Maps

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

Sprawling flood waters across the Midwest and South

The New York Times mapped the slow, wide-reaching flood waters this year so…

Looking at the Amazon fires wrong

For The Washington Post, Sergio Peçanha and Tim Wallace use maps to show…

What that hurricane map means

For The New York Times, Alberto Cairo and Tala Schlossberg explain the cone…

Map shows long-term record of fires around the world

For the NASA Earth Observatory, Adam Voiland describes about two decades of fires:…

Cartogram of where presidential candidates campaign

Presidential candidates campaign harder in some states more than others. National Popular Vote…

Where and why the Amazon rainforest is on fire

For Bloomberg, Mira Rojanasakul and Tatiana Freitas discuss why the Amazon rainforest is…

Detected fires in the Amazon rain forest, monthly

The New York Times goes with monthly small multiples to show detected fires…

Warped shape of the galaxy

Dorota M. Skowron et al. made the first 3-D map of the galaxy.…

How an earthquake can trigger others on the opposite side of the world

Speaking of earthquakes, Will Chase looked back at a 2012 earthquake in Sumatra…

Earthquake trigger

For The New York Times, Derek Watkins used animated maps to show how…

Imaging Earth on the daily

Over the past four years, Planet deployed 293 satellites in low orbit to…

Gerry, a font based on gerrymandered congressional districts

Gerry uses congressional district boundaries as letters. Hahahahaha. Oh wait.…

Maps of the movies and their characters

Andrew DeGraff painted maps that show the geography in movies and their characters’…

Searching for the densest square kilometer in different cities

Based on data from Gridded Population of the World, geographer Garrett Dash Nelson…

Airport runway orientation reveals wind patterns

Airport runways orient certain directions that correlate with wind direction in the area.…

Animated maps of seasonal Earth

As you might expect, NASA collects a lot of data, and much of…

Home zoning in major cities

The single-family home. It’s part of the American dream, but it can be…

The role of cartography in early global explorations

For Lapham’s Quarterly, Elizabeth Della Zazzera turns back the clock to maps used…