Diego Andrés Ramírez Aragón

Drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size. Is Greenland really as big as all of Africa? You may be surprised at what you find! A great tool for educators.

City Street Orientations around the World - Geoff Boeing

By popular request, this is a quick follow-up to this post comparing the orientation of streets in 25 US cities using Python and OSMnx. Here are 25 more cities around the world: And for reference, here’s the original that looked only at American cities: For more info, check out the original post or this post … Continue reading City Street Orientations around the World

what3words | Addressing the world

what3words is the simplest way to talk about location. We've divided the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares and assigned each one a unique 3 word address.

johan/world.geo.json

world.geo.json - Annotated geo-json geometry files for the world

A Soviet scientist created the only tame foxes in the world

In the 1950s a Soviet geneticist began an experiment in guided evolution. He wanted to show how domestication works