Google Maps has put a map in every pocket and changed how we look and interact with maps.
We access a map more than ever before, and there are a growing number of cartophiles worldwide.
Naturally, that leads to some fun and cool websites for interesting ways to handle maps.
Use the viewer to check your location or bang out a place in the bar.
By default, it opens today’s satellite image view.
And just like that, you’ll travel back in time to how the city looked years ago.
The Compare tools let you add multiple maps you could overlay and adjust the opacity to see them together.
Radio Aporee augments that by helping you know what a place sounds like.
But you’ll see lots of red hotspots in different areas.
Click it to play an original sound recording from that place.
The recordings come from contributors to the Radio Aporee project, a community dedicated to the art of listening.
Hotspots can be filtered by time (past 24 hours, past week, or past month).
Since the recordings are tagged, you might also search for specific types of sounds and play those.
It’s cool, unexpected, and a trippy way toexplore the Earth with maps!
The actual size of certain areas is inaccurate.
MapFight wants to help you visualize and compare the real sizes of places and objects on Earth.
When you select any place, MapFight will auto-generate a bunch of suggested comparisons for you to browse.
There’s an entire subreddit dedicated to sharing high-quality images of different types of maps and discussing cartographic interests.
All posts on r/MapPorn are pictures of maps, but there isn’t a particular category or subject.
Of course, all the maps on r/MapPorn are of the real world.
But if you love fiction, you might also want to check out r/ImaginaryMaps.
It’s a community that shares maps of alternative history, fantasy, or science fiction.
