Maps

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

Comparing Google Maps and Apple Maps Over a Year

Google collects much of their own data to construct their maps, whereas Apple…

Melting glaciers

Glaciers at Glacier National Park in Montana are melting. Using data from the…

Medieval fantasy city generator

Game developer Oleg Dolya made a medieval fantasy city generator. Select the size…

Satellites from the ground

There is a 16-by-16 mile grid of big X’s in the Sonoran Desert…

Chernoff emoji

Lazaro Gamio for Axios used Chernoff Faces that look like emojis. This visualization…

Breathing Earth of vegetation

Using data from NOAA STAR, Nadieh Bremer creates a breathing Earth that shows…

Life expectancy by state, against the US average

FiveThirtyEight continues their look at mortality by geography. This graphic by Anna Maria…

X-Ray of the oceans

Using satellite data and spatial models, researchers estimate human influence in the ocean.…

Mapping death in America, 1980 to 2014

Nationwide mortality data relies on death certificates, and when cause of death is…

California looks green again

In case you didn’t hear, California had a bit of a drought problem…

Shift in world’s night lights

NASA recently released composite images of the Earth at night based on 2016…

New images of Earth at night

NASA just released a composite map of the world at night using satellite…

Listen to soundtrack based on FedEx shipment tracking

FedEx (yes, the shipping company) put up an interactive piece that audiolizes a…

National precinct map

Mapping at the precinct level of detail is tough because there isn’t a…

Compare your commute time to others

Commuting sucks. Here’s a straightforward map to compare how much or less your…

All major meteor showers, as seen from space

There are a lot of meteoroids circling around in space. Ian Webster visualized…

Conflicted public opinion about global warming

Based on estimates from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, The New…

Penrose map binning

Cartographer Daniel Huffman tried out Penrose tiling for binning in maps: A Penrose…