Who said mapping can’t be fun? Here are two examples of fun mapping projects.

The first one, NukeMap, lets you “create” a nuclear explosion anywhere in the world to see how large the fallout would be. The user can adjust the location, the size of the bomb, and a handful of other variables.

The second, BBC’s “How Big Really?”, is similar. It lets users see the relative size of important places, events and things (e.g., environmental disasters, the Mars rover path) by placing the footprint of the object on a more familiar area. For example, the map below shows the footprint of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican placed in the middle of UT’s campus.