mapping World’s Largest Map of the World’s Largest Roadside Attractions May 22, 2017 / October 14, 2024 by Adam DuVander | 19 Comments on World’s Largest Map of the World’s Largest Roadside Attractions Ask around the world and you’ll hear that everything is bigger in the United States. Perhaps that explains why there are at least 195 roadside attractions in the US that consider themselves the “world’s largest.” They aren’t all verified—some are outright wrong. But each makes its claim with the gusto of a carnival barker, another […] Read more »
mapping The Biggest Hotels in the World on One Map May 8, 2017 / October 14, 2024 by Adam DuVander | 1 Comment on The Biggest Hotels in the World on One Map These hotels better have stock in pillow chocolates. There are over 200 hotels in the world with 1,000 or more rooms. Many of the hotels have even more than that—over 50 of them have 2,000 or more rooms, and 4,000 rooms isn’t even enough to get you in the top 10. That’s a lot of […] Read more »
How to Cluster Map Markers: Demo and Tutorial April 24, 2017 / April 8, 2017 by Adam DuVander | 2 Comments on How to Cluster Map Markers: Demo and Tutorial Maps are a great way to show location data. The stories within the numbers appear when you can see them geographically. It might seem natural that the more points you add to a map the better story it tells, but that’s not always the case. Ideally you could summarize the underlying data, which requires map […] Read more »