Maps

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

Map shows long-term record of fires around the world

Maps / fire, NASA

For the NASA Earth Observatory, Adam Voiland describes about two decades of fires:…
Cartogram of where presidential candidates campaign

Maps / campaign, election

Presidential candidates campaign harder in some states more than others. National Popular Vote…
Where and why the Amazon rainforest is on fire

Maps / Amazon, Bloomberg, fire

For Bloomberg, Mira Rojanasakul and Tatiana Freitas discuss why the Amazon rainforest is…
Detected fires in the Amazon rain forest, monthly

Maps / Amazon, New York Times

The New York Times goes with monthly small multiples to show detected fires…
Warped shape of the galaxy

Maps / galaxy, Los Angeles Times, space

Dorota M. Skowron et al. made the first 3-D map of the galaxy.…
How an earthquake can trigger others on the opposite side of the world

Maps / earthquake, scrollytelling

Speaking of earthquakes, Will Chase looked back at a 2012 earthquake in Sumatra…
Earthquake trigger

Maps / Derek Watkins, earthquake, New York Times

For The New York Times, Derek Watkins used animated maps to show how…
Imaging Earth on the daily

Maps / Nadieh Bremer, Planet, satellite imagery, space

Over the past four years, Planet deployed 293 satellites in low orbit to…
Gerry, a font based on gerrymandered congressional districts

Maps / font, gerrymandering

Gerry uses congressional district boundaries as letters. Hahahahaha. Oh wait.…
Maps of the movies and their characters

Maps / Back to the Future, fiction, movies

Andrew DeGraff painted maps that show the geography in movies and their characters’…
Searching for the densest square kilometer in different cities

Maps / density, population

Based on data from Gridded Population of the World, geographer Garrett Dash Nelson…
Airport runway orientation reveals wind patterns

Maps / airport, correlation, wind

Airport runways orient certain directions that correlate with wind direction in the area.…
Animated maps of seasonal Earth

Maps / Earth, Eleanor Lutz, seasonal

As you might expect, NASA collects a lot of data, and much of…
Home zoning in major cities

Maps / housing, New York Times, zoning

The single-family home. It’s part of the American dream, but it can be…
The role of cartography in early global explorations

Maps / cartography, history, navigation

For Lapham’s Quarterly, Elizabeth Della Zazzera turns back the clock to maps used…
Map of the most popular people replacing the cities they lived in

Maps / city, The Pudding, Wikipedia

For The Pudding, Matt Daniels and Russell Goldenberg used Wikipedia pageviews to replace…
New abortion restrictions by state, since 2011

Maps / abortion, FiveThirtyEight, law

For FiveThirtyEight, Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Gus Wezerek categorized and mapped new abortion restrictions…
Mapping politically polarized cities

Maps / election, FiveThirtyEight, politics

Rachael Dottle, for FiveThirtyEight, looked for political differences in cities and ranked them,…

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