XKCD #2067 2018 Midterm Challengers is an interactive map of all the challengers inward the 2018 midterm election. The size of the politicians' names on the map is determined yesteryear the importance of the part as well as the challenger's chances of success.
If y'all click on a challenger's lift on the map y'all tin view the candidate's website. You tin besides click on place-names on the map to thought a location's Wikipedia page. The place-name information on the map has been sourced from Wikipedia. This makes for some interesting place-names, for illustration in that location is a house called 'Port Chicago Disaster' inward Sacramento, a '1951 NFL Championship Game' inward Los Angeles as well as a 'Death of John Lennon' inward New York.
Despite these foreign results from Wikipedia the map is nevertheless a bang-up visualization of the most of import races inward adjacent week's election.
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XKCD #1110 Click & Drag isn't a map exactly the end frame does resemble an interactive map inward as well as hence far every bit y'all tin click & drag the frame to a greater extent than or less similar a slippy map. If y'all click on the end frame y'all tin bring out a really huge basis lies beyond the frame's borders. In fact, thank y'all to dividuum, y'all tin truly explore this frame inward a Leaflet powered interactive map.
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