Maps

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

Scale of Aleppo against Berlin and London

Maps / Aleppo, scale

A lot of people around the world including myself don’t quite understand the…
Find a safe bike route with this map

Maps / biking, Mapzen

Spring is in the air in a lot of places, and that means…
Republicans’ health care plan compared against Obamacare

Maps / health care, Upshot

Based on estimates from the Kaiser Family Foundation, Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-Katz…
Bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers

Maps / Jewish, ProPublica, threats

Ken Schwencke and Al Shaw from ProPublica with a set of straightforward maps…
Bill Paxton tribute through storm spotters’ GPS coordinates

Maps / Bill Paxton, GPS

Bill Paxton, who played a storm chaser in Twister, died on Sunday. To…
Oil and gas wells in the United States

Maps / energy, Washington Post

Tim Meko and Laris Karklis for The Washington Post take a dive into…
xkcd: Projecting country borders by time zone

Maps / time zones, xkcd

Time zones are odd sometimes.…
One square mile in different cities

Maps / OpenStreetMap, streets

As part of his dissertation, Geoff Boeing generated these maps that show one…
Mixing cartography and landscape drawing

Maps / drawing, landscape

Artist Matthew Rangel hikes cross-country and through the mountains, exploring and drawing along…
Balloon maps

Maps / balloon, vintage

There was a time when the best way to get a view from…
Going local on gun violence

Maps / guns, homicide, local

Sometimes data can look really noisy when you zoom in close, and so…
Giant map for inauguration planning

Maps / inauguration, scale

In planning for the upcoming inauguration, the U.S. military is using a giant…
Change in rain, 2016

Maps / rain, Washington Post, weather

In some areas of the United States it poured down rain, which caused…
Looking for America’s heartland

Maps / heartland, quiz, Upshot

By definition, heartland is some central place of importance of a country. But…
U.S. culture through TV show geography

Maps / facebook, television, Upshot

Map who “likes” television shows on Facebook, by ZIP code, and you get…
Where people use certain words

Maps / dialect, Quartz, Twitter

Nikhil Sonnad for Quartz mapped the top 100,000 words used in tweets. Search…
Map of New York City shadows

Maps / New York Times, shadows

Shadows cast by buildings affect the feel and flow of a city, and…
Following the carbon dioxide

Maps / carbon, environment, NASA

This animated visualization from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center shows a model of…

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