Here’s a couple specialized (not general maps like Googlemaps, Mapquest, etc.) interactive maps I know of:
Wind turbines in the US (you have to click on the launch button)
Roundabouts (originally intended to be for the US and Canada only, although they’ll take them from other countries.)
Anyone have any others they’d like to share?
Bombsight - list of all known bombs that fell on London during WW2
One of my favorites: DarkSiteFinder.
Awesome bomb map, casdave. If you zoom out, it becomes a massive clump of red dots. Makes one wonder how the city survived the war.
beowulff, your link has gone over to the dark side.
This is a great site that lets you go to any area and look up older maps for that region.
Argh - try this.
ETA: That link should work, but the site seems to be wedged right now. I’ll confirm it’s correct and post back.
ETA, ETA: It’s working in Firefox, not working in Safari.
This features maps and descriptions of the entire US/Canada border, from Atlantic to Pacific.
Whoops, that last one of mine wasn’t interactive.
But this Ferry Map site is!
As a lover of old maps, I love it.
Yes, I got it to work. I’m also interested in astronomy, but don’t actually observe due to an eye problem.
As a historian one of my favorite sites is: http://www.historicaerials.com/ Not maps, but full coverage aerial photography. Like Google maps but from past years. In my area they go back to 1952. Go to the site and click on “viewer” and put in an address or town name. You can zoom in and select what years you want. Older topographical maps are also available.
Dennis
Another old map site is: http://www.historicmapworks.com/ In Ohio they go back to the county atlases of the 1800s.
Dennis
Back in January, I gave a talk at Chicago’s Newberry Library about national or worldwide slippy map services other than Google Maps. I put together an online list, some of which may be of interest.
I have a bunch of bookmarks for the more specialized online maps called for by the OP, but it may take me a day or two to make a list of them.
For anything related to Chicago, though, you can start at Chicago in Maps.
It is specifically the bombs that fell on London during the Blitz which was approx. September 1940 to May 1941. About 8 months!
Here are a few (more later), with varying levels of interactivity:
Visualizing the racial divide
Cyber attacks globally, in real time
Trees of New York City
Plan your trip safely as a 1950-1980 African American
Where do people talk like you?
Mr. Downtown, outstanding. Perhaps you’ll consider giving a talk at the meeting I’m organizing this November 1-3, just up the road from Chicago.
(I did some of my historical map research for my undergrad degree years ago at the Newberry – what a gem.)
Damn, I love the Newberry. Been too long since I visited. Waaaay too long, frankly. Like Last Century too long. Your mention of it and its lovely maps has me Jonesing for it.
Peabody Library in Baltimore is also wonderful as far as old maps (and architecture) go.
True Size maps. Pick Alaska or Australia (or Greenland or widdle baby Texas) and drag them over different areas.
Antipodes map. See if you will get to China if you dig a hole straight down (spoiler: you won’t in North America or Europe).
Roundabout map is missing a bunch near me. I guess I could help.
Probably stretching things, but the Map of Metal.
Based on the name and the link not working on my browser, I initially thought it was for black sites and the NSA nabbed you.
the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, an arm of NASA, has a population estimator interactive world map that I’ve seen mentioned a few times on this board. You can draw a polygon or circle and get an estimate of how many people live inside it.
Just yesterday I was looking at the Appalachian Trail Conservancy’s remarkably detailed interactive map of the trail (click on “launch interactive map” toward the bottom of that page).