Maps

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

Vaccination rates for every kindergarten in California →

Maps / New York Times, vaccination

The New York Times mapped the vaccination rate for every kindergarten in California.…
Your street name across the country

Maps / New York Times, streets

Here’s a fun searchable map from the New York Times. Enter a street’s…
Mapping ice layers with radar data

Maps / ice, NASA, weather

I don’t know exactly how much data NASA has in the bank, but…
A century of National Geographic maps

Maps / history, National Geographic

Celebrating the 100th year of the National Geographic cartographic department, they provide a…
3-D model to show free-climb route

Maps / 3-d, climbing, New York Times

Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson are free-climbing almost 3,000 feet up El Capitan,…
Mapped history of how Native American land was taken

Maps / history, land

In Invasion of America, an animated map shows the loss of land.…
The first photo of the United States by NASA satellite

Maps / NASA, satellite

In 1974, NASA published their first satellite photo of the contiguous United States…
Holiday lights from space

Maps / lights, NASA, space

You’ve likely seen the classic globe image that shows Earth at night. It’s…
Make your own detailed tweet maps

Maps / Eric Fischer, mapbox, Twitter

Eric Fischer, known around these parts for his detailed dot maps, describes his…
Map print clothing

Maps / clothes, Rachel Binx

Monochome, a new service brought to you by Rachel Binx, lets you make…
Elemental cartograms

Maps / Periodic Table

Along the same lines as the scaled Periodic Table, Elemental Cartograms by chemistry…
Tracking global fishing through satellite data

Maps / fishing, Google, ocean, Oceana, SkyTruth

Global Fishing Watch is an initiative to place some accountability on global fishing,…
Senate results maps →

Maps / elections, New York Times, Upshot

The New York Times pushed out super-detailed, precinct-level maps for the Senate election.…
New York Times mapmakers

Maps / New York Times, Wired

When news breaks, maps often accompany stories (or the maps are the story),…
Cynthia Brewer profile

Maps / color, Cynthia Brewer, Wired

Wired wrote a short profile for Cynthia Brewer, best known for Color Brewer,…
How basketball rebounds work

Maps / Andy Woodruff, basketball, Grantland, Kirk Goldsberry, sports

Kirk Goldsberry, with help from Andy Woodruff, looked at how rebounds work in…
Equal population mapper

Maps / density, population, Slate

We know that there are more people per square mile in some places…
Road grid orientation in major cities

Maps / grid, roads, Stephen Von Worley

This is what you get when you group streets by their geographic orientation…

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