<![CDATA[Gawker: Maps]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: Maps]]> http://gawker.com/tag/maps http://gawker.com/tag/maps <![CDATA[Samoa Jumps 24 Hours into the Future Tonight]]> As promised, the island nations of Samoa and Tokelau will jump 24 hours into the future tonight, when the international date line is revised to facilitate Samoan trade with Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. (American Samoa will stay on Hawaii's side of the line.) When 18,600 Samoans and 1,500 Tokelauans go to bed tonight, it will be a Thursday. When they awake, it will be Saturday. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5872001&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Fox News Has No Clue Where States Are or Which Candidates Are Which]]> There are two possible explanations for these horrendously mislabeled graphics from yesterday's Special Report with Brett Baier: one, that no one at Fox News knows or cares about where Nevada and New Hampshire are; or two, that the network is somehow trying to fool the Obama administration into pumping millions of dollars into Utah, thinking that it's actually Nevada. Not sure which is less embarrassing. [via Media Matters; image via AP] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5868143&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[A Guide to New York City's 1%]]> After weeks of literally protesting Wall Street, Occupy Wall Street has realized that billionaire CEOs actually don't live in lower Manhattan. So they're headed uptown! To help them, here's a map of where the richest of New York's rich live. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5848699&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[How to Draw a Funny Lookin' Congressional Redistricting Map]]> Maryland Democrats safely control both houses of the state legislature, along with the governorship. What a great opportunity to draw a bold Republican-screwing congressional map! See, they want to turn the state from a 6-2 Democrat advantage in the House of Representatives to a 7-1 advantage. How do you do that? Well, look at the funny squiggly picture up top, also known as a "Maryland redistricting draft map." More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5847033&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Obsessed Media Track Whereabouts of Amanda Knox's Airplane]]> At 8:35PM GMT, respected British news source The Daily Telegraph broke news in its Amanda Knox liveblog: "Thanks to the wonders of modern technology we can see that Knox's plane is currently over Canada's Auyuittuq National Park on planefinder.net." More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5846643&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[New York State Gets Around to Renaming 'Nigger Lake']]> Although racism north of the Mason-Dixon line was thought to have been eradicated in 1964, government researchers claim to have spotted it in the wild just recently, lurking in "the remote meadows and forests of upstate New York." More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5823761&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[New York's Movie Map: The Answers Are In]]> Remember the super cool New York movie map we posted last week? The genius at Alien Loves Predator who created it have posted the answers to the 91 movies that were on it. How many did you get right? More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5801271&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Now's Your Chance to Buy Thousands of Unwanted Federal Properties]]> The Obama administration has gone through all of the properties the federal government owns and come up with "roughly 14,000 buildings and structures currently designated as excess and thousands of others that are underutilized." It plans to sell "or get rid of" as many of these as possible over the next three years, which will supposedly save $15 billion. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5800085&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Awesome Map Depicts Manhattan Movie Locations]]> Those geniuses at the website Alien Loves Predator created this rad map of film icons and where they were filmed loving (or destroying) New York. There are apparently 91 movie references on the map. Think you can spot them all? More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5799018&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Tennessee Is the Happiest State, According to Twitter]]> PhD student Alex Davies has set out to discover the happiest places in the world by analyzing Tweets. A noble project! But one that may need some tweaking, given that according to his data, the happiest U.S. state is Tennessee (tied with Arizona as the eighth most-unemployed state in the union) , and the happiest country is Germany (which, c'mon, it's Germany; if it were a happy country we wouldn't have had two different world wars). More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5789260&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[How Race and Ethnicity is Distributed Across the U.S.]]> Attention, data nerds! Numbers from the 2010 Census are being released, which means it's time to start crunching numbers and making colorful maps. New Geography has a bunch, including these two showing the concentrations of black and Hispanic respondents, respectively. Multiply the numbers in the legend by 100 to get the population percentages. [New Geography via Sociological Images] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5787051&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Fox News Locates Nuclear Plant in Nightclub]]> This is a map of Japanese nuclear power plants that was featured on Monday's episode of Fox News' Your World With Neil Cavuto This is The International Atomic Energy Agency's list of Japanese nuclear plants. You might notice that "Shibuyaeggman" appears on the Fox News map, but not on the IAEA list. Probably because it is actually a nightclub. Media Matters' Simon Maloy explains: More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5782025&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[These Are the World's Drunkest Countries]]> The World Health Organization just released a report about global alcohol consumption. Conclusion: Our planet is wasted! More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5762729&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Accuweather.com Has the World's Most Terrifying Weather Maps]]> Accuweather.com is already sounding the alarm about next week's "Groundhog Day Storm" that could affect "more than 100 million people… from the Rockies to the Plains, South, Midwest and Northeast." Sounds scary! But not nearly as scary as their maps. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5746722&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Where the Swears Are]]> This is 1.5 million geotagged tweets posted between March 9th and April 12th, 2010, mapped according to frequency of profanity. Mountains are the sweariest, valleys the cleanest. Seems the more people live in a place, the more people swear there. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5741119&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Hey, Look How Segregated New York City Is!]]> The New York Times has funneled new Census Bureau data into a handy ethnic map of New York City. This is Brooklyn: Each blue dot equals 100 black people, each green dot 100 white people. Never the twain shall meet. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5713779&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The World According to Facebook]]> Here's a map of the world, as drawn by Facebook (click to enlarge it). What does that mean? Well, basically: The entire image is defined not by topographical features or political boundaries, but by Facebook friendships. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5713258&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[This Is What New Yorkers Complain About]]> Wired magazine logged nearly 35,000 complaint calls to 311— New York's call-and-whine help line—and put them in this handy graph based on nature of complaint and time of call. They also break it down by bitchingest neighborhood More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5687516&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[A Google Map of Google Maps' Legal Troubles]]> Italian officials today launched a probe into Google, which has been accused of collecting mounds of personal information through unsecured Wi-Fi networks with its Street View cars. