Maps

Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.

World map shows aerosol billowing in the wind

Using a mathematical model based on satellite data, NASA shows an estimate of…

World Cup play activity visualized like wind maps

A fun experiment by Neil Charles that used the aesthetics of wind maps…

Scale of the California wildfires

The Mendocino Complex Fire, now the largest in California ever, continues to burn.…

A transforming river seen from above

The Padma River in Bangladesh is constantly shifting its 75-mile path. Joshua Stevens…

How America uses its land

Dave Merrill and Lauren Leatherby for Bloomberg visualized land use for the conterminous…

Searching for education deserts

The Chronicle of Higher Education looked for education deserts — places where people…

Mapping the ocean undisturbed by humans

Researchers recently published estimates for the amount of area undisturbed by humans —…

Extremely detailed election map

The Upshot returns to 2016 election results mapped at the precinct level. Because…

Interactive to see street orientation everywhere

After seeing polar charts of street orientation in major cities, Vladimir Agafonkin, an…

Ancient Earth globe shows where you were located 750 million years ago

In a spin on the view of ancient Earth and the shift of…

Unsolved killings mapped

Thousands of homicides. Some cases result in an arrest. Many end up unsolved.…

Original map of Winnie-the-Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood

The ink-drawn map of Hundred Acre Wood by Winnie-the-Pooh illustrator E. H. Shepard…

Tweeting a map of every Census tract in the United States

By Neil Freeman, the @everytract bot on Twitter, as the name suggests, is…

Mapping a diverse but segregated America

Aaron Williams and Armand Emamdjomeh for The Washington Post delve into diversity and…

All the buildings in Manhattan in 3-D map

Taylor Baldwin mapped all of the buildings in Manhattan using a 3-D layout.…

Maps show spring arriving earlier

From Joshua Stevens at the NASA Earth Observatory: But over the longer term,…

The Moon in 4k resolution

Based on data gathered by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA pieced together this…

SimCity-like views using satellite imagery

Maps typically show a view from straight above, which is good for navigation…