Welcome to Medieval Murder Maps
CSI London, York, and Oxford:
Discover the murders, sudden deaths, sanctuary churches, and prisons of three thriving medieval cities.
Sessions Map
This is nifty—a map of all the Irish music sessions and events happening around the world, using the data from TheSession.org.
If you’re interested in using data from The Session, there’s a read-only API and regularly-updated data dumps.
Related links
Our Maps Don’t Know Where You Are – The Markup
I wish more publishers and services took this approach to evaluating technology:
We scrutinize third-party services before including them in our articles or elsewhere on our site. Many include trackers or analytics that would collect data on our readers. These may be standard across much of the web, but we don’t use them.
GB Renewables Map
A lovely bit of real-time data visualisation from Robin:
It’s a personal project created at home in Wales with an aim to explore and visualise renewable energy systems. Specifically, it aims to visualise live generation from renewable energy systems around Great Britain and to show where that generation is physically coming from.
An Ocean of Books
What you see is the big map of a sea of literature, one where each island represents a single author, and each city represents a book. The map represents a selection of 113 008 authors and 145 162 books.
This is a poetic experiment where we hope you will get lost for a while.
Mapping a World of Cities
A timeline of city maps, from 1524 to 1930.
Related posts
Indy maps
It’s not the years, honey. It’s the mileage.
Indy web
Maps—they don’t love you like I love you.
Mashing up with microformats
I’ve transcribed the text of the microformats panel I sat in on at South by Southwest.
Trad travels
Potential destinations for traditional Irish music sessions.
Music in 2025
Trad, trad, trad, trad, trad, trad, Salter Cane.