This project, based on OpenStreetMap, looks great:
OpenFreeMap lets you display custom maps on your website and apps for free.
You can either self-host or use our public instance.
I’m going to try it out on The Session once there’s documentation for using this with Leaflet.
There are some beautiful illustrations in this online exhibition of data visualisation in the past few hundred years.
What you see is the big map of a sea of literature, one where each island represents a single author, and each city represents a book. The map represents a selection of 113 008 authors and 145 162 books.
This is a poetic experiment where we hope you will get lost for a while.
Robin Hawkes has made a lovely website to go with his newsletter all about maps and spatial goodies.
The beautiful 19th century data visualisations of Emma Willard unfold in this immersive piece by Susan Schulten.
A did a little experiment to find the right API provider for thesession.org
How I switched to high-resolution maps on The Session without degrading performance.
It’s not the years, honey. It’s the mileage.
Maps—they don’t love you like I love you.
A fun little visualisation of Irish music sessions on a map.
