View Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.

Sentient Street View - Introducing Pegman AI
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And now with URL support to play chords - mapsmania.github.io/globalbuildi... - See the bottom (updates) of this post for adding chords, variable note lengths and pauses to the URL hash googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

I've added support for pauses and differing note lengths to the piano map. For example - here is the URL for a Mappy Birthday tune - mapsmania.github.io/globalbuildi...

The World is a Piano! Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.

The World is a Piano - I adapted the piano map so that you can now share links to the songs that you compose.

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The Notable People Map Game Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.

The Notable People Map - GeoGuessing Edition

These are the 1,000 most famous people in history. So you should know where they were born - right?

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The IRL Streaming Map Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.

Watch Twitch, YouTube, and Kick live streams from around the world on this IRL Streaming Map.

Yes, you too can watch a guy ice fishing in Finland in real-time (sometimes he even moves).
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The Oceans of Mars and this Dammed Earth Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.

The Oceans of Mars & this Dammed Earth

Doing clever things with elevation data to simulate oceans on Mars and Dam inundation on Earth.

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Mini Rennes 3D

I don't think I'll ever tire of real-time animated transit maps.
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GeoGuesser - But judged by an AI Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.

StreetSeekr is an interesting twist on the geoguessing format.

It asks you to find objects (eg 'an airplane). Then it uses AI to judge if you've truly fulfilled the task.

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