Maps

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

Wildfire risk for buildings in Los Angles

Maps / buildings, New York Times, risk, wildfire

As we have learned in recent weeks, even when homes seem far away…
Visual guide to the wildfire damage

Maps / damage, Guardian, wildfire

The Guardian provides a visual guide to the damage in Los Angeles with…
Palisades fire, seen from above

Maps / Palisades, satellite imagery, wildfire

Sentinel-2 satellite of the European Space Agency captured an image of the Palisades…
Wind flow patterns over Los Angeles

Maps / New York Times, wildfire, wind

Based on data from NOAA, the New York Times shows the direction and…
Map of active wildfires in California

Maps / California, Los Angeles Times, wildfire

This California wildfires map from Los Angeles Times shows an up-to-date status in…
Star Wars galaxy map

Maps / fiction, Star Wars

I can’t vouch for the accuracy of this Star Wars map, but I…
Home insurance companies dropping customers

Maps / climate, insurance, New York Times

Because of a warming planet with more wildfires and hurricanes, it’s growing more…
Year of tornadoes

Maps / New York Times, tornado

For the New York Times, Marco Hernandez visualized all the tornadoes in 2024,…
When cities last saw snow on Christmas

Maps / Bloomberg, Christmas, climate, snow

Christmas is coming. For some, that means snow on the ground, but as…
Counting the Christmas days with snow

Maps / Christmas, snow, Washington Post, weather

This is a fun one by Dylan Moriarty for the Washington Post. Punch…
Map of walkable neighborhoods

Maps / city, local, walking

Researchers at Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Rome estimated the time it takes…
Tsunami alert, because earthquake off coast of Northern California

Maps / alert, earthquake, USGS

The folks up here received one of those loud emergency alerts a few…
3-D print of John Snow cholera map

Maps / 3-D printing, ‪Alex Selby-Boothroyd, John Snow, physical

You know the John Snow map that highlights a cholera outbreak in London,…
Dot density map for election results

Maps / Economist, election

With what is now a common mapping method, The Economist used a dot…
Mapping every voter as a grain of sand

Maps / election, metaphor, Washington Post

To show the mix of votes across the country, the Washington Post used…
European night train map

Maps / Europe, train, travel

The Night Train Map is for Europeans who want to travel at night:…
Jello map as states are called

Maps / Bloomberg, election, food, physical

The Bloomberg Graphics desk is building out a jello map as states are…
Electoral vote cartogram

Maps / Bloomberg, election

The major news outlets all have electoral vote cartograms, but I appreciate Bloomberg’s…

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