Maps

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

Bill Paxton tribute through storm spotters’ GPS coordinates

Bill Paxton, who played a storm chaser in Twister, died on Sunday. To…

Oil and gas wells in the United States

Tim Meko and Laris Karklis for The Washington Post take a dive into…

xkcd: Projecting country borders by time zone

Time zones are odd sometimes.…

One square mile in different cities

As part of his dissertation, Geoff Boeing generated these maps that show one…

Mixing cartography and landscape drawing

Artist Matthew Rangel hikes cross-country and through the mountains, exploring and drawing along…

Balloon maps

There was a time when the best way to get a view from…

Going local on gun violence

Sometimes data can look really noisy when you zoom in close, and so…

Giant map for inauguration planning

In planning for the upcoming inauguration, the U.S. military is using a giant…

Change in rain, 2016

In some areas of the United States it poured down rain, which caused…

Looking for America’s heartland

By definition, heartland is some central place of importance of a country. But…

U.S. culture through TV show geography

Map who “likes” television shows on Facebook, by ZIP code, and you get…

Where people use certain words

Nikhil Sonnad for Quartz mapped the top 100,000 words used in tweets. Search…

Map of New York City shadows

Shadows cast by buildings affect the feel and flow of a city, and…

Following the carbon dioxide

This animated visualization from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center shows a model of…

Listen to radio around the globe

Here’s a fun piece called Radio Garden. It’s exactly what the title says.…

Houston flooding on the rise

Climate change is doing some weird stuff. What were once rare weather events…

Random states of America show changing election outcomes

Geography and state borders play a big part in how elections play out…

New region boundaries based on commutes

Geographers Alasdair Rae and Garrett Nelson used commuting data from the American Community…