Hacker News with Generative AI: Maps

Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien's Middle-Earth (nytimes.com)
In 1977, Karen Wynn Fonstad made a long shot cold call to J.R.R. Tolkien’s American publisher with the hope of landing a dream assignment: to create an exhaustive atlas of Middle-earth, the setting of the author’s widely popular “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.”

Fantasy Literature, Maps, Biography, J.R.R. Tolkien

24 points by indigoabstract 2 days ago | 4 comments

Map of California roads for cyclers (1895) (loc.gov)
Map of California roads for cyclers.

Maps, History, Cycling, California

117 points by grajaganDev 6 days ago | 68 comments

Streets GL – 3D OpenStreetMap (streets.gl)

3D, Maps, OpenStreetMap

240 points by faebi 10 days ago | 62 comments

Maps that show time instead of space (youtube.com)

Maps, Visualization, Time, Data

5 points by hydrolox 20 days ago | 1 comments

We Bought a (Map Store) – Andrew Middleton [video] (youtube.com)

Maps, Business, Video, Retail

10 points by raybb 22 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Map with an LLM (godview.ai)

Show HN, Maps, AI

76 points by ata_aman 22 days ago | 59 comments

Notes on Trinidad and Tobago (mattlakeman.org)
It’s hard to find a good map of this country.

Travel, Maps

7 points by impish9208 22 days ago | 2 comments

Population Density Maps: R/MapPorn (reddit.com)

Population Density, Maps, Data Visualization, Reddit

4 points by xbmcuser 28 days ago | 0 comments

Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History (oldmapsonline.org)

History, Maps, Interactive, Visualizations

1306 points by agilek 37 days ago | 180 comments

Mapping all 13.8 gigapixels of the Caves of Qud world map (kernelmethod.org)
Caves of Qud is a science-fantasy roguelike coming out on December 5th, 2024. In roguelike tradition, the majority of its maps are procedurally generated.

Video Games, Maps, Roguelikes

41 points by ganzuul 39 days ago | 17 comments

Xkcd Geohasing (xkcd.com)
Geohashing Coordinate Calculator -- What's this about? See the wiki

Maps, Cryptography, xkcd

7 points by faebi 40 days ago | 2 comments

Behold All 42 Maps from Jules Verne's Extraordinary Voyages (openculture.com)

Literature, Maps, Jules Verne, Science Fiction, History

42 points by BerislavLopac 53 days ago | 1 comments

Foursquare's 104M Points of Interest (marksblogg.com)
Point of Interest (POI) datasets of any strong quality have rarely been published freely. Overture and OpenStreetMap (OSM) have been making inroads but even in 2021, I could only find half of Starbucks' locations in OSM.

Maps, Data, Open Source, Business, Location Data

77 points by marklit 56 days ago | 30 comments

Foursquare Open Source Places Data (foursquare.com)
In an effort to change that dynamic, we are announcing today the general availability of a foundational open data set, Foursquare Open Source Places (“FSQ OS Places”).

Open Source, Data, Location Data, Maps

4 points by lucidhss 58 days ago | 1 comments

Visualizing World War II (wordpress.com)
If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you’ll know that maps and history are two of my favorite things. I love history because I love learning about the vast panoply of the human experience, the millions of twisting threads of time that created the world we live in today. And I love maps because I don’t think you can really understand the world without being able to picture it.

Maps, History

442 points by gaws 67 days ago | 89 comments

NYC Subway Station Layouts (projectsubwaynyc.com)
Inspired and want to support this project? Consider tipping me on the Contact/Tip page!

Subway, Maps, Data Visualization

322 points by gregsadetsky 69 days ago | 108 comments

Show HN: I built a map to find sign-posted cycling routes across Europe and POIs (veloplanner.com)
Explore an interactive map showcasing sign-posted cycling routes from around the Europe. Whether you're planning a weekend ride or a long-distance cycling adventure, our map helps you discover cycling paths in your area and beyond.

Cycling, Europe, Maps, Travel, Software

11 points by caspg 70 days ago | 5 comments

19th Century Map Shows a Fictional Country Created by a Con Man (atlasobscura.com)
A little over a year ago, Daniel Crouch, one of the foremost dealers of rare books, maps, and atlases in the world, came into possession of a 19th-century map. It had been drawn by a man named Gregor MacGregor. “The first thing you need to know about Gregor MacGregor, from the Clan Gregor, is he’s improbably named,” says Crouch. “The second is that his story is so improbable, but, trust me, everything I’m about to tell you is true.”

History, Maps, Fraud

71 points by drdee 75 days ago | 18 comments

America's Loneliest Roads, Mapped (geotab.com)
What’s the least-traveled route in America? Find the quietest routes in your state and get ready to hit the open road.

Travel, Maps, USA, Road Trips

6 points by BudaDude 93 days ago | 2 comments

What a circle around Paris looks like, according to Mr. Mercator (reddit.com)
That's really cool actually. Shows how disproportionate our standard rectangular map of the earth is.

Cartography, Geography, Maps

4 points by jtc331 98 days ago | 0 comments

Map with public fruit trees (mundraub.org)

Maps, Food, Community, Sustainability

358 points by dschuessler 111 days ago | 153 comments

Interactive map of submarine internet cables around the world (submarinecablemap.com)
The Submarine Cable Map is a free and regularly updated resource from TeleGeography.

Maps, Internet Infrastructure, Telecommunications

12 points by therabbithole 119 days ago | 0 comments

Where are programming languages created? A zoomable map (pldb.io)
September 11, 2024 — Thank you to the volunteer contributions of many people over many years (especially Hari!) which has made this visualization possible.

Programming Languages, Data Visualization, Maps

80 points by marinesebastian 127 days ago | 75 comments

Dynamic Viewpoint Symbols (imagico.de)
Two years ago i showed a new design concept for rendering trees in maps. This used a combination of hand designed components with automatic geometry processing to depict different types of trees of different sizes in a way the symbols naturally overlap in a well readable way when the trees are close to each other.

Design, Computer Graphics, Maps

24 points by aendruk 130 days ago | 0 comments

All Maps Are Wrong (hereandthere.club)

Cartography, Maps, Geography, Perspective

14 points by todsacerdoti 133 days ago | 2 comments

The World Map of the Internet in 2021 (trendland.com)

Internet, Data Visualization, Technology, Maps

28 points by ohjeez 140 days ago | 10 comments

Open Snow Map (opensnowmap.org)

Open Source, Maps, Weather, Winter Sports

10 points by faebi 151 days ago | 2 comments

Maps Mania: How the World Powers Itself (blogspot.com)