Maps

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

Forgotten map types

Maps / Tim Wallace, vintage

Geographer Tim Wallace likes to look at old maps, and is particularly fond…
Good state naming

Maps / America, humor

From @haru_cchii on the Twitter:
Local German Gets Bored And Tries To Name…
Mapping the construction of railroads in America

Maps / animation, Financial Times, railroad

For the Financial Times, Alan Smith and Steven Bernard traced the history of…
Geography of FM radio

Maps / music, radio

So get this. There are these things called radio stations that broadcast music…
Make a streets map of anywhere in the world

Maps / Andrei Kashcha, OpenStreetMap, streets

Following up on his mini-app to draw ridgeline maps for elevation, Andrei Kashcha…
Can’t find Iran on a map

Maps / geography, Iran, location

Based on a Morning Consult/Politico survey, most people don’t know where Iran is:…
Where the Australia fires are burning

Maps / Australia, New York Times, wildfire

The New York Times zoomed in on southeastern Australia where the fires have…
Draw a ridgeline map showing elevation, for anywhere on Earth

Maps / Andrei Kashcha, elevation

Ridgeline charts or frequency trails use parallel lines that overlap on the fluctuations,…
Urban growth via satellite imagery

Maps / Emily Badger, Quoctrung Bui, satellite imagery, Upshot

For The Upshot, Emily Badger and Quoctrung Bui looked for major urban developments…
One leaked file, the location of 12 million smartphones

Maps / Charlie Warzel, New York Times, privacy, Stuart A. Thompson

A file leaked to The New York Times contained location traces of 12…
Arctic ice melting

Maps / Arctic, climate, ice, NASA

One way to gauge the amount of ice in the Arctic is to…
Where Christmas trees come from

Maps / Christmas, Lauren Tierney, Tim Meko, trees, Washington Post

For The Washington Post, Tim Meko and Lauren Tierney:
Before the 1930s, Christmas…
Using old ship logs as a window into the weather in the 1800s

Maps / climate, Feilding Cage, Reuters, ships

For Reuters, Feilding Cage describes a weather time machine project by NOAA that…
2,774 miles traveled by a lone wolf

Maps / GPS, nature, wolf

From the Voyageurs Wolf Project, a map shows the travels of a lone…
Hours of daylight mapped as a function of latitude and time of year

Maps / daylight

Reddit user harpalss animated hours of day light by latitude and day of…
Quietest highway route in each state

Maps / driving, quiet

Geotab made a rough estimate of the quietest route in each state, based…
Map of nighttime lights normalized by population

Maps / lights, population, Tim Wallace

You’ve probably seen the composite map of lights at night from NASA. It…
Daylight Saving Time gripe assistant tool

Maps / Andy Woodruff, daylight saving

In a follow-up to a map from a few years back, Andy Woodruff…

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