Maps of Julian Hoffman Anton

I'm always excited to find new cartographic artists. Here are some maps from Julian Hoffman Anton. The first one is his Tokyo Eat Map. I've cropped the map a bit to fit the format of this page. To see it all click here.

This is really a heat map showing restaurant density. Egg yolks represent the highest concentrations. Outside of the dense egg area individual restaurants are indicted by green pegs. In place of a legend there words around the top of the bowl pointing to neighborhoods and examples. This is one of the most clever maps I've seen in a long time.

He has also represented transit networks of Tokyo and London in neon,

wine regions of France as spills of wine over a hunk of cheese,

and the Great Fire of London as fire.

There's plenty more map goodness to discover here, as well as other visualizations, digital art and photography on his main page.

The Southern Underground Railroad

This map, via Smithsonian, shows the main passageways that the enslaved took southwards to freedom.

The southern Underground Railroad was less traveled and much less well documented, but Mexico after gaining independence passed strong anti-slavery laws. Even before that the Spanish government granted freedom to many who escaped to the south. When the United States passed the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, Mexico refused to comply despite pressure from US diplomats. When Mexico lost Texas and large portions of other states to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War, slavery was re-established in Texas and the Rio Grande became the crossing to freedom. - via Smithsonian

Forest Fires All Over North America

This has been a remarkably heavy year for forest fires and it's still very early in the season. The last few summers the West Coast has experienced many days of terrible air quality. This year the East Coast is experiencing it. Last week cities like New York, Philadelphia and Toronto has some of the poorest air quality in the world and residents were advised to stay indoors. Here is a map from NASA showing where major fires are burning. The red dots show smaller fires.

You can click and zoom for details.

A map from Scientific American shows how the smoke has moved from eastern Canada to New York City (the only city, apparently).

Here's one more map from the Fire, Weather and Avalanche Center showing active fires in the United States. It gives more details but doesn't cover Canada, where the largest fires are. The purple dots are lightning strikes.

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Stolen Native American Remains

 In 1990 the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act was passed by the U.S. Congress to gave indigenous peoples a way to reclaim their dead. 33 years later about half of the remains have yet to be returned. Pro Publica produced a piece with excellent interactive maps showing where these remains were taken from.

Hover over a county to get specific numbers. The height of the triangles indicates the number of people’s remains taken while the color represents percentage returned with orange being lowest and green being highest.

This chart shows ten institutions that account for about half of the reported remains that have not been made available for return to the tribes. 

At the bottom of the article is a list of institutions, tribes and states that you can click on for specific breakdowns. Here is a map showing where the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma remains were taken from.

Lots more to explore here.