[Ráfaga] Nº1792: transportation, smoke, old maps

[Jorge Sanz]

Nº1792: transportation, smoke, old maps

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 by Raf

* An interactive way to compare bike travel times and public
transportation for trips to the city of Santiago, Chile, open source
calls to the Google Directions API [ES]

http://biciometro.herokuapp.com/

* Twice a year and for days on end, sugar plantations in the southern
U.S. burn large tracts of reed and cause black clouds of toxic smoke
to affect the impoverished population of this area of Florida.

https://projects.propublica.org/black-snow/

* Guided interactive online exhibition of the Galileo Museum to show
the high-resolution digitization of the world map of Fra Mauro (ca.
1430 - ca. 1459/1464) made with 4 parchments glued in a circular frame
of 196 cm

https://mostre.museogalileo.it/framauro/en/historical-context/the-world-map/the-world-map-2.html

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