Proton Flock Camera Map(proton.me)
81 points by cdrnsf | 16 comments
Proton's interactive map of Flock Safety license plate reader cameras across the US, searchable by ZIP code, with background on the cameras and the data source.
#maps on Hacker News
37 stories tagged maps, newest first.
Faster than earcut: triangulating 3.7M map polygons in 489 ms(globus.software)
213 points by molind | 40 comments
Blog post from Globus Software introducing earstrip, an open-source C++/WebAssembly polygon triangulator, and detailing step-by-step optimizations that beat earcut on map polygons.
Show HN: An icon for every city in North America(evans.bike)
15 points by civilchaos | 7 comments
A free downloadable pack of 544 AI-generated icons, one for each North American city over 100k population, browsable via an interactive map and searchable grid.
MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood(engadget.com)
212 points by bookofjoe | 29 comments
Engadget news article reporting that MapQuest's app now displays the locations of known Flock surveillance cameras in neighborhoods.
Geographical Fun: Being Humourous Outlines of Various Countries (1868)(publicdomainreview.org)
9 points by Thevet | 1 comments
A Public Domain Review collection page presenting the 1868 book Geographical Fun, which depicts European countries as humorous caricature figures shaped like their maps.
Find the flattest route between any two points in SF(flattensf.com)
304 points by ishan0102 | 111 comments
Flatten SF is a web map tool that finds walking or biking routes across San Francisco, trading distance for less hill climbing.
Unruly Folded Sheets(literaryreview.co.uk)
7 points by Thevet | 0 comments
Literary Review piece by Simon Bradley reviewing Will Millard's book Mapping Britain, a history of Britain told through the Ordnance Survey archives.
37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it(habibicode.org)
156 points by nicocarsui | 32 comments
An interactive world map overlaying about 38,000 player-drawn borders and coastlines from the Borderline geography games, on 184 countries.
Show HN: I discovered roads in the US across > 1000 themes(road-about-a-theme.pinedesk.biz)
8 points by 91awebsi | 5 comments
Interactive data visualization mapping US roads whose names match over 1,000 themes derived by cross-referencing Wikidata articles with OpenStreetMap roads.
Geothermal heat map of US hot springs(soakingsprings.com)
101 points by armenarmen | 39 comments
An interactive map plotting 1,596 US hot springs over a geothermal heat flow map, showing springs cluster where subsurface heat reaches the surface fastest.
Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)(lax-skyline.parcelscope.net)
323 points by rustywasm | 171 comments
Parcelscope interactive visualization showing every building in Los Angeles colored by decade built, animating the city's growth from 1880 to today.
Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions(orbify.eu)
592 points by smoser | 186 comments
Interactive web demo of a curved, Inception-style map view for turn-by-turn navigation, shown in a dark tablet-like frame with a Start Navigation button.
The map that keeps Burning Man honest(not-ship.com)
742 points by speckx | 342 comments
A Not-Ship newsletter article about the MOOP map Burning Man uses to track leftover debris and hold camps accountable for leaving no trace.
Six years perfecting maps on watchOS(david-smith.org)
414 points by valzevul | 106 comments
A Design Diary blog post by indie developer David Smith recounting six years of work refining map features in his watchOS apps.
OpenTrafficMap(opentrafficmap.org)
352 points by moooo99 | 93 comments
OpenTrafficMap is a live web map of traffic in Graz showing vehicles, trams, buses, pedestrians and traffic light states from V2X broadcasts over WebSocket.
Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?(hormuz.pythonic.ninja)
536 points by PythonicNinja | 346 comments
A browser-based Minesweeper game styled like Windows 95, played on a map grid of the Strait of Hormuz where mines only spawn on water.
Open Infrastructure Map(openinframap.org)
414 points by efskap | 92 comments
Open Infrastructure Map is an interactive globe map showing power lines, telecoms, oil, gas and other infrastructure from OpenStreetMap data.
