Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
Drop rain anywhere in the world and see where it ends up
One of my favorites of the year, Sam Learner’s River Runner shows you…
David Rumsey Map Center, cataloging historical works
The David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford houses hundreds of thousands of maps…
Shifting currents and melting ice in the Antarctic
Based on data from autonomous sensors floating in the oceans, researchers are able…
Mapping the weather disasters of 2021
Zach Levitt and Bonnie Berkowitz for The Washington Post mapped and animated the…
Animated map of microplastics in the ocean
Using estimates based on satellite data, Joshua Stevens for NASA Earth Observatory mapped…
Shrinking the Mercator projection to equal area
It’s been a while since we got our regular reminder that the Mercator…
Map made of candy corn to show corn production
With candy corn as her medium, Jill Hubley mapped corn production in the…
Census Mapper, a tool to visualize population and racial shifts
Pitch Interactive and the Census 2020 Data Co-op, supported by the Google News…
Where cancer risk is greater due to air pollution
Based on five years of data from EPA models, ProPublica mapped areas in…
Mapping the probable heat around the world
Earth is getting warmer, and the previously abstract concept seems to grow more…
3-D rendering of Dixie fire smoke clouds
The New York Times used radar data to create a 3-D model of…
Reducing methane to slow climate change
We often hear about increased CO2 in the context of global warming. Hayley…
Mapping climate change in the Arctic
UnstableGround is a project from the Woodwell Climate Research Center that focuses on…
Black neighborhoods split by highways
Rachael Dottle, Laura Bliss and Pablo Robles for Bloomberg on how urban highways…
New Orleans power outage seen via satellite imagery
After Hurricane Ida, New Orleans experienced power outages. The NASA Earth Observatory show…
