Category Archives: maps

This type of Internet mapping used to be illegal. See how Maine’s infrastructure stacks up

September 24, 2015Government

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 […]

There are a surprising number of southpaws in Maine, according to this analysis

September 24, 2015Lifestyle, maps, New England

By Dan MacLeod

What a 1980s scratch-and-sniff survey tells us about hand preference among the states.

See the obesity rates in your neighborhood with this map

September 20, 2015Health, mapshealth, map, obesity

By Dan MacLeod

A research institute has compiled obesity data on the neighborhood level and built a map that allows you to see how they compare. RTI International’s map was built using data from sources like the CDC and the U.S. Census. You can read about RTI’s methodology here. The obesity data we’ve seen so far have been mostly […]

How much do Mainers really pay in property taxes? Washington think tank maps it out

September 8, 2015Government

By Seth Koenig

Maine is among the top half of states with high property taxes, based on the Tax Foundation’s analysis, but is not in the top 10.

Maine’s got about as many guns as a foreign country 24 times its size

August 31, 2015Government, Lifestyle

By Seth Koenig

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

August 31, 2015Food, Lifestyle, maps

By Seth Koenig

It’s based on fish and game records kept in part by the state and further tracked by publications like The Maine Sportsman.

Check out the ratio of single men to women where you live

August 29, 2015Home, Lifestyle, Love, maps, People

By Erin Rhoda

Single, educated men looking for love might try getting to know Kennebec County better. That’s because there are 5.2 single, college-educated women in their 30s there for every single, college-educated man in the same age group, according to a recent analysis of U.S. Census data by TIME. That’s one of the highest ratios of women […]

Find out which of Obama’s programs are being used in Maine through this open source map

August 26, 2015Government, Lifestyle, maps

By Seth Koenig

The map can also be sorted to show areas of persistent poverty and where there’s promise of upward economic mobility.

See exactly how much of Maine is completely uninhabited

August 24, 2015maps, Peoplebroadband, E-911, Maine Office of GIS

By Darren Fishell

If you didn’t know already, the Maine Office of GIS is a gold mine of digital information about the state. One of its latest projects was mapping every single address in the state, in order to help first responders have accurate information for responding to emergency calls. But aside from that higher calling, the data can also show us the most highly […]

Track how incomes in every state have changed over the past 85 years with this GIF map

August 23, 2015Home, mapseconomics

By Dan MacLeod

Aside from the Great Depression and a couple of times around the middle of the 20th century, Maine’s incomes have steadily risen.

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Category Archives: maps

This type of Internet mapping used to be illegal. See how Maine’s infrastructure stacks up

There are a surprising number of southpaws in Maine, according to this analysis

See the obesity rates in your neighborhood with this map

How much do Mainers really pay in property taxes? Washington think tank maps it out

Maine’s got about as many guns as a foreign country 24 times its size

Maine’s fish and game records plotted out on one interactive map

Check out the ratio of single men to women where you live

Find out which of Obama’s programs are being used in Maine through this open source map

See exactly how much of Maine is completely uninhabited

Track how incomes in every state have changed over the past 85 years with this GIF map

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