mapping Independence Days Around the World June 27, 2016 / June 6, 2016 by Adam DuVander | Leave a Comment Are you celebrating Independence Day? In the United States, we think of Independence Day as July 4. The same goes for Abkhazia, which became independent from the Republic of Georgia in 1993. In fact, there are 18 countries that celebrate their independence within a week of the Fourth of July. On the map below you’ll […] Read more »
mapping Tour the U.S. World Heritage Sites June 13, 2016 / June 4, 2016 by Adam DuVander | Leave a Comment Take the Seven Wonders of the World, expand the list and you get the World Heritage sites. A United Nations creation from the 1960s, there are now over 1,000 of these sites all over the world. In the United States there have been 23 locations ratified since the 1970s, all shown on the map below. […] Read more »
mapping Mapping Local Crime Data Online May 31, 2016 / May 24, 2016 by Adam DuVander | 1 Comment on Mapping Local Crime Data Online When Google Maps was released in 2005, one of the first projects to use it externally was ChicagoCrime.org. Though now defunct, the site was built when the hard way to add Google Maps was even harder. It inspired many other community crime maps, and won a Knight-Batten award for innovation in journalism in 2005. Since […] Read more »