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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 15h

🏡 When House Hunters meets GeoGuessr!
Guess the price of real homes from Street View images in Curb Value, my new daily real estate guessing game.
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How much for a house like this?

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 18h

The Roman Empire was massive… but how massive really? 👀
Compare it to modern nations or other empires using this new 'true size' map - which allows you to compare the sizes of modern (and long gone) countries.
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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 1d

#30DayMapChallenge - November’s 30DayMapChallenge is fast approaching - and the daily themes for this year’s event have been released! googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2025/10/30-d...

30 Day Map Challenge

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 2d

Countries of the world resized in proportion to the number of births. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2025/10/indi...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 3d

Drop an asteroid on it and start again.
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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 4d

Mapping examples and instances of Russia's hybrid warfare against Western countries. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2025/10/mapp...

Mapping Russia's Attack on Europe

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 6d

The Schools Lines that Divide US - New America has released an interactive map that reveals how the boundaries of U.S. school districts could be redrawn to create a fairer education system for all students.https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-school-lines-that-divide-us.html

The School Lines That Divide US

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 7d

The Atlas of American Gun Violence - zoom in and ... OMG. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 8d

Mapping Europe's 'net death zones' - the regions where more people are now dying than are being born.
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European Death Zones

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 9d

Ditch the complicated GIS software! 🙅‍♀️

I used PaintMyMap to create a custom data map and exported it as a PNG ... in under 5 minutes!

It handles GeoJSON, KML, Shapefiles, and more. It's also FREE.

Find out how easy it is to make your own map graphic:
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The World is Your Canvas with PaintMyMap

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 10d

🏘️ Housing for Tourists Not for Locals 🏘️
Mapping how short-term rentals are squeezing locals out of the housing market in Lisbon and Porto.
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Mapping the Housing Crisis in Portugal

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 11d

Mapping the Siege of Kherson - dramatic visualization of 3000 casualties since 2023.
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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 11d

Not really a map - more of a tiny game world.
But this is just beautiful.
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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 13d

Musical Trains!

An interactive map of the Yamanote Line, featuring the station departure melody tunes of each station along the route. 🎧

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 14d

The history of space travel unfolds decade by decade on the T-Minus 6000 story map. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2025/09/mapp...

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 15d

Who's Polluting Your Air? - Climate Trace's new Pollution Plumes map uses animated markers to dramatically visualize the amount of air pollution people are exposed to worldwide.
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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 16d

No one does animated isochrones quite like Chronotrains. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2025/09/see-...

Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 17d

At this time of year there is usually a spike in traffic to the magic mushroom map - and now there's an app as well. googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-...

The Magic Mushroom Map

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 17d

Snapping & Mapping the Passage of Time

re-photos is a brilliant global, collaborative map of rephotos.

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 18d

One of the examples in this post is this @maprva.org map of georeferenced vintage photos.
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Mike O'Brien @obrien.page · 28d

Help @maprva.org develop an historical street view of Richmond, VA by georeferencing old photographs! The catalog is actively growing and currently includes 1900 photos from the Library of Virginia and the @thevalentinerva.bsky.social

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 18d

Making Maps Easy with Ultra

Today I have mainly been cooking up maps with some Ultra recipes.
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Making Maps Easy with Ultra

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 20d

🚀 Ever wondered how Google Maps finds the fastest way from A to B?
Google Maps Explained is your fun guide (starring Geo 🟢) to how pathfinding algorithms work and provide you with directions.
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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 21d

Do you keep getting lost in your favorite books!
🗺️ Plotted.io is a new site that lets you explore and create interactive maps of literary worlds, from locations in Bram Stoker's Dracula to Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea.
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The Interactive Map for Book Lovers

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 22d

Losing Bigly, Very SAD!

Trump is still holding on to a positive net approval rating in 11 states. Although in 8 of those states it's down to single figures.

He has a negative approval rating in 39 states.
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Losing BIG, Very SAD!

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Maps Mania @mapsmania.bsky.social · 23d

This interactive map from NBC News and Stanford University visualizes the alarming low rates of childhood MMR vaccinations rates across the US.
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Trump's DEPT of ILL HEALTH

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