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5675269&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[No, These New High-Res Google Maps Were Not Taken by Drones]]> We're all familiar with Google Map's cool/creepy satellite imagery, great for spotting airplanes and busting illegal backyard pools. The technology has received a significant boost recently. (Though not, as some conspiracy theorists believe, thanks to drone technology.) More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5664434&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Six Miracles Already Reported During Pope's UK Visit]]> The Guardian is running a map during Pope Benedict's visit to the UK where people can report seeing the Popemobile, masses, protests and miracles. One user in north London reported seeing a "Cloud that looked like the Pope. I wept." More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5640481&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Want to Find Cheap Marijuana? Here's a Google Map]]> Hey, look, a website that crowdsources information on the price of weed in various world cities, then calculates averages and charts it on a Google map. File under: Synergy, Inevitabilities, Reasons To Move To The Pacific Northwest. [PriceofWeed.com] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5638028&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Hurricane Politely Agrees to Leave the Gulf Coast Alone This Time]]> Hurricane Earl is "gathering strength" off the coast of Puerto Rico, and may send squalls all the way to Maine this week. Earl has kindly agreed to leave the Gulf coast alone, though, because it's got enough to deal with. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5625727&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Will Tea Party Members Who Attend Glenn Beck's Rally Survive Washington DC?]]> Teabaggers will soon descend on Washington for Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally, taking place at the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Dream" speech, on its anniversary. What precautions should they take to avoid being murdered in this deadly town? More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5619876&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[We Are What We Eat?]]> This map of Brooklyn shows the neighborhoods broken down by which type of ethnic cuisine dominates based on the Village Voice's restaurant guide. We're surprised Williamsburg isn't colored cheap-pizza-slices-and-taco-trucks. Here's the one for Manhattan. [Very Small Array, via] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5576365&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[This Map Shows You How to Avoid Tourists In New York]]> Tourists suck. Use this map to avoid them in New York. Using Flickr's geotagging feature, Eric Fisher created this heat map showing where tourists took pictures versus where locals did. Red is tourists, blue is locals. (Click to enlarge.) More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5558768&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[San Francisco Crime Map, Prostitution Edition]]> Going to San Francisco for vacation this summer? Make sure you check out this handy elevation map first. You can consult your guidebook for restaurants and bars, but this map shows you where to find all of the hookers! [FlowingData] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5557955&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[New York's New Subway Map: Now With 30% More Manhattan]]> New York is getting a new subway map! It's the first redesign in more than a decade, and it mostly looks the same as the old map, but with new colors. Here are some of the big differences: More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5549897&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Easiest Places in New York to Get Cancer]]> Need help finding a neighborhood to live in? The state Department of Health yesterday introduced its new cancer map that lets you see how many people in each census block have cancer, and what types of hazardous materials are nearby. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5535952&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Great New York Oil Spill]]> The BP oil spill is spread across an estimated 2,500 square miles, and is dumping at least 200,000 gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico every day. What would that look like in New York? More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5534945&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[60th St. Bloomingdales Is Objectively The Best Place In Manhattan to Catch a Cab]]> People have used math to determine that Lexington Ave. at 60th St. is the best place to catch a cab in Manhattan. Check out the sweet taxi "heat maps" from the New York Times and never walk anywhere again. [FlowingData] More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5509456&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sarah Palin's 2012 Map to Victory]]> It's national campaign stat-porn season again! Number muncher Nate Silver posted some of his magic maps this morning. These maps explain how Sarah Palin could be the 2012 Republican nominee for President! More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5468634&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[This Map Will Save America]]> This is a very popular map right now among the wonky liberal bloggers of the grown-up end of the internet. It is designed to make the electoral college and the Senate more "democratic." Which defeats the point of those institutions! More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5457249&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Park Slope Is Full of Bragging College Grads]]> Here's a map of Park Slope—brave, bourgiest corner of Bourgie Brooklyn—where the streets are named for the rear-window college stickers found on parked cars. Odds are you'll find your own school somewhere. Maybe it was even your car! More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5451258&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Fat People Can't Get Jobs, and Unemployed People Can't Get Thin]]> Last week, we highlighted a scary county-by-county map that a commenter posted to #tips showing metastasizing unemployment growth. Today, it occurred to us that we'd seen a graphic like that somewhere before: A CDC map of obesity by county. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5421618&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The AP Layoffs, From Bismarck to Beijing]]> We've been updating our AP Layoffs List for three days with tips about layoffs in AP bureaus around the world. Here, we've organized and mapped them for you. View the national and global media carnage, below. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5408380&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Recession Map of NoLIta: Updated]]> In February, we noted the sad decline of the once-posh, boutique-strewn neighborhood of NoLIta, where Gawker HQ is located. We sent the interns back to the streets and have a new report: more sales, more closing, and only some redemption. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5387798&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Al Franken's Stupid Political Junkie Trick]]> Al Franken does not tell jokes now that he's a serious, scholarly U.S. Senator. But there is one bit of his routine that he won't retire: his old party trick of drawing a map of the United States from memory. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5354641&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Union Square: Then and Now]]> The landscape of the city changes with each passing day as retail outlets come and go and older buildings are torn down to make way for new developments. But if you want to see what NYC looked like way back in the day, the Mannahatta Project has an interactive map that allows you to zoom in on any section of Manhattan—such as Union Square, left—and then travel back in time to see what the same area looked like in 1609. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=507140&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The White-Collar Criminal Tour]]>
 
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