Maps

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

Fake location signals from oil tankers avoiding oversight

The New York Times tracked oil tankers faking their location as they ignore…

Smoke from Canada wildfires over the U.S.

Wildfires in one area means smoke and pollution travels to surrounding areas, even…

Map of donut federations

In a fun one by Alyssa Fowers, for The Washington Post’s Department of…

A guessing game for place and time

Add another geolocation guessing game that I am terrible at. TimeGuessr shows you…

A geolocation game in the format of Wordle

With a cross between the games Wordle and GeoGuessr, Russell Samora for The…

Population surrounded by interstate highways

Filed under random but fun calculations, Alasdair Rae estimated the number of people…

Mapping where trees will grow

As the climate changes, the places that different types of trees will grow…

When you cross hydropower and a battery

Mira Rojanasakul and Max Bearak for The New York Times highlight the rise…

Melting ice, global effects

Ice is melting at the poles, which makes it seem like a localized…

Areas still controlled by Ukraine

For The New York Times, Josh Holder and Marco Hernandez show the areas…

Science behind California rains

It rained a lot more than usual this winter in California. Diana Leonard…

World water gap

We tend to use more water than is available in the world, which…

Mapping where Taylor Swift performs on stage during a show

Taylor Swift is currently on tour. During a show, she sings 44 songs…

Among cities with the same name, which one people are probably talking about given their location

Throughout the United States, there are a surprising number of cities that have…

Deforestation and increased risk of outbreaks

For ProPublica, Al Shaw, Irena Hwang, and Caroline Chen explain the increased risk…

When spring is coming where you live

Going off the calendar, today is the first day of spring, but nature…

Maps of home heating sources in the United States

For The Washington Post, John Muyskens, Shannon Osaka, and Naema Ahmed mapped the…

Finding the physical location in an online video via Google Maps clues

GeoGuessr player rainbolt is next-level good at reading Google Maps. Given a short…