Maps

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

Map of invasion in Ukraine

Maps / Financial Times, Russia, Ukraine, war

This map by Henry Foy and Steven Bernard for Financial Times shows a…
Map of Russian gas exports

Maps / gas, New York Times, Russia

Speaking of Russian gas, Josh Holder, Karl Russell and Stanley Reed for The…
Past redlining still seen in the present

Maps / FiveThirtyEight, racism, redlining

In the 1930s, a group called the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation went to…
Scale of the Tonga eruption

Maps / Reuters, satellite imagery, scale, Tonga, volcano

Manas Sharma and Simon Scarr used satellite imagery to show the scale of…
Global ripple effect from underwater volcano

Maps / Tonga, volcano

An underwater volcano erupted about 40 miles off the coast of the main…
All-time temperature records broken in 2021

Maps / climate change, New York Times, temperature

Using data from NOAA, Krishna Karra and Tim Wallace for The New York…
Drop rain anywhere in the world and see where it ends up

Maps / rain, river, Sam Learner, water

One of my favorites of the year, Sam Learner’s River Runner shows you…
David Rumsey Map Center, cataloging historical works

Maps / David Rumsey, history, San Francisco Chronicle

The David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford houses hundreds of thousands of maps…
Shifting currents and melting ice in the Antarctic

Maps / Antarctic, climate change, ice, New York, scrollytelling, water

Based on data from autonomous sensors floating in the oceans, researchers are able…
Mapping the weather disasters of 2021

Maps / climate change, disaster, Washington Post

Zach Levitt and Bonnie Berkowitz for The Washington Post mapped and animated the…
Animated map of microplastics in the ocean

Maps / NASA, ocean, pollution

Using estimates based on satellite data, Joshua Stevens for NASA Earth Observatory mapped…
Shrinking the Mercator projection to equal area

Maps / Mercator, Neil Kaye, projections

It’s been a while since we got our regular reminder that the Mercator…
Map made of candy corn to show corn production

Maps / candy, corn, Jill Hubley, physical

With candy corn as her medium, Jill Hubley mapped corn production in the…
Census Mapper, a tool to visualize population and racial shifts

Maps / census, Google News Initiative, Pitch Interactive, population, race

Pitch Interactive and the Census 2020 Data Co-op, supported by the Google News…
Map of highway signs

Maps / cities, commute, interstate, Matt Dzugan

This is a fun map by Matt Dzugan. Search for a city, and…
Where cancer risk is greater due to air pollution

Maps / cancer, pollution, ProPublica

Based on five years of data from EPA models, ProPublica mapped areas in…
Mapping the probable heat around the world

Maps / climate, global warming, Probable Futures, temperature

Earth is getting warmer, and the previously abstract concept seems to grow more…
3-D rendering of Dixie fire smoke clouds

Maps / Dixie Fire, New York Times, radar, smoke

The New York Times used radar data to create a 3-D model of…

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