Maps of world

Map of all of the surface of Earth. Maps of continents, countries, regions, and cities.

The most popular cameras mapped
Technology
Alex

The Most Popular Cameras, Based on Millions of Flickr Photos

Flickr is the most outstanding slide show carousel in the world. And profound photographers love to let their audience know that they’re using the most excellent cameras to fill it. While Instagram has evolved into a platform for reminiscences and ‘content,’ Flickr is where photographic quality and technique set the agenda. Although Flickr lost some attention when camera phone photography and social media became popular in the late 2000s, it remains a gathering place for professionals and enthusiasts to share their ideas and discoveries.

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World Map of The Highest-Rated Book by a Local Author in Every Nation
Cultural cartography
Alex

The high-rated Book in Every Country by a Local Author, mapped

Goodreads is social media for bookworms: a site where 125 million bibliophiles meet to boost slate or ‘meh’ their latest reading project. Bookworms have “shelved” 3.5 billion books globally, which is a lot to sift through to find a read that is not just first-rate but just your taste.

With BookCrossing, your options are narrowed. Some 2 million readers have found or collected over 14,105,640 pass-me-down paper books in public, tracking each particular book object’s story through a special code attached to each one. Serendipity plays a more significant role here. You can chase for a book you know has been left, but more probably, your affinity with it will begin when you stumble upon it on a bus seat or in a British telephone booth.

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The Countries Where You Can and Can't Drink Tap Water Mapped
Environment maps
Alex

Where is Tap Water Safe (and Unsafe) to Drink?

When you turn on the tap in the United Kingdom, you consider what comes out will be drinkable. Indeed, the General Assembly of the United Nations has access to safe drinking water as a human right. And yet, more than 25% of the world’s population lives in water-stressed nations. According to the World Health Organization, a similar number use a drinking water source polluted with feces.

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