Maps

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

Gulf of wherever you want

Maps / Gulf of Mexico, MapQuest

Most of the major map providers changed the name. MapQuest had a different…
Golphe du Mexique, 1765

Maps / Gulf of Mexico, history

After a gulf rename, I got to browsing some historical maps. Jacques Nicolas…
Gulf of Mexico changes to Gulf of America

Maps / geography, Google Maps, Gulf of Mexico, rename, USGS

The Gulf of Mexico has been renamed to the Gulf of America in…
Flight map shows firefighting efforts

Maps / Esri, firefight, flight, FlightAware, Peter Atwood, wildfire

To contain the fires in Los Angeles, aircraft flew back and forth to…
Mapping the American Airlines and Army helicopter collision

Maps / crash, flight, Washington Post

The Washington Post mapped the flight paths leading up to the collision over…
Fastest-growing and most destructive fires

Maps / Reuters, speed, wildfire

Using satellite data, researchers analyzed the growth rate of 60,000 fires in the…
Astoria, not the single-parent capital of America

Maps / Kindergarten Cop, parenthood, single, Washington Post

In Kindergarten Cop, one of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s greatest works, a mother welcomes the…
Tracker for freezing temperatures

Maps / freezing, New York Times, weather

The forecast for the contiguous United States this week is cold, and below…
Wildfire risk for buildings in Los Angeles

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…

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