Maps

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…

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.