Maps

NOAA visualized global vegetation over a year, and the result is beautiful:

We’ve…

When you go to a conference, there are typically several talks going on…

It seems like the technical side of map-making, the part that requires code…

OpenStreetMap, the free wiki world map that offers up high quality geographic data,…

The Brewers Association just released data for 2012 on craft beer production and…

When you talk to different people across the United States, you notice small…

Using data from the London Fire Brigade, James Cheshire mapped 144,000 incidents in…

Twitter mapped all the geotagged tweets since 2009. There’s billions of them, so…

MapBox implemented vector tiles for both scalability and flexibility. “MapBox has developed an open source vector format to power the future of our web maps. Vector tiles rethink web maps from the ground up, providing a single efficient format to power raster tiles, interactive features, geojson streams, mobile renderers, and much more.” Be sure to scroll down to the examples.

In collaboration between USGS, NASA and TIME, Google released a quarter century of…

Deadspin made a straightforward map that shows the highest paid public employee in…

On Wikipedia, there are constant edits by people around the world. You can…

In a follow-up to their map of racist tweets towards Barack Obama, the…

This is my first time hearing about this, probably because it only happens…

GeoGuessr is a game of location. It plops you somewhere in the world via Google street view, and you figure out where you ara. The closer you are, the more points you get.

How to create a hexagonal cartogram using a combination of ArcGIS, Python, and D3.

Terrence Fradet of Fathom Information Design ponders whether metro maps suffer or benefit…

I don’t know about you, but when I go to YouTube, I check…