Maps

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…

Nevermind the horrible traffic in Los Angeles, where it takes a several hours…

Geographic Bounding Boxes. A trivial task in a 2-D space, but tricker on sphere.

In parts of the world where there are few smartphones and GPS-enabled devices,…

Where do street names come from? Sometimes there’s actual history behind a name,…

Michal Migurski talks online mapping on the Data Stories podcast. Some history and current technologies. Skip to about 15 minutes in to get to the meat.

With the start of the NBA playoffs tomorrow, it’s worth coming back to…

Crosslet is “a free small (22k without dependencies) JavaScript widget for interactive visualisation and analysis of geostatistical datasets.” It’s a combination of Crossfilter, Leaflet, and D3.

Data visualization group Dataveyes looks closer at the Paris metro system from a…

As summer rolls around here on this side of the planet, CBC News…

Cartographer Kenneth Field argues that mapping on the Web isn’t really new. The technology is new, but the underlying cartography needs to remain as foundation for the area to move forward.

For the past few months, Stamen Design has been working with 3-D data…

The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was horrible, but there have been…

Along the same lines as their NFL fan maps, Facebook had a closer…