Maps

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

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…

Average first leaf appearance, as animated map

The USA National Phenology Network uses a computer model to estimate heat build-up…

Traveling birds on a thousand-mile journey

Birds migrate to areas more hospitable, but where do they go? It depends…

Fantasy map generator

This is fun. It’s a fantasy map generator with the following rules: Project…

Redistricting the congressional map with different goals

FiveThirtyEight asks, “There’s a lot of complaining about gerrymandering, but what should districts…

Mapping global accessibility to cities

From The Malaria Atlas Project, a global map of estimated accessibility to cities:…

Scale comparison of wildfires

The past few days in California has been non-stop rain, but the months…

Mapping perceived canopy tree cover in major cities

Treepedia, from the MIT Senseable City Lab, estimates perceived tree cover at the…

Family displacements through urban renewal

Hundreds of thousands of families were displaced in the 1950s under “urban renewal”…

Multivariate map collection

I heard you like maps. Jim Vallandingham put together a collection of maps…

Simulation shows swirling of smoke, sea salt, and dust around the world

NASA. Data. Good. Tracking the aerosols carried on the winds let scientists see…

Bomb contaminants where you live

Lena Groeger, Ryann Grochowski Jones and Abrahm Lustgarten, reporting for ProPublica with a…

High-detail landscape using lidar data

Lidar, which is like radar but with lasers instead of radio waves, can…

Global cycling and running heatmap

A few years back, cycling and running app Strava mapped the paths of…

A daily high-resolution image of Earth

Planet monitors Earth with hundreds of satellites, and after six years, they’ve built…