All posts by Seth Koenig
This type of Internet mapping used to be illegal. See how Maine’s infrastructure stacks up
University of Wisconsin science professor Paul Barford and a team of researchers spent four years mapping what MIT Technology Review called “the paths taken by the long-distance fiber-optic cables that carry Internet data across the continental U.S.” “The exact routes of those cables, which belong to major telecommunications companies such as AT&T and Level […]
How much do Mainers really pay in property taxes? Washington think tank maps it out
Interactive map shows abandoned gold, silver and uranium mines all over Maine
SkyTruth is a West Virginia organization which, according to the Discovery Channel, uses “technology such as remote sensing and digital mapping to highlight environmental problems.” In its latest project, SkyTruth used U.S. Geological Survey data to create an interactive map of all the abandoned mines in the country’s records, and ended up showing an enormous number […]
Maine’s got about as many guns as a foreign country 24 times its size
All 50 States Renamed For Countries With Similar Gun Ownership By Movoto Real Estate In a map that has since been picked up and distributed across a range of websites and social media, the real estate site Movoto earlier this year compared the approximate number of guns owned in each state with a similarly stocked foreign […]
Maine’s fish and game records plotted out on one interactive map
Find out which of Obama’s programs are being used in Maine through this open source map
How Maine’s top vice compares to every other state’s in one interactive map
The city guide app Foursquare and custom online mapmaker MapBox have combined to track each state’s most popular vice — that is, which sinful indulgence do people in each state prefer more than people in other states. As Business Insider reported, people in New York were found to prefer picklebacks — shots of whiskey chased by […]