Maps

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

Location check-ins during South by Southwest

Location-aware apps are the hot topic nowadays, and with all the tech-oriented people…

Map and report data with InstantAtlas

As you know, there’s this big wave of transparency going on right now,…

What burger chain reigns supreme?

In a follow up to his McDonald’s map, Stephen Von Worley of Weather…

Looking Inside a Bus Routing Algorithm

In an effort to put transit data from the Toronto Transit Committee to…

Where Bars Trump Grocery Stores

FloatingSheep, a fun geography blog, looks at the beer belly of America. One…

Sunlight Labs releases mapping framework, ClearMaps

Open data is great, but it’s useless if you don’t know what to…

OpenStreetMap Edits Towards Haiti Relief

ITO world, who you might remember from a year of OpenStreetMap edits, come…

Data.gov.uk Gearing Up For Launch, er, Does Launch

Update: I had scheduled this post for next week, but apparently, Data.gov.uk launched…

The Very First Thematic Maps

I’m admittedly not very good with historical precedent, but I think we can…

The Geography of Netflix Rentals

Some movies are popular everywhere. Others are popular only in certain regions. The…

The Universe as We Know It

The Known Universe from the American Museum of Natural History shows a view…

The Geography of AIDS Around the World

It was World AIDS Day last week and UNAIDS published the latest estimates…

Can You Guess What These Maps Show?

I’m no doubt still under massive food coma at this time, but in…

What’s Cooking on Thanksgiving, Mapped and Ranked

Food-wise, Thanksgiving is different across the country. In some places you’re going to…

Battle of the Coverage Maps: Verizon vs. AT&T

Verizon has been running these ads lately that compare their 3G coverage to…

Make Thematic Maps With Cartographer.js

Like it or not, Google Maps mashups continue to be a Web favorite.…

Unemployment, 2004 to Present – The Country is Bleeding

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the most recent unemployment numbers last week.…

Using Flickr as a Paintbrush

Andy Woodruff from Cartogrammar uses average color in Flickr photos to map the…