Cartographers have been hiding illustrations inside Switzerland’s maps (2020)(eyeondesign.aiga.org)
333 points by mhb | 75 comments
AIGA Eye on Design article about Swiss cartographers secretly hiding small illustrations in Switzerland's official national maps for decades.
Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC(geacron.com)
329 points by not_knuth | 135 comments
GeaCron's interactive world history atlas showing political maps and borders by year from 3000 BC to the present.
Find SF parking cops(walzr.com)
826 points by alazsengul | 457 comments
An interactive map of San Francisco listing parking enforcement officers by recent ticket locations, with an officer leaderboard.
This map is not upside down(maps.com)
341 points by aagha | 489 comments
Maps.com article by Joshua Stevens about a south-up world map designed by cartographer Robert Simmon that challenges the north-up convention.
Live Map of the London Underground(londonunderground.live)
463 points by LourensT | 107 comments
An interactive live map showing London Underground trains in real time, with zoomable 3D buildings and hover details.
Obscure islands I find interesting(amanvir.com)
504 points by venusgirdle | 163 comments
An interactive world map highlighting obscure islands like Pheasant Island, Ailsa Craig, and Tristan da Cunha with short descriptions of each.
Arnis: Generate cities in Minecraft from OpenStreetMap(github.com)
436 points by jamesy0ung | 64 comments
GitHub repository for Arnis, a Rust tool that generates real-world locations in Minecraft Java Edition from OpenStreetMap data.
City Roads: A tool to draw all roads in a city at once(anvaka.github.io)
430 points by gaws | 52 comments
City Roads is a web tool by anvaka that renders every road within a chosen city using OpenStreetMap data, starting from a city name search box.
Map of GitHub(github.com)
651 points by vortex_ape | 100 comments
GitHub repository for anvaka's Map of GitHub, an interactive map visualizing GitHub repositories as countries based on shared stargazers.
OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles(tech.marksblogg.com)
444 points by marklit | 142 comments
Mark Litwintschik's blog post examining OpenStreetMap's new vector tiles, which supplement its long-standing pre-rendered raster PNG tiles.
Visualizing World War II(nathangoldwag.wordpress.com)
410 points by gaws | 85 comments
A blog post on Goldwag's Journal on Civilization presenting visualizations and maps of World War II history.
Apple Maps on the web launches in beta(apple.com)
390 points by ingve | 450 comments
Apple Newsroom announcement from July 24, 2024 that Apple Maps is now available in beta on the web.
Roman Roads (2017)(sashamaps.net)
460 points by gslin | 146 comments
A page showing the major roads of the ancient Roman Empire drawn in the style of a modern subway map, here as featured in an Open Culture article.
Every mountain, building and tree shadow in the world simulated for any time(shademap.app)
369 points by wfme | 109 comments
ShadeMap is an interactive web map that simulates shadows cast by terrain, buildings and trees worldwide for any chosen date and time.
Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map(flightradar24.com)
967 points by mjs | 271 comments
Flightradar24 blog post introducing its new map showing areas of GPS jamming and interference detected from aircraft data.
Translating OpenStreetMap data to HTML5 Canvas with Rust and WebAssembly(mary.codes)
328 points by todsacerdoti | 33 comments
Blog post by Mary Knize on rendering OpenStreetMap data to an HTML5 canvas using Rust and WebAssembly, for a revamp of her Disney wait-times project Line Buddy.
Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia(en.nearbywiki.org)
348 points by udev4096 | 83 comments
NearbyWiki is an interactive map web app that shows Wikipedia-listed places near a chosen location.
Waterway Map(waterwaymap.org)
377 points by wcedmisten | 135 comments
WaterwayMap is an interactive map showing how waterways and canals are connected in OpenStreetMap data, with randomly colored connected river networks.
Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling(sitinshade.com)
847 points by Amithv | 195 comments
Sit in Shade is a web app that takes origin, destination, date and time to recommend which bus seat side avoids sun exposure.
Protomaps – A free and open source map of the world(protomaps.com)
909 points by rcarmo | 147 comments
Homepage of Protomaps, an open source map of the world deployable as a single static file on cloud storage.