Here’s something you don’t see every day – a map of the United States, where each place is a song title. And to top it off, there’s a Spotify playlist with all the songs for you to listen – a whooping 60+ hours of music.
Via kottke.org.
Tag: maps
100,000 Stars
I find space maps in any shape or form to be fascinating. Here’s an interactive map of the 100,000 stars, complete with a tour. This is beautiful and, as always, serves a reminder of how small and insignificant humans as a whole are.
World record of distant landscape photography
If you had to guess, what’s the longest distance between the camera and the object that can be seen in the picture taken by it, how far would you go? Well, it turns out that the world record is 443 kilometers, which is way more than what I was expecting. I thought it’d be within the 100 kilometers. But 443 is crazy! Here’s the map that shows a different perspective.
MapFight – visually compare sizes of countries
MapFight is a fun little web application, which superimposes the maps of two selected countries to show which one is larger and by how much. Â And the best part is that you don’t even to stick just to countries – the continents are in there as well, so you can compare Europe to Asia, or even Russia to Europe.
VentuSky – interactive weather forecast map
VentuSky is an interactive weather forecast map. Â It shows temperatures, winds, rain, thunderstorms and more.