Maps
Intuitive to look at spatial patterns and great for distributing geographic data.
London Underground rent map
In a straightforward map, Jason Allen for Thrillist replaced station names on the…
Maps to understand tennis
Damien Saunder, a cartographer at ESRI, likes to use mapping methods to evaluate…
Square mile grid-ness of the United States
Named after the grid system Thomas Jefferson used to apportion land acquired through…
Subway complaints by station
This map of subway complaints in Madrid isn't geographically relevant to me, but the encoding scheme is interesting.
Nuclear detonations from 1945 to present
There have been over 2,000 nuclear detonations since 1945. Orbital Mechanics mapped each…
Mapped: Solar energy and savings if you got panels
Punch in your address. See how much you could save, based on a variety of data sources.
Disappearing Arctic reflected in National Geographic maps
In the most recent update to their atlas coming in September, National Geographic…
Possible float routes for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went down a year ago, and with recently found…
United States electricity map
The Washington Post mapped power plants in the United States by type and…
Million dollar blocks and the cost of incarceration
Incarceration costs a lot of money. We know this, sort of. But how…
Hand-drawn map boundaries
You’ve probably seen those “maps” where people from other countries draw the United…