Maps

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

Satellite imagery of all the outdoor basketball courts

Maps / basketball, Matt Daniels, OpenStreetMap, Pudding, satellite imagery

For The Pudding, Matthew Daniels extracted all the outdoor basketball courts in the…
Spell your name with satellite imagery

Maps / Landsat, names, NASA, satellite imagery

Here’s a fun interactive from NASA Landsat that lets you enter your name…
Atlas of Design, Volume 7

Maps / atlas, cartography, NACIS

Every two years, since 2012, the North American Cartographic Information Society publishes Atlas…
Basketball globe

Maps / Andy Woodruff, basketball, Kirk Goldsberry, world

Kirk Goldsberry, with help from Andy Woodruff, combined two joys — basketball and…
Map of job gains and losses

Maps / jobs, New York Times

To show the counties with more or fewer jobs when comparing 2023 to…
Maps of climate tipping points

Maps / climate change, New York Times, tipping point

The climate is changing, and researchers believe that after some point, there will…
Uncertain risk behind climate change models

Maps / Bloomberg, climate change, risk, uncertainty

To demonstrate the level of uncertainty in using climate forecasting models, Bloomberg compared…
Scrolling map on receipt paper

Maps / Aaron Koelker, physical, receipt

Aaron Koelker printed a six-foot long map on receipt printer earlier this year.…
Embroidered landscapes

Maps / embroidery, physical, Victoria Rose Richards

Victoria Rose Richards uses embroidery to depict aerial views and landscapes. The above…
Overlap between area codes HTTP response headers

Maps / area code, Doug Sillars, HTTP, humor

Like many, you’ve probably wondered what HTTP response headers are also area codes…
Accuracy of temperature forecasts where you live

Maps / accuracy, forecast, uncertainty, Washington Post, weather

You’ve probably noticed that the weather forecast can change a lot for predictions…
UK party gains and winners

Maps / Bloomberg, election

Speaking of Conservatives losing, Andre Tartar and Demetrios Pogkas for Bloomberg show the…
Seeing the world after Google Streetview

Maps, Visualization / Google Streetview, New York Times, Trevor Rainbolt

Trevor Rainbolt is really good at geolocating a place given a single frame…
Where State Farm Insurance is dropping home policies

Maps / insurance, San Francisco Chronicle, State Farm

State Farm won’t be renewing about 30,000 policies because of high wildfire and…
Mapping hurricane winds with avocado of uncertainty

Maps / Stamen, uncertainty, wind

Stamen, whose design breakdowns I always appreciate, discusses why they took a different…
Energy surges due to solar storm

Maps / Bloomberg, energy, solar, storm

The recent solar storms brought pretty lights to the night sky in some…
Change in housing prices where you live

Maps / cost, housing, Washington Post

I don’t know about you, but where I live, the housing prices keep…
Mapping Hacker News

Maps / Hacker News, Wilson Lin

Wilson Lin used an abstract map to visualize 40 million posts and comments…

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