Webcams & radioLive
Radio Garden
Spin a globe and listen to live radio stations anywhere on Earth
radio.gardenOpen
City Roads alternatives
City Roads: draw every road in a city as a minimalist poster. Here are 30 other maps that do a similar job, 29 of them completely free.
Side by side
Free alternatives to City Roads
Curiosities
The True Size Of
Drag countries around the map to see their true size
thetruesize.comOpen
Transport
Chronotrains
How far can you get by train in five hours? Isochrone map of Europe
chronotrains.comOpen
Curiosities
Ancient Earth Globe
See where your town was on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago
dinosaurpictures.orgOpen
Transport
shipmap.org
Animated map of a year of global shipping movements
shipmap.orgOpen
Nature
River Runner
Follow a raindrop from anywhere to the sea
river-runner-global.samlearner.comOpen
Curiosities
Antipodes Map
Find the point on the exact opposite side of the Earth
antipodesmap.comOpen
CuriositiesLive
Day and Night World Map
Where it is day and night on Earth right now
timeanddate.comOpen
Transport
Great Circle Mapper
Draw great-circle flight routes between airports and measure distances
gcmap.comOpen
Population
Human Terrain
The world's population density drawn as 3D mountains
pudding.coolOpen
Curiosities
MapFight
Compare the size of any two countries or regions
mapfight.xyzOpen
Cities
SunCalc
Sun position, sunrise and sunset directions for any place and time
suncalc.orgOpen
All similar maps
Webcams & radioLive
Radio Garden
Spin a globe and listen to live radio stations anywhere on Earth
radio.gardenOpen
Curiosities
The True Size Of
Drag countries around the map to see their true size
thetruesize.comOpen
Transport
Chronotrains
How far can you get by train in five hours? Isochrone map of Europe
chronotrains.comOpen
Curiosities
Ancient Earth Globe
See where your town was on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago
dinosaurpictures.orgOpen
Transport
shipmap.org
Animated map of a year of global shipping movements
shipmap.orgOpen
Cities
ShadeMap
Simulate shadows from buildings, trees and terrain at any time
shademap.appOpen
Nature
River Runner
Follow a raindrop from anywhere to the sea
river-runner-global.samlearner.comOpen
Curiosities
Antipodes Map
Find the point on the exact opposite side of the Earth
antipodesmap.comOpen
CuriositiesLive
Day and Night World Map
Where it is day and night on Earth right now
timeanddate.comOpen
Transport
Great Circle Mapper
Draw great-circle flight routes between airports and measure distances
gcmap.comOpen
Population
Human Terrain
The world's population density drawn as 3D mountains
pudding.coolOpen
Curiosities
MapFight
Compare the size of any two countries or regions
mapfight.xyzOpen
Cities
SunCalc
Sun position, sunrise and sunset directions for any place and time
suncalc.orgOpen
CuriositiesLive
Time Zone Map
Interactive map of the world's time zones
timeanddate.comOpen
Satellite
Earth View from Google Earth
Thousands of striking satellite landscapes picked from Google Earth
earthview.withgoogle.comOpen
Curiosities
If It Were My Home
Compare life in your country with life anywhere else
ifitweremyhome.comOpen
Space
Map of the Universe
Scroll through a map of the observable universe, galaxy by galaxy
mapoftheuniverse.netOpen
Curiosities
Map Projection Transitions
Watch the world morph smoothly between dozens of map projections
jasondavies.comOpen
Population
Worldmapper
Cartograms that resize countries by population, wealth and more
worldmapper.orgOpen
History
Omnes Viae
A Roman route planner based on the Peutinger Map
omnesviae.orgOpen
Curiosities
MAPfrappe
Draw a shape on one map and see it at the same scale somewhere else
mapfrappe.comOpen
Cities
ZoLa (NYC Zoning & Land Use)
New York City's official zoning and land use map
zola.planning.nyc.govOpen
History
Mapping Inequality
The 1930s redlining maps of American cities, digitised
dsl.richmond.eduOpen
Cities
PLATEAU VIEW
Open 3D city models of Japan's cities from the national PLATEAU project
plateauview.mlit.go.jpOpen
Cities
ZIMAS (Los Angeles)
Los Angeles' zoning and parcel information system
zimas.lacity.orgOpen
Cities
Mapnificent
See everywhere you can reach by public transport in a given time
mapnificent.netOpen
Property
Walk Score
How walkable, bikeable and transit-friendly an address is
walkscore.comOpen
Cities
Global Human Settlement Layer
Global maps of built-up areas and population over 50 years
human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.euOpen
Cities
OSM Buildings
Worldwide 3D buildings generated from OpenStreetMap
osmbuildings.orgOpen
Cities
Planning Data (England)
National map of planning and housing data for England
planning.data.gov.ukOpen